Revd. D. P. Coffey offered the following, which was adopted,
Whereas there has been a congregation organized north
of Big Creek Shelby County Tenn. known as West Union congregation,
Resolved that Presbytery recognize said congregation
and receive it under her care.
Revd. I. S. Pickens offered the following which was adopted,
Whereas the Raleigh congregation has been so diminished
by removals or otherwise,
Resolved therefore that
said congregation be dissolved and the remaining members east
of Raleigh be attached to the Green Bottom congregation, and all
in Raleigh and west be attached to the Memphis congregation, and
all the members north of Loose Hatchy [Loosahatchie] be attached
to the West Union congregation.
[Source: Minutes of Memphis Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, April 1849, page 161-162.]