1813 - Constituted

1829 - Divided into four synods in reorganization: Franklin, Green River, Missouri, and Columbia

1813
April 8, 1813
Order by Cumberland Presbytery to create Cumberland Synod

...and it is hereby expressly directed and mutually agreed, that said Elk and Logan Presbyteries meet this Presbytery with their documents on the first Wednesday in October at the Beech meeting-house, in Sumner county, and State of Tennessee, for the express purpose of constituting a Synod; and it is hereby directed that the committee appointed to draw up a complete though succinct account of the rise, doctrines, etc., of the Cumberland Presbytery, make their report to the Synod when constituted. And it is hereby ordered that Messrs. Bell, Kirkpatrick, and Ewing divide in three equal parts, as near as may be, all the books and money belonging to the Cumberland Presbytery Library, and allot to this Cumberland Presbytery one part, to the members intended to compose the Elk Presbytery one part, and to the members intended to compose the Logan Presbytery the other part, to be disposed of in their several Presbyteries according to the institution of the library.
[Source: Minutes of Cumberland Presbytery, April 8, 1813]

1813
October 5, 1813
Cumberland Synod constitued
Beech Meeting-house - Sumner County, Tennessee
Moderator - Rev. William McGee
Clerk - Rev. Finis Ewing

It appearing from the minutes that the members designated by the last general Cumberland Presbytery to constitute the Logan and Elk Presbyteries, did so constitute according to that order, and a majority of the members of the three Presbyteries being now present, do hereby agree, according to the order of the last general Cumberland Presbytery, after the necessary prerequisities, to constitute a Synod.

The Rev. William McGee, according to order, proceeded to preach a sermon from Romans, as preparatory, and then by prayer, constituted the Logan, Cumberland, and Elk Presbyteries into a Synod, to be known by the name of the Cumberland Synod.
[Source: Minutes of Cumberland Synod, October 5, 1813]

1814
April 5-9, 1814
Suggs' Creek meeting-house - Wilson County, Tennessee
Moderator - Rev. David Foster
Clerk - Rev. James B. Porter

1815
October 17-19, 1815
Beech meeting-house - Sumner County, Tennessee
Moderator - Rev. William Barnett
Clerk - Rev. David Foster

1816
October 15-17, 1816
Free meeting-house - near Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee
Moderator - Rev. Thomas Calhoon
Clerk - Rev. David Foster

1817
October 21-23, 1817
Mount Moriah meeting-house - near Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky
Moderator - Rev. Robert Donnell
Clerk - Rev. Hugh Kirkpatrick

1818
October 20-22, 1818
Big Spring meeting-house - Wilson County, Tennessee
Moderator - Rev. Finis Ewing
Clerk - Rev. Robert Bell

1819
October 19-22, 1819
Sugg's Creek meeting house - Wilson County, Tennessee
Moderator - Rev. Samuel King
Clerk - Rev. William Barnett

1820
October 17-20, 1820
Russellville - Logan County, Kentucky
Moderator - Rev. Thomas Calhoon
Clerk - Rev. William Moore

1821
October 16, 1821
Russellville - Logan County, Kentucky
In 1879 in The Theologcial Medium Rev. J. Berrien Lindsley wrote: "It will be observed that the minutes of Cumberland Synod for 1821 are not here. The reason is that they are not in the old minutes book. I know not why this is so.--J. B. L."
Minutes not recorded

1822
October 15-18, 1822
Beech meeting-house - Sumner County, Tennessee
Moderator - Rev. James B. Porter
Clerk - Rev. David Foster

1823
October 21-24, 1823
Russellville - Logan County, Kentucky
Moderator - Rev. John Barnett
Clerk - Rev. Aaron Alexander

1824
October 19-23, 1824
Cane Creek meeting-house - Lincoln County, Tennessee
Moderator - Rev. Samuel King
Clerk - Rev. William Moore

1825
October 18-22, 24, 1825
Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky
Moderator - Rev. William Barnett
Clerk - Rev. Hiram McDaniel

1826
October 17, 1826
Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky
In 1879 in The Theologcial Medium Rev. J. Berrien Lindsley wrote: "It will be observed that the minutes of Cumberland Synod for 1821 are not here. The reason is that they are not in the old minutes book. I know not why this is so.--J. B. L."
Minutes not recorded

1827
November 20-24, 26, 1827
Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky
Moderator - Rev. James S. Guthrie
Clerk - Rev. Laban Jones

1828
October 21-25, 27, 1828
Franklin, Williamson County, Tennessee
Moderator - Rev. Hiram A. Hunter
Clerk - Rev. Richard Beard