Quarter Session Minutes 1842 Aug 27 - 1845 May 3 photocopy PCMA 90-031
This mission served 18 congregations in six Twps: Asphodel, Dummer, Otonabee, Belmont, Percy, and Seymour. Norwood Then and Now says it started in 1842 and was Peterborough Circuit until then.
Early ministers were Ashel Hurlburt and John Williams.
1833 William Young (data from Asphodel Twp history) This is doubtful – the date probably should be 1843.
pre 1842 see Peterborough
1841 mentioned formation (WMMS under Mud Lake Mission)
c 1842 mission formed “a year ago, of distant parts of the Murray and Peterborough Circuits, and containing six townships ...” (WMMS 1842-43)
1840's South Dummer part of this mission
1842 Aug 27 first quarterly meeting of Asphodel Mission (PCMA 90-031)
1842 Aug 27 Ashel Hurlburt, chairman of district
<1842 Aug 27 - 1843 May 9> John Williams, George Carr (PCMA 90-031)
<1843 Jul 10 - 1844 May 10> William Young, George Carr
William Young was the first resident minister in Norwood, owned the first buggy in Asphodel Twp - (Poole)
1843 consists of the six twps of Asphodel, Dummer, Otonabee, Belmont, Percy, Seymour. “Bounded on east by Marmora Mission; on south by the Murray, Colborne, and Cobourg Circuits; on west by the Peterborough Circuit; and on north by unexplored and uninhabited regions”. 16 to 20 preaching places, 14 classes. (WMMS)
<1844 Sep 7> William Young, Abraham Dayman
<1844 Dec 7 - 1845 May 3> William Young, Robert Robinson (PCMA 90-031)
1844 a new church has been erected and another is nearly finished (WMMS)
1844 consists of at least Norwood, Seymore, Keene, Percy (WMMS) Percy and Seymour Twps are in Northumberland Co.
1845 May 3 Meeting was presented with a deed “for the chapel and parsonage lots” (presume in Norwood) (PCMA 90-031)
1845 May 3 last minutes of Asphodel Mission (PCMA 90-031)
1845 name changed to Norwood Circuit