This organization was formed by a union of he Antwerp and Fowler Baptist society with the Wesleyan Methodists of Sprague’s Corners, effected about the years 1870. Their house of worship is the same which was built and occupied by the Wesleyan before the union. The present pastor is Rev. -----Loomis. The membership is increasing rapidly, an accession of twenty members having been received during the winter of 1876-77.

The Wesleyan society, which was merged in the Free-Will Baptist, was formed September, 1, 1845, with Emer Bell, Allen Woodward, and Abel Goodenough, trustees, it being the result of a secession from the M. E. church at Sprague’s Corners, caused by disagreement on the question of slavery. Allen Woodward donated a building site on the Antwerp road, towards the south side of the village, and upon it a small meeting-house was erected at a cost of $1500. This is the present church edifice of the Free-Will Baptists, as above mentioned. The Wesleyan pastor, at the time of united with the Baptists, was Elder Collins.

The other member of the union—the Antwerp and Fowler Baptist church—dated its existence from September 11, 1838, when the church was organized, with Amos Sheldon, I. H. Bosworth, Alexander Wright, Leonard Pike, Ansel Clark, and Moses Burge, as trustees. Among their earliest preachers were elders Stevens and Nichols. Their church building was erected at Steele’s Corners, near the county line of St. Lawrence. For a considerable time prior to their union with the Wesleyans the society had languished, and they had been without a pastor.

Methodist worship is held fortnightly in the school-house at Nauvoo.

On the 125^th day of May, 1820, the Ox Bow Presbyterian society of Antwerp and Rossie, a body corporate, was formed, with Abraham Cooper, Reuben Streeter, James Ormiston, Abraham Lewis, James Douglas, Abner Benton, Orren Matthews, and Percival Hawley, as trustees. During the same summer a church organization was formed with forty members, principally people from the south of Scotland, who had then recently settled in this and in the neighboring town of Rossie. Their first pastor was Rev. James Sandford from Massachusetts, continued with them for ten years, and was succeeded by Rev. Mr. McGregor, after whom came Reverends Stowell, and Nicol. Following these came other pastors, under whose ministrations there grew up a dissatisfaction which resulted in a dissolution of the church’s allegiance to the Assembly, and a change of name to that of "the Associate Reformed Church of Antwerp and Rossie." This took place in May, 1837, when a reorganization was made, with Andrew Culbertson, James Dickson, Robert Darling, John Barrow, William Fleming, and William Turnbull, trustees. Their first minister after the change was Rev. Mr. White, who remained more than a year, and was followed by Rev. Alexander Proudfit, who labored but a short time, and was succeeded by Rev. James Williamson, who ministered to them as stated supply for a period of more than ten years. Their first settled pastor after the change in 1837, was Rev. J. S. Cowper, a native of Scotland, who came to them on the first Sabbath in January, 1852.

A Methodist church organization \existed at Ox Bow village more than forty-four years ago, the society there having been formed may 14, 1833, with Ira D. Shepard, William H. collar, Samuel Bonfy, Ebenezer Beardsley, and Abraham Lewis, trustees. Among their earliest preachers were Revs. Gibbs, Crary, and Reuben Reynolds. Their meetings were held in the school-house or in private dwellings, and they had no church edifice until the winter of 1872-72, when they first met in the basement of their present church,--the stone store of Abraham Cooper, which they had purchased and remodeled, at a cost of eight thousand dollars. It fronts on the village green, and is a neat and appropriate meeting-house. This was erected during the pastorate of Rev. ------ Clarke. Succeeding him in charge of the church was Rev. Mr. Crofoot, who was followed by Rev. James smith, fo Wegatchie, the present pastor.