HUMPHREYSVILLE METHODIST CHURCH

    This is presently the Seymour United Methodist Church. It has shared a parallel history with the Great Hill Church. Like Great Hill Society, the first Quarterly conference was held in 1803, although there were Methodist classes prior to that date.
    It is interesting to observe that both Methodist churches came to occupy former Congregational Church buildings of their areas, and both congregations eventually replaced those buildings.
    The first Methodist class at Humphreysville was formed on Feb. 7, 1797, when the area was known as Chusetown, with Daniel Rowe as the leader. Class meetings were held in homes with occasional visits from itinerant preachers. The meetings were held mainly in the area near Pearl and South Main Street. One of the early families, John and Ruth Coe, later became active in the Pines Bridge Society.
    The Methodist Society had been using the Congregational Church building on occasion, with some meetings held in homes and the neighborhood school - just as was true of the Great Hill church.
    The Congregational property was officially transferred to the Methodist Society on September 22, 1818, and was purchased for forty dollars.
    The building, apparently in poor condition, was said by some observers to be more like a barn than a church - which is precisely what other people said of the Great Hill church a few years later.
    The first new building was erected in 1847, just 7 years before Great Hill built their new church. It is interesting to note that Jared Bassett, a stone mason and a member of the Humphreysville Church, did the masonry on that church - Isaac Bassett, a relative, did the masonry work on the Great Hill Church.
    A second renovation and rebuilding took place in 1891, using the old structure for a Sunday school unit, with a large new addition for worship services.

CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

    Christ Church was an offshoot of St. Peter's Episcopal Church which is located in the center of Oxford at Route 67. However, when the Quaker Farms members of the St. Peter's