Deerfield Presbyterian Church
Deerfield Presbyterian Church was founded in 1737, the present building was erected in 1771. In 1725, Benjamin Davis purchased 1,000 acres in Salem County. Pioneers who settled on the land near Ben Davis found a considerable tribe of Lenni Lenape Indians living nearby; in the old section of the Presbyterian cemetery there are said to be a number of Indian graves.
It was a primitive Log Meeting House the entire ministry of Andrew Hunter (1747-1760). The little "Log Church in the Forest" was attended to by Rev. Enoch Green in 1767. Soon after the installation of the Rev. Enoch Green, the people began gathering stone in preparation for the new Meeting House.
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