---
title: Times and Seasons
description: Issues of 1844 to 1845.
authors:
  - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
editors:
  - Ebenezer Robinson
  - Don Carlos Smith
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
  - Taylor, John
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - newspaper
  - times-and-seasons
  - nauvoo
  - nineteenth-century
periodical: Times and Seasons
volume: 5
number: 16
published: 1844-09-01
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“Minutes of a conference held in Gerry, Chautauqua county, N. Y., July, 27th, 1844,” *Times and Seasons* 5, no. 16 (September 1, 1844): 628."
printed_title: Minutes of a conference held in Gerry, Chautauqua county, N. Y., July, 27th, 1844.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1844-09-01_5_16
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v5n16.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair)
  identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1844-09-01_5_16
start_page: 628
end_page: 628
curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1844 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States
  source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1844-09-01_5_16
  publication_year: 1844
---

# Minutes of a conference held in Gerry, Chautauqua county, N. Y., July, 27th, 1844

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Conference convened pursuant to appointment, and organized by calling elder Joshua Holman to the chair, and appointing elder Rowland Cobb, clerk.

After singing and prayer, the chairman proceeded to state in a brief manner the object for which the conference was called. A branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was organized in this place, called the Gerry branch, consisting of twenty members. Elder Rowland Cobb was chosen to preside over the branch, and S. Stephens was appointed clerk.

Brother F. Williams represented the branch at Charlotte Centre, consisting of ten members, one elder and one priest.

A discourse was delivered by elder Tyler, on the first principles of the gospel, to an attentive congregation.

Adjourned till 10 o'clock, A. M., July, 28.

Met pursuant to adjournment and opened by singing and prayer. Elder Whipple addressed the assembly on the subject of the kingdom being taken from the Jews and given to the Gentiles, and the great work of the last days, &c.

Brother F. Williams and Asa Horton were ordained elders, and the conference adjourned.

Joshua Holman.

Chairman.

ROWLAND COBB, Clerk.