Jermain Memorial PC takes back its church, joins new Presbytery

Troy Record Story: Watervliet congregation takes back its church, joins new Presbytery

Time Union Story: A fight on high gets ever higher

• Jermain Memorial PC, Watervliet, NY (Troy)
• Albany Presbytery
• Joined Ecumenical Presbytery. Ed: Anyone know this one?
• Presbytery changed the locks and padlocked the building in May
• Some charge the Presbytery with coveting its $169,000-$500,009 endowment (Presbyter denies)
• The Jermain will stated that when the church is no longer used that the 1 1/3-acre property would be reverted back to the next Jermain heir
• New York City resident Ann Jermain Walling Billings is a possible heir.
• Billings granted the property back to the parish in a deed dated in March