Methodist Episcopal Church Of Naples Records,1821-1950.

Late in 1821 or early in 1822 itinerant Methodist ministers Reverend Loring Grant and Asa Bell riding the Geneva Canandaigua circuit, visited an already organized class in Naples. The church was incorporated in 1822, meeting in the home of an original member until 1825 when a meeting house was built and dedicated. According to a church history, revivals in 1831 and 1842 increased the membership necessitating a larger meeting house which was dedicated in 1851. Almost immediately a subscription for a chapel to be added to the church was circulated and in the same year it was built and dedicated. From 1825-1850 the Naples church was a station on the Geneva Canandaigua circuit, which included Hunt's Hollow and Garling House. After 1867 these became out-charges to the Naple church. Due to a vehement anti-slavery, pro-John Brown sermon, Reverend Isaac Gibbard was removed from the pastorship in 1859 or 1860. A trustee, William Marks, was reputedly involved in the underground railroad which passed through the town.

One volume quarterly conference meeting minutes (1866-1896) for the Naples Charge which included also Hunt's Hollow and Garling's House; a subscription list for the church's third meeting house (1849-1851); a subscription list for the church's second meeting house (1825-1826); resolutions and deeds from the Board of Trustees; and a membership list (1821-1851, 1851-1950) probably combined in 1950.