Roswell Presbyterian Church

Roswell Presbyterian Church plays a large part in the city of Roswell’s history.  Roswell’s founding father, Roswell King, initially organized the town’s layout to include Roswell Presbyterian Church as the focal point.  The town’s limits were to be one mile in each direction from the Church.  Fifteen Presbyterian men and women organized the Church in 1839.  These charter members included James Stephens Bulloch, John Dunwody, Eliza King Hand, Roswell King, Smith Pratt families, and Elizabeth and Helen Magill, Susan Elliott and Sarah Gould.  John Dunwody, Sr., Barrington King, and Archibald Smith were elected elders.  In 1840, they invited Reverend Nathaniel A. Pratt to become their first minister.  Reverend Pratt was married to Catherine King Pratt, another of Roswell King’s daughters.  He remained on as the minister of the Church until 1879.