First Presbyterian Church of Newtown
54-05 Seabury St. (Queens Blvd. & 54th Ave.), Elmhurst, NY 11373
Phone: (718) 639-3126
Rev. José G. González-Colón, Interim Pastor
Est. 1652  • A multicultural and historic church
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Pastors

Since 1652, when we were founded as Newtown's village church, 32 pastors have served our congregation. (One pastor, Peter Fish, served twice.) Their stories appear below. Except for the biographies of James Lyon, Renwick Jackson, Pat Davies, Stanley Jenkins, Louis Knowles, and Anette Westermark, all the biographies in this section are adopted from articles written by Robert Singleton.

Stated supply pastors: McNish, Bay, Lyon, Fish, Palmer
Interim pastors: Jackson, Davies, Knowles, Bowen

John Moore (1652-1657)
William Leverich (1662-1677)
Morgan Jones (1680-1686)
John Morse (1694-1700)
Robert Breck (1701-1704)
Samuel Pumroy (1708-1744)
George McNish, Jr. (1744-1746)
Simon Horton (1746-1773)
Andrew Bay (1773-1775)
James Lyon (1783-1785)
Peter Fish (1785-1788, 1810)
Elihu Palmer (1788-1789)
Nathan Woodhull (1790-1810)
William Boardman (1810-1818)
John Goldsmith (1818-1854)
John P. Knox (1855-1882)
George H. Payson (1882-1889)
Jacob E. Mallmann (1890-1894)
William H. Hendrickson (1896-1906)
David Yule (1906-1910)
George H. Feltus (1911-1917)
Howard A. Northacker (1919-1960)
Joseph F. Quick (1961-1964)
Albert F. W. Marcus (1964)
J. Renwick Jackson, Jr. (1964-1965)
Charles L. Sorg (1965-1992)
Patricia Ann Warren Davies (1993-1996)
Stanley J. Jenkins (1996-2011)
Louis L. Knowles (2012-2015)
Anette I. Westermark (2015-2018)
Grace Bowen (2019-2020)
José G. González-Colón (2021- )

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