This church, which was formerly in connection with the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, came with its pastor, Rev. Ebenezer Dickey into the Presbyterian Church on the union of the Assoc. Reformed with the Presbyterian body, in the year 1822. Some of the members of the Oxford Church, however, refused to acquiesce in the union and organized a new Assoc. Reformed church, to which the name of East Nottingham was given. This church, in connection with the Octorara Church in Lancaster County, of the same faith and order, called Rev. Wm. Easton to be their pastor, and he was installed June 7, 1827. The East Nottingham congregation erected a small brick church between Oxford and New London, where the congregation worshiped until December 14, 1851, when a new building was erected in the borough of Oxford, part of the materials of the old being used in its construction. On April 4, 1862, the house in Oxford was ready for occupancy, and has since then been used by the c9ongregation. Mr. Easton continued in the pastorate until May 1, 1854, when he resigned. On the removal of the church, its name was changed to Oxford. It is now, since the union between the Assoc Reform and Reformed Presbyterian churches into a body called the United Presbyterian Church, a member of that body.
Since Mr. Easton, the successive
pastors of the church have been Revs. James H. Andrew from 1855; E. T. Jeffers
from 1865; Geo A B Robinson 1873; and Robert T Wiley 1877.