This was intended as a reform movement to cleanse the church, not to split or separate from it. Methodist scholars would have us believe that this is the reason our churches were referred to as chapels and meeting houses, it is not true. The Anglican Church was state sponsored and by law the only church. All other faiths were referred to as non-conformists and hence their churches were referred to as meeting houses and chapels. Asbury referred to Salem Chapel, our founders incorporated as Salem Meeting House, and this was legally changed by the trustees in 1968.
Old customs die slowly, but surely.
There were no other accounts against the house. These frugal farmers and millers started a congregation, built a church and paid for it in a short span of four years. Considering the economic conditions of this period, their accomplishment was tremendous. Early histories state that the church building was repaired in 1848 and again in 1853. This does not agree with Trustee minutes.