A History of the Congregations in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland 1610-1982, published 1982. (page 639) Middletown. Some Middletown people came before the Armagh (Sec.) Presbytery on 25 July 1826 requesting "supply of sermon". This was granted and continued until 20 June 1827, when a call was made to Mr, Samuel Hendrin (lic. Armagh). He was the last Irish Burgher student to study at the Secession College in Glasgow. The stipend was £24 per annum. In 1839 the Synod suspended him for intemperance, but he was restored later in the same year. A visitation in July 1840 revealed that only £11 of stipend had been paid and there was a building debt of £46, He retired in 1854 and died on 26 July 1867.
,,, In 1866 a memorial from Mr. Hendrum, describing his condition "as in poverty and under disease, and praying for the restoration of that portion of the Regium Donum endowment which for some years had gone to hisassistant, and suggesting that an equal sum be paid to that assistant from the Sustentation Fund." This was done ...
