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Whitehill United Presbyterian Church originated with a group of seceders in Clola, Whitehill and Old Deer, which was established in the early 1740s, largely through the initiative of a local laird. A minister was settled in 1770 for Whitehill and Clola, and Whitehill disjoined seven years later. The first minister of what was to be an Antiburgher church there was ordained in 1779. This passed in due course to the United Presbyterian Church, but by the 1890s numbers had fallen sharply through rural depopulation, and on a vacancy occurring in the Free Church at New Pitstligo in 1897, an agreement was made for a local union, carried out in the following year. A United Presbyterian minister transferred to the Free Church and the united charge passed to the United Free Church as New Pitsligo. The United Presbyterian charge was in the presbytery of Buchan. |