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The congregation of Letham United Associate Congregation, which belonged to the Antiburgher branch of the Secession church, was first established in 1800 following the deposition of the minister of the Antiburgher congregation of Dumbarrow, Mr Young. Mr Young had refused to give up the meeting house at Dumbarrow and thus the remaining Antiburgher members of the Dumbarrow congregation were left without session. After turning to the Presbytery of Forfar for help it was agreed that the Dumbarrow group should worship in Letham. Sermon took place irregularly at Letham, with the congregation being expecting to attend at Forfar on occasion, thus in 1814 it was proposed that a permanent meeting-house be built at Letham. These plans however were abandoned and in 1820 the Letham congregation announced that they were to request no more sermon owing to financial problems. In 1828 the Letham congregation was re-established as a mission station and ten years thereafter a new church was finally erected. The first minister of the United Presbyterian congregation of Letham was ordained in 1839. In 1874, the fourth minister of Letham, Mr Clark, was relieved from his charge, owing to the fact that the session could not provide sufficient finance on the event of his retirement. As a result of this event, and the effects of many years of financial difficulties, the congregation was formally dissolved on the 3rd November 1874. |