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In 1737 and 1738 several Praying Societies from the parishes of Leslie, Falkland and Markinch acceded to the Associate Presbytery, and on the 25th March 1742 the first meeting of the session of Leslie Associate Congregation took place. John Erskine, the first minister of the congregation, was later ordained in 1744 and the first church of the charge was erected soon after. John Erskine however died in 1751 aged 29, and as a consequence of the fact that it was a time when preachers were few, and calls to individuals were many, Leslie Associate Congregation lay vacant for six years, until the appointment of the second minister, Simon Dempster, in 1757.
In 1848, during a meeting of the congregation, a motion was passed stating that the charge should apply to the United Presbyterian Church, and as a result Leslie Associate Congregation became Leslie West, United Presbyterian Church. In 1900, upon the union of the Free Church and the United Presbyterians, Leslie West United Presbyterian became Leslie West United Free Church, and following the 1929 union of the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church, Leslie West United Free became Leslie West Church of Scotland. The charge was reduced in status in 1950, however in 1955 Leslie West united with the charge of Prinlaws under the name of Leslie West and Prinlaws, and a further union was established in the following year with the congregation of Leslie Logan-Martin, to form the session of Leslie Trinity, Church of Scotland. The congregation sat within the Presbytery of Kirkcaldy throughout its existence. |