Jan 16 1861
A member of the Wyandott Nation being sworn states that he resided with his
  tribe in Ohio and moved with the Wyandotts to this country in the summer of
  1843 that in accordance with a stipulation in the treaty of the Miami of Lake
  Erie concluded in 1817 the said Wyandott Nation did set apart a section of
  land for the use of Christian missionaries and schools that the Ohio Annual
  Conference of the M. E. Church appointed Missionary to open a school for Wyandott
  Children, and to preach to the people; that the said Missionary and his successors
  did make valuable buildings thereon, which improvements were appraised and
  paid for, according to the 5th article of the treaty of Upper Sandusky Ohio
  concluded March 17.1842. After the removal and permanent Settlement of the
  Wyandott people West, Rev. James Wheeler, their Missionary, contracted for
  the building of a Parsonage the expense of which amounted to some one thousand
  five hundred Dollars, as Affiant was informed by the Contractor. About this
  time in 1844 45, the Methodist Church among the Wyandott people was agitated,
  and its peace disturbed by the action of the General Conference in dividing
  the Church into two distinct organizations by a line of separation, this portion
  of the Country falling to the Southern organization. In this State of affairs
  their Missionary (Wheeler) attached to the Northern organization returned to
  Ohio, leaving his Wyandott Congregation without a pastor, whereupon the Southern
  Church supplied the vacancy and occupied the vacated parsonage. Shortly after
  this, the newly appointed Missionary in concert with the Wyandott membership,
  determined upon building a new church: the Wyandott people, in and out of the
  church, and our neighbors over in Missouri subscribed liberally. The Wyandott
  Council appropriated out of the national fund, the sum of Five hundred Dollars
  for that purpose – the church was built. The division brot on considerable
  of dissension among the members of the Church [inspired?]
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by influences from abroad; Some adhering South and some North this becoming
  so intense it diffused itself among Wyandotts, who were not members of the
  Church thereby increasing the intensity of the controversy. A portion of the
  official membership petitioned the Ohio Annual Conference to send them a Preacher,
  which that Conference did in the person of Rev James Gurley: this, as was to
  be expected, instead of allaying only increased the broil. The bitterness of
  the controversy spreading among the disorderly and immoral, religious meetings
  could not be held without serious annoyance and disturbance. In this State
  of affairs, the Indian Agent, deeming Mr Gurley’s operations a moving
  cause of these disorders ordered him to leave the Wyandott territory which
  order he obeyed. That portion of the membership that adhered to the Northern
  Organization then erected a log church about two miles west of the new brick
  Church, costing as near as Affiant can judge, between five and six hundred
  Dollars. And that sometime in a April 1856, both the log and brick churches
  were burned to a heap of ruins by persons to affiant unknown – the cost
  of the brick church with its seats, lights, and other fixtures affiant thinks
  could not have been less than Two thousand five hundred Dollars. Further affiant
  states not.
  Wm Walker
Subscribed and soon to before me this 16th day of January A D 1861 
Stephen A Cobb Notary Public