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Sometime in the middle of the 18th century, a group of residents from Monmouth County, New Jersey, petitioned John Cavert to explore for land in the Kayaderosseras Patent suitable to begin a new settlement.  During the 1770s, Scots and Scotch Irish, well versed in the trades, left the village of Freehold, New Jersey to establish New Freehold (now Charlton, New York).  The first minister to serve the New Freeholders was the Rev. William Scheneck, whose early training had been under William Tennent of Freehold, New Jersey.

Our church was founded in January 1786 by approximately twenty members of the Old Tennent Church from New Jersey.  A school was started in the mid-1850s in the old session room above the church horse shed.  The student body grew so that in 1859 the academy was built and served area students until 1913.  The building was then used for social events and as a grange hall until 1946, when it was destroyed by fire.  The wing built onto the church in 1950 housing classrooms, offices and fellowship hall is still affectionately called "The Academy."

In 1986, the Charlton Freehold Presbyterian Church celebrated its bicentennial.  Proud of our 200 years of educational and spiritual offering to the community, our church looks forward to its continuance into the 21st century.

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