The following is derived from
George Reeser Prowell's
History of Camden County, New Jersey
published in 1886

THE PRESBYTERIAN MISSION in Memorial Hall, Broadway, below Kaighn Avenue, is the child of the West Jersey Presbytery, and was organized as a colored mission on the first Sunday in August, 188fi, and Rev. T. W. Davenport appointed to the charge. A Sunday school, with three teachers and thirty pupils, was organized at the same time, with Theodore Henson as superintendent.