A number of inhabitants of West Locke assembled at the house of Ichabod Brown for the purpose of being organized into a church should it be thought expedient. Five people, Ichabod Brown, John Seaton, James Travis, Dinah Whiting, and Anna Hall solemnly entered into a covenant with God and with each other and were constituted a regular Congregational Church called the Church of West Locke. John Seaton was the church's first deacon.