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History of the Early American Presbyterian ChurchThese pages were created by Aprille Cooke McKay circa 2002 and went offline
from the University of Michigan site that hosted them in
late 2005. I've reproduced them here with her permission in 2006 and have done
some minor corrections of typos. I do not plan to actively update these pages
but I do welcome corrections, supplementary info, and links to complementary
info and related church sites. Please use
the threaded discussion
boards on this site to discuss these pages and to offer additional info,
clarification and to network with descendants for genealogy purposes. Hosting
for these pages is provided courtesy of
GetOggz.com. &
Malcolm Humes.
History of the Early American Presbyterian Church
(Please note that the original author of these pages is no longer
maintaining them. See my comments appended below. - MH)
Why am I doing this project?
I have been looking in vain for information on the internet about the early Presbyterian Church. I come from several lines of Scotch-Irish or Puritan/Presbyterian
colonialists. I was finding all of the names of congregations confusing because
they don't always correspond with a geographical name you can look up on
a map, like "Tinkling Spring" and "Fagg's Manor." I also found that I kept
running into the same minister's names, although my research was taking me
to many different states -- Pennsylvania, Virginia, North/South Carolina,
Kentucky, Ohio and New Jersey. So I decided to try to track them down and
put what I learned on the web.
The information is coming (right now) from the Encyclopedia of the
Presbyterian Church in the United States of America: Including the Northern
and Southern Assemblies, Alfred Nevin, D.D., LL.D., Editor, Philadelphia
(Presbyterian Encyclopedia Publishing Co., 1884).
Most of the information is verbatim, but not all the information in the
given article is necessarily reproduced. The work's copyright has expired,
so it is now in the public domain. I have not transcribed all the information
in each article, particularly in the biographies. I only deleted flowery language
about the subject's dedication to God and his uprightness which, after reading
several of the articles, seemed repetitive. I have eliminated none of the
biographical detail.
Please also note that the Nevin's version of Presbyterian History is a
highly sanitized one. He barely refers to disputes which led to church schisms
and none of the ministers he writes of ever deserved being removed from a
congregation. All of the good and barely a hint of the bad seemed to be his
byword. I intend to eventually annotate these biographies with facts which
Nevin has left out.
Also, please note that references to "negroes" and "Indians" in Nevin's
work reflect a 19th century (Scotch-Irish, white) worldview and not my own
attitudes.
- Aprille Cooke McKay
Note from current webmaster Malcolm Humes: These pages existed on a
University of Michigan web server from approximately 2002-2005. In early 2006 I
discovered the pages were offline but referenced in many Google searches I did
on genealogy. I contacted Aprille McKay and asked if it was ok to host the pages
because it was clear they had great historical and genealogical value and have
presented them here with her permission. Much of this was originally sourced
from material in the public domain and other parts were contributed by readers
of her original site.
I encourage
discussion of these pages and use of this site for ancestors to connect and
share notes. I welcome supplementary material and links to related sites but
it is not my intent to manage and update these pages regularly. Please use the
discussion boards for
comments, suggested updates, to connect with other descendants, and for
discussions of the content here.
Much like Aprille, I have found that tracking my family history involves
tracking the churches they belonged to and understanding the context of their
religion helps me. Also I have many ancestors in families related to or possibly
related to a number of the early PA Reverends listed in these pages, with
particular interest in the Finley, Graham, Kennedy, Kerr families and with many
of my family roots at Paxton Church, Old Hanover Presbyterian, Head of
Christiana and other churches listed here. I am not an expert on the info
offered here and do not have the books that this material was sourced from. I
was raised at times as a Quaker and at times as a Presbyterian and my early PA
Quaker heritage is also important to me.
I do have other resources on some of the related churches here that I hope
to eventually share online also.
When I asked Aprille if I could host these pages I had little idea of the
scope of them. Some of these pages are up to 2000 lines in length and pulling
these pages from Google's cached copies created a need for hours of editing. I
can only imagine the hundreds of hours Aprille probably put into creating these
pages originally. I have found and corrected hundreds of typos but in many cases
the place name variations and some typos do not leave an obvious answer as to
what they should be. In other cases I may have corrected older English spellings
with some hesitation, but it's clear that the original source material was also
modified to offer this online in a more modern context. There is an incredible
amount of material here with easily more than 20,000-30,000 lines of text. I had
no idea how much effort it would be just to copy and edit the pages to offer
them here, and I thank Aprille Cooke McKay for her work on the original project
and for her willingness to let me share these pages again.
I'm aware that there may still be some formatting errors with bolded and
colored text. The search feature probably doesn't work at this time, and there
are probably many typos and some broken links. I'll create a
section on the discussion
board to be used for reporting problems and suggested updates. I also
welcome discussions of
specific churches and Reverends and their families and flocks and for you to use
this site as a way to connect to other descendants if you are related to people
mentioned here.
- Malcolm Humes, April 2006
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Biographies of early American Presbyterians
Biography of John Knox, founder of Scottish
Presbyterianism
Early American Presbyterian Institutions
Board of Home Missions of the
Presbyterian Church of the United States
General Assembly
Hamilton College, New York
Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia
Hanover College, Indiana
Log College, Pennsylvania
Maryville College (Southern and Western
Theological Seminary), Maryville, Tennessee
Princeton College and the College
of New Jersey
Washington and
Jefferson College, Pennsylvania
Washington and Lee University,
Virginia
Historical Events in early American Presbyterianism
Early American Presbyterian Congregations
First Presbyterian Church of Chicago,
Illinois
Bethel Church, Fayette Co., Kentucky
Baltimore, Maryland Presbyterian
Churches
Antrim Church, New Hampshire
Cranbury First Presbyterian Church,
New Jersey
Deerfield Church, New Jersey
Old Stone Church, Fairfield, New
Jersey
Brick Church, New York, New
York
Cherry Valley Church, New York
Hempstead, Long Island, New York
Jamaica Presbyterian Church, Long Island,
New York
First Presbyterian Church of Newtown,
Queens, New York
First Presbyterian Church of Chillicothe,
Ohio
Oxford Presbyterian Church, Oxford,
Butler Co., Ohio
Red Oak, Brown Co., Ohio
Seven-Mile Presbyterian Church,
Collinsville, Butler Co., Ohio
Springfield/Springdale Presbyterian
Church, Hamilton Co., Ohio
Abington Church, Pennsylvania
Beechwoods Presbyterian Church,
Jefferson Co., Pennsylvania
Bethel (Brookville) Church, Jefferson
Co., Pennsylvania
Concord Church, Hooker, Butler
Co., Pennsylvania
Derry Church, Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania
Donegal Church, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania
Hanover Church, Pennsylvania
Mount Tabor Church, Jefferson
Co., Pennsylvania
First Presbyterian Church,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pisgah Presbyterian Church, Jefferson
Co., Pennsylvania
First Presbyterian Church,
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
Sewickley Presbyterian Church,
Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania
Lower and Upper Ten-Mile Churches,
Amity and Prosperity, Washington Co., Pennsylvania
Edisto Island Presbyterian Church, South
Carolina
Huguenot Church, Charleston,
South Carolina
Alexandria, Fairfax Co., Virginia
Back Creek Church (also called
Stone Church and Tomahawk) Berkeley Co., West Virginia
Bullskin Church (Hopewell Congregation),
Jefferson Co., West Virginia
Cedar Creek Church, Frederick
Co., Virginia
Culpeper County, Virginia
Elk Branch, near Duffields,
Jefferson Co., West Virginia
Falling Waters Church, Berkeley
Co., West Virginia
Lancaster Church, Lancaster Co.,
Virginia
Lost River, Hardy Co., West
Virginia
Opequon Church, Frederick Co., Virginia
Patterson's Creek Church, Fort Ashby,
Mineral Co., West Virginia
Potomac Church, near Shepherdstown,
(W.) Virginia
South Branch of Potomac Church,
Springfield, Hampshire Co., West Virginia
Tuscarora Church, near Martinsburg,
Berkeley Co., West Virginia
Early American Presbyteries
Centre Presbytery, Illinois
Long Island Presbytery, New York
Transylvania Presbytery, Kentucky/Ohio
Washington/Chillicothe Presbytery, Kentucky/Ohio
Early American Presbyterian Synods
Synod of Cincinnati
Synod of Indiana
Synod of Kentucky
Synod of Ohio
Presbyterianism in Pennsylvania
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