November 14: New School Synod Minutes!
Our post today comes from guest author and good friend, Barry Waugh, who has recently begun his own blog, PRESBYTERIANS OF THE PAST. Where THIS DAY IN PRESBYTERIAN HISTORY has always been intended…
March 28: The First American Presbytery (1706)
Today’s post was written for the PCA Historical Center in 2006 by Dr. Barry Waughand is reproduced here, substantially edited for length. Three hundred years ago this year the first meeting…
March 11: The Trial of Francis Makemie (1707)
William Buell Sprague makes the notation in his Annals of the American Pulpit, that Richard Webster in his History of the Presbyterian Church in America, has this to say relative…
December 29: John Boyd & The First Presbytery (1706)
With the settling of the American colonies, scattered congregations and groups of people ready to be gathered into churches, together with the small number of ministers anxious for mutual encouragement…
October 15: Rehoboth Presbyterian Church
The First Presbyterian Congregation in America? This writer puts a question mark in our title simply because there are several churches which claim to be the first Presbyterian Church in…