Books
|
Not currently available
Journal of Presbyterian History (Volume 6) (Paperback)
Loot Price: R391
Discovery Miles 3 910
|
Share your images
|
Journal of Presbyterian History (Volume 6) (Paperback)
(sign in to rate)
Loot Price R391
Discovery Miles 3 910
Supplier out of stock. If you
add it to your wishlist we will send you an email should it become available again.
|
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to
www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books
for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:
SOME NOTEWORTHY FEATURES IN THE ANNALS OF THE MAHONING PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH: 1785-1910. BY THE REV. PROFESSOR ROBERT LAIRD STEWART, D.
D. The records of this time-honored church carry us back to the
earliest of the pioneer days on the frontier line of northeastern
Pennsylvania. On the 26th of November, 1774, General William
Montgomery, a sturdy Scotch-Irish Presbyterian, came from Chester
County to this region, and purchased from the land office the
wilderness tract on which the town of Danville now stands. On a
newly cleared space of this tract he built a small log house, and
to this new home brought out his wife and children. Not long
afterwards he and all his neighbors were compelled to flee from
hostile bands of Indians, who ravaged the country and murdered the
inhabitants of every exposed settlement from Fort Augusta, at
Sunbury, to the upper end of the Wyoming Valley. In the spring of
1780 General Montgomery returned, and with the aid of his three
sons continued the work of clearing and improving his wilderness
possession. About this time he built a grist mill on Mahoning
Creek, which was the first of its kind in this region. It supplied
the settlers with flour and meal for many miles around, and, ere
long, became the nucleus of a little settlement which took the name
Mahoning. The church, which was organized seven years before the
founding of the town of Danville, received its name, as seemed
fitting, from the settlement in which it was planted. It was the
first Christian church of any denomination in this portion of the
Susquehanna Valley, and its bounds, as then constituted, extended
from the south of Fishing Creek to the vicinity of the town of
Northumberland. The original members and adherents of the Mahoning
Church came from the older settlements to the s...
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.