Manual of the Presbytery of Concord
MANUAL Presbytery of Concord, CONTAINING A HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL OUTLINE; A Roll of Ministers and Churches from the Date of Organization ; of Ministers and Churches Rolls Present ; List of Standing Committees ; DIRECTORY FOR BUSINESS, AND STANDING RULES. Revised, April, 1888. RICHMOND, VA.: Whittet & Shepperson, Printers. 1888. : ; MANUAL OF THE Presbytery of Concord, CONTAINING A HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL OUTLINE A Roll of Ministers and Churches from the Date of Organization ; Rolls of Present Ministers and Churches ; of Standing Committees List ; DIRECTORY FOR BUSINESS, AND STANDING RULES. Revised, April, 1888. RICHMOND, VA. Whittet & Shepperson, Printers. 18 8 8. Digitized by the Internet Archive . in 2013 http://archive.org/details/manualofpresbyteOOpres_0 MANUAL OF THE PRESBYTERY OF CONCORD. i. Historical anH ^oQtnphicnl <®ut^ line. The portion of territory now embraced by the Presbytery of Concord was under the care of the Presbytery of Hanover, Va., until the for- mation of the Presbytery of Orange, in the year 1770. In 1788, the Synod of New York and Philadelphia set off the Presbyteries of Orange, Abingdon and South Carolina, as a separate Synod, called the Synod of the Carolinas. The Presbytery of Orange then embraced the entire State of North Carolina and a small portion of South Carolina. The first meeting of the new Synod was held on the 5 th of No- vember, 1788, at Centre Church, within the ^bounds of Orange (now Concord) Presbytery. Ad [ 4 ] Seven years later (1795) the Synod set off the Presbytery of Concord from the Presbytery of Orange, making the Yadkin river the dividing line. The new Presbytery was composed of the following clerical members, viz: Rev.
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