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Subject: [Scotch-Irish] Seceders
EARLIEST
LISTS OF PRESBYTERIANS IN SOUTWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA
In 1772 Rev. David McClure, a New
England Congregationalist minister
itinerated through southwestern Pennsylvania on his way to visit the
Indians
in Ohio. In the autumn of 1772, three groups presented calls to McClure to
minister among them. These calls are an early census, if you will, of
Presbyterian heads of families here at that time. They read as follows:
We the subscribers, inhabitants of
Fairfield Township, Province of
Pennsylvania and County of Bedford lamenting the great want of a protestant
clergyman to settle amongst us in this distant country and having an
opportunity upon proper environment of obtaining a gentleman of that
character to preach unredable/torn/blotted . . two parts of that time at
Ligonier and one third at Squire Hills.. .witness this hand this 20th day
of
November 1772:
Jas. Pollock Georg Glenn George
McDowl
John McNogher John McMillen Jas. McCurdy
Jean Campbell Jas. Donaly David
Willson
David Thompson Thos. Jameson
William Bracken
A. Hendrick(son) James How Thos.
Campbel
John Millen Jno. Livingston Geo.
Hutchinson
Luke Picket Wm. Hanna torn Archbald
____ Freman Peter Chaigneau James
Benford
Henry Slater James McKay John Hanna
Thos. Cheney John Guld Robt.
Laughlen
Alxr. Johnston Richd. Shenon Robt.
Reed
Robert Nox John Palmer Saml. Smith
William McCune John Stinson John
torn off
James Cooper John Sellers Thomas
Woods
Matthew Fowler Wm. Wharton Robert
Gibbons
Robert Smiley George Finley Samuel
Shannon
Thos. Bird John Wilson
Addl names with additional pledges
(some duplications):
Thos. Cheney John McNagher Jas.
McCurdy
John McMillon Jean Campbell Davis
Wilson
Thos Jameson Wm. Hendrics Jas. How
Luk Pickit Ceasr Freeman Peter
Shine
Henry Slater John Hanna Jas.
Pollock
Georg Glen Georg McDowl Robt.
Laughlen
Alxr. Johnston Robt Nox John Palmer
SamI. Shanon Thos. Bird John Wilson
Wm. Bracken Richd. Shenon Robt.
Reid
Saml. Smith
We the subscribers of Mount
Pleasant Township and others of the county of
Bedford and province of Pensylvania lamenting the grate want of a
protestant
clergyman to be settled among us in this county and having an opportunity
upon proper incouragement of obtaining a gentleman of the character to
preach the gospel amongst us which inestemble polessing we embrace by
promising to pay or cause to be paid unto the Reverand Mr. David McClure
the
several following sums annexed to our names for six months residence
commencing from the 12th of November to the 12 of May 1775?, he the said
McClure executing the office of his ministery at the tent near the Fourteen
Mile Run in said settlement or at any other covanent place near to it every
third Sabbith to the assembled in witness whereof we have hereunto set our
hands this 11 of November 1772.
John Proctor William Crier SamI.
Coulter
William Graham Alxr. Barr Frances
M. Otis
Patrick Arms(t)? Saml. Moorhead
James Scott
Georg Cousins Wm. Sloan William
Barnes
David Livingston Seth Stiles Wm.
Perry
Josias Campbell Arthur Oharro
Fillib/Phillip Goss
Wm. Mitcheal Saml. Sloan James
Latta
James Beard Charles Beard John
Pumroy
Edward Cahil Clarence Logan
We the subscribers do hereby
promise to pay or cause to be paid unto the
Revd. Mr. McClure the several sums to our name respectively annexed on the
first day of May next if so long the said McClure shall continue among us
to
preach the Gospel and perform the duties of his calling. Witness our hands
the twenty fifth day of December anno Domini 1772:
John Stephenson Nath'l. Crawford W.
Crawford
Matthew Jeffery David Lindsay William Massy
John Stewart John Vance Elijah
Innes
Jacob Minter George Shillings
Ezek'l Hickman
Robt. Worthington W.
Vaniker/W.N.Siker Ben. Harreson
Zach. Connell Mich. Teggart
"Recd. the whole of this
Subscription from Mr. John Stinson, Collector and
others. J.D. Macclure, Stewarts Crossings May 28, 1773."