Author: John Lewis Peyton

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781230356310

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... Sealed and delivered in presence of us all, the foregoing interlineations, Rasures and writings on Rasures being first made. WM. FRANKLIN, Governor of New Jersey, FRE. SMYTH, Chief Justice of New Jersey. THOMAS WALKER, Commissioner for Virginia. AMES TILGRMAN;.} of the Council of Pennsylvania. 'OHN SPINNER, Capt. in the 78th Regiment. 'OSEPH CHEW, of Connecticut. OHN WEATHERHEAD, of N. Y. . OHN WALKER, of Virginia. E. FITCH, of Connecticut. THOMAS WALKER, Junior, Virginia. JOHN BALTER, Interpreter for the Crown. CHAPTER V. As the people of the Valley were, considered as a religious community professing Christianity, divided into various sects and denominations, all justifying, explaining, and upholding their respective tenets, however various or contradictory, by an appeal to the same Sacred Writings, we shall, without any remarks as to the propriety or impropriety of any one or the other, give a concise sketch of their external situation, as conducing to general information and a right understanding of the Augusta colony. To observe some order, let us commence with the Presbyterian Church, the first established in Augusta. Brief allusion has been made to its more obvious temporal effects upon the civil characters of its members and the community. Our limits will not admit of an elaborate statement of the causes which led to the emigration of the Scotch-Irish and their settlement in America. Our county was principally settled by these religious refugees who left Ireland after the siege of Londonderry, the entrance of the Prince Orange into London on the escape of James to France, the acceptance of the British throne by William and Mary, and the glorious revolution oi 1688. We style this revolution glorious, not only because it aimed at...