The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1868-04-15

tery, Va
After Mr.. Byram's declinature, MIR.
John Brown, hcentiate of New Castle
Presbytery, was sent out to supply the
churches of New Providence and Tim
Der Ridge.
Mr.. Brown was a native of Ireland,
but was educated, in part at least, III this
country, having graduated in 1749, at
Nassau Hall. In August 1853, call
was made out for his services by the
united congregations. The original call
is in the possession of Mr.. Browns de-
scendants in Kentucky.
As this call is not in the form now in
use, but set forth in words chosen at the
time, and thus expresses the feelings and
views of the people who made it, it is
given in full as part of the history of
the church, with the names of the sign
ers.
''WORTHY AND DEAR SIR,-We being for these
many years passed in very destitute cireumstan-
ces, in want of the ordinances of the Gospel
an Ong US, many of US under distressing spiritu.
al languisAment, and multjtudes perishingin our
sins for wan. Of the bread of life broken amo ing
US, our Sabbaths W ,sted in melancholy silence
at home, or sadly broken and proianed by the
more tLogghticss aHioas as, oUr art- and
hands disengaged, and our spirits broken with
our mournful condition, and repeated disapPolnt
ments of our expectations of relief in this par
tieular; in these aticting circumstances that hu-
man language cannot sufficiently paint, we have
had the happiness by he good providence OF
God of enjoying a share of your labors to our
abundant satisfaction; and being universally
satisfied with your miuist rial abilities in general
and the peculiar agreeableness of your quallh-
cations to us in particular as Gospel minister,
we do, worthy ana dear sir, from our hearts, and
with the most cordial affection, and unanlmity,
agree to CALL invite, and request you to take the
ministerial care of uS-and we do promise that
we will receive the Word Of God from your
mouth, attend on your ministry, instructions,
and reproofS, in public and private, and to sub
NIT to the discipline which Christ has appointed
in his Church, administered by you, while regu-
lated by the Word of God and agreeable to our
Confession of Faith and Directory. And that
you may give yourself wholly up to the impor-
tant work of the ministry, we do promise that
we will pay unto you annually the sum which our
Commissioners, Andrew Steel and Archibald
Alexander, shall give in the Reverend Presbyte-
a., -. e, 80
call and that we shall behave ourselves towards
you with all that dutiful respect and affe tion
that becomes a people towards their minister
using all means within our power to render youl
life comfortable and happy. We entreat YOU
worthy and dear sir, to have compassion on us
and accept this our call and invitation to the pas
toral charge of our immortal souls, and we shall
ever hold ourselves bound to pay. We request
the Reverend Presbytery to present this our cal
70 the said Mr.. Brown, and to concur in his &C
eeptance of and we shall always count our
selves happy in being your obliged servants.
John Houston, Andrew Steel, Samnel Buchan
an, Alexander Walker, Walter Eakin, William
Lock5ridge Alexander Miller, Francis Beatty
John Hawley, John Stuart, William Wardlaw
Moore, Samuel Houston, Samuel Steel, John
Sproul, James Coulter, Robert 4teSsh, ]oA'
Robinson Matthew Robinson, John Kerr, Johr
Logan. James Eakin, John Montgomery, Jane:
Lusk, Robert Gamble, John RoSsman, William
Berry, Jas. Trimble, Rob't Robertson, Johr
Shields. Charles Berry, John McCrosky, Jr.
John Patton, Robert Henry, John Winston
James Walker, David Sayer James Robinson
Samuel Hay, Joseph Kennedy, Samuel McCutch
on. William Smith, Thomas Hill, George Hen
derson, John MeCrosky, Sr., Alexander Nc
Crosby, Robert Kirkpatrick, John Douglass
John Walker, William Beah, John Wardlaw
Robert Weir, Alexander Moor, Matthew Hous
ton. William Wbiteside Thomas Berry, William
Robinson, Samuel Dunlap, Halbert McCluer
John MeNabb, William Caruthers, William Gray
James McCluug, David Dryden. George Stephen
son, VIM. Hamilton, Thomas McSpaden, Josepl
Hay, Francis Allison. John Smiley, jaime
Greenlee, Thomas MeMurray, James Mcdowell
Rodger KEYS. Thomas Paxton, Nath. Peoples
Alexander McCluer, Robert Allison Nose
Witeside, James McClung, Jr., Samuel Lyle
John McCluer, Matthew Lyle, James Thomson
John Davidson, James Edminston, Robert HOuS
ton John Keys, John Stevenson, Jacob Gray
Nath. McCluer, Edmund Hearken, Samuel Pax
ton, William Lusk, Thomas Dryden, Edwar
Gaor, Samuel Davis. William Davis, Charlie
McAnelly, Neal MeG'ister, John Lowry, Andre7
Fitzpatrick, Samuel Gray, John Lyle, Archibal
Alexander, John Macky, Baptist McNabb, Nose
Trmbe, Magdalen Burden, Samuel Mcdowell
Widow NcClung, John Mitchell, Daniel Lyle
Agnes Martin.
These names of course include the people
Timber Ridge, and represent most probably th
families of the congregations There are on
hundred and sixteen names, and only three
them are the names of women.