Milford chronicle., 1883-07-06
The Cradle OF PresbyterIanlsm In the
Uhlted states.

g The Cradle OF PresbyterIanIsm In the
Re unlted states.
r. About three weeks since, the CHRNs
~ ICLE quoted from the New York II,
IL oune the claim of Snow Hill. Md. "A
= me cradle OF PreSbVteFianism in In
ie United States. This quotation Seem
! I" nave set the historians of the Pres
!. oytrrlAn Church and of the peninsuI,
!, I" searching the records and fiiliup ths
penlnsular papers with claims for
other towns and counter claims for
Snow Hill The citizens of Snow Hill
being determined TO maintain the hon
or have concluded to celebrate the hi
centennial of Presbyterianism In this
country in Snow Hill during the com
ing autumn; and committee with
Hon, u. w. COvinRton as chairman
mas been appointed to make the neces-
saty arrangements.
IL VIII be remembered that our ouO-
tatiun stated that Rev. Francis Make
me founded the first Presbyierian
Chureh on the cOntenent at Snow Hill
~ 1858 Snow Hill is one Ofthe earliest
settlements IN Maryland. 1t was laid
OUT ny act of Assembly as early a. 1858:
forty three years before Baltimore wss
Mackenzie organized five congregations
m Somerset county, of which snow
Hill was one.
Vincents History of Delaware,
notes the establishment of house of
worship at New Castle by Governor
Alricks in 1858 the first house built
solely f9r religious purposes anywhere
IN the State. Vincent ventures the
opinion that this was without Doubt
the CONNIE ,cement Of the Presbyteri-
an church at New Castle. This church
antedated Makemie's on the Eastern
Shore by more than 20 years. Il NAV
be added also that the Rev. William ,
Mchennan, great grandfather of
Judge Mckennan of Washington. Pa
was. according to tradition in tile y
family, the first English L
speaking Presbyterian minister who
ever preached ~ Delaware, and ne
must have Immigrated here about the =
middle of the seventeenth century
Many of the old Delaware families
we're Presbyterian.
Ihere are alsn traces of PRESBYTERIAN
'lergymeh in Virginia, near Norfolk.
between 1870 and 1850, and one il
poken Of as being driven into Charles
Ounty, Maryland, IN 1914. Tue Rev n
?. u. Oakley Of Springfield, Long Is
anu also asser,s that there was Pl
,,resOyterian church with pastor at
iemp.tead, Long Island, in 1914. Or
eVeIai otner very early churches were
'tahllsned on Long Island, and The Ga
resbyl erians of the town Of Jamaica co
j. l., IN l7O2 had a church, parsonage M
nd glebe, the buildings Substantial 5
ld the land valuable. The EpiscO-
Al church afterward took fOrcIble pos 4;
sslon, II Is thought, of this church. =
here Is stiil Presbyterian church Al
empstead. g.
A sun earlier Presbyterian church
Nv congregational was established al s;
lndsOr, Connecticut, SOON after 1880.
ne names OF the first pastor aud eld- 3
) are preserved, and the church has ~
~ an unbroken existence ever since
Judge E. X. Wilson of snow Hill I
'lles E0ery ECening to say tn It the i'm : Z
ession conveyed by recent letter II
Isaac ID. Jones, Esq, of Baltimore tt
At RehObOth is unnii, takablv an traii
Ter town than Snow Hill, and ihere- a a. 81 70
e more likely than the latter place for
have been the Bite of MakemIe,s TUE
IT church, is an erroneous one. II A. 4s,1 q
3 common for rich land owners to 800
We pOrs OF entry established on or
'r their land in the hope that towns
uld grow up aud enhance the value Trs
their property. OF more than So Be-
is established by law in 1885. but twee
ut have been heard OF aud one OF Pers Pes
Sc is snow Hill. dsys dsys
II the act of 1888 spoken of as loca- -
: port of entrya at RehObOtb Jndga
son says: "A town was created 1n
er by the act OF 1898, not at R-bo-
u, Tor we do not hear of Rrhoboth
eight years sfterward, but alta place
Veen the lands of MIR. jenkins and
Howard on the north side nf Po.
loke river Being located on land
'rlOel as lying between the lands
lese two men, aud as being with
ownership, it must have been q
lahdi without houses and without
pie when the act was past aud So
3 we can learn, in its palmiestd DAYS
vi not over about dozen houses
It's church, 50 far from being
,lshing one, l grieve to say, is near
1ctiOn. ssTha in
Ice of some great land owner NJ
u caused town site and tobacco
10 be placed by the act of 1888 ut a
on the river about midway b.
the site of RehObOth aud Snow
Despite the great difficulty of
CATION for four miles below the lat
'wn, It's growing in importance as
N and center of trade caused this
'0n MOrgan's land, commonly
Barrow to be abandoned and
ort to be removed to the head of
'ation where Snow Hill is loca.