The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-03-17
To Honor Scotch ExiIes.
A MONUMENT TO BE ERECTED NEAr
wICKATUNK.

a MON bMbNT TO BE ERECTED NEAR
wIcKATUNK
The Committee to erect a monument
to the Scotch Exiles. has issued tha
4 following appeal for the objeet.-.4T
earliest official Records. extanf. Of
I the Presbyt eriaD Church in this couu-
try begin abruptly ia the midst of the
ordination of John BOYD. on Decem-
Der 29th, 1906 in the Old Scots Meet
ing House of Freehold. in Monmouth
County. New Jersey The first two
pages OF the manuscript having been
lost, no man knows what anteeedent
events may have been therein record
4 60 Therefore, it is not claimed that
I Freehold is the oldest Church in this
country; but only that it is the first
one referred to in existing Records.
Francis Mackenzie as Moderator.
Jedidiati Andrews of PHILADELPHIA.
and John Hampton. then recently ar
4 rived from Ireland, composed that
Presbytery which ordained John
I Boyd
/ Walter ker was the Elder of the old
church. Rev VIM Tennent. Jr..
wrote in 1744, It was the first in the
East Jersey OH the West Side of the
Raritan River, which was settled with
a gospel ministry This was owing
under God TO the agency of some
Scotch people that came to it, among
whom there was none SO painful
in the blessed undertaking az one
Walter Ker, who ia the year 1855. for
his faithful and conscientious adher-
ence 70 God and his truth as professed
by the church of Scotland was there
apprehended and sent to this country
under a sentence of perpetual Danish
lnent.
Here met the First Presbytery, of
which any Minutes exist Here was
the first regular ordination of Presby-
terian Minister by that first Presby-
terry Here began the Great Revival
in Our portion of the Church. under
the ministry of John Tennent
The Pilgrimage TO this site of the
Old Scots Meeting House, under the
auspices OF the Synod of New Jersey,
on June 4th, 1895, and the eloquent
address, delivered on that occasion,
cannot be forgot en- That Pilgrimage
received the end orsAment of both tue
\ Southern and the. Northern General
Assemblies by the appointment Of
delegates 10 it and resulted IN a loud
cali for the erection Vi monument
1 TO commemorate the events and the
men thus intimately connected with
the beginnings of the organic Presby-
terrain Church in America.
The grave of Francis Mackenzie the
Father of the Presbyterian Church in
I this comfy is not known exactly; bat
I the old family burial ground, in Ac-
conlack County on the Eastern Shore
of Chesapeake Bay Were his body
Is supposed To est IS now a cattle
pen, Is he not worthy Of a inonn-
menf?
See Days of Mackenzie. by Rev. T.
I p. Bovine. d. ID. =. 54S.
Since the men who constituted that
( Presbytery in the Old Scots Meeting
4 House We're from Scotland and Ire
land and New England. this historic
monument to their memory will be
constructed Of granite from these
s three countries. surmounfed by the
Scotch Thistle, and having on the
gables four Bronze Historic Seals. viz.
/. The Seal OF the Presbyterian
/ Church of Monmouth County
?. The Seal Of the Presbyterian
! Church in the United States of Aneri
ca
3. The Seal Of the Presbyterian
4 Church of Scotland,
+ f. The Seal of the Scotch Irish So
ciety.
\ Also one side a bronze tablet. with
! the Latin inscription, which is on the
tombstone of John Boyd who died
in 170S. 1t is also proposed to transfer
4 that old tombstone to the care of the
Presbyterian Historical Society III the
4 New Witherspoon Building in Fbila
delphia.
A suitable plot of ground has been
3oas7 +efIflt