To Everything A Season: Adam EDGAR and Mary [UNKNOWN] EDGAR Family

Rosters of Rocky Creek

Church

Rosters of Galeway and

Broad Albin Church

Rosters of Duck River

Church

Rosters of Old Bethel

Church

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1. BOOK: History Of The Reformed Presbyterian Church In America by GLASGOW;

2. GLASGOW Pastor and Elder Roster

#13 Rocky Creek Church

#34 Galway and Broad Albin Church

#35 Duck River

#99 Old Bethel Church

Latest update: Monday, November 7, 2011

CAVEAT: Henry James warned, "Excellence does not

require perfection." GLASGOW's excellent research contains

internal inconsistencies and errors. As they are identified,

they are marked for your consideration.

In addition, these sources for the EDGAR family research

focus on the Reformed Presbyterian Church. Although we

have excerpted the portions relevant to the EDGAR family,

we have also included the location of the full content of each

source.

[editorial comment]

1. History Of The Reformed Presbyterian Church In America:

With Sketches Of All Her Ministry, Congregations, Missions, Institutions, Publications, Etc., And Embellished With

Over Fifty Portraits And Engravings.

By W. [William]  Melancthon GLASGOW

[Sourced as History Of The Reformed Presbyterian Church In America, GLASGOW.]

[There are three (3) publications of the GLASGOW History.]

1888 - Baltimore, Md.; Baltimore: Hill & Harvey, Publishers. Hardcopy

[• Online at GoogleBooks]

[• Online at Archives.org]

[• Excerpt pages 53-58  at The Reformed Presbyterian and Covenanter]

2005 - Edited by Nathaniel POCKRAS, Online only

[• Publication in .pdf format]

2007 - Hardcopy reprint of original 1888

[• Contributed by Robert Merritte WEBB]

[Excepts posted at Rocky Creek Reformed Presbyterian Church, Cemetery And School.]

2. GLASGOW Research Notes: Pastor and Elder Rosters (Copies above)

[Sourced as RP Church Rosters, GLASGOW.]

[These Rosters were contributed by Loretta EDGAR EMBRY, [S269] who indicated she was given them by her father’s first

cousin and EDGAR genealogist  Norman Edgar MAXWELL.There is a significant belief the rosters are from the research notes

of William Melancthon GLASGOW.  However, there are differences in the data presented in these Roster and in GLASGOW's

History Of The Reformed Presbyterian Church In America. For example, in History, GLASGOW indicates on page 422,

"ROCKY CREEK: Chester, Chester County, South Carolina. The parent society in the South, formed about 1750. In 1770,

called "Edgar's Meeting House." William Martin, 1772, to 1789. William King, 1792, to 1798. Thomas Donnelly, March 3, 1801,

to April 10, 1816. Hugh McMillan, June 18, 1822, to April 6, 1829, when disorganized." The No. 13 Rocky Creek Roster below

provides different information, including dates after the 1888 publication date of the GLASGOW History. Documented sources

are still being pursued.

Robert COLELAND, 09 Oct 2011

"The record from Rocky Creek congregation is definitely in the handwriting of W.M. Glasgow.  He compiled a massive

MS volume with similar information on every RP congregation, and apparently he traveled around the country to find

records, as well as voluminous correspondence about them.  Some of the records from the South Carolina congregations

were apparently in the families of some of the pastors --- Faris, McMillan, &c., although they are supposed to be kept by

the Clerk of Session as long as a congregation exists.  That's why so many of them have been lost: the last Elder who

had them died; his children or grandchildren had left the denomination and didn't want them and/or didn't know what to

do with them, so threw them out.  It's a serious problem for us now.  Some records were deposited with the Clerk of

Synod after congregations shut down, but I believe I recall checking on the South Carolina churches (some time ago) and

finding no records in the denominational office.

"The Faris family had an enormous collection of letters, deeds, and other documents which they kept until the 1980s,

when they were all burned in a ranch fire in Colorado.  Irreparable loss.

"Glasgow left the RP church in 1899 and went to the United Presbyterians, later to the Presbyterian Church. In

addition to the big "History," he also published several other historical works about the RP Church---the Seminary,

Geneva College (that one in 1906), etc.  So I assume he kept collecting historical material on the denomination well

after 1888.  (Most historians do!)"

Robert Merritte WEBB, October 2011

"That these documents you sent appear to be part of William M. Glasgow’s work in preparation for the publication of his

seminal 1888 book, History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in America, makes these documents even more

historically special and significant. I see the inscription on top of the Rocky Creek page “Collected by Wm. M.

Glasgow."  I suspect these documents are in his own handwriting and are from source information he copied directly

from original church records as part of his research for his book.  If so, they are “category 5” treasures!"

ROCKY CREEK CHURCH ROSTER TRANSCRIPTION

Collected by Wm. M. Glasgow [page] 25

No. 13 Rocky Creek: Wilbridge, Chester Co., S.C.

Organized, Nov. 10, 1772.

Disorganized, Oct. 18, 1830.

Pastors:

William Martin, Nov. 10, 1772 - March 12, 1801.

James McKinney, Aug. 11, 1802 - Died, Sept. 16, 1802.

Thomas Donnelly, Oct. 16, 1802 - Aug. 14, 1816.

Hugh McMillan, May 18, 1822 - Oct. 6, 1828.

[Elders]

[Session Begin Date] - [Name] - Session [End Date] - [Reason]

1772 - William Anderson - 1788 - Died, 1788.

1772 - James Stinson - 1796 - Died, 1796.

1779 - Adam Edgar - 1799 - Died, 1799.

1779 - Samuel Laughridge - 1794 - Died 1794

1779 - Thomas McClurkin - 1816 - Certified to form Bethesda Cong.

1789 - Hugh McMillan - 1826 - Died, 1826.

1792 - Robert Hemphill  - 1809 - Died, 1809.

1792 - John Nisbet - 1822 - Died, 1822.

1798 - Archibald McMillan - 1819 - Removed to Sparta Ill.

1798 - James Monford - 1819 - Removed to Sparta Ill.

1798 - James Willson - 1830 - Removed to Morning Sun, Ohio.

1801 - John Cooper - 1821 - Died, 1821.

1801 - William Edgar - 1805 - Removed to Duck River, Tenn.

1801 - John McNinch - 1804 - Relation dissolved.

1801 - Hugh McQuiston - 1830 - Removed to Cedarville, Ohio.

1801 - David Smith - 1816 - Certified to form Bethesda, Cong.

1810 - Daniel McMillan - 1830 - Removed to Cedarville, Ohio.

1810 - John Orr - 1830 - Removed to Princeton, Ind.

1822 - Alexander Wier - 1829 - Removed to Cedarville, Ohio.

1822 - Dorrance B. Woodburn - 1830 - Removed to Bloomington, Ind.

[Transcriptions in progress.]

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