HISTORY OF ABINGDON PRESBYTERY Goodridge A. Wilson, Jr.
This link is to an address delivered before Abingdon Presbytery in stated spring meeting in the Wytheville Church, in connection with the Diamond Jubilee Celebration, April 21, 1936. Published by order of Presbytery.
From the Journal of Presbyterian History
A SKETCH OF ABINGDON PRESBYTERY.
BY THE REV. JOHN R. HERNDON, A. M.
It is very essential that there should be something said here about the history of Abingdon Presbytery. For this Presbytery, which is one of the oldest in the United States, has several important points of contact with the history of the country. Within its bounds are the first churches of any denomination west of the Allegheny Mountains. Here too was established the first institution of learning west of those mountains. The commanding Colonel (Col. Wm. Campbell) at the Battle of King's Mountain, was an Elder in one of these churches and most of his men were from the congregations of old Abingdon in Washington County. The Fincostte Resolutions, which was the first voice raised for independence in the American Colonies, were drafted within the bounds of this Presbytery, and in all probability by one of her first ministers, Rev. Charles Cummins....(read more)
BY THE REV. JOHN R. HERNDON, A. M.
It is very essential that there should be something said here about the history of Abingdon Presbytery. For this Presbytery, which is one of the oldest in the United States, has several important points of contact with the history of the country. Within its bounds are the first churches of any denomination west of the Allegheny Mountains. Here too was established the first institution of learning west of those mountains. The commanding Colonel (Col. Wm. Campbell) at the Battle of King's Mountain, was an Elder in one of these churches and most of his men were from the congregations of old Abingdon in Washington County. The Fincostte Resolutions, which was the first voice raised for independence in the American Colonies, were drafted within the bounds of this Presbytery, and in all probability by one of her first ministers, Rev. Charles Cummins....(read more)