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    • Rev. Samuel Graham Ramsey (1771-1817)

    He was of Scotch-Irish ancestry and was son of Reynolds and Naomi (Alexander) Ramsey, and was born October 20th, 1771 at Marsh Creek, York (now Adams) county, Pennsylvania. After completing his collegiate course at Liberty Hall, now Washington [and Lee] College, Virginia, he studied theology under the Rev. William Graham, and April 20th, 1795, was licensed to preach the gospel by the Presbytery of Lexington. For a short time he traveled in Virginia, and preached in several different churches. He afterwards extended his missionary tour to the "Southwestern Territory," since the State of Tennessee. About 1798 he became pastor of the Grassy Valley congregation, preaching on alternate Sabbaths at Ebenezer and Pleasant Fount. On account of his impaired health, he resigned this charge in 1803. His health having subsequently improved, he preached to the people of Grassy Valley congregation nearly ten years. He died July 6th, 1817 and was succeeded by Rev. Richard Hall King. Ebenezer and Pleasant Fount congregations increased and flourished under Mr. Ramsey's ministry. During his engagements with the people of his charge, he preached occasionally to the congregation in Knoxville, and was a great favorite of the people. During the suspension of his ministerial functions at different periods, on account of existing or apprehended hemorrhages, he taught a classical school. Among his scholars were always found some poor and pious young men, who were aiming at the ministry, and who were not only instructed, but boarded in his house gratuitously.

    Rev. William Ramsey (1754-1771)

    He was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and graduated at Nassau Hall in 1754. He was licensed by the Association of the Easter District of Fairfield county, Connecticut, was received by Abingdon Presbytery, May 11th, 1756, and was ordained and installed at Fairfield, in Cohanzy, December 1st, 1756. In the call made out for him, and dated March 22d, 1756, thirty-eight men, whose names were attached to it agreed to pay the salary, "eighty pounds proclamation," according to an assessment upon all the property of each , made by a committee of their own choice. The sum amounted to about eight dollars and a half from each man, in silver, on the average, a yearly payment, by every one, of the price, perhaps, of a good cow or two acres of good land, at that time. On his marriage (1758) the congregation bought him a farm of one hundred and fifty acres, on the east side of Sayre's Neck, a little below the schoolhouse, about two miles south of the church. His home was on this farm till he died. He died November 5th, 1771, aged thirty-nine. He lies buried in "the old New Englandtown" graveyard, with this inscription on his tomb: "Beneath this stone lie interred the remains of the Rev. William Ramsey, M.A., for sixteen years a faithful pastor fo the Presbyterian Church in this place, whose superior genius and native eloquence shone so conspicuously in the pulpit as to command the attention and gain the esteem of all his hearers. In every situation of life he discharged his duty faithfully. He lived greatly respected, and died universally lamented."
     

    Rev. Adam Rankin (b pre-1766)

    He was named as a charter member of the Presbytery of Transylvania in 1786.

    Rev. John Rankin (d. aft 1802)

    He was marked absent at the first meeting of the Synod of Kentucky at Lexington, Kentucky in 1802 and was designated a member of the Transylvania Presbytery.

    Rev. John Rankin (1793-1886)

    He was one of the most important early abolitionists. He was born in near Dandridge, Jefferson county, East Tennessee, February 4, 1793, the son of Jane Steele Rankin. He was educated at Washington College, studied theology under Samuel Doak, and licensed by the Abingdon Presbytery. Although he had determined to settle in a free state, upon the urging of Dr. James Blythe and John Lyle, he was for a time pastor of Caneridge and Concord (near Carlisle) churches in Nicholas and Bourbon counties, Kentucky. When the panic of 1819 hit Kentucky, many families in his congregation migrated to free states, eroding both his financial support and eliminating antislavery members of his flock.

    He came to Ohio in the spring of 1822 and was surrounded by ministers with strong anti-slavery sentiments, including James Gilliland, Robert G. Wilson,James H. Dickey, William Dickey, Dyer Burgess Samuel D. Hoge,Samuel Crothers and William Williamson. He was received from by Presbytery of Ebenezer, Kentucky, in 1822 by the Presbytery of Chillicothe and installed at the churches at Ripley and Straight Creek. In 1824 he began to publish a series of public letters to his slaveholding brother, attempting to convince him of the error of his ways. These letters were published in book form in 1826. William Lloyd Garrison, the abolitionist, obtained a copy of the book and republished it in 1833. Ten editions of this work were eventually printed.

    In the Old School/New School Schism in 1837 he began to urge his colleagues to join the New School in hopes that they could convince the other members to establish a church in which slaveholders were excluded from membership. In 1838 he hosted the meeting in Ripley, Ohio which resulted in the organization of the Presbytery of Ripley, a part of the New School Synod of Cincinnati. He was joined by James Gilliland, Dyer Burgess, Jesse Lockhart, James Gass and William Rogers -- about one-third of the old Presbytery of Chillicothe.Unfortunately, the New School was just as equivocal about slavery as the Old School had been.

    In 1843, angered at the New School's failure to even affirm the General Assembly's resolution of 1818 on slavery being inconsistent with the laws of God he began to contact some Old School abolitionists about creating a new anti-slavery Presbyterian Church. Eventually, in 1847, he was the founder of what was called the Free Presbyterian Church of America, which excluded slaveholders from membership. There were at least seventy-two Free Church congregations scattered through southern Ohio and western Pennsylvania and ranging from New York to Iowa. Ten were located within the boundaries of the Old School Presbytery of Chillicothe. At its peak, the church probably numbered some 1,500 to 2,000 communicants. Although the church continued to attract Presbyterian congregations, the primary arena of anti-slavery effort became the evangelical alliance of the Christian Anti-Slavery Convention which met in Cincinnati in 1850 and in Chicago in 1851. These conventions produced lots of heat and angry rhetoric, but little action. The last Convention was sparsely attended in 1855.

    In 1851, Rankin helped found an anti-slavery tract society, called the American Reform Tract and Book Society which published over 200 books and tracts through the early 1860's. Rankin himself wrote many of them. The Free Presbyterian Church launched its own newspaper, The Free Presbyterian, and founded Iberia College in 1854. Soon, however, the Church, which had never had strong growth, began to suffer from its lack of strong central organization over such a large territory. Rankin himself failed to provide the leadership the church needed to sustain itself. When the New School divided itself along sectional lines in 1857, leaving the northern churches with almost no slaveholders, he proposed and led a reunion with it against the desires of staunch abolitionist Dyer Burgess. The Old School also divided along North/South lines in 1861 and the resulting confusion led to greater fragmentation. After a prolonged and bitter struggle, Free Presbyterian Church at length united with the New School body. After the war, Mr. Rankin embraced the reunion of the Old and New Schools. Mr. Rankin died at Ironton, Ohio at the age of ninety-three, March 18, 1886.

    The source for this article is a very interesting article "John Rankin, Antislavery Prophet, and the Free Presbyterian Church" by Larry G. Willey in the American Presbyterian 72:3 (Fall 1994)

    Rev. Samuel Rannels (1765-1817)

    He was born in Hampshire county, Virginia December 10, 1765.  He graduated from Dickinson College and was received by Lexinbton Presbytery December 6, 1792 as a candidate.  He was licenced October 12, 1793 and appointed to itinerate:  tow Sabbaths in Powell's Fort, one each at Cool Spring, Back Creek, Moorefield, head of bull Pasture River near Eliab Wilson's, Bull Pasture at Capt. People's, Jackson River at Mr. Wilson's, George Poage's, Little Levels of Greenbrier, Big Levels of Greenbrier, one in the Sinks, and to fill Mr. Graham's pulpit three Sabbaths in November in case Mr. Graham goes to supply in the Northern Neck (Lancaster Co.)

    April 26, 1794 he was permitted and recommended to ride as a missionary in Kentucky under thee Commission of the Synod; received back April 20, 1796 and dismissed to Transylvania Presbytery, by which ordained in 1796 and installed pastor over the united congregation of Paris and Stonermouth, Kentucky, until his death, March 24, 1817.  Charter  member of the West Lexington Presbytery, April 16, 1799.  He was present at the first meeting of the Synod of Kentucky at Lexington, Kentucky in 1802.  He was opposed to the "excesses of 1802" -- the Kentucky Revival.

    Rev. Moses Raymond (1798-1875)

    He was born at Norwalk, Connecticut, January 9, 1798.  Graduated at Yale University, 1825, and was a student of divinity under Rev. B.F. Stanton.  He was ordained an evangelist by the South Association of Litchfield, Connecticut (an association of the Congregational denomination, almost indistinguishable doctrinally from the Presbyterian) in October, 1830, on the request of Chatham Church, New York.  He evangelized there and in Connecticut 1830-33, missionary to Cumberland and Old Town, Maryland 1833, etc.,, and in Hampshire Co., Virginia and a year in Loudoun.  He was received by Winchester Presbytery from Litchfield Association, September 28, 1837.  He was stated supply at Mount Bethel, 1837-42, and was ordained pastor 1842-1872 when the call was dissolved.  He resided at Greenspring Valley, Hampshire County 1872-75, wher ehe died May 19, 1875.  He is buried at Springfield, Virginia.  He married Sarah Walker of Greenspring Valley (1798-1884)  on February 10, 1835 ("on the ice opposite Old Town by a Methodist minister.")  three children; daughter Isabella J. Raymond was second wife of Rev. M.W. Woodwoorth.

    Thomas Read, D.D. (1746-1823)

    He was born in March, 1746, in the then province of Maryland, but within the present limits of Chester Co., Pennsylvania. He was educated at the old Academy of Philadelphia, and after graduating there, in 1764, became a Tutor in the Classical Academy of Newark, to the Presidency of which institution he was subsequently chosen. Licensed to preach in 1768, he was a supply for Drawyer's Creek Church in Delaware, of which, in 1772 he was installed pastor. In 1798 he accepted a call to the Second Presbyterian Church, Del., his pastoral relation to which he resigned in 1817. After this, he preached by request, as often as his health permitted, to the First Presbyterian Church, in Wilmington, which had long been without a pastor. He died June 14, 1823.

    Early in 1776, he and forty or fifty others, his neighbors and parishioners, fitted themselves out, shouldered their muskets, and marched to Philadelphia, where their proferred service would have been gladly accepted, had not the success of the American arms at Trenton and Princeton rendered it unnecessary that they should be enrolled. He was a delegate to the first meeting of the General Assembly in 1789, as a representative of the Presbytery of New Castle.
     

    Rev. Ezra Reeve (b pre 1739)

    He was a graduate of Yale College and was ordained by the Presbytery of Suffolk, on Long Island, New York on October 9, 1759.

    Rev. Abner Reeve (b pre 1735)

    He was ordained by the Presbytery of Suffolk, Long Island over the new congregation of Moriches, November 6, 1755.  He was a graduate of Yale College.  1764 he was transferred to the Presbytery of New York.

    Rev. Nathaniel Reeves

    October 20th, 1808, the Rev. Nathaniel Reeves, who came from Long Island, was installed at Deerfield, and during his pastorate, which terminated April 17th, 1817, the church grew steadily in strength.

    Rev. William Shields Reid (1778-1853)

    He was born in West Nottingham township, Chester Co., Pennsylvania, April 21, 1778, the son of Adam Reid and Martha Shields.  He graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1802 and taught at Georgetown, in the District of Columbia in the academy of Rev. S.B. Balch between 1802 and 1804.  He was a candidate to the Winchester Presbytery April 22, 1804 and studied theology under Dr. Moses Hoge.  He was dismissed to Hanover Presbytery, August 1, 1806, by which he was licensed and ordained about 1808.  He was vice president and president of Hampden-Sydney College 1806-7 and resided at Lynchburg, Virginia, 1808-53.  He was stated supply at Concord Congregation 1810, principal of Tompkin's Boys School 1808-1815, he had his own boarding school for girls between 1815 and about 1848.  He founded and organized the First Church of Lynchburg, March 20, 1815 (three men, ten women) and was stated supply there 1815-1822.  He was their pastor 1822 to 1848.  The church was built on lot 93, 2nd Street near Main which he donated.  Sunday School was organized there May 3, 1818.  He died at Lynchburg, Jun 21, 1853.  He married Clementine Frances Venable and had thirteen children.  He was the Moderator of his Synod in 1821.

    Rev. David Rice (1733-1816)

    David Rice was born December 20, 1733 and was named after his father, a farmer.  He graduated at Princeton College in 1761, and was ordained by Hanover Presbytery, December, 1763. He labored for some years in Virginia, his native state, and during the Revolution took a warm and decided stand in favor of his country. He took, also, an active part in the establishment of Hampden-Sidney Academy, which afterwards became a college. In 1783 he removed to Kentucky, and there organized and took charge of the Congregation of Concord, at Danville, Cane Run, and the Forks of Dick's River. Mr. Rice may be considered the father of the Presbyterian Church in Kentucky. In 1785 a general meeting for conference was held, for the purpose of introducing and completing a regular Presbyterian organization in the state. Nothing so tended to the firm establishment of that Church in the far West as this conference, and Mr. Rice was the mover and master spirit of the whole, and was the chairman of the meeting. He was also the founder, or one of the founders of Transylvania Academy, which afterwards became Transylvania University. In 1792 he was a member of the Convention to frame a State Consitution. He was a tall and slender person, quiet in his movements, and at the age of 70, he still exhibited a remarkable degree of alertness. Mr. Rice died, in Green Co., Kentucky, June 18, 1816.

    [Ed.: In the first Constitutional Congress for Kentucky in 1792 he spearheaded effort for a constitutional statement against slavery, but in vain. See, Anti-slavery Movement in Kentucky Prior to 1850, Filson Club Publications, No. 29. He visited Cincinnati and organized the First Presbyterian Church there in 1790. In Barren Co., Kentucky in 1763, he married Mary Blair, a daughter of Samuel Blair, Sr., sister of Rev. Samuel Blair, Jr., who was also a niece of Revs. John Blair and Robert Smith]

    The following are a list of his publications:

    Rev. John Holt Rice (b abt 1777)

    He was the founder of the Union Theological Seminary in Lexington, Virginia, and brother of the Rev. Benjamin Holt Rice.

    James Richards, D.D. (1767-1843)

    He was born in New Canaan, Connecticut, October 29, 1767; spent the year 1789-80 in Yale College; then placed himself under the instruction of Dr. Burnet, at Norwalk, and afterwards completed both his academical and theological course under the direction of Dr. Dwight. His improvement was worthy of the best advantages, and in 1794 the corporation of Yale College, at Dr. Dwight's suggestion, conferred upon him the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1793 he was licensed by a committee of the Association in the Western District of Fairfield county, Connecticut, to preach the gospel.

    In September, 1794, Mr. Richards received a call from the Church in Morristown, New Jersey, and in May, 1797, was installed its pastor, by what was then the Presbytery of New York. Here he labored with great acceptance and success, until the early part of 1809, when he felt it to be his duty to accept a call from the Presbyterian Church of Newark, which had become vacant by the removal of Dr. Griffin to a professorship in the Theological Seminary at Andover. In 1805 he was chosen Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. In 1807 he was chosen a trustee of the College of New Jersey, and he was a director of the Theological Seminary at Princeton from its first establishment, both of which he held until he left the State. The years 1813 and 1817 were specially memorable for the powerful workings of divine influence among his people.

    Dr. Richards was inaugurated Professor of Christian Theology in the Theological Seminary at Auburn, October 29th, 1823. He was the chief instrument of increasing its funds--the mainspring of its financial operations. After serving it with marked fidelity, he died, August 2d, 1843. Besides the "Lectures on the Prayer of Faith," his publications were principally sermons and memorial addresses.

    Rev. William Richardson (b. pre-1738 - aft 1763)

    He was born in Egremont, near White Haven, in England, and coming to America, became a resident in the family of the Rev. Samuel Davies, and studied with him. He was licensed by Hanover Presbytery, in January, 1758, an d was ordained July 13th, in the same year, in Cumberland county, as a missionary to the Cherokee towns in North Carolina. The Indians taking up arms, the mission was abandoned on the breaking out of the French War. In 1761, he connected himself with the South Carolina Presbytery, and, in 1763, he was the minister in the Waxhaw settlement.

    Rev. John Roan (b. pre 1724-1775)

    He was a native of Ireland, and a student of Log College, and taught on the Neshaminy, probably, while completing his theological course. He was licensed by the New Side Presbytery of New Castle, and sent to Hanover, Virginia, in the winter of 1744, wher he continued for some time; and the happy effects of his ministry were visible and lasting. Soon after, he was settled over the united congregations of Derry, Paxton and Mount Joy. Mr. Roan, towards the close of his life, informed the presbytery that his congregations were deeply sunk in debt. He was sent on missionary tours, and at one time spent eight weeks on the South Branch of the Potomac. He died, October 3d, 1775, and lies buried at Derry meeting house, on the Swatara, with this inscription on his tomb: "Beneath this stone/Are depositd the remains/Of an able and faithful,/Courageous and successful,/Minister of Jesus Christ." The Rev. William Graham, of Washington College, Virginia, was a member of Mr. Roan's church, and received from him the education preparatory to entering Nassau Hall and his theological training.

    Rev. Samuel B. Robertson (d. aft 1802)

    He was present at the first meeting of the Synod of Kentucky in 1802, as a member of the Presbytery of Transylvania. The first Presbyterian Church and probably the first Protestant Church, in the Territory, was organized by Rev. Samuel B. Robertson, of Kentucky, in a barn owned by Col. Small, about two miles from Vincennes, and which, from its being the only one in the Territory was appropriately called "The Presbyterian Church of Indiana."

    Rev. James Robinson (abt 1769 - aft 1847)

    He studied theology under Dr. McMillan and was licensed by the Ohio Presbytery October 17, 1805, and ordained and installed by the same Presbytery at Crooked Creek, June 3d, 1807. That pastoral relation was dissolved April 20, 1808. In July, 1808 he took charge of the church at Mt. Pleasant, formerly known as Kinnickinnick, for half his time and received $250 annually for his trouble. In 1813 he began to preach to Mount Pleasant two thirds of his time, and his salary was increased to $300. For one or two years he preached a third of his time to Union Church. At his own request he was dismissed from this church October 12, 1820. He became one of the first five members of the Presbytery of Lancaster. He was received by the Presbytery of Chillicothe from the Presbytery at Lancaster in 1821, and accepted calls from Treacle's Creek, Upper Liberty (now Milford Center, Union Co.) and Lower Liberty, each for one third of his time. He died April 23, 1847, in the seventy eighth year of his age.

    Rev. John Robinson (bef 1773-aft 1800)

    In 1793 John Robinson was licensed by Orange Presbytery, and directed to labor in Duplin, North Carolina. The mutual interest resulting from his first visit, led to his settlement; and till the close of the century, his successful labors were devoted to the remains of the congregations served by McAden for about ten years. They revived under his ministry. In the year 1800 he removed to Fayetteville. Was the educator of Rev. Cyrus Johnston. From Foote's Sketches of North Carolina, 1846.

    Rev. William Robinson (b. pre-1722)

    The first Presbyterian minister that preached in North Carolina of whom we have any knowledge, was William Robinson, famous in the annals of the Virginia churches, of whom the Rev. Samuel Davies says, -- "that favored man, Mr. Robinson, whose success, whenever I reflect upon it, astonishes me."  This eminent missionary passed through Virginia to North Carolina and spent a part of the winter of 1742 and 1743, among Presbyterian settlements.  It was on his return from Carolina, and while preaching at Cub Creek, in Charlotte Co.,Virginia, that the messenger from Hanover county waited for upon him, and persuaded him to visit that county, in which were no settlements of Presbyterian emigrants, and which of course had not been included either in his original mission, or his intended route homeward.  The probablility is that Duplin and New Hanvoer were the places he visited, and the scattered settlements then commenced in the upper part of the State also received some attention.  Mr. Davies tells us that the success attending the ministery of this eminent man, so abundant in Virginia was very small in Carolina.  It is probably owing to the fact that the whole history of his mission is circumscribed in the single statement, that he visited the country through much exposure, and many hardships, owing to the unsettled wilderness through which he had to pass.  From Foote's Sketches of North Carolina, 1846.

    Rev. William Robinson

    He came from Buffalo congregation, in Pennsylvania, and August 11th, 1796, was ordained over Mount Pleasant and Indian Creek churches, in Kentucky. In 1802 he resigned his charge and was recommended to the General Assembly to ride as missionary, northwest of the Ohio river. in 1804 he was received by the Washington Presbytery of Ohio and Kentucky from the Presbytery of West Lexington, and appointed to supply one Sabbath at Mr. Runyen's on Brush Creek, and the rest of his time at Beulah, Dayton and Honey Creek. He was appointed to supply Yellow Spring in October of 1809.  He was transferred to the Presbytery of Miami in 1810 with the division of the Washington Presbytery.

    John Rodgers D.D. (1727-1811)

    He was born in Boston, August 5th, 1727. His parents removed to Philadelphia in 1728. During the first visit of Whitefield to Philadelphia in 1739, while preaching at night on the courthouse steps, young Rodgers pressed near, and held a lantern for his accommodation. Absorbed an d deeply interested, he became so much agitated as to be scarcely able to stand, the lantern fell from his hand, and was dashed to pieces. When little more than twelve years old he became hopefully pious.

    Mr. Rodgers, resolving to enter the ministry, became a student, in 1743, in the school under the care of the Rev. Samuel Blair, at Fagg's Manor. He was licensed by the Presbyery of New Castle, October 14th, 1747. He spent the summer of 1748 in Somerset county, Maryland, where, in a very uncommon degree, his labors were blessed. He was installed pastor at St. George's Delaware, March 16th, 1749. Here the congregation rapidly enlarged; a new house of worship was erected, and was soon too strait for them. The Forest Church, near Middletown, had a third part of his time. In these congregations he was very zealous and successful, nor did he neglect the vacancies hopelessly sinking out of existence all along the Peninsula.

    Mr Rodgers, having declined, in 1754, an invitation to visit New York with a view to settlement, he was called thither in January, 1765, and under the advice of Synod he accepted the call. His pastoral relation to the St. George's was dissolved May 18th, 1765, and he was installed in his new charge September 4th. A considerable revival of religion almost immediately ensued; a large number were brought to the knowledge of the truth.

    In the close of February, 1776, Dr. Rodgers, with many others, removed their families from New York, expecting that a speedy effort would be made to seize the city and hold it for the Crown. He became chaplain of Gen. Heath's brigade, in April, and on resigning, spent the winter in Georgia. On his return to New York the parsonage was gone, having been consumed in the great fire; the Wall Street Church had been converted into barracks, and the Brick Church into a hospital, and left in a ruined state. He was named the pastor of the Brick Church, January, 1778. Dr. Rodgers preached in St. Paul's and St. George's Episcopal churches, which had been kindly offered for his use, alternately, from November, 1783 till June, 17--.

    Dr. Rodgers was the Moderator of the first General Assembly, in 1789. After 1803 he ceased to preach more than once on the Sabbath. He preached for the last time in September, 1809. On May 7th, 1811, in his eighty-fourth year, he entered into rest.

    Azel Roe, D.D. (d.1815)

    He was licensed by the Presbytery of New York in 1760, and two years after was ordained. In 1763 he became pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Woodbridge, New Jersey, afterward connected with Metuchin. During the Revolutionary War he proved his patriotism in many ways. He graduated at Princeton College in 1756 and wa a trustee of the college from 1778 to 1807. He was a delegate from the Presbytery of New York at the meeting of the first General Assembly in 1789. He was in charge of the same flock for fifty-four years. He died in November, 1815.
     

    Rev. David Rose (b pre 1745-1799)

    He was a graduate of Yale and was ordained by the Presbytery of Suffolk, Long Island, New York on December 4, 1765  to be pastor of Moriches, Manor of St. George, south part of Brookhaven and Winthrop's Patent.  He died January 1, 1799.

    Rev. John Ross (b pre 1797)

    He was born in Ireland; graduated at Middlebury College; and spent two years in Princeton Seminary. He was ordained and installed pastor at Somerset, Pennsylvania, in Red Stone Presbytery, December 3, 1817, and was dismessed from that charge and to Washington Presbytery October 20, 1819. He was made stated supply at Ripley and Straight Creek, Brown County, Ohio. He was dismissed from the said presbytery in 1822 to the Presbytery of Miami. After leaving Ohio he was pastor at Muncie and Milton, Indiana.
     

    Rev. Thomas Russell (b pre 1769)

    He was a member of the Presbytery of Suffolk, Long Island, New York in 1789.