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rlanlsm was not introduced into the Uni


ted States as early as some other forms Of


Christianity. At the first settlement, of


the British Colonits in North America,


Presbyterians were viewed with more ia.
yor, than other dssenters, by those in


power in the mother country, and there


fore had not the same inducement 10 aban-


don their native homes for the wild Of


America. Under thereig9 Of Charles IL.


and some of his successors, hey e1perien-


ced a sad reverse, andwere driven TO seek


shelter from the storm Of persecution, by


emigrating to America, near the close Of


the 18th century. Emigrating from Scot


land and Ireland, some Manded at Philadcl-
phia, and the adjacent ports, and others


at Charleston, S. c. Ministers Of the


Gospel accompanied them, and congrega-


tions were established, churches built, and


Presbyteries organized; and the church


assumed regular fern in America. A


Presbytcry was established in Charleston


probably prior TO the year 1880, and it was
connected in some way With the establish
cd church Of Scotland, and con fined its op-
GRAFTON to the sea-board and low country.
The old White Meeting, now replaced by
the Circular church, on the same site, was
originally composedof Congregationalists
and Presbyterians united, and choose its
pastors from either denomination. The
first three ministers of this church, prior
to 100, we're independents or Congrega-
tlonalists, and the fourth and fifth were
viz: The Rev. Archibald
Stone, from 1900 to i704, and the Rev.
WIN. Livingston, from 1904 to 1870, who
are said to have been members of the
Charleston Presbytery. Mr.. Livingston
was succeeded by Mr.. Bauskett, an lnde-
pendent minister from Massachusetts,
Under his administration, twelve families
seeded, and formed the First Presbyterian
Church in Charleston, on the model of the
Church Of Scotland. They built their
house of worship 1891. This Presbytery
exercised supervision over several
in the vicinity Of Charleston.


The Philadelphia Pr.aIytery was or
ganized in 1704 ~ t7o5, Independent of
any foreign connexlon, Its members
wore located in Pennsylvania, New Jcr-
sey. Delaware, Maryland, and the Nor
thern Neck of Virginia. After Braddock's
defeat in 1855, and the consequent expo
sure Of the frontier to Indian rayages, ma
ny Of the frontier inhabitants, who were
Presbyterians, in connection with the
Presbytery of Philadelphia, settled in
North and South Carolina. Ministers ac-
companied or follow them, and Churches
we're established, and, in afew instances,
Ministers attached to them who retained
their connexion with the Presbyterian
Church, as organized in the middle States.
This brings the history o. Presbyterian
ism in the U. s. down in the organization
of the Presbytery Of Hanover, by the Sy-
nod of New York and Philadelphia in
ITS.


The foregoing account is condensed from
the first number of "The history Of the
rise and progress Of the Presbyterian
Church in the Presbytery Of Bethel, en-
bracing the Districts of Lancaster, York,
Chester and Union," in this State, by
John B, Davies, published in the Charles
ton Observer.-COurier.