1809-1909 Centennial Souvenir

XENIA AVENUE LOOKING EAST FROM MILLER STREET they were called, held together, however, in the hope of brighter clays to come, and finally, in 1706, Rev. John McMillan acceded to the Societies from the Presbyterian church. In 1743 he and Rev. Thomas Nairn reconstituted the Reformed Presbytery of Scotland. Fifty years before, some had emigrated to Ireland and formed a strong religious community there, which was now also erected into a presbytery. "From the middle of the seventeenth century, there had been an emigration from the Reformed Presbyterian churches in Scot– land and Ireland to the then American plantations or colonies. Many of these Covenanters had been actually banished by the persecutor, and many more were voluntary exiles for the Word of Goel and the testimony which they held. They came at first by way of Charleston to the Carolinas, and thence spread them– selves through Tennessee and Kentucky; and by way of Phila– delphia, and distributed themselves over the states of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia; while at a later period they fancied in New York, and passed by the H uclson to its Northern and \i\T estern l~calities, or remained to aid in building up the rapidly growing towns and cities on the Atlantic seaboard. In 1752 Rev. John 25