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American Presbyterian & Reformed Church History Flow Chart
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Collection
Myers, Andrew – The History of Early Presbyterianism in All 50 States at The Log College Press
This is a collection of references and links to books on the early history of presbyterianism in each of the 50 United States.
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Articles
Miller, Samuel
Historical Review of the Church (Old School Branch) since 1837 1870, p. 1, 49 pp.
A Recommendatory Letter to: History of the Ancient Christians Inhabiting the Valleys of the Alps by Jean P. Perrin, 1847 7 pp.
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Books
Alexander, Archibald – The Log College Buy 1851 298 pp.
A rich history of early presbyterian ministers in 1700′s America and the revivals that occurred in their time. The “Log College” was the predecessor school to what would culminate in the opening of the first presbyterian seminary in America at Princeton in 1812.
Hill, William – History of the Rise, Progress, Genius and Character of American Presbyterianism: Together with a Review of “The Constitutional History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, by Charles Hodge”, 1839, 254 pages, a contemporary (from the same year) critical review of Hodge’s work
Hodge, Charles
The Constitutional History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, Part 1, Part 2 Buy 1839, 267 & 532 pp.
An important and authoritative documentary history of the beginnings of presbyterianism in America, tracing it through its various splits and unions up to Hodge’s day. Read his strict-subscription interpretation of the Adopting Act 1729, the defining act that binds ministers by their vows to the Confession. Takes the history up to 1789 when the presbyterians formed a national church in America after the War of Independence
Letters to Presbyterians, on the present crisis in the Presbyterian Church in the United States, 1833 340 pp.
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Literature
The Cambridge History of American Literature 1917
Chs. 2-3, 4-5 in vol. 1, pp. 14-89
Ch. 22, ‘Divines & Moralists’ 1783-1860 in vol. 2, pp. 224-244
Ch. 16, ‘Later Theology’ in vol. 3, pp. 201-225
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Reference Works
Index of Presbyterian Ministers: Containing the Names of all the Ministers of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, from 1706 – 1881, with References to the Pages on which those Names are Found in its Records and Minutes, by Willis Beecher
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Bibliography
Presbyterian Board of Publication
Descriptive Catalogue of the Publications of the Presbyterian Board of Publication
History of the Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath School Work
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German Reformed in America
Article
Good, James I. – The German Reformed Coetus, 1747-1792 (1897) 29 pp.
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Books
Corwin, Dubbs & Hamilton – History of the Reformed Church, Dutch, the Reformed Church, German & the Moravian Church in the United States (1895) in The American Church History Series, ed. Schaff, Hurst, Fisher, etc.
Dubbs, Joseph – The Reformed Church in Pennsylvania (1902) 435 pp.
Kieffer, Henry Martyn – Some of the First Settlers of the “Forks of the Delaware” & their Descendants, 1760-1852 (1902) 440 pp.
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Dutch Reformed in America
Corwin, Dubbs & Hamilton – History of the Reformed Church, Dutch, the Reformed Church, German & the Moravian Church in the United States (1895) in The American Church History Series, ed. Schaff, Hurst, Fisher, etc.
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