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Francis Makemie

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Biography of Francis Makemie (d.1708), pioneering American Presbyterian: church planter, founder of an early presbytery, prosecuted for preaching without a licence.
Archive ⬩ American Presbyterian and Reformed History, Church History, Autobiography, and Biography, Colonial Presbyterian History
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Although Makemie was not the first Presbyterian minister to serve in the American colonies, because of his pioneering labors along the Eastern Seaboard, particularly in the establishment of the first Presbytery in America, he is often credited as “the Father of American Presbyterianism.”

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