A Plain and Friendly Perswasive to the Inhabitants of Virginia and Maryland for Promoting Towns and Cohabitation (1705)

1897 Virginia Historical Magazine containing colonial records: Dutch attacks (1667), court proceedings, and Francis Makemie’s 1705 ‘Perswasive’ urging towns, cohabitation, and piety.

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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