Letter from the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America to the Presbytery of Transylvania (1795)

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Minutes of the 1795 General Assembly addressing slavery, urging forbearance and church unity amid differing views, commissioning frontier missionaries and promoting education.

David Rice (1733 – 1816) was an American Presbyterian minister and pioneering frontier evangelist who helped organize early Kentucky churches, presbyteries, and served as a key leader in founding Transylvania Seminary. Known for his tireless evangelistic and church-planting efforts across the frontier, Rice played a formative role in establishing Presbyterianism in Kentucky, earning him the enduring nickname “The Apostle to Kentucky.”

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