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title: 'William Blackwood on Early American Presbyterianism'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-12-11
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-william-blackwood-on-early-american-presbyterianism
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# William Blackwood on Early American Presbyterianism

“The great King of Zion has endowed the Presbyterian church in the United States with a goodly heritage, and, under his fostering care, its borders have been widely extended. In the space of a century and a half, a cause which at first was represented by a few itinerant missionaries, labouring among a number of scattered settlers on the shores of the Chesapeake and the adjoining regions, has attained to a magnitude unprecedented in the annals of Presbyterianism.” — [**William Blackwood**](/authors/william-blackwood), Introduction to [Richard Webster](/authors/richard-webster), *A History of the Presbyterian Church in America* (1857), p. 45