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Ardstraw Ruling Elders & Commissioners 1620-1700
Extracted from In the Days of the Laggan Presbytery – Rev. Alexander G. Lecky (Davidson & McCormack, Belfast, 1908)

Transcribed by Len Swindley


The following are the names of the men who attended the meetings of the Laggan Presbytery between the years 1672 and 1700, as ruling elders or as commissioners, together with the names of the congregations which they represented. They were doubtless the leading men in the districts in which they lived, and their names deserve to be held in remembrance on account of the part which they took in laying the foundations of Presbyterianism in the Laggan, and for the services which they so cheerfully rendered, without fee or reward, amid much persecution and many difficulties, in maintaining a preached gospel in troublous times. In all of these congregations there are still to be found families bearing their honoured names, and in many cases they are, no doubt, the descendants of these good men – a fact they have no reason to be ashamed, but good reason to be proud of.

 

ARDSTRAW CONGREGATION

BOYD

John

BROWN

Andrew

CARMICHAEL

Thomas

CRAWFORD

Francis

CRAWFORD

John

DELAP

Alex.

FLEMING

Robert

HAY

William

JOHNSTON

John

KELSO

John

KENNY

James

KEYES

William

LEICH

James

LINDSAY

William

PATRICK

Robert

ROBERTSON

Ensign Matthew

SELCHRIDGE

William

STEWART

Thomas

TAGGART

Alex.

WILSON

James


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