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Excerpt from History of the Presbyterian Church in the State of Kentucky: With a Preliminary Sketch of the Churches in the Valley of Virginia
In 1845, a similar fortunate chance befell the author, in rescuing from the same fate the ms. Letter-book of Lewis Morris, the first Governor of New Jersey; the substance of which was embodied in a Memoir, and read before the New Jersey Historical Society.
Esq, &c., the writer is under obligations for various books, pamphlets, and mss., of which he has largely availed himself. But to no individual is he more indebted than the Rev. Robert Stuart; whose full, accurate, and obliging communications are acknowledged with the warmest gratitude.
From these sources, and the original records of the various ecclesiastical bodies, the following history has been prepared. In regard to later events, the writer having personally mingled in them, must consent to be held responsible himself for the accuracy of his statements. Truth has been his object; and his aim, to hold an impartial pen. Compelled by the force of evidence to alter some of his own pre-conceived opinions, he asks similar candor on the part of his reader. In consequence of the desire to compress the book into a reasonable size, some things have been of necessity omitted, particularly the statistics of the churches. But as the Rev. Mr. Shane was known to be engaged in the preparation of such statistics, the omission was the more readily made.
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