Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . OLDEST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN AMERICA, JAMAICA, N. Y. think he was blind of one eye—nevertheless he was notthe least among the seers of Israel. He wrote a sys-tem of divinity, though it was not published. M. Denton, of Yaphank, Presbytery of LongIsland, is a descendant of this early Presbyterian ministerof America. Francis Doughty emigrated to Massachu-setts in 1637, and was driven thence because of his prac-tice of infant baptism. He found refuge with the 66 PRESBYTERIANS. Dutch, and was the
Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . OLDEST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN AMERICA, JAMAICA, N. Y. think he was blind of one eye—nevertheless he was notthe least among the seers of Israel. He wrote a sys-tem of divinity, though it was not published. M. Denton, of Yaphank, Presbytery of LongIsland, is a descendant of this early Presbyterian ministerof America. Francis Doughty emigrated to Massachu-setts in 1637, and was driven thence because of his prac-tice of infant baptism. He found refuge with the 66 PRESBYTERIANS. Dutch, and was the first Presbyterian minister thatpreached in the city of New York. He ministered therefrom 1643 to 1648. By and by he also was driven fur-ther South, and sought refuge in the colony of Mary-land, with his brother-in-law, Governor Stone. Heprobably died in that section. A Presbyterian churchwas not organized in New York City until 1717. During all this time companies of pious people, set-tling in a neighborhood, were gathered together for re-ligious worship. Occasionally ministers like
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