Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . s appointed a committee todraw up an address to the Governor on this occasion,which address, and a copy of the above-quoted vigorousminute in relation to this affair, was entered on therecords. But the Synod did not always find it easy to escapeconflict with the sometimes over-officious Englishgovernors. This was especially true in the VirginiaColony. Mr. Hugh Stevenson sent the Synod a rep-resentation of the severity with which he had beentreated by some gentlemen in Virginia. On the basisof his repre
Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . s appointed a committee todraw up an address to the Governor on this occasion,which address, and a copy of the above-quoted vigorousminute in relation to this affair, was entered on therecords. But the Synod did not always find it easy to escapeconflict with the sometimes over-officious Englishgovernors. This was especially true in the VirginiaColony. Mr. Hugh Stevenson sent the Synod a rep-resentation of the severity with which he had beentreated by some gentlemen in Virginia. On the basisof his representation earnest application was made inEngland to the Society for the Propagation of Religion,for money to help to maintain some itinerant ministers THE FIRST SYNOD AND ITS DIVISION. 85 in Virginia and elsewhere. The assistance of thissociety was sought in England in order that theGovernment there should discourage the Colonialauthorities here from hampering such itinerant minis-ters by illegal prosecutions. John Caldwell and manyfamilies sought to settle in the back parts of GYMNASIUM, CENTER COLLEGE, DANVILLE, KY. Synod appointed two of their number to go and waitupon the Governor and Council of Virginia to procurethe favor and countenance of the Governor of thatprovince to the laying a foundation of our interestsin the distant parts where considerable numbers offamilies of our persuasion are settled. Synod unani-mously allowed out of the Fund a sum to bear thecharges of the brethren ; and provision was made alsofor the supply of their congregations during theirabsence while prosecuting that affair. No definite sumof money was named, but the brethren were allowed 86 PRESBYTERIANS. discretionary power to use what money they hadoccasion for, to bear their expenses in a manner suitableto this design. The regions which are thus alluded toas the back parts of Virginia seem to have been, notonly what is now West Virginia, but Shenandoah Val-ley and all that part of Wes
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