...showing of the Pres^byterian Irish origin of the West Virginians, and of the large German admixture. tion of their own clergy. For generations their whole ecclesiastic...meetinghouses and school-houses there were on the border were theirs.11 The numerous families of colonial English who came among them adopted their religion if they...

...showing of the Presbyterian Irish origin of the West Virginians, and of the large German admixture. tion of their own clergy. For generations their whole ecclesiastic...meetinghouses and school-houses there were on the border were theirs.11 The numerous families of colonial English who came among them adopted their religion if they...

...the very start; they were kinsfolk of the Covenanters ; they deemed it a religious duty to interpret their own Bible, and held for a divine right the election...generations their whole ecclesiastic and scholastic systems bad been ^ fundamentally democratic. In the hard lite of the frontier they lost much of their religion,...

...the very start; they were kinsfolk of the Covenanters ; they deemed it a religious duty to interpret their own Bible, and held for a divine right the election of their own clergy. For generations their \r whole ecclesiastic and scholastic systems had been fundamentally democratic. In the hard life of...

...the very start; they were kinsfolk of the Covenanters ; they deemed it a religious duty to interpret their own Bible, and held for a divine right the election...meeting-houses and school-houses there were on the border were theirs.1 The numerous families of colonial English who came among them adopted their religion if they...

...the very start; they were kinsfolk of the Covenanters ; they deemed it a religious duty to interpret their own Bible, and held for a divine right the election...meeting-houses and school-houses there were on the border were theirs.1 The numerous families of colonial English who came among them adopted their religion if they...

...the very start ; they were kinsfolk of the covenanters ; they deemed it a religious duty to interpret their own Bible, and held for a divine right the election...the schooling in which they believed, but what few meeting houses and school houses there were on the border were theirs. The numerous families of colonial...

...the very start ; they were kinsfolk of the Covenanters ; they deemed it a religious duty to interpret their own Bible, and held for a divine right the election...scholastic systems had been fundamentally democratic." — Winning of the West, vol. i. APPENDIX O (Page 317, Vol.1.) EXTRACTS FROM THE IRISH ANNALISTS Peculiar...

...very start; they were the kinsfolk of the Covenanters: they deemed it a religious duty to interpret their own Bible, and held for a divine right the election of their own clergy. The creed of the backwoodsmen who had a creed at all was Presbyterianism, for the Episcopacy of the...

...of the West," "they were kinsfolk of the Covenanters ; they deemed it a religious duty to interpret their own Bible and held for a divine right the election...generations their whole ecclesiastic and scholastic system had been fundamentally democratic." "Kinsfolk of the Covenanters?" They were the Covenanters...