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Ardstraw Ruling Elders & Commissioners 1620-1700
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
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BOYD
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John
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BROWN
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Andrew
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CARMICHAEL
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Thomas
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CRAWFORD
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Francis
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CRAWFORD
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John
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DELAP
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Alex.
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FLEMING
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Robert
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HAY
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William
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JOHNSTON
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John
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KELSO
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John
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KENNY
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James
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KEYES
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William
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LEICH
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James
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LINDSAY
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William
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PATRICK
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Robert
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ROBERTSON
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Ensign Matthew
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SELCHRIDGE
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William
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STEWART
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Thomas
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TAGGART
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Alex.
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WILSON
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James
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