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CHIEF: Dr Robin Boyd, MA (Oxon); MB BS; LRCP, MRCS; DCH; AFOM, 8th Baron Kilmarnock |
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CHIEF: Dr Robin Boyd, MA (Oxon); MB BS; LRCP, MRCS; DCH; AFOM, 8th Baron Kilmarnock |
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Margaret Boyd ~ Rev. Joseph Tate New Castle, Pennsylvania Rev. Joseph Tate - "Was received as a licentiate, by Donegal Presbytery, April l, 1748, and was sent to Lower Pennsborough, (Silver Spring,) Marsh Creek, and Conewago. On the 14th of June, he was called to Donegal; and, soon after, the Rev. Andrew Bay, of the New Side Presbytery of Newcastle, accused him of having preached false doctrine at the Three Springs, (Big, Middle, and Rocky.). He was acquitted, October 25, and accepted the call from Donegal, they giving seventy pounds to buy a plantation and seventy pounds salary. He was ordained, November 23, 1748: Samuel Thomson presided. He spent eight Sabbaths in the following fall in Virginia. Immediately after his installation he was married, December 15, 1748, to Margaret Boyd, the eldest daughter of Adam Boyd, of Octorara. Her father gave her, besides a silk gown, a bed and its furniture, a horse and saddle, and nearly every article for housekeeping; all of which are carefully entered in his book. "Tate found little or no satisfaction on the union, the two parties in the presbytery being so nearly equal in numbers, and so thoroughly divided in sentiment. He withdrew, and, finally, had leave, in 1768, to join the Second Philadelphia Presbytery. He was sent by the synod to Western Virginia and North Carolina; and, in the following March, he was called to Coddle Creek. The presbyters asked his congregation, Should the call be placed in his hands?, and they immediately requested that his relation to them might be dissolved. A committee was sent to reconcile the difference, and they did not prosecute their demand fort his ' dish mission. "He died October 11, 1774, aged sixty-three. Dr. Martin says "he was eccentric, but fearless in reproving vice and the errors of the day " "His son, the Rev. Matthew Tate (T1), graduated at the College of Philadelphia, was licensed by Newcastle Presbytery, and was employed as a supply in several presbyteries. He visited the new settlements west of Albany, and went to the Southern States. He received holy orders as a deacon from the hands of Bishop White, and was rector of St. Matthew's, South Carolina, from 1789 to 1792, when he removed to Beaufort, and had the charge of the parish till his death, October 7, 1795. His mother married James Anderson, the son of her husbands predecessor, and her daughter Jane married his son. "This seems to say that the mother of Rev. Matthew Tate, which would be Margaret Boyd Tate, m. James Anderson and that Rev Matthew Tate had a sister Jane who also married an Anderson. While the second part is fairly obviously true, the first stretches credibility a bit. The Rev Joseph Tate died 11 OCT 1774; Margaret supposedly died the same year, although a specific date isn't available. If the story is true, Margaret was widowed in October, and then and remarried and died herself in a period of less than 3 months. " Source: A History of the Presbyterian Church from its origin until the year 1760, Rev. Richard Webster, 1857 NOTE: Use this data as a finding tool, just as you would any other secondary source. When you find the name of an ancestor listed, confirm the facts in original sources.
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