Covenanters WALKINSHAW family small ms. archive 1820-91

November 23, 2021

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Covenanters WALKINSHAW family small ms. archive 1820-91

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Rev. H. WALKINSHAW & others [Covenanters - small family archive]

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Rev. Hugh WALKINSHAW (1803-1843) & Rev. Robert REED (1821-1886), of the REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. [Covenanters. - a small family archive of the sermons and other religious writings of the Rev. Walkinshaw, his daughter’s husband, the Rev. Robert Reed, and at least one of their sons]. [Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Miami and elsewhere: 1820-1891].

[H.W.] ‘H. Walkinshaw’s Essay on the Abrahamic Cov.[enant] Nov. 4th 1830. Philad.’ 34pp.
[H.W.?] ‘…Israel’ 43pp.
[H.W.] [A series of articles] 49pp.
[H.W.] ‘The root and the offspring of David’ 37pp.
[H.W.] [A sermon] 32pp. + [1p. index]
[H.W.] [Article] [1p.] + pp.5-55, dated ‘Sept 19th 1832’.
[R.R.] ‘Lecture and Sermon trials for Ordination June 21 1854 Pittsburg [sic.] Presbytery[sic.]’ [1p. + 1-23pp].
[Anon.] ‘Sermon for Ordination. Wednesday dec 2nd 1891’ [16pp.]
R.R., compiler. An album, partially filed with notes about sermons from various sources and apparently from various locations. 1848-1852. Small 4to, 74 pages completed + 5pp in a different hand on ‘The Tenets of the Millerrarrians [sic.] and their Advocates’. Red half roan over marbled paper-covered boards (worn, one cover detached).
a small group of loosely inserted manuscript slips and notes, including a subscription list gathering money to build the church in Pine Creek..

An interesting group, principally from two men who were prominent members of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Pennsylvania – the Rev. Robert Reed married Rev. Hugh Walkinshaw’s daughter Mary in 1854, and his late father-in-law’s musings evidently formed part of his new wife’s dowry.

For biographical details see W. Melanchthon Glasgow. ‘History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in America (Baltimore: 1888). for Reed: see pp.648-650; for Walkinshaw: see pp.708-710

Walkinshaw: ‘was a learned man and a diligent, prayerful student of God’s Word. … He was closely attached to the distinctive principles of the Covenanter Church, and opposed to all voluntary associations with men of questionable character..’ (p.709)

Reed: ‘was an earnest preacher of the gospel and strongly attached to the distinctive principles of the Covenanter Church… He was highly esteemed as a good Presbyter, a faithful pastor, and an exemplary Christian’ (p.650)

See also ‘A History of the Covenanter Church in Northern Westmoreland County’.

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