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Last Will And Testament Of The Springfield Presbytery, Barton Warren Stone, Richard Mcnemar

Foundational and Controversial Stone-Campbell Movement Documents

Last Will and Testament of the Springfield Presbytery

"Founding document of the Christian Church movement associated with Barton W. Stone, signed June 28,1804·

The Springfield Presbytery, which issued the document, had been organized on September 12, 1803. Two days earlier Barton W. Stone, Robert Marshall, John Dunlavy, Richard McNemar, and John Thompson had withdrawn from the jurisdiction of the Presbyterian Synod of Kentucky rather than suffer censure for having departed from the doctrines of the Westminster Confession." (D. Newell Williams, "Last Will and Testament of the Springfield Presbytery' Encyclopedia of the Stone Campbell Movement 453.)

An Apology For Renouncing The Jurisdiction Of The Synod Of Kentucky., Barton Warren Stone, Robert Marshall, John Thompson, John Dunlavy, Richard Mcnemar

Foundational and Controversial Stone-Campbell Movement Documents

An Apology for Renouncing the Jurisdiction of the Synod of Kentucky. To which is added, a compendious view of the Gospel, and a few remarks on the Confession of Faith.

By Robert Marshall, John Dunlavy, Richard M'Nemar, Barton W. Stone, John Thompson

The Apology and other remarks related to it are from The Biography of Eld. Barton Warren Stone, Written by Himself, with Additions and Reflections. (Cincinnati: American Christian Publication Society, 1853) 147-247.

The date of the publication of the pamphlet is January 31, 1804, per the poorly preserved title page on the DCHS microfilm.

Rice Haggard, An Address To The Different Religious Societies, On The Sacred Import Of The Christian Name, Rice Haggard

Foundational and Controversial Stone-Campbell Movement Documents

Rice Haggard, An Address to the Different Religious Societies, on the Sacred Import of the Christian Name

This PDF is extracted from the DCHS publication Footnotes to Disciple History Number Four, where the reader may find more information about Rice Haggard and the rediscovery of this foundational Stone-Campbell Movement pamphlet. Haggard was present at Cane Ridge and later labored alongside James O'Kelly.

For earlier sources from which Haggard drew, but did not acknowledge in his pamphlet, see Frank Bellizzi's blog post here:

https://frankbellizzi.blogspot.com/2009/02/rice-haggards-influential-pamphlet.html