Guide to the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Fairfield Records
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PCUSA mission work in South Carolina began in 1868 under the aegis of the Board of Missions for Freedmen. The first to be appointed were S. McKinney, S. Loomis, and W. Richardson. In 1869, Atlantic Synod was organized; its territory included the entire state of South Carolina. It was the first of what would become four African-American synods of the PCUSA. Fairfield Presbytery, which covered the northern section of the synod, was formally organized in 1870. Loomis was moderator of the presbytery's first meeting, held in Winnsboro in September of 1870. In 1959, Fairfield merged with McClelland Presbytery.
This collection consists of two early manuscript records of Fairfield Presbytery. The first is a history of the presbytery from its founding to 1888. The second is a paper written by the Rev. Neptune Newton Gregg, read at a special presbytery meeting held in 1899 in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Standards.
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Materials marked "Digital" in the Collection Inventory may not have been digitized in their entirety.
Collection processed and finding aid prepared: January 1993
Stephanie Muntone, Processing Archivist
| Box | Folder | Description | Alternative Formats |
| 1 | 1 | Finding Aid to Record Group 349 | |
| 1 | 2 | History of Fairfield Presbytery, 1868-1888 | Digital |
| 1 | 3 | "What the Westminster Standards have Done for the Negro Race" (by Gregg), 1899 |