Compiled by James C. Price (<-- download full PDF here)

Our knowledge of the early history of our churches [Presbyterian] is so scant and imperfect that it is gratifying to know that neither the General Assembly nor the Presbytery can be held responsible for the absence of this knowledge. While there was a mass of manuscripts nominally in possession of the General Assembly, in the absence of any provision for their care, they had been deposited in the basement of some building in Philadelphia. Some of these manuscripts, it was supposed, had already perished. More ....