John C Cuthbertson, Sr

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John Cuthbertson (1740-1808) came from Ireland and traveled from Pennsylvania to North Carolina in 1785.

Family/Spouse: Sarah Moore. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John Cuthbertson, Jr was born in 1775; died on 19 Mar 1826 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.

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Rev. Cuthbertson was a Reformed Presbyterian minister who served in the regions of Adams, York, and Lancaster Counties. Most Presbyterians of this region belonged to the main branch of Colonial Presbyterianism as represented by the Synod of Philadelphia, but there was also a congregation of Reformed Presbyterians, or Covenantors. Rev. Dr. John Cuthbertson was sent from Scotland to minister to Scottish Covenantors in America in 1751, the first Reformed Presbyterian Missionary to come to America. He kept a diary from the date he arrived in America up to 1791. From his entries, we know that he married about 600 persons and baptized over 1,800 children. 'Register of Marriages and Baptisms performed by Rev. John Cuthbertson, 1751-1791,' by S. Hellen Fields, was originally printed in 1934, reprinted in 1983, by Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore. Fields states: 'Rev. John Cuthbertson rode many times to and from his home in Middle Octoraro, there being 72 trips recorded in his diary between the years 1751 and 1784.' Only those trips which refer to people were included in her work. Only those birth, deaths, and marriages which were performed in Lancaster County have been extracted and printed in Volume 3 of this work. The principal society of Mr. Cuthbertson was at Middle Octoraro from August 1751 to March 1783, when he was released by the Presbytery.3" --From "Church Records, Selected Areas of Pennsylvania, 1600s-1800s.