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Robert Strawbridge : Some Additional Irish Perspectives
As United States Methodists contemplate the celebration of 250 years since a local preacher from the West of Ireland brought Wesleyan teaching and practise to America, this book considers all the available evidence concerning Robert Strawbridge's life in Ireland.
Definitive locations have been identified for his family home at Gortconnellan, near Drumsna, County Leitrim and for the 'prophet's chamber' where he is likely to have lived at Terryhoogan, County Down. Confirmation of a Piper [Pepper] family resident in the townland adds credence to the long-held belief that he married a Miss Piper from that locality.
The narrative also provides some possible insights into the development of Strawbridge's life as an itinerant preacher in Ireland and an indication that this may have included the commencement of his Sacramental ministry.
Finally, it puts forward a sustainable timeline, [a revision of Crook's], which indicates that he could have arrived in America as early as the summer of 1760 and certainly no later than the spring of 1762.
Definitive locations have been identified for his family home at Gortconnellan, near Drumsna, County Leitrim and for the 'prophet's chamber' where he is likely to have lived at Terryhoogan, County Down. Confirmation of a Piper [Pepper] family resident in the townland adds credence to the long-held belief that he married a Miss Piper from that locality.
The narrative also provides some possible insights into the development of Strawbridge's life as an itinerant preacher in Ireland and an indication that this may have included the commencement of his Sacramental ministry.
Finally, it puts forward a sustainable timeline, [a revision of Crook's], which indicates that he could have arrived in America as early as the summer of 1760 and certainly no later than the spring of 1762.
118 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 19, 2011
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