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From: "Clan McCord" <>
Subject: Re: SECEDERS???
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 09:01:02 -0700


seceder presbyterian would not take oath to the king as head of church,
refused appointments of hand in pockets Cardinals and Bishops, Per
Highlander Magazine were basically Gallwegians, Known in Ireland as Ulster
Scots and in America; Scots Irish--Protestants still fighting a war started
with the first slaughter of them by the dispalce Irish Catholic as they
lost their land on the Penny acre resettlement scheme to put more friendly
people on the land their Two Irish Earls lost; called Ulster when they tried
to take English Throne and kick Englidsh out of Erin. Gallwegion was the
hybrid of two fine warrior/ farming cultures. These Scot were on the
fromtier between the Indians and the passivist Quakers, protecting them --
said to be a Buffer! From several writtings -------if you took them out of
Washingtons Army, no Army--Forts of PA prefactory quote. In early
Cumberland there were 39 such churches. Known as Pockets ot Democracy,
Elected and chose their own leaders, A uniqe group and along with the
Protestant Germans won the revolution and kept winning the frontier in a
sort of 1-2 punch HM
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Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 6:54 AM
Subject: SECEDERS???


> Just for filling in my curiosity......do the Quakers in Ireland fit into
> either of these groups? Were they a very small group?
>
> Carol (descendant of an Irish Quaker )
>
> ______________________________

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