York County, South Carolina
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York County, South Carolina sits just to the southwest of Charlotte, North Carolina. The destination of many Scots-Irish immigrants in the late 18th century, York County is the “most presbyterian” county in South Carolina.
York County holds a prominate place in the history of Scottish presbyterianism in the United States and many Associate Reformed Presbyterian Churches remain there today.
York County is significant in my own family’s presbyterian history as it was the homeplace of my great-grandmother Annis Barron Hopper.
More Sources:
- History of Scottish dissenting Presbyterianism in York County, Pennsylvania : being an history of Reformed Presbyterian, Associate Presbyterian, Associate Reformed, and United Presbyterian Church of North America congregations by Reid Stewart
- By ship, wagon, and foot to York County, S.C.
Alexander Martin (1871–1931)
Biographical sketch of Rev. Dr. Alexander Martin of Rock Hill
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