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[edit] Description[Rockbridge County News, 20 December -27 December 1894.] It is not certainly known when Falling Springs church was organized,
nor by whom. A church of the same name, situated in Pennsylvania was
organized in 1738, one year after the first settlement in the Borden
grant by the McDowell family. The Rev. John Blair, then living in
Cumberland county, Pa., visited Augusta county, of which Rockbridge was
then a part, in 1746, and organized the churches of North Mountain, New
Providence, Timber Ridge and the Forks of James (or Monmouth) and
perhaps others. At the meeting of the Synod of New York, May 1747, the
Rev. Eliab Byram was appointed to go to Virginia in September next,
and spend some time in the new settlements. This he did, as the record
of the next meeting of the synod (May 1748) states that Mr. Byram
fulfilled his appointment in going to Virginia. [edit] Related
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[edit] NotesMAY 20, 1748.... (20) Certified that Presbyterian meeting houses have been built at Timber Ridge, at New Providence, and Falling Spring. In Waddells Annals of Augusta county, the following extracts from the records of the Augusta county court for May 20th, 1748, is given: On the motion of Matthew Lyle one ordered to be certified that they have built a Presbyterian meeting house at a place known by the name of Timber Ridge, another at New Providence, and another at a place known by the name of Falling Spring. |