Robert Glass Marshall Jr

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    Among the Shane Manuscripts, one will find a memorial sermon given by the Rev. Robert Marshall on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the Bethel Church, Fayette County, which had been organized in 1789. The Rev. Marshall noted that “there is no section of the Presbyterian Church on the American continent whose history has been more interesting or more eventful than that was planned in Kentucky by the early pioneers. Their elevated and indomitable spirit, their love of liberty, both civil and religious, is traced back through Pennsylvania and the Valley of Virginia, across the broad ocean to the North of Ireland and to the heath clad hills of Scotland, where the heroic few stood up against fearful odds and maintained with unflinching courage Christ’s Crown and Covenant.” While his message also included a word to the unconverted, it was a fitting sermon of encouragement to the early Presbyterians. The sermons and other related materials provide the researcher with not only historical perspective but many names, relationships, and personal data. This is a fertile field of research for those who had ancestors in this area.
    
    Those portions of Shane’s collection that are part of the Draper Manuscripts were abstracted in the section called “Kentucky Papers” (volumes 11-19 of series CC). The abstracts appear on pages 470-539 of the Calendar of The Kentucky Papers of the Draper Collection of Manuscripts.6