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Excerpt from Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Organization of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America: First Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, MD.; Wednesday, May Sixteenth, Nineteen Hundred and Six
Next comes Thomas Wilson, who came hither from County Donegal, Ireland. We find him here as early as 1681, when Col. William Stevens gave him a grant of land. He was the founder and first pastor of the Manokin Church, Princess Anne. He lived here about twenty years, but we know little of that life outside of certain legal documents of the time and an address to King Wil liam III, congratulating him on his escape from assassination. His brother, Ephraim K. Wilson, sheriff of Somerset County, left many descendants, among whom is Ephraim K. Wilson, late U. S. Senator.
The next name is that of Samuel Davis, one of the first mem bers of Presbytery. His record is, in some respects, more amusing than edifying, but the historian must give facts as he finds them. Davis was an Irishman. He came to Maryland as early as 1684, or possibly 1678. He lived on St. Martin's Creek, southeast side of Pocomoke River. He was the pastor, probably also founder, of the church at Snow Hill. He and a Church of England minister.
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