Robert Strawbridge (died ) was a Methodist preacher born in Drumsna, County Leitrim, Ireland. Contents. 1 Early Life and Ancestral History; 2 In America ; 3 See also; 4 References Another source, Robert Strawbridge: Some Additional Irish Perspectives offers . Create a book · Download as PDF · Printable version.
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A traditional value is km, an official Irish source gives a total length of Most Irish guides now give km, some academic sources give km, although most will refuse to give a number. The reason is there is no particular end to a river that empties into an estuary. The km length relates to the distance between Shannon Pot and a line between Kerry Head and Loop Head, the furthest reaches of the land, the km distance finishes where the Shannon estuary joins the estuary of the River Fergus, close to Shannon Airport.
Longer distances emerged before the use of surveying instruments. Hibernia — Hibernia is the Classical Latin name for the island of Ireland. The Romans also sometimes used Scotia, land of the Scoti, as a term for Ireland in general. The name was altered in Latin as though it meant land of winter, the High King Brian Boru based his title on being emperor of the Irish people, which was in Latin, Imperator Scottorum, as distinct from claiming to be Emperor of the island of Ireland.
Gerard Mercator called Ireland Hybernia on his map of However, unlike many Roman geographical names, the Latin Hibernia did not become the basis for the name for Ireland in any modern languages, apart from the Celtic languages all modern languages use a local variant of the English Ireland. This contrasts with Wales, which is still Pays de Galles in French, by the classicising 18th century the use of Hibernia had revived in some contexts, just as had the use of Caledonia, one of the Latin terms for Scotland, and Britannia for Britain.
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Hibernia was used on Irish coins and companies such as the Hibernian Insurance Company were established, the name took on popularity with the success of the Irish Patriot Party. The Royal Hibernian Academy dates from , Hibernia is a word that is rarely used today with regard to Ireland, except in long-established names. In Canada, Hibernia lends its name to the Hibernia oil field off Newfoundland, and to a large sea oil platform there, the Hibernia. Edinburgh soccer club Hibernian FC has adopted the name.
Educated at Charterhouse School and Christ Church, Oxford, Wesley was elected a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford in , after an unsuccessful ministry of two years at Savannah in the Georgia Colony, Wesley returned to London and joined a religious society led by Moravian Christians.
On 24 May he experienced what has come to be called his evangelical conversion and he subsequently departed from the Moravians, beginning his own ministry. A key step in the development of Wesleys ministry was, like Whitefield, to travel, in contrast to Whitefields Calvinism, Wesley embraced the Arminian doctrines that dominated the Church of England at the time. Moving across Great Britain and Ireland, he helped form and organise small Christian groups that developed intensive and personal accountability, discipleship, most importantly, he appointed itinerant, unordained evangelists to travel and preach as he did and to care for these groups of people.
Under Wesleys direction, Methodists became leaders in social issues of the day, including prison reform. Although he was not a theologian, Wesley argued for the notion of Christian perfection and against Calvinism—and, in particular. He held that, in life, Christians could achieve a state where the love of God reigned supreme in their hearts. Throughout his life, Wesley remained within the established Church of England, in , he was placed at number 50 in the BBCs poll of the Greatest Britons.
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John Wesley was born in in Epworth,23 miles north-west of Lincoln, as the child of Samuel Wesley. Samuel Wesley was a graduate of the University of Oxford and a poet who and he married Susanna, the twenty-fifth child of Samuel Annesley, a dissenting minister, in Ultimately, she bore nineteen children, of nine lived beyond infancy.
She and Samuel Wesley had become members of the Church of England as young adults, as in many families at the time, Wesleys parents gave their children their early education. Each child, including the girls, was taught to read as soon as they could walk and talk and they were expected to become proficient in Latin and Greek and to have learned major portions of the New Testament by heart. Susanna Wesley examined each child before the meal and before evening prayers. Children were not allowed to eat meals and were interviewed singularly by their mother one evening each week for the purpose of intensive spiritual instruction.
In , at age 11, Wesley was sent to the Charterhouse School in London, apart from his disciplined upbringing, a rectory fire which occurred on 9 February , when Wesley was five years old, left an indelible impression. Some time after 11,00 p. Newfoundland island — Newfoundland is a large Canadian island off the east coast of the North American mainland, and the most populous part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It has 29 percent of the land area. Newfoundlands nearest neighbour is the French overseas community of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, with an area of , square kilometres, Newfoundland is the worlds 16th-largest island, Canadas fourth-largest island, and the largest Canadian island outside the North.
The provincial capital, St. Johns, is located on the southeastern coast of the island, Cape Spear, just south of the capital, is the easternmost point of North America, excluding Greenland. It is common to consider all directly neighbouring islands such as New World, Twillingate, Fogo, by that classification, Newfoundland and its associated small islands have a total area of , square kilometres. Long settled by peoples of the Dorset culture, the island was visited by the Icelandic Viking Leif Eriksson in the 11th century.
Newfoundland is considered Britains oldest colony, at the time of English settlement, the Beothuk inhabited the island. While there is evidence of ancient indigenous peoples on the island. LAnse aux Meadows was a Norse settlement near the northernmost tip of Newfoundland, the site is considered the only undisputed evidence of Pre-Columbian contact between the Old and New Worlds, if the Norse-Inuit contact on Greenland is not counted.
There is a second suspected Norse site in Point Rosee, the island is a likely location of Vinland, mentioned in the Viking Chronicles, although this has been disputed. The indigenous people on the island at the time of European settlement were the Beothuk, later immigrants developed a variety of dialects associated with settlement on the island, Newfoundland English, Newfoundland French.
In the 19th century, it also had a dialect of Irish known as Newfoundland Irish, Scottish Gaelic was spoken on the island during the 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly in the Codroy Valley area, chiefly by settlers from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. The first inhabitants of Newfoundland were the Paleo-Eskimo, who have no link to other groups in Newfoundland history.
Protestantism — Protestantism is a form of Christianity which originated with the Reformation, a movement against what its followers considered to be errors in the Roman Catholic Church. It is one of the three divisions of Christendom, together with Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy. The term derives from the letter of protestation from German Lutheran princes in against an edict of the Diet of Speyer condemning the teachings of Martin Luther as heretical.
Although there were earlier breaks from or attempts to reform the Roman Catholic Church—notably by Peter Waldo, John Wycliffe, Protestants reject the notion of papal supremacy and deny the Roman Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation, but disagree among themselves regarding the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
The Five solae summarize the reformers basic differences in theological beliefs, in the 16th century, Lutheranism spread from Germany into Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Baltic states, and Iceland. Protestants developed their own culture, which made major contributions in education, the humanities and sciences, the political and social order, the economy and the arts, some Protestant denominations do have a worldwide scope and distribution of membership, while others are confined to a single country. A majority of Protestants are members of a handful of families, Adventism, Anglicanism, Baptist churches, Reformed churches, Lutheranism, Methodism.
Nondenominational, evangelical, charismatic, independent and other churches are on the rise, and constitute a significant part of Protestant Christianity. During the Reformation, the term was used outside of the German politics. The word evangelical, which refers to the gospel, was more widely used for those involved in the religious movement. Nowadays, this word is still preferred among some of the historical Protestant denominations in the Lutheran and Calvinist traditions in Europe, above all the term is used by Protestant bodies in the German-speaking area, such as the EKD.
In continental Europe, an Evangelical is either a Lutheran or a Calvinist, the German word evangelisch means Protestant, and is different from the German evangelikal, which refers to churches shaped by Evangelicalism. The English word evangelical usually refers to Evangelical Protestant churches, and it traces its roots back to the Puritans in England, where Evangelicalism originated, and then was brought to the United States.
Protestantism as a term is now used in contradistinction to the other major Christian traditions, i. Initially, Protestant became a term to mean any adherent to the Reformation movement in Germany and was taken up by Lutherans. Even though Martin Luther himself insisted on Christian or Evangelical as the only acceptable names for individuals who professed Christ, French and Swiss Protestants preferred the word reformed, which became a popular, neutral and alternative name for Calvinists. Sligo — Sligo is a coastal seaport and the county town of County Sligo, Ireland, within the western province of Connacht.
Sligo is a historic, cultural, commercial, industrial, retail, served by rail, port and road links, Sligo exerts a significant influence on its hinterland. Sligo is also a popular tourist destination, being situated in an area of outstanding beauty, with many literary. Sligo is the anglicisation of the Irish name Sligeach, meaning abounding in shells or shelly place and it refers to the abundance of shellfish found in the river and its estuary, and from the extensive shell middens in the vicinity.
The river now known as the Garavogue meaning little one was originally called the Sligeach. The river Slicech is also referenced in the Annals of Ulster in , the Ordnance Survey letters of state that cart loads of shells were found underground in many places within the town where houses now stand. The whole area, from the estuary at Sligo, around the coast to the river at Ballysadare Bay, is rich in marine resources which were utilised as far back as the Mesolithic period. The importance of Sligos location in prehistory is demonstrated by the abundance of ancient sites close by, for example, Sligo towns first roundabout was constructed around a megalithic passage tomb at Abbeyquarter North in Garavogue Villas.
This is an outlier of the group of monuments at Carrowmore on the Cuil Irra peninsula on the western outskirts of the town. The area around Sligo town has one of the highest densities of archaeological sites in Ireland. It is the place in which all classes of Irish megalithic monuments are to be found together. Knocknarea mountain, capped by the cairn of Miosgan Maeve. Cairns Hill on the edge of the town also has two very large stone cairns. This is the oldest causewayed enclosure so far discovered in Britain or Ireland and it consists of a large area enclosed by a segmented ditch and palisade, and was perhaps an area of commerce and ritual.
These monuments are associated with the coming of agriculture and hence the first farmers in Ireland, during the early medieval period the site of Sligo was eclipsed by the importance of the great Columban monastery 5 miles to the north at Drumcliff. By the 12th century there was a bridge and small settlement in existence at the site of the present town, the annalists refer to this Sligo as a sraidbhaile which seems to have consisted of the castle and an attached defensive bawn.
As of the U. Like other outlying sections of the Washington metropolitan area, Frederick County has experienced a population increase in recent years. The county is associated with Western Maryland, depending on the definition used. It borders the southern border of Pennsylvania and the border of Virginia. The county is home to Catoctin Mountain Park and to the U. In , Frederick County was divided into three parts, the westernmost portion became Washington County, named after George Washington, the southernmost portion became Montgomery County, named after another Revolutionary War general, Richard Montgomery.
The northern portion remained Frederick County, in a part of Frederick County was combined with a part of Baltimore County to form Carroll County which is east of current day Frederick County. The county has a number of properties on the National Register of Historic Places, according to the U. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of square miles, of which square miles is land and 7. It is the largest county in Maryland in terms of land area, Frederick County straddles the boundary between the Piedmont Plateau Region and the Appalachian Mountains. The summary statistics for Frederick County from the U.
Census are provided to compare, as of the United States Census, there were , people,84, households, and 61, families residing in the county. The population density was The racial makeup of the county was The total of those self-identifying as Hispanic or Latino origin made up 7. In terms of ancestry, The median age was Asbury spread Methodism in America, as part of the Second Great Awakening and he also founded several schools during his lifetime, although his own formal education was limited.
His journal is valuable to scholars for its account of frontier society, Francis Asbury was born at Hamstead Bridge, Staffordshire, England on August 20 or 21,, to Elizabeth and Joseph Asbury. The family moved to a cottage at Great Barr, Sandwell and his boyhood home still stands and is open as Bishop Asbury Cottage museum. Wanting him to become the Archbishop of Canterbury, his mother read the Bible to him, sang him hymns, Asbury worshipped as a Methodist at nearby Wednesbury.
He had an apprenticeship as a blacksmith, Asbury became a local lay preacher for Methodist meetings at age At age 22, John Wesley appointed him as a traveling preacher, in he volunteered to travel to America. When the American Revolutionary War broke out in , he, in , he met the freedman Henry Black Harry Hosier, a meeting Asbury considered providentially arranged. Hosier served as his driver and guide and, though illiterate and he eventually became a famous preacher in his own right, the first African American to preach directly to a white congregation in the United States.
It was during this Conference that Asbury was ordained by Coke, for the next 32 years, Asbury led all the Methodists in America. However, his leadership did not go unchallenged and his idea for a ruling council was opposed by such notables as William McKendree, Jesse Lee, and James OKelly. Eventually a General Conference to which delegates could be sent was established on the advice of Coke in , like Wesley, Asbury preached in myriad places, courthouses, public houses, tobacco houses, fields, public squares, wherever a crowd assembled to hear him.
For the remainder of his life he rode an average of 6, miles each year, preaching virtually every day and conducting meetings, under his direction, the church grew from 1, to , members and ordained preachers. Among the men he ordained was Richard Allen in Philadelphia, the first black minister in the United States, in the fall of , Asbury attended one of the events of the Revival of as he travelled from Kentucky into Tennessee.
The experience, recorded in his journal, illustrates an early identity between religious revivalism and what would become a staple of nineteenth-century Methodism, the camp meeting.
The population was 1, at the census and it is located 6 miles west of Westminster on Maryland Route New Windsor was laid out in and originally named Sulphur Springs and it was renamed in the early 19th century, possibly after its English namesake. Since , it has headquarters for the international missionary efforts of the Church of the Brethren. These efforts inspired the international focus of the Peace Corps, whose first director, the town was considered an escape for the rich, and because of the Sulphur Springs, had a renowned spa by the water.
Avalon, a home, was listed in and the Appler-Englar House in The town is also the location of the New Windsor Conference Center, owned by the Church of the Brethren, as of the census of , there were 1, people, households, and families residing in the town. The population density was 1, The racial makeup of the town was Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.
The average household size was 2. The median age in the town was The gender makeup of the town was The Village of Aberdeen was a development by Edmund Law Rogers around , when incorporated as a Town, Aberdeen government was led by a board of commissioners. Stewart — William B. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 6. As of the census of , there were 13, people,5, households, the population density was 2, There were 5, housing units at a density of The racial makeup of the city was Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.
In the city, the population was out with The median age was 37 years, for every females there were For every females age 18 and over, there were The Appalachian Mountains run through its middle, Pennsylvania is the 33rd largest, the 5th most populous, and the 9th most densely populated of the 50 United States. The states five most populous cities are Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie, the state capital, and its ninth-largest city, is Harrisburg.
Pennsylvania has miles of shoreline along Lake Erie and the Delaware Estuary. The state is one of the 13 original founding states of the United States, it came into being in as a result of a land grant to William Penn. Part of Pennsylvania, together with the present State of Delaware, had earlier been organized as the Colony of New Sweden and it was the second state to ratify the United States Constitution, on December 12, Independence Hall, where the United States Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution were drafted, is located in the states largest city of Philadelphia, during the American Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg, was fought in the south central region of the state.
Valley Forge near Philadelphia was General Washingtons headquarters during the winter of — Pennsylvania is miles north to south and miles east to west, of a total 46, square miles,44, square miles are land, square miles are inland waters, and square miles are waters in Lake Erie.
It is the 33rd largest state in the United States, Pennsylvania has 51 miles of coastline along Lake Erie and 57 miles of shoreline along the Delaware Estuary. Cities include Philadelphia, Reading, Lebanon and Lancaster in the southeast, Pittsburgh in the southwest, the tri-cities of Allentown, Bethlehem, the northeast includes the former anthracite coal mining communities of Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Pittston City, and Hazleton.
Straddling two major zones, the majority of the state, with the exception of the corner, has a humid continental climate. The largest city, Philadelphia, has characteristics of the humid subtropical climate that covers much of Delaware. Moving toward the interior of the state, the winter climate becomes colder, the number of cloudy days increase. Western areas of the state, particularly locations near Lake Erie, can receive over inches of snowfall annually, the state may be subject to severe weather from spring through summer into fall.
Tornadoes occur annually in the state, sometimes in large numbers, the Tuscarora Nation took up temporary residence in the central portion of Pennsylvania ca. Both the Dutch and the English claimed both sides of the Delaware River as part of their lands in America. Virginia — Virginia is a state located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, as well as in the historic Southeast.
The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are shaped by the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Chesapeake Bay, the capital of the Commonwealth is Richmond, Virginia Beach is the most populous city, and Fairfax County is the most populous political subdivision. The Commonwealths estimated population as of is over 8. In the London Company established the Colony of Virginia as the first permanent New World English colony, slave labor and the land acquired from displaced Native American tribes each played a significant role in the colonys early politics and plantation economy.
Although the Commonwealth was under one-party rule for nearly a century following Reconstruction, the Virginia General Assembly is the oldest continuous law-making body in the New World. The state government was ranked most effective by the Pew Center on the States in both and and it is unique in how it treats cities and counties equally, manages local roads, and prohibits its governors from serving consecutive terms. Virginias economy changed from agricultural to industrial during the s and s. Virginia has an area of 42, Virginias boundary with Maryland and Washington, D.
The Chesapeake Bay separates the portion of the Commonwealth from the two-county peninsula of Virginias Eastern Shore. The bay was formed from the river valleys of the Susquehanna River. Many of Virginias rivers flow into the Chesapeake Bay, including the Potomac, Rappahannock, York, and James, the Tidewater is a coastal plain between the Atlantic coast and the fall line. It includes the Eastern Shore and major estuaries of Chesapeake Bay, the Piedmont is a series of sedimentary and igneous rock-based foothills east of the mountains which were formed in the Mesozoic era.
The region, known for its clay soil, includes the Southwest Mountains around Charlottesville. The Blue Ridge Mountains are a province of the Appalachian Mountains with the highest points in the state. The Ridge and Valley region is west of the mountains and includes the Great Appalachian Valley, the region is carbonate rock based and includes Massanutten Mountain.
The Cumberland Plateau and the Cumberland Mountains are in the southwest corner of Virginia, in this region, rivers flow northwest, with a dendritic drainage system, into the Ohio River basin. Joppa was founded as a British colonial settlement in the early 18th century, the town of Joppa on the Gunpowder River traded internationally in agricultural products, especially tobacco.
At its peak, the port was home to about 50 homes, a church, prison, inns, shops, schools, armament factories, however, with the rise of Baltimore and Annapolis, Joppa declined as a port, and was slowly abandoned. By , all that remained were ruins, and the surviving Rumsey Mansion, in , Joppatowne, one of the first of a new generation of planned unit developments in the United States, was launched by the Panitz Company.
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New York state — New York is a state in the northeastern United States, and is the 27th-most extensive, fourth-most populous, and seventh-most densely populated U. With an estimated population of 8. Both the state and New York City were named for the 17th-century Duke of York, the next four most populous cities in the state are Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse, while the state capital is Albany. New York has a diverse geography and these more mountainous regions are bisected by two major river valleys—the north-south Hudson River Valley and the east-west Mohawk River Valley, which forms the core of the Erie Canal.
The central part of the state is dominated by the Finger Lakes, New York had been inhabited by tribes of Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking Native Americans for several hundred years by the time the earliest Europeans came to New York. The first Europeans to arrive were French colonists and Jesuit missionaries who arrived southward from settlements at Montreal for trade, the British annexed the colony from the Dutch in The borders of the British colony, the Province of New York, were similar to those of the present-day state, New York is home to the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity.
In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Verrazzano described it as a vast coastline with a delta in which every kind of ship could pass and he adds. This vast sheet of water swarmed with native boats and he landed on the tip of Manhattan and possibly on the furthest point of Long Island. Verrazannos stay was interrupted by a storm which pushed him north towards Marthas Vineyard, in French traders from New France built a chateau on Castle Island, within present-day Albany, due to flooding, it was abandoned the next year.
In , the Dutch under the command of Hendrick Corstiaensen, rebuilt the French chateau, Fort Nassau was the first Dutch settlement in North America, and was located along the Hudson River, also within present-day Albany. The small fort served as a trading post and warehouse, located on the Hudson River flood plain, the rudimentary fort was washed away by flooding in , and abandoned for good after Fort Orange was built nearby in Henry Hudsons voyage marked the beginning of European involvement with the area, sailing for the Dutch East India Company and looking for a passage to Asia, he entered the Upper New York Bay on September 11 of that year.
Ohio is the 34th largest by area, the 7th most populous, the states capital and largest city is Columbus. Partitioned from the Northwest Territory, the state was admitted to the Union as the 17th state on March 1,, Ohio is historically known as the Buckeye State after its Ohio buckeye trees, and Ohioans are also known as Buckeyes. Ohio occupies 16 seats in the United States House of Representatives, Ohio is known for its status as both a swing state and a bellwether in national elections. Six Presidents of the United States have been elected who had Ohio as their home state, Ohios geographic location has proven to be an asset for economic growth and expansion.
To the north, Lake Erie gives Ohio miles of coastline, Ohios southern border is defined by the Ohio River, and much of the northern border is defined by Lake Erie. Ohios neighbors are Pennsylvania to the east, Michigan to the northwest, Ontario Canada, to the north, Indiana to the west, Kentucky on the south, Ohio is bounded by the Ohio River, but nearly all of the river itself belongs to Kentucky and West Virginia. Ohio has only that portion of the river between the rivers low-water mark and the present high-water mark, the border with Michigan has also changed, as a result of the Toledo War, to angle slightly northeast to the north shore of the mouth of the Maumee River.
Much of Ohio features glaciated plains, with a flat area in the northwest being known as the Great Black Swamp. Most of Ohio is of low relief, but the unglaciated Allegheny Plateau features rugged hills, in the United States Congress passed the Appalachian Regional Development Act, at attempt to address the persistent poverty and growing economic despair of the Appalachian Region.
This act defines 29 Ohio counties as part of Appalachia, the worst weather disaster in Ohio history occurred along the Great Miami River in Known as the Great Dayton Flood, the entire Miami River watershed flooded, as a result, the Miami Conservancy District was created as the first major flood plain engineering project in Ohio and the United States.
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Marys in the west central part of the state was constructed as a supply of water for canals in the era of — For many years this body of water, over 20 square miles, was the largest artificial lake in the world and it should be noted that Ohios canal-building projects were not the economic fiasco that similar efforts were in other states. Some cities, such as Dayton, owe their emergence to location on canals. Summers are typically hot and humid throughout the state, while winters generally range from cool to cold, precipitation in Ohio is moderate year-round.
While predominantly rural, the county has become increasingly suburban in recent years, Carroll County was created in from parts of Baltimore and Frederick Counties, see Hundred. It was named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, signer of the American Declaration of Independence, during the American Civil War, the population of Carroll County was sharply divided between supporters of the Union and the Confederacy.
In , there were significant troop movements through the county as part of the Gettysburg campaign. B, in the Carroll County Board of Commissioners voted to make English the official language of the county.
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According to the U. Census Bureau, the county has an area of square miles. Topographically, Carroll County is located within the Piedmont Plateau region, with characteristic upland terrain of rolling hills, the most prominent relief is Parrs Ridge, which bisects the county from southwest to northeast. Three railroad lines cross Carroll County, the old Baltimore and Ohio Old Main Line crosses the southern part of the county from east to west, with former stations in Sykesville and Mount Airy.
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Iveriu derives from a root meaning fat, prosperous, during the last glacial period, and up until about years ago, most of Ireland was covered with ice, most of the time 6. In that year it was transferred to its present site in Carrick and it was re-built in and the interior reconstructed in the years 7. The care of James was entrusted to the Earl and Countess of Mar, to be conserved, nursed, and upbrought in the security of Stirling Castle 8. Longer distances emerged before the use of surveying instruments 9. Edinburgh soccer club Hibernian FC has adopted the name The first inhabitants of Newfoundland were the Paleo-Eskimo, who have no link to other groups in Newfoundland history Even though Martin Luther himself insisted on Christian or Evangelical as the only acceptable names for individuals who professed Christ, French and Swiss Protestants preferred the word reformed, which became a popular, neutral and alternative name for Calvinists By the 12th century there was a bridge and small settlement in existence at the site of the present town, the annalists refer to this Sligo as a sraidbhaile which seems to have consisted of the castle and an attached defensive bawn Both the Dutch and the English claimed both sides of the Delaware River as part of their lands in America The farm with a privileged view of the river will house Robert until his 24th birthday.
Crimmins calls him a native of the nearby Carrick on Shannon , County Leitrim. The land which the Strawbridge family lives on is a gift to an ancestor one-hundred and fifty years before, when the English King James transplanted English families in the hopes of gaining strategic lands along the bountiful River Shannon.
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To the Catholic citizens of Ireland, this transplanting of Englishmen by the Anglican King was tantamount to military and religious conquest. Despite the native opposition, the transplanting occurs, creating a line of natural-resource- abundant towns along the Shannon. The town of Drumsna is one of these new settlements.
Gaining the benefits of a proper education, Robert easily improves to a bright young man, eloquent in speech, intelligent and from a somewhat affluent family. The man with shoulder length hair that frames brilliant eyes and a handsome face has a winsome and gentle smile that warms the hearts of many, notwithstanding one particular young lady he eventually marries. For Robert in the summer of , the warmer months marked a two-year spiritual journey. Since , when he experienced his Christian conversion, Robert went on a preaching tour.
His conversion experience was unconventional, mentored by one brought up in a traditional Irish-Catholic family. The unlikely mentor was Laurence Coughlan. He too was born in Drumsna, but unlike Robert Strawbridge, Coughlan did not experience the benefits of education like Robert. Despite this limited beginning, Coughlan finds himself drawn and changed by the words of the Bible. His birth anew moves him to vigorously gain knowledge of the word.
These efforts create a deep urge for him to preach to the inhabitants of Drumsna. Another twelve months later and Coughlan departs Ireland of his own doing to preach to the fishermen of Newfoundland. Before Coughlan departs for Newfoundland, his early preaching efforts in Drumsna convert the younger brother of Robert Strawbridge, Leonard. The transformation of the younger brother also influences Robert Strawbridge. The first signs of trouble occur only months after his initial efforts to preach.
Wesley was not seeking a separation from the Anglican Church. He did all he could to instill confidence that his Methodist efforts were mainly a revival movement within the Anglican Church. In Ireland, the independent spirit of several of the early Irish Methodist preachers thought otherwise.
Robert was determined to bring the entire Christian experience to each person he met. This distribution of the sacraments by the Irish preachers was not a new thing beginning with Robert Strawbridge. Years before, many of the new preachers in Ireland had themselves licensed under the Toleration Act of Despite those who preceded Robert, the Anglican and Wesleyan faithful in Drumsna ask him to leave only a few months after his initial efforts. Unshaken by this, Robert gathers his horse and heads out on a preaching tour. His stops in the neighboring counties of Sligo and Kilmore, eventually end in the County of Armagh, specifically the town of Terryhoogan.
In Terryhoogan he meet his future wife. They marry shortly before