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Massachusetts from which they came. The Kev. Mr. 

 Lord returned to Massachusetts in 1720, and was suc- 

 ceeded by the Rev. Hugh Fisher, at whose death, Oc- 

 tober 7, 1734, the Rev. John Osg ood, a native of Dor- y 

 Chester in South Carolina, and a graduate of Harvard 

 College in the class of 1733, was ordained, and became 

 pastor of the Church March 24, 1735. The entire 

 congregation removed to Midway, in Georgia; and 

 having erected a house of worship built of logs, the 

 first sermon was preached in it by the Rev. Mr. Osgood,/ 

 June 7, 1754. ' 



The Scotch-Irish Presbyterians setted in Williams- 

 burg — so called from William III., Prince of Orange — 

 in 1732, and laid out a town, which they called Kings- 

 tree, " from a large white, or short-leaved, pine, which 

 grew on the bank of Black River, near the bridge: 

 which species of trees, with all gold and silver mines, 

 were reserved for the king in all royal grants." They 

 founded here a large and prosperous Church. 



In 1632 a colony from Switzerland, under the con- 

 duct of Colonel John Peter Pury, of Neufchatel, set- 

 tled on the north-east side of the Savannah River, 

 about thirty miles from its mouth, at a place which 

 they called Purysburg after their leader, and had for 

 their minister the Rev. Joseph Biguion, who received, 

 before coming over, ordination at the hands of the 

 Bishop of London. 



In 1764 two hundred and eleven emigrants from 

 France, under the guidance of the Rev. Jean Louis 

 Gibert, an able and popular minister, founded New* 

 Bordeaux on the west bank of Little River, in Abbe- 

 ville District. 



The Baptists formed a Church in Charleston in 

 1685, under the pastoral care of the Rev. William 



