OF

THE HISTORY

OF THE

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,

IN

JAMAICA, L. I.

BY

JAMES M. MACDONALD,

MINISTER OF SAID CHURCH.

Upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

MATT. xvi. 18.

NEW-YORK:

LEAVITT, TROW & CO., PRINTERS.

1847.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

FROM

THE BEQUEST OF

EVERT JANSEN WENDELL

1918

ΤΟ

AMOS DENTON,

SENIOR ELDER

OF THE

CHURCH WHOSE HISTORY IS HERE SKETCHED,

AND WHO,

FOR NEARLY THIRTY YEARS, HAS BEEN AN UNIVERSALLY RESPECTED MEMBER OF ITS SESSION,

THIS VOLUME

IS INSCRIBED,

AS A SLIGHT TESTIMONIAL OF ESTEEM,

BY HIS OBLIGED FRIEND,

THE COMPILER.