Excerpt from A History and Hand-Book of the First Presbyterian Church, Bridgeton, N. J., 1792-1892 A manual of the First Presbyterian Church has not been issued since 1870. The useful purpose served by the little volume put forth at that time might be sufficient justification for the present publication, but there are special reasons for this issue. No full and accurate his tory of the Presbyterian Church of Bridgeton has yet been printed. Most useful material for such a history is passing away with the flight of time, for much of it IS written only in the memory of those who were them selves a part of the events. If the bones, scattered pro miscuouslyin imperfect church records, are ever to be articulated into human form and clothed with flesh it is high time the task were undertaken. There is another call for doing this work now. Presbyterianism in Bridgeton has reached its one hundredthfmilestone. This is the centennial year. A history of our beginnings, struggles, and progress, always valuable and interesting, ought to prove even inspiring at this moment. It should arouse gratitude for the past and enthusiasm for the great work yet before the Presbyterian Church in Bridgeton. Iner rancy is not claimed for what is here written; but great pains have been taken to avoid mistakes. Acknowledg ment is made of valuable assistance from Judge L. Q. C. Elmer's History of Cumberland County, Dr. Enoch Fithian's History of the Greenwich Church, and a ser mon preached by the Rev. J. Allen Maxwell, D. D., May zrst, 18761 Thanks are also due to Mr. Robert B. Pot ter and others for important suggestions and interesting details. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.