Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 110, number 3/4 (2008), p. 98-200Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v. 110 no. 3/4
History of Scottish dissentng Presbyterianism in Lancaster County, PA : an account of Associate, Associate Reformed, and United Presbyterian Church of North America clergy and congregations
"America’'s Dissenting Presbyterians have somewhat difficult histories to understand but basically they are unified in this fact, for some reason, they chose to separate from the Church of Scotland, and upon arriving in America they could not in good conscience join the mainline Presbyterian Church...There are today only two groups of dissenting Presbyterians left in the United States and they are the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, and the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America. Both have different yet somewhat similar histories. The Reformed Presbyterians are known as “Covenanters†they are the Society people that at the time of Revolution Settlement could not in good conscience go back into the Church of Scotland. The Associate Reformed Presbyterians or ARP are a merger of two Presbyterian groups, the Associate Church and the Reformed Presbyterians, to form a uniquely Scottish and American Presbyterian Church in the United States. The things that set the Dissenting Presbyterians apart from their mainline counterparts were strict confessional adherence to the point of becoming in many ways countercultural, holding strictly to the Regulative Principle of Worship, and never assimilating as quickly into American Society as their mainline counterparts." [https://purelypresbyterian.com/2017/09/23/americas-dissenting-presbyterian-heritage/]
CD for these records located at (MD 285.8 F527L CD).
"These records have been abstracted from the actual handwritten records of the First Reformed Church."
"This is a series of volumes covering the period 1730-1980...This volume is not all inclusive, as to do so would require 10-12 volumes alone and would be repetitive. It is a volume with a select number of years, spread over the 250 years of the Church."
Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 195 #2.
Evangelical Lutheran Curch of the Holy Trinity--Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church--St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church--Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church--Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church--St. Stephen's Evangelical Lutheran Church--Advent Evangelical Lutheran Church--St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church--Mount Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church--Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Redeemer--Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Ascension--Word of Life Deaf Evangelical Lutheran Church--St. Matthew Church--Church of the Good Shepherd--Church of the Ascension--St. Paul Church--Church of the Holy Spirit--St. Peter's Church--Mount Calvary Church.
The Lancaster city directory : containing the names of the citizens, a business directory, state and city record, and an appendix of much useful information, 1857
Contains Baptisms: Lutheran records, 1754-1785 and Reformed (United Church of Christ) records, 1754-1788. Also contains Church Account Book, 1763-1832.
Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 343 #1.
