Makemie
Americannoun
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Pioneer Makemie organized in Maryland the first five truly Presbyterian churches.
From Time Magazine Archive
Francis Makemie died in 1703 at his homestead in eastern Virginia, now called Makemie Park.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oh, who can tell how much we owe to thee, Makemie, and to labor such as thine, For all that makes America the shrine Of faith untrammelled and of conscience free?
From Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable by John T. (John Thomson) Faris
The advent of the first Scotch-Irish clergyman in America, so far as is now known, was in 1682, signalled by the arrival of Francis Makemie, the father of American Presbyterianism.
From An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean
"I am Melodia Mudford Makemie," she said, "and I thought you would like to meet me, as I started the Christmas fashion of giving hot-bag covers in York."
From The ghosts of their ancestors by Weymer Jay Mills
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