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Subject: Re: NSP clergyman
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 15:08:55 EDT


WRHAAS2 asked:

<< Does anyone on the list know what denomination an NSP clergyman was/is?
This is listed as the occupation of an ancestor on the 1850 Alabama census
(maybe
the S in NSP stands for 'southern'?). Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>

It might be "New School Presbyterian." The Presbyterian denomination split in
1837 over such issues as slavery and cooperation with the Congregationalists;
they were reunited in 1869. However, the New School was the more liberal of
the two, and it would be somewhat unlikely to find a New School clergyman in
Alabama.

Louise Howe

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