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Petition of Protestant Dissenters of Strabane Town and Neighbourhood 1775

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Petition of Protestant Dissenters of Strabane Town and Neighbourhood 1775

Transcribed, Compiled and Submitted
by Len Swindley



PROTESTANT DISSENTERS (as PRESBYTERIANS were disparagingly termed) were barred from holding public office because of their beliefs. Presbyterian congregations across Ireland petitioned the parliament in Dublin for repeal of the Test Act which required all office holders, i.e. magistrates, burgesses etc. to be communicant members of the Established Church. Clearly, not all members of the Presbyterian congregation in Strabane signed: some may have been beholden to a landlord belonging to the Established Church.

Very few such petitions have survived; in Co. Tyrone only those referred to below remain and are available for consultation at PRONI, Belfast

Benburb town and neighbourhood;

Coagh;

Cookstown congregation;

Dungannon barony;

Dungannon town and neighbourhood;

Strabane town and neighbourhood

PRONI reference T/808//15307

The petition from Strabane is headed up by the REV. WILLIAM CRAWFORD, minister of Strabane Congregation 1776-1798.

CRAWFORD W.: Dissenting Minister

ALLEN Archibald BEST John BONNER James
BROWNE Joseph CAMPBLE Allen CAMPBLE William
COCHRANE Robert FLEMING James FLEMING Patrick
FULLERTON Seth HOUSTON John JAMIESON Robert
KERR Robert KNOX James KNOX John
KNOX Thomas McCREA William McKOWN Samuel
MEASE Andrew ORR George ORR John
ORR William PATTERSON W. PORTER William
ROSS William SPEER David SPROULL John
STOREY William SUMMERVILLE John THOMPSON Gabriel
THOMPSON Robert WILLSON John



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