Reverse Order – Black Experience – Church History
Presbytery of Baltimore History

1831
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
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1830
Indian Removal Act
Signed by Andrew Jackson, beginning the Trail of Tears.
1828
Taneytown Presbyterian Church Organized
Taneytown, MD
1821
GA calls for gradual emancipation
1819
First African Presbyterian Church Est.
Philadelphia, PA
1817
1810
1807
First African American Minister
John Gloucester is ordained.
1802
1800
Baltimore becomes city with largest free black population
In the United States
1788
First overture calling for abolition passed
1786
Shay’s Rebellion
Massachusetts, USA
1780
1776
America Declares Independence
1769
1761
First & Franklin Street Presbyterian Church Organized
Baltimore, Maryland
1760
1759
Great Awakening
Missionary movement begins. People consider evangelization of enslaved people.
1738
1729
Town of Baltimore Founded
1723
First presbytery established
by Fancis Makemie (who owned slaves) in Philadelphia
1715
1680
White appears in colonial laws
1661
Bible translated into Algonquin
Native American “evangelization” leads to “praying towns” at Natick, MA
1640
Congregation organizes first Presbyterian Church in the USA
Southampton Long Island, New York