Scots Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)

With the help of the Associate Presbytery of Pennsylvania, a presbytery was established in Philadelphia in 1766, to which Scots Presbyterian Church traces its roots. The congregation's elders were chosen and ordained the following year and a plot of land was purchased near Fourth and Shippen (now Bainbridge) Streets, on which a church and minister's home were erected.

Rev. William Marshall, born in Fifeshire, Scotland, in 1740 and ordained by the Associate Presbytery of Pennsylvania in 1765, was called from his post at Deep Run, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1768 to serve the Philadelphia congregation. He replaced Rev. David Telfair and was installed as pastor of Scots Presbyterian Church in 1771. For the majority of his time with the Philadelphia congregation, Marshall held services at the organization's second house of worship on Pine Street above Third, while other services continued to be held at the first church at Fourth and Shippen. The Pine Street church still survives today, though not in its original architectural form, and is now referred to as Old Pine Street Church.

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