Black, John (3)
Black, John (1)
a Presbyterian minister, was born in South Carolina. He graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1771; was licensed to preach by the Donegal Presbytery, Oct. 14, 1773, and was installed pastor of the Congregation of Marsh Creek, York Co., Pa., where he remained until 1794. He died Aug. 16, 1802. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, iii, 556.
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Black, John (2)
a Reformed Presbyterian minister, was born in County Antrim, Ireland, Oct. 2, 1768. He completed his education at Glasgow College, Scotland. In 1797 he embarked for America, an exile for liberty. Having arrived in America in the fall of that year, he was employed for some time as teacher of the Classis in Philadelphia; was licensed to preach in 1799, and passed immediately to the west and began his work. Dr. Black remained forty- eight years, and until the close of his life, in the same pastoral charge in Pittsburgh. He died Oct. 25, 1849. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 5, 28.
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Black, John (3)
a Scotch Congregational minister, was born at Ceres, Fifeshire, April 1, 1780. He attended Mr. James Haldane’s class to prepare for the ministry. In 1809 he was ordained at Montrose, where he remained five years, and then went to Dunkeld, Western Highlands, remaining there forty-four years. His death occurred July 27, 1857. He was a man of eminent piety, of catholic spirit, and breadth of benevolence in relation to all the public institutions of the day. See (Lond.) Congregational Year-book, 1858, p. 192.