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    <abstract id="aspace_7dff7a9ca6e036a8ceec94801bcd99e2">Sketch of Romney and Springfield churches, prepared in 1887 by a committee of the Winchester Presbytery under the Reverend John A. Scott. Contains notes on the rise of Presbyterianism in the Romney area, sketches of pastors John Lye, James Black, William Henry Foote, and George Williamson Finley, and a record of church buildings.</abstract>
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    <subject source="local">Churches  -- Presbyterian</subject>
    <subject source="local_LC">Churches  -- West Virginia -- Romney</subject>
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    <persname source="ingest">Black, James.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Finley, George Williamson.</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86039136" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Foote, William Henry, 1794-1869</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Lye, John.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Scott, John A.</persname>
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