Country Churches: Guinston Presbyterian

"Very early in 18th century Ireland & Scotland, the conditions and political freedom became such that vast numbers of people emigrated to America to settle in the Colonies. They located principally, on the frontiers, which at that time included Pennsylvania and northern Maryland.

About 1732, some of the bolder settlers pushed across the Susquehanna River to settle on its west side. Four years later, when the Penn Government purchased that land from the Indians and opened it for settlement, the Scotts-Irish, as they were called, were invited and prevailed upon to settle here because their character and customs were so entirely different from the Quakers." Continued.