8 April 1837 A.D. JACKSON, MS: First Presbyterian Church
8 April 1837 A.D. JACKSON, MS: First Presbyterian Church Archivist. “April 8: First Presbyterian Church.” This Day in Presbyterian History. 8 Apr 2015. http://www.thisday.pcahistory.org/2015/04/april-8-4/ . Accessed 8 Apr 2015. April 8: First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, MS The First Presbyterian Church of Jackson was organized on a Saturday afternoon, April 8, 1837 by the Reverend Peter Donan and four persons: Mrs. Margaret E. Mayson, Mrs. Susan Patton, and John Robb and his wife, Marion. The organization meeting was held in “the Old State House,” Mississippi’s first capitol, a small two-story structure on the northeast corner of E. Capitol and N. President Streets. Peter Donan continued as the church’s pastor for four years. There were no elders for two years, no deacons for six years, nor a Presbyterian house of worship for nearly nine years. In the first two years of its existence, the church had but thr...