History of Presbyteriam'sm

Dr. Keir was succeeded in the pastorate of Princetown by Rev. Robert Laird, one of his own theological students, who was ordained and inducted on 12th June, 1860. Here Mr. Laird continued to labor for nineteen years with diligence, ability and success. It was during his ministry that the station at Kensington,then called Barrett’s Cross,was taken up. Every alternate Sabbath for several years, Mr. Laird, after preaching twice in Princetown, gave a third service at Kensington. Being a central place, on the line of railway and surrounded by a wealthy farming country, this little village grew rapidly, so that where at the time the writer first passed through that place there were only two dwelling houses, and one of them a country tavern, there is now a thriving town, with a large and prospering business and three large, handsome churches, Pres- byterian, Episcopalian and Methodist, all well filled. In October, 1879, Mr. Laird’s resignation of the pastorate of Princetown was accepted, and on 30th June, in the following year, Mr. George McMullan, B. A., was ordained and inducted as pastor of this congregation. For fifteen years Mr. McMullan was the esteemed pastor of Princetown, when failing health compelled him to resign. After remaining vacant for a few months, Rev. J. M. Fisher of New Brunswick was called and settled over this congre- gation, he being their fourth minister within a period of eighty—seven years.

The first Presbytery of Prince Edward Island was, by deed of the Synod of the Presbyterian

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