[33] Ibid. The existence of these "praying societies" is further substantiated in Colbert's Journal. During these services, lay persons gave exhortations or assisted Colbert in some fashion.
[34] Fithian: Journal, p. 76.
[35] Robert S. Cocks, One Hundred and Fifty Years of Evangelism, The History of Northumberland Presbytery 1811-1961 (n. p., 1961), p. 2.
[36] Fithian: Journal, pp. 80-81.
[37] Joseph Stevens, History of the Presbytery of Northumberland, from Its Organization, in 1811, to May 1888 (Williamsport, 1888), p. 38.
[38] Ibid., p. 18.
[39] Cocks, One Hundred and Fifty Years of Evangelism, p. 2.
[40] Guy S. Klett, "Scotch-Irish Presbyterian Pioneering Along the Susquehanna River," Pennsylvania History, XX (1953), p. 173.
[41] Ibid., p. 174.
[42] Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, p. 520.