My cousin, who passed away just over 28 years ago, corresponded with some of the descendants of Rev. John C's sister, Janet Cuthbertson Bournes. No connection between our two lines was ever established. (Our roots are at Kilmaurs in Ayrshire, adjoining Kilmarnock.) Some years ago I was in touch with Patricia Terpstra who made a good case the Rev. John was almost certainly a close relative of her ancestor Thomas Cuthbertson, born ca. 1765 in Lanarkshire. If I recall correctly, the Scottish Cuthbertsons listed in the records of Rev. McMillan (Rev. John's mentor) and/or of Rev. John himself were in Lanarkshire. Besides being the first Covenanter minister to come over, Rev. John was later instrumental in one of the first denominational unions in the U.S., the formation of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (ca. 1782). The Associate Presbyterians were the American branch of the Scottish "Seccession Church". The bulk of the RPs and APs joined together to form a more viable and sustainable church organization, though groups of both stayed out of that union... including the ancestors of today's Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America. In 1858 the two northern synods of the ARP church joined the remaining APs to form The United Presbyterian Church of North America. The southern synod of the ARP church did not participate in that union, and continues to the present. (Billy Graham was raised an ARP in North Carolina, and only became a Baptist later, in college.) Rev. John's diary came to the old UPNA seminaries (Allegheny --> Pittsburgh-Xenia). In 1958 the UPNA merged into what is now the PCUSA, and the two Presbyterian seminaries in Pittsburgh merged in the current Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Ken C. In a message dated 1/29/2014 9:42:32 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, [email protected] writes: This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: seekerJay Surnames: Cuthbertson, Buchanan, Junkin, Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.cuthbertson/25.26.30.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: From: "[email protected]" I think the original diary is held by the library of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (Presbyterian USA). ------------------------------------------ I went over the Introduction more carefully. You are right, of course. In addition, there are a number of copies: ". . .The book itself is four and one-half inches long by three and one-half inches broad, and a little over an inch thick. It is bound in soft, brown vellum. His hand-writing is wonderfully clear and the book well preserved, showing disintegration only where bound to the cover. (See page xvii.) In tracing its history [. . .] the Diary of Rev. John Cuthbertson passed into the hands of Mrs. Rebecca Buchanan Junkin, their Grandmother, because of her descent from representative families in his Societies. This was left, it is believed, at one of their homes, where he was thought to have died. Mrs. Junkin suffered a fractured leg in her old age, and while confined to her room made a copy of the Diary, contained in two large volumes. Thereafter, in 1896, Dr. Joseph Buchanan, a cousin of Mrs. Sinclair, thought it wise to place the Diary in the then Allegheny, Pa., Theological Seminary for safe keeping. Dr. Wm. M. Glasgow states in his Church History, published in 1888, that he had the loan of the original Diary from Mrs. Junkin. Revs. A. S. Aiken and J. N. Adair gathered vital statistics from it for their sketch of Rev. John Cuthbertson, published in 1878. Whether these gentlemen also made copies of it is not known, but it would have been difficult for them to have accompl! ished what they did without doing so. Mss. copies of the original Diary of Rev. John Cuthbertson are to be found in several places: The earliest one of record is that made by Mrs. Junkin, and now in Steubenville, Ohio. One was made in 1914 by William H. McNaugher, son of the President of the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (formerly the Allegheny Theological Seminary, and now (1933) the Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary). A carbon copy of this is retained in the Seminary, as is also a transcription of it by the writer. From these other copies have been made. One is in the Library of the State Historical Society at Harrisburg, Pa., and one, with complete index by the writer, in the Library of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, D. C. One was presented to the Library of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., by Mr. Albert L. Hood of that city, on September 8, 1914, apparently the original of the copy in the Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary. A! Mr. Nilson, deceased, of Chambersburg, Pa., had copies typed some years ago, and the one at Harrisburg is believed to be from one of his copies." 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