The following may answer several questions that individuals have asked, at once. Lachlan MacPherson was Presbyterian minister of the Williams congregation (1849) Donald Mackenzie was the first minister in the Zorra Presbyterian congrgation (1835) Both are in the London, Ontario area. The Zorra congregation in the intro to the 1930 book '100 Years in the Zorra Church' is described as, '...the Zorra congregation, Knox Church, Embro..." In the Journal it is clear that they and other Presbyterian ministers and congregations met and shared services and contacts over the years quite frequently. The earliest settlers in the Embro area were Methodists of United Empire Loyalist stock -by the early 1820's they had organized services and Sunday Schools. F0r the book '100 Years..." the main source of info was the minute books of the congregation (the Presbyterian, not the Methodist)which they had from 1861. Off the top of my head I think that was the year of one of the Presbyterian Church's divisions/amalgamations - changes, anyway! The Knox congregation records had been well kept. Most of the Methodist records had been lost (At least that was what the writer then thought in 1930) None, prior to 1854, was available to him, and those that he did have of other periods were too incomplete to build a coherent picture. Other references for this book ('100 Years...') were 'Pioneer Life in Zorra' which I have; 'Zorra Boys at Home and Abroad'; W.A. Ross's 'History of Zorra and Embro' and old newspaper clippings and files. Most of these will still be available for reference likely. The University of Guelph in Ontario I know has an excellent Scottish Studies library - the or one of the best collections outside of Scotland. I hope that has answered some of the questions - have filed your letters and will contact you individually , if I haven't yet done that, to answer more specific questions if I can. Lilian