APPENDIX
James Dodson
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MODERATORS OF PRESBYTERY AND SYNOD
In the absence of the minutes, it is impossible to give the names of Moderators before 1758. Up to 1810 one Presbytery sufficed for the whole Church, but in that year congregations were divided into three Presbyteries, and the whole was formed into a Synod. During the eighteenth century there was no stated time for occupying the chair, except a general period of two years. Thereafter the term was one year or less.
I. THE PRESBYTERY
1743 — John M‘Millan I.
1753 — Hugh Innes.
1758–9 — John M‘Millan II.
1759–60 — John Courtass.
1761 — John M‘Millan II.
1761–2 — John Courtass.
1762–4 — John Thorburn.
1764–6 — John Fairley I.
1766–7 — John M‘Millan II.
1767–8 — John Courtass.
1768–70 — John Thorburn.
1770–1 — John Courtass.
1771–3 — John Fairley I.
1773–4 — John Courtass.
1774–6 — John Fairley I.
1776–7 — John M‘Millan II.
1777–8 — John Courtass.
1778–80 — William Steven.
1780–2 — John M‘Millan III.
1782–3 — Walter Grieve.
1783–4 — John Reid I.
1784–5 — James Reid.
1785–7 — John M‘Millan II.
1787–8 — John Fairley I.
1788–9 — Archibald Mason, D.D.
1789–91 — Thomas Henderson.
1791–2 — John Reid II.
1792–4 — William Steven.
1794–5 — John Fairley II.
1795–6 — John M‘Millan III.
1796–8 — James Reid.
1798–9 — Thomas Rowatt.
1799–1801 — James Thomson.
1801–2 — Thomas Rowatt.
1802–4 — Adam Brown.
1804–5 — John Reid II.
1805–6 — John Cowan.
1806–7 — William Goold.
1807–9 — Archibald Mason, D.D.
1809–10 — Walter Grieve.
II. THE SYNOD
May 1811 — John M‘Millan III.
May 1812 — Archibald Mason, D.D.
May 1813 — Thomas Henderson.
May 1814 — John Reid.
May 1815 — John Fairley II.
May 1816 — Thomas Rowatt.
May 1817 — Adam Brown.
May 1818 — William Goold.
May 1819 — A. M. Rogerson.
May 1820 — John Westwater.
May 1821 — David Armstrong.
May 1822 — John Fairley II.
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May 1823 — John Jeffrey.
May 1824 — John Osborne.
May 1825 — Peter M‘Indoe, D.D.
May 1826 — William Symington I, D.D.
Oct. 1826 — William Anderson, M.A.
May 1827 — John Milwain.
April 1828 — Hugh Young.
April 1829 — Andrew Symington, D.D.
April 1830 — Stewart Bates, D.D.
April 1831 — Thomas Rowatt.
April 1832 — Adam Brown.
Feb. 1833 — William Goold.
May 1834 — William Symington I, D.D.
April 1835 — Peter M‘Indoe, D.D.
April 1836 — William M‘Lachlan.
Oct. 1836 — James Ferguson.
May 1837 — A. M. Rogerson.
April 1838 — Robert Winning, M.A.
Oct. 1838 — John Carslaw, M.A.
May 1839 — James M‘Gill.
May 1840 — Thomas Martin.
Oct. 1840 — Joseph Henderson.
May 1841 — Thomas Neilson, M.A.
May 1842 — Malcolm M‘Lachlan.
Nov. 1842 — John Graham, D.D.
July 1843 — Andrew Gilmour.
July 1844 — Peter Carmichael.
July 1845 — John M‘Kinlay.
July 1846 — Thomas M‘Indoe.
July 1847 — John M‘Dermid.
May 1848 — William Henry Goold, D.D.
May 1849 — Prof. Andrew Symington, D.D.
May 1850 — David Henderson.
April 1851 — Stewart Bates, D.D.
Oct. 1851 — William Symington II, D.D.
May 1852 — John Cunningham, LL.D.
May 1853 — James Goold.
Jan. 1854 — James Goold.
May 1854 — Thomas Neilson, M.A.
May 1855 — John West Macmeeken.
May 1856 — William Anderson, M.A.
May 1857 — Robert Harkness.
May 1858 — James Ferguson.
May 1859 — James Morrison.
May 1860 — Thomas Martin.
Sept. 1860 — William Binnie, D.D.
May 1861 — John Inglis, D.D.
May 1862 — M. G. Easton, D.D.
May 1863 — John Graham, D.D.
May 1864 — John G. Paton, D.D.
May 1865 — William M‘Lachlan.
May 1866 — John Kay, D.D.
May 1867 — John M‘Dermid.
May 1868 — Charles N. M‘Caig.
May 1869 — William Symington II, D.D.
May 1870 — George Clazy.
May 1871 — David Berry.
May 1872 — John Hamilton.
May 1873 — Prof. W. H. Goold, D.D.
May 1874 — John H. Thomson.
May 1875 — John Torrance.
Mar. 1876 — David Taylor.
May 1876 — Prof. W. H. Goold, D.D.