Rev. James MacGregor D.D.

Photo courtesy of Norman Munroe. Taken from his book "Where Two or Three are Gathered: the Churches of Pictou County".

MACGREGOR
1759 - 1830

ON THIS PROPERTY
TOWARD THE HARBOUR, IN A BARN OWNED BY SQUIRE ROBERT PATTERSON
ON
JULY 23, 1786
REVEREND JAMES MACGREGOR, D. D.,
PREACHED HIS FIRST SERMONS, IN ENGLISH AND GAELIC
AND BEGAN
HIS FRUITFUL AND APOSTOLIC GOSPEL MINISTRY
OF FORTY-FOUR YEARS

FROM THE TIME OF HIS ARRIVAL FROM SCOTLAND
UNTIL 1795
HE MINISTERED TO THE ENTIRE COUNTY OF PICTOU
IN WHICH HE LAID THE FOUNDATIONS FOR SEVERAL CONGREGATIONS
BUILT CHURCHES
AND DID THE WORK OF AN EVANGELIST

ON SEPTEMBER 17, 1786
HE ORGANIZED THE CONGREGATION THAT LATER BECAME JAMES CHURCH
AND AFTERWARDS
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, NEW GLASGOW
WHERE HE MINISTERED
UNTIL HIS DEATH ON MAR. 3, 1830, AGED 71
HE ALSO MADE
NUMEROUS AND EXTENDED PIONEER MISSIONARY JOURNEYS
TO ALMOST ALL PARTS OF
THE MARITIME PROVINCES

THIS CAIRN
UNVEILED JULY 23, 1936
IS ERECTED BY
THE SYNOD OF THE MARITIME PROVINCES
OF
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN CANADA
AND
THE DESCENDANTS OF DR. MACGREGOR
IN GRATITUDE TO GOD, AND IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF
HIS SERVANT AND MINISTER

BEING DEAD, HE YET SPEAKETH

MACGREGOR