Records of the General Synod of Ulster
1691 to 1777
At General Synod held in Antrim, June 5, 1694
Mr. Thomas Mulligan presented a supplication from Dunmurray desiring that the Synod determine an effectual course on Mr. Alexander Glass on whether he should be instructed to return from Scotland. The Synod determined that the Presbytery should write to him, and if he deemed not to return, he is to be looked upon as a scandalous person and dealt with as such.
At General Synod held in Antrim June 1, 1703
Mr. Thomas Millikin and Mr. John Boyd nominated by Tyrone Presbytery for trials.
At General Synod held in Antrim June 6, 1704
Mr. Thomas Millikin licensed by Tyrone Presbytery.
At General Synod held in Antrim June 6, 1706
Mr. Thomas Millikin entered for ordination by Armagh Presbytery.
At General Synod held in Antrim June 3, 1707
Mr. Thomas Millikin, elder, with Rev. Henry Livingston, minister of Ballynahinch (1697-1708), present at Synod from Down Presbytery.
Armagh Presbytery ordained Mr. Thomas Millikin at Keady on December 17, 1706.
A General Synod in Antrim June 1, 1708
Mr John Hutcheson, Moderator, presided over the Synod in that year.
A letter from Mr McBride (now in Glasgow) dated May 13, 1708, to the Synod, following (upon text) Capt. Brice, Mr. Isaac McCartney, Dr. John Peacock, Mr. Robert Lennox, Mr. John White, Mr. Andrew Maxwell, Mr. John Black, Mr. Richard Ashamore, etc produced a commission subscribed by many in Belfast, impowering & appointing them, the said commissioners to prosecute in their name an appeal from the Sentence of the Presbytery of Belfast, dividing the Congregation of Belfast in two. The commissioners gave in a supplication. Wm Crawford Esq’, Mr. John Chalmers, Mr. Wm Rainey senr, Mr. Brice Blair, Mr. John Arbuckle, Dr Victor Ferguson, Mr. Alex Adair, Mr. Robert Andrew, Mr. Robert Millikin, Mr. Joseph Biggar, Mr. Edward Wilson, Mr. Hugh Dyatt, Mr. Wm Rainey junr, Mr. Thomas Lyle, Mr. John Arbuckle, Mr. Jon Taylor, Mr. Wm Roger, Mr. Hugh Boyd, Mr. George Orr their commissioners subscribed by many hands was read. They supplicated that the Rev'd Synod may confirm the Sentence of Belfast Presbytery, erecting them & such who should join with them by voluntary subscription into a districk Congregation to assemble in the New Meeting House of Belfast.
At General Synod held in Belfast Sep 8, 1708
Wm Crawford Esq’, Jo Chalmers, Wm Rainey senr, James Arbucles, John Eccles, Brice Blair, David Buttle, Dr Victor Ferguson, etc, George McCartney, Robert Millikin, Hugh Boyd, etc, Wm Rainey junr. etc, commissioners for the New Congregation of Belfast.
At General Synod held in Derry June 1, 1709
Mr. Thomas Millikin minister from Armagh Presbytery.
At General Synod held in Belfast June 21, 1709
Mr. Thomas Millikin minister from Armagh Presbytery.
At General Synod held in Belfast June 21, 1710
Mr. Thomas Millikin minister placed in Tyrone Presbytery.
At General Synod held in Belfast June 18, 1717
Rev. Thomas Milikin, minister, contributed 2 shillings to Irish minister’s fund and 10 shillings to the building of a meetinghouse in the Presbytery of Monaghan.
At General Synod held in Belfast June 17, 1718
Mr. Thomas Milikin, elder, with Rev. James McAlphin, minister of Ballynahinch (1713-1732), present at Synod from Down Presbytery.
A General Synod held in Belfast June 20, 1721
Rev. Thomas Mulligan, minister, represented from Tyrone Presbytery.
A General Synod held in Belfast June 28, 1721
Rev. Thomas Mulligan from the Presbytery of Tyrone subscribed to a letter of the Westminster Confession of Faith dated June 26, 1721.
A General Synod held in Dungannon June 15, 1725
Rev. Thomas Mulligan, minister, present from Tyrone Presbytery.
A General Synod held in Belfast June 21, 1726
Mr. John Mulligan, commissioner, appeared from Glenon (Portglenone), supplicating that the congregation might be put under the care of the Presbytery of Route. The Synod agreed to supplication of the congregation and that the Presbytery of Route should take care of them. At the time, Glenon or Portglenone withdrew from Antrim Presbytery after the Rev. Shaw of Ahoghill joined the Non-subscribing Presbytery of Antrim in 1726.
A General Synod held in Dungannon June 18, 1728
Rev. Thomas Mulligan, minister, present form Tyrone Presbytery.
Mr. John Mulligan, elder, present from Coleraine Presbytery.
Mr. Hugh Mulligan, elder, present from Armagh Presbytery.
A General Synod held in Dungannon June 17, 1729
Mr. John Mulligan, elder, present from Coleraine Presbytery.
A General Synod held in Dungannon June 15, 1731
Mr. John Mulligan, elder, present from Coleraine Presbytery.
A General Synod in Dungannon June 19, 1733
Mr. Robert Mulligan and Mr. John Hunter, commissioners, appeared from a part of Drummual supplicating that they might be separated from the congregation of Drummual, as they were unhappy with the call of Mr. William Henderson, minister. However, the Synod hearing the petition from the congregation of Drummual and considering the supplication, sustained the call of Mr. William Henderson, who had been ordained by the Presbytery of Tyrone on October 12, 1732.
A General Synod in Londonderry June 18, 1734
Death of Rev. Thomas Mulligan in January 1734 reported to the Synod.
A General Synod held in Antrim June 21, 1737
Reg. Donum allowed to Mr. Mulligan’s children.
A General Synod held in Dungannon June 16, 1741
Mr. John Mulligan, elder, with Alexander Brown minister of First Donegore Presbyterian Church present from Templepatrick Presbytery.
A General Synod in Dungannon June 15, 1742
Mr. John Mulligan ordained at Portnorris (Mountnorris) on May 5, 1742 by Armagh Presbytery.
Mr. Hugh Mulligan reported to be on 2nd trial by Monaghan Presbytery.
A General Synod in Antrim June 21, 1743
Rev. John Mulligan, minister, present from Armagh Presbytery.
Rev. Hugh Mulligan, minister, present from Monaghan Presbytery. It was reported the Presbytery had ordained him minister of Bailieborough on July 27, 1742.
Rev. John Mulligan, Gilbert Kennedy, Jas. Allen, John King, Robert and William Thomson, to be named ministers of the Presbytery of Dromore.
A General Synod held in Armagh June 25, 1776
Dromore Presbytery reported the death of Rev. John Mulligan on January 4, 1776, leaving children.
[Records of the General Synod of Ulster from 1691 to 1820, Vol. 1, 1691-1720, Vol. 2, 1721-77]
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