Barton Stone and his fellow ministers dissolve their presbytery and resolve to be known simply as Christians; the document is the founding charter of the Stone movement and of the Restoration plea for unity on the Bible alone.
Tagged: Christian Restorationist
The Event
- Date
- 1804 (exact)
- Era
- Modern; Standard ecumenical periodization
- Location
- Kentucky; today Kentucky, USA
- Traditions
- Christianity
- Streams
- Restorationist
- Key figures
- Barton W. Stone, Robert Marshall
- Key texts
- Last Will and Testament of the Springfield Presbytery (1804)
Primary Sources
- Last Will and Testament of the Springfield Presbytery
Secondary Sources
- González, The Story of Christianity, vols. 1–2 (Harper, 2010)
Provenance: HIST-0080; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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