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<p> a minister of the [[Associate]] Church, was born in Perth, Scotland, in 1720. In 1752 he became a student of theology in connection with the Antiburgher [[Synod]] of Scotland. By that synod he was sent out in 1753 as a missionary to the inhabitants of the eastern counties of Pennsylvania, who mere chiefly emigrants from [[Scotland]] and Ireland. He was accompanied by the [[Reverend]] [[Andrew]] Arnot, and together they formed themselves into a Presbytery, under the name of the Associate [[Presbytery]] of Pennsylvania. They soon became obnoxious to the [[Presbyterians]] who had occupied the ground before them, and who issued a series of publications against them, which were answered by Mr. Gellatly and others. Mr. Gellatly was settled first at Middle Octorora, [[Lancaster]] County, and then at Oxford, [[Chester]] County, Pennsylvania, where he labored with great diligence during the remainder of his life. He died March 12, 1761. He was a man of vigorous intellect, and an earnest, faithful minister of the Gospel. — Sprague, Annals of Am. Pulpit, 9 (Associate), 1. </p>

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