[Pharmboy]

Your question is totally appropriate, and the larger question about the Brits burning churches is, of course they did, and they disliked the Presbyterians immensely. John Witherspoon was a Signer, a Scot/Presbyterian minister and President of Princeton (College of NJ at the time). He ran off to fight the Brits. There were many other Presby ministers who did the same.

The point is: did they ever burn churches with people inside? As I mentioned above, I know of no evidence for this.

And have a look at this.

[nkycincinnatikid]

“ever burn churches with people inside, I know of no evidence”
Pip Pip, Huzzah, Well Said, and all that rot Eh?
Nudge, nudge , wink, wink.
That’s whats Fleet St is there for, say no more.
If evidence is presented we say those blighters snuck in the church and ignited themselves, Hey Ho!
And if evidence is provided that the blighters were already in the church when we torched it, We say,
Now Guv’nor Ow was we supposed to knaw it was a bleedin church.
Dint sees no dome on it , wasn’t no Wren affair .
least not after the flames got to it.
There you go, take this fiver and be off then.