This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_fb699b_5754e0be$3a051df9 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed FYI...Char ----Original Message Follows---- From: meyerma@webtv.net (Mary Meyer) To: coats@hotmail.com (* Charlotte) CC: TPope77497@aol.com, meyerma_77801@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Fw: Davis Data Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 14:21:52 -0500 (CDT) Charlotte, meet Teddy. Teddy, meet Charlotte. (Teddy, typing up what I promised you is almost next on my list of things to do.) Here are some quotes from George W. Paschal's HISTORY OF NC BAPTISTS: footnote p. 265: "On September 12, 1752, Bishop Spangenburg wrote: 'After having traversed the length and breadth of North Carolina, we have ascertained that towards the western mountains there are pletny of people who have come from Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and even from New England" (COLONIAL RECORDS, IV, 1312). "Among the settlers of this section was a colony from New Jersey who occupied the lands near the Yadkin south of where the North Carolina Railroad crosses the river. In this settlement were many Baptists who as early as the summer of 1755 had already established worship and had a minsiter of their own....When Rev. Hugh mcAden reached this settlement on hsi tour through North Carolina, in September of the year 1755, he found that Mr. Miller had already been there and had worked so effectively that the [sic.] had caused many of the Presbyterians, who had a meeting house in the settlement, to become Baptists" (pp. 265-266). "...the Charleston Association had become interested in the Jersey Settlement church, and it was through its kindly offices that the next minister, Rev. John Gano, came to this place. At a meeting of the Association of 1755 Rev. Oliver Hart had been authroized to secure, if possible, a missionary to labor in its bounds. Visiting Philadelphia the same year he secured Rev. John Gano, who atteneded the next meeting of the Charleston Asociation, that of 1756. Here he was adivsed to make a tour of the Yadkin River and to bestow his labors 'wherever Providence appeared to direct.' Thus he came to the Jersey Settlement. The pastorless church strongly urged him to become their minister" (p. 267). In his account, Gano states he traveled 800 miles in 5 weeks. "The people met and determined on building a meeting hosue which was completed in a few months. As there was no other palce of worship near, and here was a great colelfction of inhabitants of different denominations, they all attended,and it became generally united....we appointed a board of trustees, some of each denomination....During my residence in this place, we were blest with another son, who was born Nov. 11, 1758....The reason of my leaving this place was the war with the Cherokee Indians...and my family being much exposed, I concluded it was expedient to move back to New Jersey" (pp. 267=268). "This church, which had as its first ministers two of the very ablest ministers of the Philadelphia [Baptist] Association, Miller and Gano, and whose members were seemingly of good religious heritage, soon passed out of existence. We have seen that it joined the Charelston Association in 1759, probably at a meeting held at Pee Dee in the spring of that year for the special accommodation of the NC churches. In the following October Gano attednded the session of the Sandy Creek Association. It was soon after this that the war of the Cherokee Indians caused the dispersion of the church. These Indians had already in the summer of 1759 begun to murder the settlers in the outlying plantations along the Catawba, and the inhabitants had begun to take shelter in the forts. But the incursion which drove the settlers in the Jersey Settlement from their homes was that in January and February, 1760, when the Indians attacked Fort Dobbs at Fourth Creek in the present county of Iredell, threatened the Moravian settlements, and advanced as far east as Walnut Cove. Not all the families of the Jersey church left their homes, but their pastor was gone and the church organization was no longer kept up. A portion of those who remained, 'the remains of Mr. Gano's church in Jersey Settlement,' according to Morgan Edwards, joined with others in the constitution of Shallow Fords Baptist church, a body of Separates, on the borders of Forsyth and Davie County. It was a quarter of a century, in the year 1784, before another Baptist church was established in this place" (p. 269). Teddy, did you say that Rev. Gano baptized George Washington? Charlotte and I have ancestors who lived in Newberry Co. SC, but we are trying to trace the whereabouts of their forebears. Mary Alice ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------=_NextPart_000_fb699b_5754e0be$3a051df9 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from mailsorter-101-10.iap.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.44) by storefull-625.iap.bryant.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 10:59:58 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: <coats@hotmail.com> Received: from hotmail.com (f199.law3.hotmail.com [209.185.241.199]) by mailsorter-101-10.iap.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.8-wtv-f/ms.dwm.v7+dul2) with SMTP id KAA04872 for <meyerma@webtv.net>; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 10:59:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 36632 invoked by uid 0); 24 Jun 2000 17:59:57 -0000 Message-ID: <20000624175957.36631.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 64.68.193.87 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 10:59:57 PDT X-Originating-IP: [64.68.193.87] From: "* Charlotte" <coats@hotmail.com> To: meyerma@webtv.net Subject: Re: Fw: Davis Data Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 10:59:57 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Mary, I don't know that much about New Jersey, except that in the beginning it was just East and West Jersey...the East was acutally the northern part of the state and the West the more southern part of the State...it also seems that in those early times many family went from Philadelphia to West Jersey very easily...I have some of the old Quaker records in the Coats Archive....there is also a New Jersey Archive series...not sure you're familiar with that...but apparently at some point the New Jersey Archive transcribed into book form many of their early records...PA Archive did the same...the Archive series are many many volumns of early records... The LA library has a set of the PA series and I think NJ but it's been awhile since I've been there...and I don't get there to often... My research hasn't taken me to NJ just yet...I just gather some records as I go but I haven't done or started a serious search in either PA or NJ yet...so I'm not that familiar with the area... Char ----Original Message Follows---- From: meyerma@webtv.net (Mary Meyer) To: coats@hotmail.com (* Charlotte) Subject: Re: Fw: Davis Data Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 08:53:28 -0500 (CDT) Charlotte, We're going to claim you for a cousin, yet! It's inevitable, yes? Mary Alice PS Tell me (us) more about NJ. << Message3.txt >> ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------=_NextPart_000_fb699b_5754e0be$3a051df9--