OK, people you can do more than just post queries. I would like anyone who will to post a brief (one or two paragraph) summary of the beginnings of any of the churches in colonial Orange County. There are those of you who have accumulated this information in your research. Now you can share it with others. My example follows. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE BRICK REFORMED CHURCH OF GUILFORD COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA The beginning of the Brick Church dates back to the mid 1740's when George Valentine Clapp (and later his brother John Ludwig Clapp) came to the Beaver Creek area of North Carolina from Pennsylvania. It became a regularly organized church in 1770. The church in early days was known as Church on Beaver Creek or The Clapp Church (Der Klapp Kirche). It was known as The Clapp Church until about 1813 when a brick building was constructed. It is located about three miles from where the Battle of Alamance was fought. It is still an active church. The Brick Church (as the Clapp family) was German Reformed. The difference between German Reformed and Lutheran was not extensive. For a while they shared a building with the Lutherans who later formed Low's Church. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list See my Ancestors at - http://www.trailerpark.com/tango/lrnoah Gedcoms are at - http://members.tripod.com/~lrnoah ALBRIGHT, ALEXANDER, ASKINS, BELK, CLAPP, COURTNEY, CROSSWELL, FOUST, KELLER, MIXON, MOSER, NEASE, NOAH, PILKINGTON, SHARP, WATSON, WOODHAM, WYATT & more, mainly in NC and SC ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list County Coordinator Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange