Chronology

Presbyterians found Hawfields Church

Hawfields Presbyterian Church was founded in the part of Orange County that is now eastern Alamance. Henry Pattillo later served as its pastor.

People: Henry Pattillo

Subject: Hawfields Presbyterian Church

Little River Presbyterian Church is organized

Hugh McAden led the organization of Little River Presbyterian Church, with Henry Pattillo as its first pastor.

People: Henry Pattillo

Subject: Little River Presbyterian Church

Henry Pattillo becomes pastor of the Hawfields, Eno and Little River churches

Henry Pattillo moved to Orange County as pastor of the Hawfields, Eno and Little River Presbyterian churches and served them for nine years, becoming known as "Father Pattillo." He was the first regularly installed minister at Eno.

Subject: Little River Presbyterian Church · Eno Presbyterian Church · Hawfields Presbyterian Church

Henry Pattillo keeps a classical school in his Orange County home

While pastor of the Hawfields, Eno and Little River churches, Pattillo began a classical school for men in his home.

Presbyterian ministers, among them Henry Pattillo of Orange, write against the Regulation

While Tryon toured Rowan and Mecklenburg to raise troops, Presbyterian ministers Hugh McAden, James Creswell, Henry Pattillo and David Caldwell sent him a letter of loyalty condemning the Regulators, and the pastors also wrote to the colony's Presbyterians telling them to keep out of the movement. The letter was read to the Rowan militia and helped raise volunteers for the march on Hillsborough.

People: Henry Pattillo · David Caldwell · William Tryon

Henry Pattillo preaches to Tryon's troops at Hillsborough

While the militia were quartered in Hillsborough, the Presbyterian minister Henry Pattillo preached to them and was publicly thanked. The German minister Suther was ordered to preach to the German troops as well.

Orange Presbytery forms as North Carolina's first presbytery

The pastors of the early Orange County Presbyterian churches and other ministers formed Orange Presbytery, the first presbytery in North Carolina.

People: Henry Pattillo · David Caldwell

Henry Pattillo leaves the Hawfields and Eno churches

Pattillo, who came to the Hawfields and Eno churches in 1765, left in 1774. The New Hope families still belonged to the Hawfields then, and Craig believed Pattillo had organized New Hope church in its first meetinghouse.

Subject: Eno Presbyterian Church · Hawfields Presbyterian Church · New Hope Presbyterian Church

Henry Pattillo is asked to read morning prayers to the Provincial Congress

The congress at Hillsborough asked the Rev. Henry Pattillo, a delegate from Bute County, to read prayers to it every morning, and Charles Edward Taylor every evening.

Provincial Congress at Hillsborough names a committee to confer with inhabitants who had scruples about the American cause

The congress sitting at Hillsborough appointed thirteen of its members, among them Memucan Hunt of Granville County, to confer with inhabitants of the province who held religious or political scruples. They were directed to use argument and persuasion to bring those inhabitants into support of the American cause.

Part of Third Provincial Congress at Hillsborough, 1775 · 15 events

People: Thomas Burke · Richard Caswell · John Penn · Thomas Person · Henry Pattillo