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- Colonial and Regulator years · 1680–1774
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Gilbert Strayhorn comes to the Hawfields from Pennsylvania
Gilbert Strayhorn, a Pennsylvania-born tailor of Scottish parentage, came to the Hawfields at about 25, went back north to marry Margaret Roan, and returned to a place about a mile south of the later Mebaneville. After two years there he moved into the New Hope bounds, where he became one of the church's founders.
People: Gilbert Strayhorn
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Hawfields families move to New Hope Creek over doubts about their Granville titles
When word spread through the Hawfields that the land titles got through Earl Granville's agents were not genuine, William Craige, Gilbert Strayhorn and other families left and took up land on the waters of New Hope. Family tradition held that the settlers named the stream for the 'new hopes' they found there.
People: Gilbert Strayhorn
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Gilbert Strean takes the surname Strayhorn
About the time he got the deeds for his New Hope lands, Gilbert Strean, or Streaughan, changed his name to Strayhorn, saying he had put a 'horn' to it to make it sound. His nephews Alexander, John and James, who came south later to find him, kept the name Strain.
People: Gilbert Strayhorn
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Gilbert Strayhorn's grant on Prestwood Creek is entered
Strayhorn's Prestwood Creek tract was one of many grants entered along the county's streams in its first years.
People: Gilbert Strayhorn
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James Hunter's family takes refuge at Gilbert Strayhorn's house
After James Hunter was outlawed and his house burned, the Hunter family fled to Gilbert Strayhorn's house in the New Hope settlement. There Strayhorn's nephew Alexander Strain met and married Hunter's daughter.
People: James Hunter
- Revolution and early republic · 1775–1799
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Gilbert Strayhorn deeds two hundred acres to New Hope church
Soon after Lake left, the aged Gilbert Strayhorn gave two hundred acres 'to the subscribers of the church and their successors.' Every New Hope church stood on this land, and seventy acres of it were still the congregation's in 1891.
People: Gilbert Strayhorn
Subject: New Hope Presbyterian Church
- Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865
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Gilbert Strayhorn, a founder and first elder of New Hope church, dies
Strayhorn died at 88 and was buried in the old New Hope graveyard, next to the church he had helped found on his own land.
People: Gilbert Strayhorn
Subject: New Hope Presbyterian Church
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