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Key events from Orange County history: 100 highlights to start, then the full chronology of 6,531 dated events and 63 storylines, each connected to the index. A storyline gathers many dated events into one history, such as the Regulator crisis.

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1795Revolution and early republic
  1. Revolution and early republic · 1775–1799
  2. James Strayhorn, John Strain and John Freeland become ruling elders at New Hope

    Appointment, election or service · New Hope

    Three men were ordained and installed as elders about 1795, joining James Hart. The four made up the whole session when the church was reorganized in 1820.

    People: James Strayhorn

    Subject: New Hope Presbyterian Church

  3. Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865
  4. New Hope's elders sell seventeen acres of church land for repairs

    Property or economic transaction · New Hope

    After what the deed calls mature deliberation, the elders and subscribers sold seventeen acres at the southwest corner of the church tract to Samuel Strayhorn to pay for church repairs. Seventy acres of Gilbert Strayhorn's gift remained.

    People: James Strayhorn

    Subject: New Hope Presbyterian Church

  5. New Hope church is reorganized under Shepherd K. Kollock

    Founding or opening · New Hope

    On April 22, 1820, Kollock laid before the session Orange Presbytery's call for long-vacant churches to be reorganized; finding no roll of members and little discipline, the session resolved to reorganize the next day. On April 23 four elders and ten members publicly assented to the articles of faith and covenant.

    People: James Strayhorn

    Subject: New Hope Presbyterian Church

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Compiled and maintained by the Friends of the Orange County Public Library from county records, the sources named on each card, and the index’s event pages. Last updated October 2, 2026.

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