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- Colonial and Regulator years · 1680–1774
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Hugh McAden preaches to the Eno Presbyterian settlers
On August 10, 1755 the missionary Hugh McAden preached at Eno to a Presbyterian community already settled near the river, southeast of present Cedar Grove; the congregation counts its beginning from these years. The settlers asked Hanover Presbytery for supply preachers in 1756, and by church tradition the congregation was formally organized during the Synod mission of 1764.
People: Hugh McAden
Subject: Eno Presbyterian Church
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Hugh McAden preaches to the Eno and Hawfields settlements
The traveling Presbyterian licentiate Hugh McAden preached to the Eno settlement on the second Sabbath of August 1755, lodging at John Anderson's house, and rode on to preach at the Hawfields on the fourth Sabbath. His journal is the earliest surviving description of either settlement.
People: Hugh McAden
Subject: Hawfields Presbyterian Church · Eno Presbyterian Church
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Hugh McAden returns to preach at the Hawfields and on the Eno
Heading home at the end of his year-long mission, McAden stopped again at John Anderson's on the Eno, preached at the Hawfields on Tuesday, April 27, 1756, and at Eno the next day, then rode on to the Hico settlement.
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David Caldwell goes between Tryon's camp and the Regulators before the Battle of Alamance
At the request of his parishioners, some of them Regulators, Caldwell visited Governor Tryon's camp on May 15 with Alexander Martin to urge mild measures. On the morning of the battle he was riding along the Regulator lines urging the men to go home when the order to fire was given.
Part of Battle of Alamance, May 1771 (site now in Alamance County) · 15 events
People: William Tryon · Alexander Martin
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