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The First Hundred Years: The Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church, 1849-1949 (1950).Open the sourceAll sources
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Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865
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Aggie and Martin, an enslaved couple, join the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church
Aggie, enslaved by James Watson, and her husband Martin, enslaved by a Freeland household at New Hope, were received as members on a certificate from New Hope Church. The centennial booklet gives them as proof that the church had enslaved members before the war.
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Caroline Bennett and Sallie Brooks, free Black women, join the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church
Early in the war the church admitted Caroline Bennett and Sallie Brooks, both free women of color, to a membership of a little over forty. The same year the roll counted three Black and thirty-seven white communicants.
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The Presbyterian session drops Benjamin and Ellen Hedrick from membership
After his 1856 dismissal from the faculty for backing Fremont, Benjamin Hedrick and his wife Ellen found themselves shunned at church and stopped attending. The session then struck both from the roll for nonattendance.
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Chapel Hill Presbyterians vote to give their church bell to the Confederacy
The congregation directed its trustees to offer the church bell to the Confederate government so it could be cast into artillery.
Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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The Chapel Hill Presbyterians vote to call William D. Moss back as pastor
Moss had left in 1905 for a church in Washington, D.C. A congregational meeting voted without dissent to invite him back, at $500 a year and the manse with help from the Synod, and he began the long pastorate the church remembered him for.
Civil rights era · 1945–1975
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Centennial gifts rebuild the Presbyterian steeple and clear the education building debt
Gifts to the Centennial Fund, from North Carolina and thirteen other states and territories, paid for rebuilding the steeple and repairing the church, with enough to clear the debt on the new education building.
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The Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church celebrates its hundredth anniversary
The church marked its centennial alongside the fall meeting of Orange Presbytery, with a dinner and historical pageant on Friday and a centennial sermon by Kenneth J. Foreman on Sunday.
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