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Elizabeth Scott Carrington (Mrs. George Carrington), Historical Sketch of Hawfields Presbyterian Church (about 1946).Open the sourceAll sources
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- Colonial and Regulator years · 1680–1774
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The Hawfields and Eno settlements ask Hanover Presbytery to send them ministers
After Hugh McAden's visits, the Hawfields and Eno Presbyterians applied to Hanover Presbytery for supply preachers. None came regularly until the congregations called Henry Pattillo in 1765.
Subject: Eno Presbyterian Church · Hawfields Presbyterian Church
- Revolution and early republic · 1775–1799
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The Hawfields congregation leaves its first log meetinghouse for a new site farther west
As the congregation's center shifted west, Hawfields abandoned its log church on the old road west from Hillsborough and built anew on ground now in the back of the present cemetery. A granite marker given by the B. Frank Mebanes marks that second site.
Subject: Hawfields Presbyterian Church
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Cross Roads Presbyterian Church is organized from the Hawfields, Eno and Stony Creek congregations
During Jacob Lake's ministry a new congregation, Cross Roads, was gathered from members of Hawfields, Eno and Stony Creek. It later shared pastors with Hawfields for more than a century.
Subject: Cross Roads Presbyterian Church
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William Hodge, raised in the Hawfields congregation, is ordained its pastor
Orange Presbytery ordained William Hodge as pastor of Hawfields and Cross Roads after James McGready's revivals of 1789-1791 renewed his wish to preach. He served until about 1799, when he left for Tennessee and Kentucky.
Subject: Hawfields Presbyterian Church
- Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865
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Crowds camp for days at Hawfields for the fall communion
The revival that began at Cross Roads reached Hawfields at its fall communion. People came from long distances and, with too few houses nearby to take them in, camped on the church grounds in their wagons for several days. William Henry Foote's Sketches of North Carolina (1846) dates this to October 1802 in one chapter and to October 1801 in another, where he calls it the first camp meeting in North Carolina. Eno and other churches of the upper counties took up the custom.
People: William D. Paisley
Subject: Hawfields Presbyterian Church
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George Allen Jr. and Solomon Debow deed seven acres to Hawfields Church
A 1914 history of the church, quoted by Carrington, says George Allen Jr. and Solomon Debow deeded seven acres to Hawfields Church in 1814, on the north side of the Great Road from Gilbreth's bridge to Hillsborough in the Haw Creek drainage, where the present church stands. Another account credits Thomas White with giving the site.
Subject: Hawfields Presbyterian Church
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Ezekiel B. Currie takes charge of the Hawfields and Cross Roads churches
Currie came from Nutbush and Grassy Creek and served Hawfields and Cross Roads for nearly twenty-five years, until age and illness ended his pastorate in 1843. He died in 1851 and was buried in the Hawfields graveyard.
Subject: Hawfields Presbyterian Church · Cross Roads Presbyterian Church
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Hawfields walls off part of its church for Black worshippers
Black members, most of them enslaved, already sat in the end gallery of the frame church. In 1842 part of the west end was partitioned for them as well, and the book says the gallery and that section were often full.
Subject: Hawfields Presbyterian Church
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Anderson G. Hughes, born near Eno, is installed pastor of Hawfields and Cross Roads
Orange Presbytery allowed the two churches to take Hughes as stated supply in May 1843 and installed him that October. His thirty-year pastorate, the longest in Hawfields history, ended when he collapsed in the Cross Roads pulpit in June 1873.
Subject: Hawfields Presbyterian Church
- Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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Hawfields leaves its century-old pairing with Cross Roads and joins Bethlehem in a new pastoral group
The Hawfields and Cross Roads field was divided, and Hawfields was grouped with Bethlehem, Bethany and Saxapahaw. The shared Mebane manse was sold and the money used to build a manse for each church; Hawfields' new pastor, B. W. Mebane, became its first resident minister.
Subject: Hawfields Presbyterian Church · Bethlehem Presbyterian Church
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