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- Colonial and Regulator years · 1680–1774
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Presbyterians found Hawfields Church
Hawfields Presbyterian Church was founded in the part of Orange County that is now eastern Alamance. Henry Pattillo later served as its pastor.
People: Henry Pattillo
Subject: Hawfields 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.
Subject: Hawfields Presbyterian Church · Eno Presbyterian Church
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New Hope Presbyterian Church traces its beginning to
New Hope Presbyterian Church, south of Hillsborough on the road to Chapel Hill, counts 1756 as its founding year, when the Hawfields and Eno Presbyterians, with whom the New Hope families then worshiped, first asked Hanover Presbytery for preachers. Its early records burned in 1827; D. I. Craig judged it was formally organized later, most likely under Henry Pattillo after his 1765 call, and it first appears with its own minister in the 1795 Orange Presbytery minutes.
Subject: New Hope Presbyterian Church · Eno Presbyterian Church · Hawfields Presbyterian Church
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New Hope congregation builds its first meetinghouse
Settlers still attached to the Hawfields congregation built a rough first meetinghouse about five miles south of Hillsborough and a quarter mile east of the road to Chapel Hill. An octagonal log church on higher ground replaced it, which the church dates to 1775.
Subject: New Hope Presbyterian Church · Hawfields Presbyterian Church
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Henry Pattillo becomes pastor of the Hawfields, Eno and Little River churches
Henry Pattillo moved to Orange County as pastor of the Hawfields, Eno and Little River Presbyterian churches and served them for nine years, becoming known as "Father Pattillo." He was the first regularly installed minister at Eno.
Subject: Little River Presbyterian Church · Eno Presbyterian Church · Hawfields Presbyterian Church
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Henry Pattillo leaves the Hawfields and Eno churches
Pattillo, who came to the Hawfields and Eno churches in 1765, left in 1774. The New Hope families still belonged to the Hawfields then, and Craig believed Pattillo had organized New Hope church in its first meetinghouse.
Subject: Eno Presbyterian Church · Hawfields Presbyterian Church · New Hope Presbyterian Church
- Revolution and early republic · 1775–1799
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John DeBow takes the Hawfields and Eno charge and preaches at New Hope
DeBow, a young minister, succeeded Pattillo at the Hawfields and Eno about 1775 and preached at New Hope as he could. Craig calls him probably the first preacher with anything like a regular appointment there.
Subject: Eno Presbyterian Church · Hawfields Presbyterian Church · New Hope Presbyterian Church
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John DeBow, minister to the Hawfields, Eno and New Hope people, dies
DeBow died at 38 and was buried at Hawfields church. Craig was told he was the first person buried in the present Hawfields churchyard.
Subject: Hawfields Presbyterian Church · New Hope Presbyterian Church
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Jacob Lake ends his ministry to New Hope
Lake followed DeBow and served New Hope with the Hawfields and Eno churches in the same way until 1790. He left Orange Presbytery in 1794 after about ten years in it.
Subject: Eno Presbyterian Church · New Hope Presbyterian Church · Hawfields Presbyterian Church
- Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865
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William D. Paisley becomes pastor of the Hawfields and Cross Roads churches
After serving the Union and Buffalo churches in Guilford County, Paisley took charge of the Hawfields and Cross Roads Presbyterian churches near present Mebane in 1801 and stayed until 1818. The Hawfields church historian credits him with organizing the first camp meeting in North Carolina there during the Great Revival.
Subject: Hawfields Presbyterian Church · Cross Roads Presbyterian Church
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