David Caldwell

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1. August 1768 Presbyterian ministers, among them Henry Pattillo of Orange, write against the Regulation While Tryon toured Rowan and Mecklenburg to raise troops, Presbyterian ministers Hugh McAden, James Creswell, Henry Pattillo and David Caldwell sent him a letter of loyalty condemning the Regulators, and the pastors also wrote to the colony's Presbyterians telling them to keep out of the movement. The letter was read to the Rowan militia and helped raise volunteers for the march on Hillsborough. People: Henry Pattillo, David Caldwell, William Tryon, Hugh McAden Place: Rowan and Mecklenburg counties · Also named: James CreswellInternet Archive: Bassett, The Regulators of North Carolina (1765-1771) (1896), p. 176
2. Fall 1770 Orange Presbytery holds its first meeting at Hawfields Church The synod granted the petition of David Caldwell, Hugh McAden, Joseph Alexander, Hezekiah Balch, James Creswell and Henry Pattillo for a presbytery of their own, covering all the territory south of the Virginia line. The new Orange Presbytery met for the first time at Hawfields Church that fall. People: Henry Pattillo, David Caldwell, Hugh McAden Place: Hawfields Presbyterian Church, then in Orange County (now Alamance County) · Also named: Joseph Alexander, Hezekiah Balch, James CreswellSearch the index · Internet Archive: Durward T. Stokes, "Henry Pattillo in North Carolina", North Carolina Historical Review 44 (1967), p. 381
3. May 15 and 16, 1771 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. People: William Tryon, Alexander Martin Place: Alamance battlefield (then Orange County)Search the index · Documenting the American South: William Henry Foote, Sketches of North Carolina (1846)
4. 1777 Hillsborough gets its first regular Presbyterian services After years of occasional preaching in the courthouse by David Caldwell, John DeBow and others, the Rev. Alexander McMillan began regular services there in 1777, shared with Little River and New Hope. Presbytery deposed him in September 1778, and the town had no organized Presbyterian church for many years. People: David Caldwell, John DeBow Place: Hillsborough courthouse · Also named: Alexander McMillanSearch the index · Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), p. 70
5. July 24, 1788 The convention resolves itself into a committee of the whole with Elisha Battle in the chair After David Caldwell's attempt to fix governing maxims for the debate was set aside, the delegates went into committee of the whole, Elisha Battle presiding, and began reading the proposed Constitution clause by clause. The committee sat each day through July 31 except Sunday, July 27. People: James Iredell, Willie Jones, David Caldwell Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Elisha BattleDocumenting the American South: Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of North-Carolina, 1788
6. June 29, 1810 The university makes David Caldwell of Guilford a Doctor of Divinity At the 1810 commencement the university gave honorary doctorates of divinity to David Caldwell, James Hall and James McRee. Caldwell's Latin diploma, dated in Person Hall, calls Chapel Hill Sacrarii Mons, the hill of the chapel. People: Joseph Caldwell Place: Person Hall · Also named: James Hall, James McReeSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 186