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Abner Wentworth Clopton

1784–1833 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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1818 Mount Carmel Baptist Church ordains Abner W. Clopton to the ministry Abner W. Clopton of Virginia, a member of Mount Carmel Baptist Church and principal of the preparatory school at Chapel Hill, was ordained a minister by Elders George Roberts and Daniel Newlin, according to a history of the church printed in the News in 1922. He resigned as the church's minister the next year and became its clerk. Place: Mount Carmel Baptist Church, Morgan Creek, southwest of Chapel Hill · Also named: George Roberts, Daniel NewlinSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), June 22, 1922, p. 1
1819 The university closes its grammar school and makes Hillsborough Academy its preparatory school When Abner W. Clopton gave up the grammar school the university dropped it. Caldwell arranged for Hillsborough Academy, under John Witherspoon with John Rogers teaching, to prepare boys for the university, whose faculty could attend its examinations and admit its top pupils on certificate. People: Abner Wentworth Clopton, John Knox Witherspoon, Joseph Caldwell, John Rogers Place: Orange County · Also mentions: Hillsborough AcademyDocumenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 283

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A memoir of Abner W. Clopton, A.M. : pastor of Baptist churches in Charlotte County, Virginia

Jeter, Jeremiah Bell, 1802-1880 · 1837 · Yale & Wyatt

Jeremiah Bell Jeter's 1837 memoir of Abner Wentworth Clopton, 1784 to 1833, a pastor of Baptist churches in Charlotte County, Virginia. The memoir concerns Clopton's student years at the University of North Carolina and his connections to Chapel Hill and Milton, North Carolina, within the state's nineteenth century religious life. 283 pages, printed at Richmond.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Clopton, Abner Wentworth, 1784-1833.

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Hillsborough Academy Schools and academies · Hillsborough · 1 event here
Mount Carmel Baptist Church Churches and lodges · Chapel Hill · 1 event here
University grammar school (Preparatory School) Schools and academies · Chapel Hill · 1 event here

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NCpedia: Abner Wentworth Clopton Dictionary of North Carolina Biography entry

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