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James Hart

James Hart was a ruling elder of New Hope Presbyterian Church and the husband of Nancy, eldest daughter of the church's founding elder Gilbert Strayhorn. He was already an elder before 1795. In 1817 he signed the deed selling seventeen acres of church land to pay for repairs, and in April 1820 he was one of the four elders who made up the whole session.

Source: Internet Archive: Full text of "A historical sketch of New Hope Church, in Orange County, N.C."

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  1. James Strayhorn, John Strain and John Freeland become ruling elders at New Hope Three men were ordained and installed as elders about 1795, joining James Hart. The four made up the whole session when the church was reorganized in 1820. People: James Strayhorn, James HartSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 35
  2. New Hope's elders sell seventeen acres of church land for repairs After what the deed calls mature deliberation, the elders and subscribers sold seventeen acres at the southwest corner of the church tract to Samuel Strayhorn to pay for church repairs. Seventy acres of Gilbert Strayhorn's gift remained. People: James Strayhorn, James HartSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 24
  3. New Hope church is reorganized under Shepherd K. Kollock On April 22, 1820, Kollock laid before the session Orange Presbytery's call for long-vacant churches to be reorganized; finding no roll of members and little discipline, the session resolved to reorganize the next day. On April 23 four elders and ten members publicly assented to the articles of faith and covenant. People: James Strayhorn, James HartSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 27

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