George Micklejohn

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1. by April 1767 George Micklejohn is sent to St. Matthew's Parish in Hillsborough Governor William Tryon sent the Rev. George Micklejohn, a Society for the Propagation of the Gospel missionary first assigned to Rowan County, to St. Matthew's Parish in Orange County. People: William Tryon Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Hillsborough: Allen Cronenberg, A Brief History of St. Matthew's Parish, 1752-2017 (2018)
2. about 1768-1769 Episcopalians build Hillsborough's first church Members of the Church of England put up the town's first church at the corner of Churton and Tryon streets, under George Micklejohn, the parish minister Governor Tryon had appointed. It later held the 1788 convention and its lot passed to the Presbyterians. People: George Micklejohn Place: first Hillsborough church (St. Matthew's Parish), Churton and Tryon streets, HillsboroughSearch the index · Pauline O. Lloyd and Allen A. Lloyd, History of the Churches of Hillsborough, N.C., ca. 1766-1962 (1963), scan p. 19
3. 1768 George Micklejohn carries messages between the Regulators and the authorities During the 1768 unrest the Hillsborough rector acted several times as a courier between the Regulators and the authorities, seeking a peaceful settlement. The Regulators called him "our Rector." Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · NCpedia: Micklejohn, George (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography)
4. September 25, 1768 George Micklejohn preaches to Tryon's militia at Hillsborough Before Governor Tryon and the troops raised against the Regulators, Micklejohn preached on the important duty of subjection to the civil powers. Tryon had the sermon printed and distributed, and it cost Micklejohn favour with opponents of royal authority. People: William Tryon Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · NCpedia: Micklejohn, George (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography)
5. November 1768 session The Assembly pays for printing Micklejohn's sermon to the troops The Assembly voted to repay the Orange parish minister George Micklejohn for printing the sermon he had preached to the troops at Hillsborough. Bassett, citing Foote's Sketches, reports that the sermon said at least twenty Regulators ought to have been hanged. People: George Micklejohn Place: New Bern (Assembly)Internet Archive: Bassett, The Regulators of North Carolina (1765-1771) (1896), p. 186
6. August 21, 1775 George Micklejohn opens the Provincial Congress with prayers At the request of the congress, delivered by Francis Nash, Micklejohn attended and opened the Provincial Congress by reading prayers in the church at Hillsborough. People: Francis Nash Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Documenting the American South, Colonial and State Records: Minutes of the Provincial Congress of North Carolina, August 20-September 10, 1775
7. September 1, 1775 Congress at Hillsborough names Francis Nash lieutenant colonel of the 1st North Carolina Regiment On September 1, 1775 the Provincial Congress meeting at Hillsborough appointed the officers of the first of its two new regiments: James Moore, colonel, and Francis Nash, lieutenant colonel. On the congress's opening day Nash had been asked to bring the Rev. George Micklejohn to open it with prayers in the church at Hillsborough. People: Francis Nash, George Micklejohn Place: Hillsborough · Also named: James MooreSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Colonial and State Records, Minutes of the Provincial Congress of North Carolina (Hillsborough, August-September 1775)
8. 1776 Loyalist rector George Micklejohn is taken into custody With the outbreak of the Revolution Micklejohn remained loyal to the Crown and was held among the Loyalist prisoners; on May 3, 1776 the Provincial Congress at Halifax paroled him to Perquimans County. St. Matthew's Parish had no Episcopal rector again until 1825. Place: HalifaxSearch the index · St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Hillsborough: Allen Cronenberg, A Brief History of St. Matthew's Parish, 1752-2017 (2018)
9. November 24, 1776 George Micklejohn swears allegiance to the state and is released from parole Taken prisoner after Moore's Creek, the Hillsborough rector was paroled on May 3, 1776 to Perquimans County, then ordered moved there in July when he was found still in Orange. On November 24 he took the oath of allegiance before the Halifax Congress and was discharged, and he later lived at Thomas Person's Goshen in Granville. People: Thomas Person, Willie Jones Place: Halifax (for Hillsborough's rector)Search the index · Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), p. 53