William D. Paisley

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1. early 1800s The Paisley-Rice log house is built near Mebane A log dwelling now called the Paisley-Rice Log House went up in western Orange County near Mebane, probably for the Rev. William D. Paisley after he bought the 200-acre tract from James Davis on February 7, 1801. It is one of the few county log houses already on the National Register by 1993. People: William D. Paisley Place: near Mebane · Also named: James Davis · Also mentions: Paisley-Rice Log HouseSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 83 · Also: NC State Historic Preservation Office: Paisley-Rice Log House nomination, p. 5, citing Orange County Deed Book 9, p. 284; Mark Chilton’s abstract of Deed Book 9/284, in Orange County Indexed’s historic deeds
2. 1801 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. People: William D. Paisley Place: Hawfields and Cross Roads Presbyterian churches, then western Orange County (now Alamance County)Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Paisley-Rice Log House, National Register nomination (OR0015), p. 5
3. February 7, 1801 William D. Paisley buys the farm where the Paisley-Rice log house stands The Presbyterian minister William D. Paisley bought a 200-acre tract from James Davis in February 1801. Local tradition and the nomination hold that he built the dovetailed log house on this land in the early 1800s. People: William D. Paisley Place: Paisley-Rice Log House, west side of SR 1346 near the Alamance County line, north of Mebane · Also named: James DavisSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Paisley-Rice Log House, National Register nomination (OR0015), p. 5
4. October 1801 or 1802 Crowds camp for days at Hawfields for the fall communion The revival that began at Cross Roads reached Hawfields at its fall communion. People came from long distances and, with too few houses nearby to take them in, camped on the church grounds in their wagons for several days. William Henry Foote's Sketches of North Carolina (1846) dates this to October 1802 in one chapter and to October 1801 in another, where he calls it the first camp meeting in North Carolina; a 1966 article in the North Carolina Historical Review puts the five-day Hawfields meeting a few weeks after the March 1801 Cross Roads communion. People: William D. Paisley Place: Hawfields Presbyterian Church, the Hawfields (then Orange County, now Alamance County)Search the index · Elizabeth Scott Carrington (Mrs. George Carrington), Historical Sketch of Hawfields Presbyterian Church (about 1946), scan p. 17 · Also: Documenting the American South: William Henry Foote, Sketches of North Carolina (1846); Internet Archive: North Carolina Historical Review 43
5. September 12, 1819 William D. Paisley sells his Orange County farm to Elijah Pickard Paisley left the Hawfields in 1818 to head the Greensborough Academy and in September 1819 sold the log house farm to Elijah Pickard. The chain of title is unclear for some years after the sale. People: William D. Paisley Place: Paisley-Rice Log House, west side of SR 1346 near the Alamance County line, north of Mebane · Also named: Elijah PickardSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Paisley-Rice Log House, National Register nomination (OR0015), p. 5