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Henry Pattillo

Henry Pattillo moved to Orange County in 1765 as pastor of the Hawfields, Eno and Little River Presbyterian churches, served them for nine years, and kept a classical school for men in his home. In 1775 he sat in the Third Provincial Congress at Hillsborough as a delegate from Bute County and was appointed its chaplain.

Source: NCpedia: Pattillo, Henry (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography)

1726–1801 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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StorylineHugh McAden, Henry Pattillo and the first Presbyterian congregations, 1753–17901753–1790 · 19 events · Orange County's Presbyterian settlers had congregations before they had ministers. Hugh McAden preached on the Eno and at the Hawfields in 1755 and 1756, and the settlements asked Hanover Presbytery for preachers, but none came regularly until Henry Pattillo became pastor of the Hawfields, Eno and Little River churches in 1765. Pattillo and his fellow ministers condemned the Regulators in 1768 and he preached to Tryon's troops; in 1770 they formed Orange Presbytery, which first met at Hawfields. In 1775 the Provincial Congress sent Pattillo to win former Regulators to the American cause, and about 1790 the old Pattillo field was split into two pastoral charges. StorylineThe test of allegiance in Orange County, 1775–17821775–1782 · 9 events · During the Revolution, Orange County's new authorities sorted friends from enemies by an oath of allegiance. In 1775 the Provincial Congress at Hillsborough tried persuasion with former Regulators and people of scruple. By 1777 the county court was jailing a man who refused the oath and ordering merchants who had traded with Britain to swear or leave within sixty days. Magistrates tendered the oath district by district in 1778, Loyalist property was inventoried, and in 1782 the Assembly named a commissioner of confiscated estates for the Hillsborough District.

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  1. Presbyterians found Hawfields Church Hawfields Presbyterian Church was founded in the part of Orange County that is now eastern Alamance. Henry Pattillo later served as its pastor. People: Henry Pattillo, Hugh McAden Place: Hawfields (now Alamance County)Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 294
  2. New Hope Presbyterian Church traces its beginning to 1756 New Hope Presbyterian Church, south of Hillsborough on the road to Chapel Hill, counts 1756 as its founding year, when the Hawfields and Eno Presbyterians, with whom the New Hope families then worshiped, first asked Hanover Presbytery for preachers. Its early records burned in 1827; D. I. Craig judged it was formally organized later, most likely under Henry Pattillo after his 1765 call, and it first appears with its own minister in the 1795 Orange Presbytery minutes. People: Henry Pattillo Place: New Hope · Also mentions: New Hope Presbyterian ChurchIn the index: New Hope Presbyterian Church (Orange County, N.C.) · New Hope Presbyterian Church: History of NHPC · Also: William Henry Foote, Sketches of North Carolina
  3. The Hawfields and Eno settlements ask Hanover Presbytery to send them ministers After Hugh McAden's visits, the Hawfields and Eno Presbyterians applied to Hanover Presbytery for supply preachers. None came regularly until the congregations called Henry Pattillo in 1765. People: Henry Pattillo, Hugh McAden Place: the Hawfields and the Eno settlement, Orange CountySearch the index · Elizabeth Scott Carrington (Mrs. George Carrington), Historical Sketch of Hawfields Presbyterian Church (about 1946), scan p. 13
  4. Henry Pattillo preaches to the Eno congregation on his first supply tour Licensed by Hanover Presbytery in September 1757, Henry Pattillo was sent at once to hold services for churches that had no minister. His first tour took in congregations at Meherrin, Nutbush, Hico, Eno and several Virginia places. Place: Eno Presbyterian congregation; Hico congregation, then in Orange County (now Caswell or Person County)Search the index · Internet Archive: Durward T. Stokes, "Henry Pattillo in North Carolina", North Carolina Historical Review 44 (1967), p. 379
  5. The Eno and Hico congregations ask Hanover Presbytery for Henry Pattillo By 1758 the Hico and Eno churches were established and petitioned the presbytery for a minister, asking particularly for Henry Pattillo. He took a call to Willis, the Byrd and Buck Island in Virginia instead, and came to the Eno churches only in 1765. Place: Eno and Hico Presbyterian congregationsSearch the index · Internet Archive: Durward T. Stokes, "Henry Pattillo in North Carolina", North Carolina Historical Review 44 (1967), p. 379
  6. Little River Presbyterian Church is organized Hugh McAden led the organization of Little River Presbyterian Church, with Henry Pattillo as its first pastor. People: Henry Pattillo, Hugh McAden Place: Little River Presbyterian ChurchLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 295
  7. Henry Pattillo becomes pastor of the Hawfields, Eno and Little River churches Henry Pattillo moved to Orange County as pastor of the Hawfields, Eno and Little River Presbyterian churches and served them for nine years, becoming known as "Father Pattillo." He was the first regularly installed minister at Eno. Place: Orange County · Also mentions: Eno and Little River Presbyterian churchesSearch the index · NCpedia: Pattillo, Henry (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography)
  8. Henry Pattillo keeps a classical school in his Orange County home While pastor of the Hawfields, Eno and Little River churches, Pattillo began a classical school for men in his home. Place: Orange CountySearch the index · NCpedia: Pattillo, Henry (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography)
  9. 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
  10. Henry Pattillo preaches to Tryon's troops at Hillsborough While the militia were quartered in Hillsborough, the Presbyterian minister Henry Pattillo preached to them and was publicly thanked. The German minister Suther was ordered to preach to the German troops as well. Place: Hillsborough · Also named: SutherSearch the index · Internet Archive: Bassett, The Regulators of North Carolina (1765-1771) (1896), p. 180
  11. 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
  12. Henry Pattillo leaves the Hawfields and Eno churches Pattillo, who came to the Hawfields and Eno churches in 1765, left in 1774. The New Hope families still belonged to the Hawfields then, and Craig believed Pattillo had organized New Hope church in its first meetinghouse. Place: the HawfieldsSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 20
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  1. Henry Pattillo chairs the Hillsborough congress's committee of the whole on a plan of union The Provincial Congress resolved itself into a committee of the whole and unanimously chose the Rev. Henry Pattillo, a Bute County delegate, as chairman. The committee concluded that a plan of union for the colonies was not then advisable. People: Henry Pattillo Place: HillsboroughInternet Archive: Durward T. Stokes, "Henry Pattillo in North Carolina", North Carolina Historical Review 44 (1967), p. 385
  2. The Provincial Congress names Caswell, Moore and Pattillo to win over former Regulators The congress at Hillsborough agreed to protect former Regulators who broke the oath of allegiance forced on them after Alamance, and appointed Richard Caswell, Maurice Moore and Henry Pattillo to persuade them to join the American cause. William L. Saunders later remarked on the irony, since Pattillo had joined in denouncing the Regulators in 1768. People: Richard Caswell, Maurice Moore, Henry Pattillo, William L. Saunders Place: HillsboroughInternet Archive: Durward T. Stokes, "Henry Pattillo in North Carolina", North Carolina Historical Review 44 (1967), p. 384
  3. Henry Pattillo is asked to read morning prayers to the Provincial Congress The congress at Hillsborough asked the Rev. Henry Pattillo, a delegate from Bute County, to read prayers to it every morning, and Charles Edward Taylor every evening. Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Charles Edward TaylorSearch the index · Documenting the American South, Colonial and State Records: Minutes of the Provincial Congress of North Carolina, August 20-September 10, 1775
  4. Provincial Congress at Hillsborough names a committee to confer with inhabitants who had scruples about the American cause The congress sitting at Hillsborough appointed thirteen of its members, among them Memucan Hunt of Granville County, to confer with inhabitants of the province who held religious or political scruples. They were directed to use argument and persuasion to bring those inhabitants into support of the American cause. People: Memucan Hunt, Thomas Burke, Richard Caswell, John Penn, Thomas Person, Henry Pattillo Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Minutes of the Provincial Congress of North Carolina, August 20 to September 10, 1775
  5. Henry Pattillo buys 5,000 acres in the Hawfields from Cullen Pollock Henry Pattillo, by then pastor in Granville County, bought five thousand acres in the Hawfields from Cullen Pollock of Edenton for 120 pounds. Place: Hawfields, Orange County (now Alamance County) · Also named: Cullen PollockSearch the index · Internet Archive: Durward T. Stokes, "Henry Pattillo in North Carolina", North Carolina Historical Review 44 (1967), p. 389
  6. Henry Pattillo sells his Hawfields tract Four years after buying it, Pattillo sold the same five-thousand-acre Hawfields tract to Robert Tennen for 230 pounds. Place: Hawfields, Orange County (now Alamance County) · Also named: Robert TennenSearch the index · Internet Archive: Durward T. Stokes, "Henry Pattillo in North Carolina", North Carolina Historical Review 44 (1967), p. 389

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Church in the Old Fields: Hawfields Presbyterian Church and Community in North Carolina

Turner, Herbert Snipes · 1962

Herbert Snipes Turner's history of Hawfields Presbyterian Church and its community from 1738 to 1960. Hawfields lies in what is now Alamance County, land that was part of Orange County until 1849, and the book gives a place to Henry Pattillo, the congregation's eighteenth-century minister. Published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1962, 297 pages with illustrations.

Included because: Catalog heading in the OCPL record: Pattillo, Henry, 1726-1801.

Reviewed in The Journal of Southern History (1963).

✓ Held at OCPL · NC 285.175 TUR NC Cardinal UNC Durham CH Historical Society Library of Congress

Apr.-May, 1782 Jt. Select Comm., Reports and Papers (petitions, messages, etc.) April. 17-27

North Carolina. General Assembly · 1782

Joint select committee reports and papers of the 1782 General Assembly at Hillsborough, covering 16 to 27 April. They answer the governor's messages and resolves of the Continental Congress and take up a petition from Wilmington inhabitants. Names include Alexander Martin, Abner Nash, Henry Pattillo, William Sharpe and John Springer; Quakers, slavery, soldiers' wages and the Continental Navy also appear. 116 pages.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Pattillo, Henry, 1726-1801.

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  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 285.175 TUR Church in the Old Fields: Hawfields Presbyterian Church and Community in North Carolina Turner, Herbert S. · 1962

    Herbert Snipes Turner's history of Hawfields Presbyterian Church and its community from 1738 to 1960. Hawfields lies in what is now Alamance County, land that was part of Orange County until 1849, and the book gives a place to Henry Pattillo, the congregation's eighteenth-century minister. Published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1962, 297 pages with illustrations.

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