Gilbert Strayhorn

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1740 Gilbert Strayhorn comes to the Hawfields from Pennsylvania Gilbert Strayhorn, a Pennsylvania-born tailor of Scottish parentage, came to the Hawfields at about 25, went back north to marry Margaret Roan, and returned to a place about a mile south of the later Mebaneville. After two years there he moved into the New Hope bounds, where he became one of the church's founders. People: Gilbert Strayhorn Place: the HawfieldsSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 9
2. about 1750 Hawfields families move to New Hope Creek over doubts about their Granville titles When word spread through the Hawfields that the land titles got through Earl Granville's agents were not genuine, William Craige, Gilbert Strayhorn and other families left and took up land on the waters of New Hope. Family tradition held that the settlers named the stream for the 'new hopes' they found there. People: Gilbert Strayhorn Place: New Hope · Also named: William CraigeSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 10
3. about 1754 to 1755 Gilbert Strean takes the surname Strayhorn About the time he got the deeds for his New Hope lands, Gilbert Strean, or Streaughan, changed his name to Strayhorn, saying he had put a 'horn' to it to make it sound. His nephews Alexander, John and James, who came south later to find him, kept the name Strain. People: Gilbert Strayhorn Place: New HopeSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 9
4. 1755 Gilbert Strayhorn's grant on Prestwood Creek is entered Strayhorn's Prestwood Creek tract was one of many grants entered along the county's streams in its first years. People: Gilbert Strayhorn Place: Prestwood CreekSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 15
5. about 1771 (family tradition) James Hunter's family takes refuge at Gilbert Strayhorn's house John A. Freeland, grandson of Alexander Strain, told D. I. Craig that after James Hunter's house was burned and he was outlawed, the Hunter family took refuge at Gilbert Strayhorn's house near New Hope, and that Strayhorn's nephew Alexander Strain met and married Hunter's daughter there. Craig gives no date; the year assumes this was the Regulator James Hunter, outlawed in 1771. People: James Hunter Place: New Hope · Also named: Alexander StrainSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 10
6. February 25, 1792 Gilbert Strayhorn deeds two hundred acres to New Hope church Soon after Lake left, the aged Gilbert Strayhorn gave two hundred acres 'to the subscribers of the church and their successors.' Every New Hope church stood on this land, and seventy acres of it were still the congregation's in 1891. People: Gilbert Strayhorn Place: New HopeSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 23
7. February 6, 1803 Gilbert Strayhorn, a founder and first elder of New Hope church, dies Strayhorn died at 88 and was buried in the old New Hope graveyard, next to the church he had helped found on his own land. People: Gilbert Strayhorn Place: New HopeSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 35