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James Strayhorn
James Strayhorn, a son of New Hope church founder Gilbert Strayhorn, was ordained a ruling elder at New Hope about 1795. With James Hart, John Strain and John Freeland he made up the church's entire session when it was reorganized in April 1820.
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- 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 StrayhornSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 35
- 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 StrayhornSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 24
- 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 StrayhornSearch 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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- New Hope Presbyterian Church Churches and lodges · New Hope · 3 events here
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