John Knox Witherspoon

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1. 1816 Witherspoon takes charge of the Hillsborough Academy Returning to Hillsborough at twenty-five, Witherspoon took a double charge: the pastorate of the newly built Presbyterian church and the principalship of the c…Search the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Witherspoon, John Knox
2. September 25, 1816 Polly Burke helps organize the Hillsborough Presbyterian Church In September 1816 Mary W. Burke joined eight other people and the Rev. John Knox Witherspoon to organize the Hillsborough Presbyterian Church, which acquired t… People: John Knox WitherspoonSearch the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Burke, Mary ("Polly") Williams
3. January 1, 1827 Fire destroys Witherspoon's farmhouse and the Orange Presbytery records The fire burned the Witherspoons' rural home a mile and a half south of Hillsborough and its contents, including all but one volume of the old records of Orang…Search the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Witherspoon, John Knox
4. August 23, 1833 Witherspoon ends seventeen years as pastor at Hillsborough Witherspoon severed his connection with the Hillsborough Presbyterian Church and moved to Camden, South Carolina. His advocacy of religious education, Sunday s…Search the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Witherspoon, John Knox
5. August 29, 1845 Witherspoon's farm Tusculum is sold at the courthouse door Dr. Edmund Strudwick, who had long held the mortgages, bought the farm at public sale. Susan Witherspoon was allowed to stay on at Tusculum by Strudwick's prov…Search the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Witherspoon, John Knox
6. September 25, 1853 Witherspoon dies at Tusculum and is buried in the Old Town Cemetery He died penniless at the Tusculum farmhouse on the thirty-seventh anniversary of the organization of the Hillsborough Presbyterian Church. His funeral was held…Search the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Witherspoon, John Knox