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  1. 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 StrayhornSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 10
  2. 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 StrayhornSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 9
  3. William Craig and Richard Caswell take up land in the New Hope area William Craig took Granville grants on New Hope Creek on September 6, 1754 (475 acres on Batts Creek) and March 13, 1755 (280 acres on Richland Fork), in the section of eastern Orange where Scotch-Irish families were settling. Richard Caswell held 640 acres at the forks of New Hope Creek by June 1756, when he sold them to William Blackwood.Search the index · Wandering through the NC Piedmont: Recovered Colonial Deeds of Orange (abstracts of the Register of Orange, State Archives of North Carolina)
  4. New Hope Presbyterian Church traces its beginning to 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.In the index: New Hope Presbyterian Church (Orange County, N.C.) · New Hope Presbyterian Church: History of NHPC
  5. James Craig buys back the Richland Fork tract on New Hope Creek William Craige's Richland Fork tract, surveyed in December 1754 and deeded in September 1755, was sold to John Reaney in June 1756 and bought back from him by Craige's son James in June 1758. It was still in the family in 1891.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 15
  6. New Hope congregation builds its first meetinghouse Settlers still attached to the Hawfields congregation built a rough first meetinghouse about five miles south of Hillsborough and a quarter mile east of the road to Chapel Hill. An octagonal log church on higher ground replaced it, which the church dates to 1775.In the index: New Hope Presbyterian Church (Orange County, N.C.) · Internet Archive: D. I. Craig, A Historical Sketch of New Hope Church, in Orange County, N.C. (1891)
  7. 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 HunterSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 10
  8. John DeBow takes the Hawfields and Eno charge and preaches at New Hope DeBow, a young minister, succeeded Pattillo at the Hawfields and Eno about 1775 and preached at New Hope as he could. Craig calls him probably the first preacher with anything like a regular appointment there. People: John DeBowSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 22
  9. Methodists divide their North Carolina circuit and form the New Hope Circuit, taking in part of Orange When the original North Carolina circuit was split in three in 1778, the new New Hope Circuit covered parts of Orange, Chatham, Cumberland and Wake counties. Hillsborough was served by its riders, beginning with James O'Kelly and Philip Adams in 1779.Search the index · Pauline O. Lloyd and Allen A. Lloyd, History of the Churches of Hillsborough, N.C., ca. 1766-1962 (1963), scan p. 92
  10. John DeBow, minister to the Hawfields, Eno and New Hope people, dies DeBow died at 38 and was buried at Hawfields church. Craig was told he was the first person buried in the present Hawfields churchyard. People: John DeBowSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 22
  11. David Craig's 1785 stone is the oldest dated marker in New Hope's old graveyard The earliest date Craig could find in the old graveyard beside the first church site reads 'D. C. - N. 2. - 1785', which he took for David Craig, a son of William Craige, who died November 2, 1785. Earlier graves there were marked with rough, unlettered stones.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 20
  12. Jacob Lake ends his ministry to New Hope Lake followed DeBow and served New Hope with the Hawfields and Eno churches in the same way until about 1790. He left Orange Presbytery in 1794 after about ten years in it. Later pastor tablets give his years as 1784-1792 (Hawfields) and 1786-1794 (Eno).Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 22
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  1. 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 StrayhornSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 23
  2. A school begins to be kept at New Hope church Thompson urged the congregation to take up schooling, and after his time the church generally kept a school for many years. His successor James H. Bowman is said to have taught school there while supplying the pulpit. People: William F. ThompsonSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 23
  3. 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 Strayhorn, James HartSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 35
  4. New Hope builds a parsonage with a farm on the church tract At William F. Thompson's urging the congregation built a parsonage where William C. Claytor later lived and laid off much of Gilbert Strayhorn's two-hundred-acre gift as a farm to go with it. People: William F. ThompsonSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 23
  5. Orange Presbytery holds its earliest recorded meeting at New Hope The oldest surviving Orange Presbytery minutes record a meeting at New Hope church, the first after Concord Presbytery was set off. James Bowman was moderator, William McGee was ordained with William F. Thompson, John Gillispie was licensed, and two candidates, Robert Foster and Robert Tate, sat part of their trials. People: William F. ThompsonSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 22
  6. William F. Thompson is ordained at New Hope as its first pastor Thompson, said to be a native of Connecticut, was ordained at New Hope and apparently installed as its pastor at the same meeting, the first pastor the church had. Earlier ministers had served it as supplies alongside the Hawfields and Eno. People: William F. ThompsonSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 22
  7. The Haw River Circuit takes the place of the New Hope Circuit in serving Hillsborough Methodists In 1797 the Methodists replaced the New Hope Circuit with the Haw River Circuit, whose preachers then served the Hillsborough community. The Hillsborough church organized about 1807 belonged to this circuit.Search the index · Pauline O. Lloyd and Allen A. Lloyd, History of the Churches of Hillsborough, N.C., ca. 1766-1962 (1963), scan p. 92
  8. William F. Thompson deeds a hundred acres of New Hope church land to John Strayhorn As he was leaving, Thompson sold about a hundred acres of the church tract to Gilbert Strayhorn's son John, stating that Gilbert had conveyed the land to him. No such conveyance was ever seen or recorded, and Craig judged the deed a forgery; the land left the church's hands. People: William F. ThompsonSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 23
  9. William F. Thompson resigns as pastor of New Hope Thompson gave up the charge at a called meeting of Orange Presbytery at Cross Roads church and left the presbytery's bounds. In April 1802 the presbytery suspended him from the ministry for false charges he had made against it. People: William F. ThompsonSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 22
  10. A great camp-meeting revival is held at New Hope People came from long distances and camped on the church grounds for days, and the revival spread into other neighborhoods. Craig thought it did much to prompt the building of a third church.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 25
  11. James H. Bowman becomes stated supply at New Hope Bowman, whose charge in 1799 was Eno and Little River, went west as a missionary in 1800, returned in the fall of 1801 and probably came to New Hope in 1802. He preached and taught school there until he left the presbytery in 1815, and was perhaps the first to preach in the third church.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 25
  12. 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 StrayhornSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 35
  13. New Hope builds its third church The third house of worship went up about two hundred yards southeast of the second, beside a spring that rises from rock. It had a high pulpit at the west end and a gallery at the east end for Black worshippers, and it stood until fire destroyed it in 1862.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 26
  14. A log house said to date from 1811 is built for the Craig family near New Hope Local tradition puts the building of this story-and-a-half log house on New Hope Church Road in 1811, for the Craigs; the Blackwoods owned it for many years and added to it around 1900. If the date holds it is the oldest log house in the survey.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Kelly Lally and Ruth Little, Chapel Hill Township Survey Final Report (1992), p. 45
  15. Robert H. Chapman serves New Hope as stated supply After James H. Bowman left, Chapman supplied the New Hope pulpit about 1815.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 27
  16. John Craig, a founder and first elder of New Hope church, dies John Craig, eldest son of William Craige, died at about 90. Craig names him with Gilbert Strayhorn as the church's original founders and first elders.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 35
  17. 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 Strayhorn, James HartSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 24
  18. Elijah Graves preaches at New Hope as stated supply Graves, who was teaching at Hillsborough, preached at New Hope from November 1818 until April 1820. A temperance reformer, he persuaded many hearers to sign a pledge. People: Elijah GravesSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 27
  19. 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 Strayhorn, James HartSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 27
  20. Alexander Gattis, Samuel Faucett and Gilbert Strayhorn are ordained elders at New Hope The session added three ruling elders; Gilbert Strayhorn was a grandson of the founding elder and a son of William Strayhorn.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 36
  21. Shepherd K. Kollock's connection with New Hope is dissolved Kollock, who had preached at New Hope with the Hillsborough church since 1820, ended his connection in May 1825. Elijah Graves came back as stated supply that November and stayed until May 1831. People: Elijah GravesSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 28
  22. A year-long revival at New Hope adds at least seventy communicants Under the evangelists Daniel L. Russell, John S. McCutcheon and Philip Pearson, families built tents on the church grounds and lived in them for weeks to attend the meetings. The session record shows at least seventy people admitted to communion.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 28
  23. Five elders are ordained at New Hope during the revival William Brown, Alexander Strain, Samuel Hart, David Hart and Allen Petty were added to the session. The two Harts were grandsons of Gilbert Strayhorn, and Strain was a son of the earlier elder Alexander Strain.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 36
  24. James Phillips is licensed to preach and later serves New Hope Presbyterian Church Mathematics professor James Phillips joined the Presbyterian church in 1832 and was licensed to preach by Orange Presbytery in 1833. He was later ordained and installed as minister of New Hope Presbyterian Church, about seven miles outside Chapel Hill, and shared the university chapel work with Elisha Mitchell. People: Elisha MitchellSearch the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Phillips, James
  25. New Hope elects George W. Ferrill as pastor The congregation unanimously elected Ferrill pastor, and he was installed soon after. The pastoral relation was dissolved in July 1836.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 29
  26. James Phillips begins nearly thirty years as stated supply at New Hope The university professor began preaching at New Hope in August 1836 and served it until December 1865, longer than any other minister. Because Chapel Hill long had no Presbyterian church, New Hope heard him almost every Sunday for years.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 29
  27. A great freshet sweeps away bridges and mill dams on New Hope and Morgan's creeks A tremendous rain south of Hillsborough carried away all the bridges on New Hope and Morgan's creeks, most of the mill dams and some of the mills, and badly damaged soil and fences. The Recorder called it the greatest freshet known in forty years.Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, May 7, 1840, p. 3
  28. Four elders are ordained at New Hope George A. Faucett, David Craig, William C. Blackwood and Joseph Kirkland were added to the session. All but Faucett were great-grandsons of William Craige; Kirkland was the father of the Rev. Alexander Kirkland.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 36
  29. Charles Phillips joins New Hope church James Phillips's son Charles, later a minister and teacher at the university, joined the church at New Hope. He often preached there with his father in later years.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 29
  30. David L. Swain and Charles Phillips transfer from New Hope to the Chapel Hill church University president David L. Swain, who first joined a church at New Hope, and Charles Phillips were released by letter to the Presbyterian church at Chapel Hill. People: Charles PhillipsSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 29
  31. Five elders are ordained at New Hope Samuel S. Claytor, Alexander Dickson, William S. Kirkland, Bryant Strayhorn and George R. Long were ordained and installed. Craig traces each to the founding families except Dickson. People: Alexander DicksonSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 36
  32. Thirty-five men of the New Hope congregation die in Confederate service Craig lists thirty-five men from within the bounds of the congregation who died in the Civil War, eight of them Strayhorns and three Craigs.NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 40
  33. New Hope's 1805 church burns The church burned on a Saturday night, most people believing it was set on purpose. The next morning James Phillips preached to the congregation under the trees, and through the summer of 1862 they worshipped under a large arbor built on the grounds. People: James PhillipsSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 26
  34. New Hope Presbyterian Church builds its fourth church In the middle of the Civil War, New Hope Presbyterian Church put up its fourth building, the one still in use in 1953.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 295
  35. Thomas Lynch becomes stated supply at New Hope after James Phillips Lynch took up the New Hope pulpit after Phillips stopped preaching there at the end of 1865 and served until the winter of 1867.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 30
  36. Charles Phillips is ordained at New Hope Church in Orange County Phillips was ordained on 14 April 1866 at Orange County's New Hope Church, which had long been under the pastoral charge of his father James Phillips. Orange Presbytery had convened there on Wednesday, April 11, and ordained Phillips and Calvin H. Wiley during the meeting. People: James PhillipsSearch the index · NCpedia: Phillips, Charles
  37. Calvin H. Wiley is ordained at New Hope At the last meeting of Orange Presbytery held at New Hope, Calvin H. Wiley was ordained with Charles Phillips, both sine titulo, without a pastoral charge.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 31
  38. Henry B. Pratt, a missionary to South America, supplies New Hope Pratt preached at New Hope for six months with the Hillsborough church. On May 24, 1868, D. I. Craig, John T. Hogan and three women were received and baptized as members. People: John T. HoganSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 31
  39. Freedpeople at New Hope rent a building and hire a teacher for a school Trustees led by Nelson Kirklin wrote from New Hope that they had rented a school building and secured a teacher and could send about 40 scholars, and asked the Bureau for $10 a month during the school season. Lt. Thomas H. Hay recommended the aid, citing the many Black children of the neighborhood and the freedmen's poverty, and visited the school in November.Freedmen's Bureau, North Carolina Field Offices, Hillsboro: Register of Letters Received, Vol. 129, July 1867–Dec. 1868, transcription p. 23
  40. New freedmen's schools open at Banocks Chapel, Cotton Run and New Hope, all with Black teachers Hay's October 1868 report counted 13 day schools in Orange and Person, adding schools at Banocks Chapel near Chapel Hill (John Weaver), Cotton Run and New Hope (London Moore) to those at Hillsborough, Chapel Hill, Durham's, Bains and Cedar Grove. All 11 teachers were Black, among them R. G. Fitzgerald and E. E. Anderson at Hillsborough, James Whitted at Bains and Georgianna Rumbley at Cedar Grove, and the freedpeople owned the schoolhouses at Banocks Chapel, Bains and Cedar Grove. People: Robert G. FitzgeraldFreedmen's Bureau, North Carolina Field Offices, Hillsboro: Monthly Reports of Schools, Feb.–Dec. 1868, transcription p. 25
  41. Lt. Thomas H. Hay counts about 330 day pupils in Orange County's freedmen's schools Hay's table for the month ending November 30, 1868, gave enrollment at eight Orange schools: Hillsborough 71 day, 20 night and 100 Sunday scholars; Chapel Hill and Cedar Grove 56 day pupils each; Barracks Chapel 42; Durham's 35; New Hope 27; Bains 25; and Mrs. Richardson's school at Hillsborough 18, with Cotton Run lacking a teacher. The Durham's schoolhouse belonged to its Black teacher George Bradshaw, and Fannie Culver at Chapel Hill was the only white teacher in the two counties.Freedmen's Bureau, North Carolina Field Offices, Hillsboro: Monthly Reports of Schools, Feb.–Dec. 1868, transcription p. 28
  42. Alexander Kirkland, a son of the congregation, supplies New Hope The Rev. Alexander Kirkland, son of the New Hope elder Joseph Kirkland, supplied the church for part of 1869 and 1870 after Pratt.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 31
  43. New Hope's present graveyard is begun Because the old graveyard lay so low that winter graves filled with water, James Newton Craig and elder David Craig chose a dry site a little south of east of the church. His nine-month-old son Vernon, who died on December 31, 1868, was buried there on January 1, 1869 as its first grave.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 40
  44. T. U. Faucett becomes stated supply at New Hope Thomas U. Faucett served the church as stated supply from 1870 until the fall of 1872.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 31
  45. John T. Hogan and Samuel D. Blackwood are ordained elders at New Hope The two men were ordained and added to the session. Hogan descended from the early elder John Freeland, and Blackwood from John Craig. People: John T. HoganSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 36
  46. Pleasant H. Dalton becomes stated supply at New Hope Dalton, who had joined New Hope as a university student in 1842, began supplying the church in August 1874. By his own count at least fifty members were added in his twelve years there. People: Pleasant Hunter DaltonSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 31
  47. William C. Claytor, Nettleton G. Craig and Charles W. Johnston are ordained elders at New Hope Three elders were added to the session. Claytor was a son of the 1859 elder Samuel Claytor; Johnston's grandmother was Mary Cabe, a daughter of Gilbert Strayhorn. People: Charles W. JohnstonSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 37
  48. Samuel Kirkland and Leroy Craig are ordained elders at New Hope The two were added to the session in what Craig in 1891 called the last ordination of elders at New Hope.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 37
  49. The State University Railroad reaches New Hope Creek Track on the State University Railroad was completed to New Hope, with cars due to cross the New Hope bridge that week. The sills, roadbed repairs, culverts, cattle guards and trestles were finished to within two and a half miles of Chapel Hill, and more than fifty hands were at work.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 26, 1881, p. 2
  50. Pleasant H. Dalton is installed as pastor of New Hope After nearly ten years as stated supply, Dalton was installed as the church's pastor. People: Pleasant Hunter DaltonSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 31
  51. Pleasant H. Dalton's pastorate at New Hope is dissolved amid a divided session Dalton offered his resignation in February 1886, but most of the congregation would not accept it; the relation was dissolved that December after the session fell into disagreement. The church stood vacant about a year while a presbytery commission settled the trouble. People: Pleasant Hunter DaltonSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 31
  52. James L. Currie is installed as pastor of New Hope Currie, who had preached there briefly in 1874, was installed as pastor in 1887; Craig's history gives March, while the Orange County Observer announced the installation service for Sunday, November 20. The relation was dissolved in November 1889 after new troubles in the session. People: James L. CurrieSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 32
  53. Prohibitionists organize a club at New Hope A prohibition club was organized at New Hope on Saturday, October 1, with a minister as its president, as prohibitionists in the county began to organize.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 8, 1887, p. 3
  54. Orange Presbytery decides an estate dispute that had divided New Hope's session A quarrel over a member's settlement of an estate, which Craig thought belonged in the civil courts, had been brought before the session. An adjourned meeting of the presbytery decided it, and the ruling deepened the split in the session.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 32
  55. Orange Presbytery removes all six active elders of New Hope Member David A. Claytor had carried a petition, which most of the members signed, calling on the active elders to resign; three agreed and three refused. Meeting at the church, the presbytery heard the parties, dissolved all six elders' relation to the church and ordered a new election. People: John T. Hogan, Charles W. JohnstonSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 32
  56. New Hope re-elects three of its removed elders With the Rev. F. H. Johnston presiding, the congregation chose Charles W. Johnston, John T. Hogan and William C. Claytor again, and they were reinstalled before a large congregation. People: John T. Hogan, Charles W. JohnstonSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 32
  57. James E. Fogartie is installed as pastor of New Hope Fogartie, already installed as pastor of the Chapel Hill Presbyterian church that November, was installed at New Hope on November 30, 1890, serving the two churches jointly. About the same time the synod's evangelists W. D. Morton and a Mr. Maxwell held a meeting at New Hope that added a number of members.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 33
  58. Former solicitor Isaac R. Strayhorn dies near Hillsborough Isaac R. Strayhorn, a Hillsborough lawyer and former solicitor, died of pneumonia at his home a short distance from town. He was buried from New Hope Presbyterian Church on May 23.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 27, 1893, p. 3
  59. David Craig, for many years an elder of New Hope church, dies David Craig died at his home near New Hope church. He had been a leading ruling elder of the New Hope Presbyterian congregation for many years.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 28, 1893, p. 3
  60. Albert Long, a Black man, joins the Hillsborough Presbyterian Church by letter from New Hope Albert Long transferred his membership by certificate from New Hope Presbyterian Church, one of two Black members the book names as received after the Civil War.Search the index · Pauline O. Lloyd and Allen A. Lloyd, History of the Churches of Hillsborough, N.C., ca. 1766-1962 (1963), scan p. 133
  61. New Hope Presbyterian Church celebrates its centennial New Hope Presbyterian Church held its centennial with a day of services, dinner in the grove and a centennial address by Rev. M. McG. Shields of Burlington; Rev. H. S. Bradshaw of Hillsborough spoke on missions. The day also brought in the children's missionary corn crop, 14 and a half bushels grown from 2,000 grains handed out the spring before.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 30, 1895, p. 2
  62. New Hope's women organize a missionary society At New Hope Presbyterian Church's centennial, Mrs. Harris of Chapel Hill organized the women of the congregation into a missionary society.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 30, 1895, p. 2
  63. The Rev. H. S. Bradshaw is installed as pastor of New Hope Presbyterian Church A presbytery committee led by the Rev. D. I. Craig installed the Rev. H. S. Bradshaw as pastor of New Hope Presbyterian Church on August 13; ruling elder Shepperd Strudwick of Hillsborough gave the charge to the congregation. People: D. I. (David Irwin) Craig, Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961)Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 17, 1905, p. 3
  64. David K. Blackwood is moved from a family burying ground to New Hope churchyard In 1912 the remains of David K. Blackwood, who had died in 1859, were taken from the family graveyard and reburied at New Hope Presbyterian Church. His marble headstone records the move.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Kelly Lally and Ruth Little, Chapel Hill Township Survey Final Report (1992), p. 11
  65. The Orange County Red Cross grants New Hope Church a branch The chapter's executive committee read and granted New Hope Church's application to form a Red Cross branch on September 7, 1917, and filed Cedar Grove's certificate of organization at the same meeting. By December New Hope was sending surgical dressings to Hillsborough for shipment with Cedar Grove's.Search the index · State Archives of North Carolina, Military Collection, WWI Papers, Box 2, Folder 37: Orange County Red Cross History (typescripts, 1918-1919), scan 6
  66. The Orange County Red Cross counts 850 knitted articles and 41,396 dressings for During 1918 the chapter and its branches at Cedar Grove, New Hope and Oaks sent 850 knitted articles to Atlanta and fourteen boxes holding 41,396 bandages and surgical dressings. The history adds that the Black auxiliary did little sewing but drew in Black members.Search the index · State Archives of North Carolina, Military Collection, WWI Papers, Box 2, Folder 37: Orange County Red Cross History (typescripts, 1918-1919), scan 16
  67. A memorial to local Revolutionary War soldiers is placed at New Hope In 1942 a monument honoring Revolutionary War soldiers from the neighborhood was set in the grounds of New Hope Presbyterian Church, beside its cemetery.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Kelly Lally and Ruth Little, Chapel Hill Township Survey Final Report (1992), p. 46
  68. The New Hope community helps build Camp New Hope for Orange Presbytery Beginning in 1947 the New Hope Grange community contributed a good deal toward building Camp New Hope, which belonged to Orange Presbytery. The camp was also open to other youth groups, among them 4-H clubs and Boy Scouts.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 261
  69. New Hope Presbyterian Church breaks ground for its fifth building The congregation broke ground after Sunday worship for a U-shaped colonial brick church designed by H. H. Haines of Duke University and estimated at about $50,000, meant to be finished for the 200th anniversary in 1956. Mattie Craig, one of the oldest members, turned the first spade. James Freeland, whose father had been a member, volunteered the excavation, and construction began at the end of May. People: James J. FreelandSearch the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, May 12, 1955, p. 1
  70. The Army Corps of Engineers is buying land for the New Hope Reservoir southeast of Chapel Hill Planners presenting options for the area south of Morgan Creek in October 1967 noted that the Corps was acquiring land for the New Hope Reservoir. The reservoir lands were to take in the Morgan Creek valley farther east, and the flood pool would reach University land around Finley Golf Course, so the planners treated the reservoir as the outer limit for any loop road south of town.Search the index · Research Triangle Regional Planning Commission, Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Development Alternatives (1969), scan p. 66
  71. New Hope Improvement Association sues to stop the Eubanks Road landfill Opponents of the landfill formed the New Hope Improvement Association, which drew about 500 members, and filed a lawsuit in late September 1972. The suit was denied in early October.RENA Community Center: The Orange County Landfill
  72. Seven Orange County Presbyterian churches form a cooperative in place of the Eno cluster A four-church cluster of Eno, Efland, Fairfield and Bethlehem was dissolved in 1975 and replaced by a cooperative of seven: those four plus Hillsborough, Little River and New Hope. The churches worked together especially on youth programs.Search the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 15
  73. County planners hold community meetings across rural Chapel Hill Township To gather views for a township development plan the commissioners had asked for, the planning department met residents at the New Hope Fire Station, Mt. Carmel Church, the Homestead Community Center in Calvander and Damascus Church, handing out a questionnaire on county issues. The report describes this kind of outreach as new for county planning.Search the index · Orange County Planning Department, A Planning/Management Process for Orange County, North Carolina, with Recommendations for Sound Land Development (1976), scan p. 63
  74. Rural Chapel Hill Township residents rank land-use planning and roads as top concerns Questionnaires from the four spring meetings put land-use planning first at New Hope and Calvander, road upkeep first at Damascus and fire protection first at Mt. Carmel, where residents leaned partly on Chatham County fire units. Saving farmland ranked in the top five at every meeting, and planners credited the New Hope Improvement Association for fire protection ranking low at New Hope.Search the index · Orange County Planning Department, A Planning/Management Process for Orange County, North Carolina, with Recommendations for Sound Land Development (1976), scan p. 61
  75. County planners take a preliminary land plan back to four rural communities In a second round of meetings at Mt. Carmel Church on Farrington Road, the Homestead Road Community Center in Calvander, the New Hope Improvement Center on Piney Mountain Road and Damascus Church, planners showed residents the ranked needs, draft goals and a preliminary plan for Chapel Hill Township. Most who came told the staff the process had given their communities more say over their land than ever before.Search the index · Orange County Planning Department, A Planning/Management Process for Orange County, North Carolina, with Recommendations for Sound Land Development (1976), scan p. 65
  76. New Hope Presbyterian Church installs a Brombaugh tracker organ A mechanical-action organ built by John Brombaugh, his Opus 31B, was installed and voiced at New Hope Presbyterian Church on December 1, 1987.Search the index · Women of the Church of Orange Presbytery, Celebrating Our History (1988), scan p. 44
  77. New Hope Elementary starts a Spanish dual-language program in Orange County Schools After a year and a half of planning, New Hope Elementary opened a 50-50 Spanish-English dual-language program for 48 kindergarten students at the start of the 2018-19 school year, taught on alternating days in English and Spanish. The principal described it as a way for Latino students to take pride in their heritage and keep the Spanish they use with their families.Search the index · News of Orange County: Dual language program comes to New Hope Elementary

Maps of New Hope

Dated maps that show this place, oldest first: town plans, county, road and soil maps, fire insurance sheets and the U.S. Geological Survey’s topographic maps, each linked to the library or archive that holds it. The USGS maps are free to download.

  1. Map of Orange County UNC · a county map
  2. Map of Orange County, N.C. UNC · a county map
  3. A map of Orange County, N.C. UNC · a county map
  4. Soil map, North Carolina, Orange County sheet Duke · a county map
  5. School map, Orange County, North Carolina. UNC · a county map
  6. Map of Orange County, N.C. : 1939 UNC · a county map
  7. An atlas for Orange County, North Carolina UNC · a county map
  8. USGS topographic map, Hillsborough quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)
  9. USGS topographic map, Hillsborough quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)

Start at OCPL

Books in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection whose titles, catalog subjects, or descriptions match this place. The Friends’ recommended starting points are labelled.

  • Foundational · NC 285 MURPHY Journey to New Hope: The History of New Hope Presbyterian Church, 1756-2006 Murphy, Barbara A. · 2006

    A congregational history of New Hope Presbyterian Church in Orange County, written by Barbara A. Murphy and published in 2006 by Chapel Hill Press. Chapters take up the five successive church buildings, the land itself, the ministers who served, the cemeteries, members who went to war, the church's organization, its music, gifts and memorials, and its outreach to the surrounding community. It also covers Presbyterian experience of the Civil War. 126 pages with illustrations and portraits.

  • Foundational · NC 664.72 DUNAWAY History of Patterson Mill, New Hope Creek, Orange County, NC Dunaway, Stewart E. · 2010

    Stewart E. Dunaway's 2010 study of Patterson Mill, a gristmill site on New Hope Creek where Orange County meets Chatham County. The book pairs a short genealogy of the Patterson family with a close survey of what remains of the mill on land now inside Duke Forest, supported by maps, facsimile documents and illustrations across 176 pages. Self-published in a second issue dated October 10, 2010.

  • Foundational · NC 664.72 DUNAWAY Johnston and Robson Mill History, New Hope Creek (Orange Co., N.C.) Dunaway, Stewart E. · 2010

    Stewart E. Dunaway's history of the two mills George Johnston built on New Hope Creek in Orange County, the first in 1793 and the second in 1820, the earlier of which he sold to the Englishman William Robson. Self-published in 2010, 256 pages with illustrations, maps and facsimiles. Topics include gristmills in Orange County and the Blackwood, Johnston, Robinson and Robson families, so the volume serves both mill history and genealogy.

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  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 285 CRAIG A Historical Sketch of New Hope Church, in Orange County, N.C Craig, D. I. · 1891

    Rev. D. I. Craig's history of New Hope Church, a Presbyterian congregation in Chapel Hill Township, Orange County, printed at Reidsville in 1891. A closing family history section covers the Strayhorn, Craig, Blackwood and Kirkland families.

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  • NC LIVE: prepared search for New Hope Library card An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read

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