Cross Roads Presbyterian Church

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1. between about 1784 and 1790 Cross Roads Presbyterian Church is organized from the Hawfields, Eno and Stony Creek congregations During Jacob Lake's ministry a new congregation, Cross Roads, was gathered from members of Hawfields, Eno and Stony Creek. It later shared pastors with Hawfields for more than a century. Elizabeth Scott Carrington (Mrs. George Carrington), Historical Sketch of Hawfields Presbyterian Church (about 1946), scan p. 17
2. November 12, 1799 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. Thompson NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 22
3. 1801 William D. Paisley becomes pastor of the Hawfields and Cross Roads churches After serving the Union and Buffalo churches in Guilford County, Paisley took charge of the Hawfields and Cross Roads Presbyterian churches near present Mebane in 1801 and stayed until 1818. The Hawfields church historian credits him with organizing the first camp meeting in North Carolina there during the Great Revival. People: William D. Paisley NC State Historic Preservation Office: Paisley-Rice Log House, National Register nomination (OR0015), p. 5
4. March 1801 A communion service at Cross Roads church sets off the Great Revival in North Carolina At a general communion at Cross Roads Presbyterian Church in March 1801, before a large crowd, the congregation broke into the outcries and physical frenzy of the western camp meetings just as an ordinary service was ending, and the ministers present let the demonstration run its course. The author dates the start of the Great Revival in the state from this meeting, followed a few weeks later by a five-day meeting at Hawfields that the author calls the first camp meeting in North Carolina. Internet Archive: North Carolina Historical Review 43 (1966), p. 409
5. 1819 to 1843 Ezekiel B. Currie takes charge of the Hawfields and Cross Roads churches Currie came from Nutbush and Grassy Creek and served Hawfields and Cross Roads for nearly twenty-five years, until age and illness ended his pastorate in 1843. He died in 1851 and was buried in the Hawfields graveyard. Elizabeth Scott Carrington (Mrs. George Carrington), Historical Sketch of Hawfields Presbyterian Church (about 1946), scan p. 18
6. 1821 (reported October 17, 1821) A revival brings about sixty people into the Cross Roads congregation The Synod of North Carolina reported a revival in the Cross Roads congregation, where many had lately joined the church and about sixty people had become subjects of the awakening. Hillsborough Recorder, October 17, 1821, p. 2

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