Hammons Family Tree

Bridge to the Past Publications

Publisher: D. R. Hammons

Issue No. 003

Date: January 12, 2004

Hammons
Reverend William Hammons
(1700-1794)
This issue is dedicated to the search for William Hammons Virginia and North Carolina
roots. It also looks at the issues surrounding his exodus from Virginia to Wilkes County, North
Carolina.
The Reverend William Hammon was one of the religious dissenters in colonial Virginia
who took on the convictions of his religious beliefs. Although it is uncertain of exactly when he
converted to the Baptist faith we know that he was part of a group of Baptist clergy that traveled
from Caroline County, Virginia to Fauquier County in 1774 along with John Wright, Jr., a cousin
of George Washington, to petition for religious freedom. The petition reads as follows:
To the Worshipful Court of Fauqr County.
The Petition of us the Subscribers Sheweth, that we Being Desenters bearing the
Denomination of Baptists &c. Desirieing to Worship God. According to the Best light we have
in Holy Scriptures, and the Dictates of our Own Consciences, Humbly Prayeth that your
Worships would be Pleased to grant us the liberty To meet together for the worship of God in our
way ...1
The court took an entire year to resolve this matter and many of the petitioners moved to
North Carolina where they could enjoy their religious freedom.
Background in Virginia
The situation in colonial Virginia was a matter of domination by the Church of England
where members of the church had settled and formed Jamestown in 1607. Following the patter
of England, the Church of England became the established church by legal enactment and
1

Hoppin, Charles A., The Washington Ancestry, Vol 1, p. 436.

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supported by colony taxes. This enactment led to severe penalties of any dissenting religious
practice. Despite the Act of Toleration in England and acceptance of the English Bill of
Rights in 1689, there was little to no change in colonial Virginia.

In New England, Roger Williams (1603-83), the minister of the church of Salem, was
exiled to Rhode Island for rejecting the Puritan alliance between church and state. He believed
that this separation was necessary because as he thought that the power of the latter would
inevitably corrupt the purity of the former.2 Williams liked the Baptist faith because of their
stand on separation of the church and state.

John Leland 1754-1881

John Leland, a minister from Massachusetts was pivotal in

helping James Madison gain religious freedom for Virginia. He was
baptized by Noah Alden of Bellingham, Massachusetts in 1774. A year
later he took his first journey to New Jersey and Virginia. In 1776 he
joined the Baptist Church at Mountponey, Culpeper County, Virginia
and for a time was its pastor until he moved to Orange County,
Virginia3. He spent much of his time traveling, preaching from place to
place and wonderful revivals followed his labors while in Virginia.
During his fifteen years of ministry in Virginia it is recorded that he
preached 3009 sermons, baptized 700 people and formed two large
churches, one of 300 members and another of 200.4 According to Dr.
Robert Baylor Semple he was probably the most popular preacher who
ever resided in Virginia.5

The church in Mountponey was started in 1774 by David Thomas and Nathaniel
Saunders, pastors of churches in Orange and Fauquier counties. Forty-seven members left the
Mountain Run Church in Orange to help start Mountponey.6 Early pastors such as Nathaniel
Saunders and James Ireland were imprisoned in the Culpeper jail for preaching without the
required state, Church of England license.
Prior to the Revolutionary War there was an era of persecution of Baptists by state church
followers in Virginia. In one account a Baptist preacher, Samuel Harriss who became a Colonel
in the war reported that on one occasion while conducting a meeting, a mob appeared carrying
sticks, whips and clubs. To avoid a brawl with state church followers, Harriss moved his meeting
to another place. Harriss was opposed by both the lawless and the law for preaching the Baptist
gospel in Virginia. He was arrested for disturbing the peace and was charged with being "a
vagabond, a heretic, a schismatic, and a mover of sedition everywhere." "Disturbing the peace"

Williams, Peter W., Americas Religions From Their Origins to the Twenty-First Century, University of Illinois
Press, Chicago, IL, 2002, p. 146
3
General Baptist Net, Historic Resources, 11. Baptists and The Revolutionary War, June 6, 2004,
http://generalbaptist.net/resources/history/armitage/chapter11.htm
4
Cathgarts Baptist Encyclopedia, Baptist Cameos, http://www.reformedreader.org/leland.htm
5
General Baptist Net, Historic Resources, 11. Baptists and The Revolutionary War, June 6, 2004,
http://generalbaptist.net/resources/history/armitage/chapter11.htm
6
History of Culpeper Baptist Church, http://www.culpeperbaptist.org/history.aspe.

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was the usual charge made against Baptist preachers in Virginia for preaching without a license
from the state church.7
For preaching the gospel, Nathaniel Saunders, a Baptist preacher, pastor of the Mountponey
Baptist Church, was imprisoned in Culpepper County jail (1773). Baptists were frequently
imprisoned at that time for preaching without authority of the state church of Virginia. Saunders
was not the only Baptist preacher to be imprisoned in Culpepper jail. Culpepper held more
Baptist preachers who dared to preach in defiance of the state-supported church than any other
jail in Virginia. Among those who suffered for the cause of Christ in Culpepper were James
Ireland, Elijah Craig, William McClannahan, John Corley, Thomas Ammon, Anthony Moffett,
John Picket, Adam Banks, Thomas Maxfield, and John Dulany.8
Jeremiah Moore, a Baptist preacher who was told by the presiding judge at his trial, You
shall lie in jail until you rot! was released after being defended by Patrick Henry. Moore had
been arrested for preaching without authority from the state church of Virginia. During his
defense of Moore, Patrick Henry cried out, Great God, gentlemen, a man in prison for
preaching the gospel of the Son of God! Henry was not only a champion of liberty, but a
defender of imprisoned and persecuted Baptists in colonial Virginia. The Baptists were not only
defended by Henry, but Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Mason were courageous
fighters for civil and religious freedom in Virginia.9
It was in this area of Virginia, Culpeper, Orange, Caroline and Fauquier counties, that much
of the persecution of the Baptists took place just prior to the revolutionary war. And is probably
one of the main reasons that Baptists were noted for their patriotism for the American
Revolution, while the state church followers sided with the King and crown, fought bitterly to
defend its favored position in Virginia. Ministers preached loyalty to the King from the pulpit
and accused some in their congregation of treason.
Virginia was divided into 16 districts and each district was to raise and discipline a battalion
of men to march at a minutes notice. Culpeper, Fauquier and Orange counties, forming one
district, raised a cadre of 350 men, 150 men from Culpeper, 100 from Orange and 100 from
Fauquier, called the Culpeper Minute Men on July 17, 1775. This unit was led by Colonel
Lawrence Taliaferro (Orange County), Lieutenant Colonel Edward Stevens (Culpeper), and
Major Thomas Marshall (Fauquier County). It was customary to put all the Baptists into one
Company because they were the most strenuous supporters of liberty. The flag of the minute
men had a rattlesnake with 13 rattles, coiled in the center, ready strike. Underneath were the
words: Dont Tread on Me. On either side were the words Liberty or Death and at the top
were the words, The Culpeper Minute Men. These minute men took part in the first
Revolutionary battle on Virginian soil, the Battle of Great Bridge.10

The Baptist Page, An Anthology of Baptist Persecution,

http://www.thebaptistpage.com/Distinctives/church_state/persecution.htm
8
Ibid
9
Ibid
10
The History of the Culpeper Minute Men Battalion 1775, http://home.earthlink.net/~rschnorf/cmm/history.html

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The state church and the Baptists took opposite

sides during the Revolutionary War. The state church
supported the Crown while the Baptists fought for
independence, not only political freedom from the crown
but religious freedom. And with the likes of Jefferson,
Madison and Henry fighting for their rights and the rights
of all citizens to have religious freedom, it is easy to
understand why the First Amendment to the Bill of Rights
states that, Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof."

Culpeper Minute Man Flag

William Hammon and Family Move to North Carolina

William Hammon was not one of the Baptists who were persecuted and he was not a leader in
the Revolution. Once he returned from the appeal in Fauquier County he saw the grave situation
of persecution and imprisonment of fellow Baptists. In the records of the clerks office of
Caroline County the imprisonment of several Baptists ministers, reads, Bartholomew Chewing,
James Goodrich and Edward Herndon being brought before the court for teaching and preaching
the Gospel, without having Episcopal ordination; or a license from the general court. Ordered,
that they be remanded back to goal of this county and there remain till they give security, each in
the sum of twenty pounds and two securities each in the sum of two pounds, for their good
behavior twelve months and a daye.11 In despair, William Hammon aroused his sons and their
friends the Holbrooks and they moved to what was then Surry County, North Carolina where
religious freedom was to be found.
Along with William Hammon were his sons, Ambrose, Benjamin and probably John,
Thomas, and Martin. In the party were John Holbrook who had married Williams son James
widow, Mary Hargis Hammon and his brothers, Randolph and Edy.
Settling in North Carolina
According to Stratton O. Hammon12, the Hammon, Holbrook and Morgan families were
some of the first families to settle in the Roaring River area of North Carolina. The Hammon and
Holbrook land was situated to the north in the foot hills of the Blue Ridge, on a branch of the
Roaring River, called Hammons Creek and extended uphill to include the present site of the
resort at Roaring Gap.13
There are records that establish the fact that there was a Hammons Creek in Surry
County, North Carolina during the late 1700s. A deed abstract from Surry County dated January
11

Wingfield, History of Caroline County, Virginia, p. 316.

Stratton Owen Hammon is a descendant of William Hammon. He is a past chairman of the Genealogical
Committee of The Filson Club, past president of the Kentucky Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and
a Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honor.
13
Hammon, Stratton O., John Hammon: Revolutionary Soldier and Kentucky - Pioneer,
http://www.tcnet.net/hammons/johnhammon.htmlJOHN
12

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1789, Harris Reavis of Rutherford County sold to Jesse Reavis 540 acres of land on Hammons
Creek.14
The Hotel Resort at Roaring Gap did not exist until 1893 and is probably referred to by
Stratton O. Hammon. The construction was supervised by W.T. Uncle Billy Vogler. The hotel
was opened in 1894. Early advertisements indicate that the hotel was named
Roaring Gap and was located in the community of Laurel Branch. By 1899 Roaring
Gap Hotel was described as follows:
Roaring Gap Hotel, the ideal summer home for tourists, has established for itself a
name that is known from ocean to ocean. Its situation is equaled by few and
excelled by none. Its cuisine this year will be under the personal direction of an
experienced caterer. An abundance of ice was harvested during the winter and
was stored at Hotel. The house has been thoroughly renovated and nicely painted.
Many conveniences have been added of modern style. A telephone line is now in
operation. This gives you connection with Elkin, N.C., station on the Southern
and Marion, Va., on the Norfolk and Western. Fine livery accommodations can be
had at Hotel. The rooms are well furnished and equipped with fire places, using
wood as fuel, broad commodious piazzas and balconies. Magnificent grounds for
tennis, basketball, cycling and other sports. An elegant drive-way has been
surveyed. An up-to-date Bowling Alley has just been completed. The table
supplied daily with the best the county can afford, with pure milk and butter from
the Hotel Farm. Trout fishing near Hotel is elaborate.15

Graystone Inn, Additions post 1926

An 1896 publication describes Roaring Gap as follows:

14

Reavis Web Page, North Carolina Records, http://www.angelfire.com/fl3/reavisrevis/NCREAVIS.htm

Alleghany Chamber, A History of Strong Communities, http://www.spartanc.com/chamber/communities.html#RG
15

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Within the last few years Roaring Gap, Alleghany County has attained the
importance of a resort. A large and well-arranged hotel has been built on a site
commanding charming views and vistas. It is on the Blue Ridge at an elevation of
2914 feet, and is reached over the Northwestern and North Carolina railroad, a
branch of the Southern system. Leaving the train at Elkin, a drive of sixteen miles
brings you to the hotel.16
The original hotel burned down in 1914 and was rebuilt and reopened as the Graystone
Inn in 1926.
These descriptions are included to give an idea of the type of land that was settled by the
Hammon and Holbrook families. Roaring Gap area was part of Wilkes County until it became
part of Ashe County in 1799 from which Alleghany County was formed in 1858. It is very
probable that the Hammon-Holbrook land is
now included among the 13,500 acres of Stone
Mountain State Park which is located between
Roaring Gap and Traphill.

Roaring Gap

Traphill
Stone Mountain, North Carolina

During the 1770s and 1780s, Jesse,

Moses and William Taliaferro bought and sold
hundreds of acres of land in what is currently
\Wilkes County, North Carolina, in the area now called Traphill, on both sides of Mulberry
Creek, Roaring River and along Round Top Mountain. On April 29, 1783, Jesse Taliaferro sold
Thomas Johnson (the husband of Mary Hammon, granddaughter to William) 241 acres on

16

North Carolina and Its Resources, State Board of Agriculture. Raleigh: Winston. M.I. & J.C. Stewart, Public
Printers and Binders, 1896, p. 295-596 http://toto.lib.unca.edu/WNC_hotels/roaring_gap.htm

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Mulberry Creek described as an Estate of Inheritance.17 Ambrose Hammon was given a grant on
Bullhead Mountain18 sometime between 1778 and 1883.19
Round Top Mountain today is located in Rutherford County, North Carolina along Lake Lure
(SW of Wilkes County). It is possible that the Round Top Mountain referred to above is Stone
Mountain which is in close proximity to Mulberry Creek, Roaring River and Traphill. The
appearance of Stone Mountain makes the associative name of round top appropriate.
It appears that Martin Hammon was the first of the Hammons to have gone to North Carolina in
1771. A manuscript record in the office of the Secretary of State of North Carolina reads: The
Publick of North Carolina to John Nuckols Dr. for going against the Cherokee Indians in
obedience to an express from the Commanding officer of Tyron County. Feby 9th 1771 John
Nuckols Capt, 6 days at 7s. 6d - diet 2.19s Martin Hammons, 6 days at 2s. - do [diet] 4s.
16s20 Based on this we know that Martin was probably the first of the Hammon family to be
in North Carolina and it is probably based upon his observations that was the impetus that
inspired William Hammon to move there. William Hammon and his followers settled on the
Roaring River, a tributary of the Yadkin in Mulberry Fields, now Wilkesboro, and not in Wilkes
County, North Carolina.

Surry County

Tyron County

Counties of North Carolina

John Hammon, the grandson of William Hammon and stepson of John Holbrook, in his
Revolutionary War pension proceedings held October 6, 1835, before the Court of Common
Pleas of Hamilton County, Ohio, verifies the location of his home in North Carolina prior to the
Revolutionary War. He states that He was living in Wilkes County, North Carolina on Roaring
River at the foot of the Blue Ridge when called into service.21 His step-father, John Holbrook,
17

Taliaferro Times, Volume I, March 11, 1998, Issue 39, http://www.spingola.com/TaliaferroTimes/TT39.htm

Bullhead Mountain is located in what is today Alleghany County.
19
Abstracts of Upper new River Valley Land Grants from Wilkes County Records 1778-1783 - Wilkes County
Deed Book 1, http://www.ls.net/~newriver/nc/ashedeed.htm
20
Saunders, William L. editor, The Colonial Records of North Carolina, Vol. 8, p 517. (Spelling as written in
document)
21
Hammon, Stratton O., John Hammon: Revolutionary Soldier and Kentucky - Pioneer,
http://www.tcnet.net/hammons/johnhammon.htmlJOHN
18

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entered 175 acres south of mountain near camp branch. Including plantation 18 June 1778,22
and another 220 acres in 1779.23

Roaring River

County, North Carolina 178724

Name
Robert Hamon
Ambrose Hamon
Randolph Holbrook
Joseph Hamon
Benjamin Hamon
John Holbrook Senr
John Holbrook Junr
Zacheriah Holbrook
John Hamon
William Holbrook
Edy Holbrook
William Hamon

Number
of Acres
0
206
350
0
0
0
150
139
150
100
100
215

Number
of Polls
1
2
1
0
1
0
1
1
2
1
1
1

Mulberry Fields
Tax records from 178625 shows John
Hammon (probably the son of William
Hammon and uncle to the above named John
Hammon who moved to North Carolina along
with his father and family friends, the
Holbrooks) owned 100 acres, listed in
Captain Adkins District26.
1787 tax records show that the Hammons and
Holbrooks continued to live and own property
in this area as outlined in Captain S.
Johnsons District27 - Wilkes

22

Wilkes County, North Carolina, Land Entry Book, Entry No. 202.
Ibid
24
The 1787 Wilkes County, North Carolina Tax List, http://www.ls.net/~newriver/nc/wilk1787.htm
25
1786 Taxables - Cpt. Atkins District, Surry County, NC http://www.fmoran.com/1786a.html
26
Located in southern region of present-day Surry, along the Yadkin River
27
Captain Atkins from 1786 Tax Listing is not mentioned and Captain Johnson may have replaced him in 1787
23

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The 1784-1787 census records list these same individuals as follows: A List of the number
of Souls in Capt. Johnsons Dist. July 7th, 1787. Returned by Ams. Hammon (Ambrose
Hamon).28
Name

WM
21-60

WM
under 21
& above
60

WF all
ages

Blacks
12-50

Blacks
under
12 &
above
50

Robert Hamon
1
2
4
1
Ambrose Hamon
0
1
1
2
3
Randolph Holbrook
1
6
4
0
0
Joseph Hamon
0
0
3
0
0
Benjamin Hamon
1
1
1
0
0
John Holbrook Sr.
0
3
4
0
0
John Holbrook Jr.
1
1
1
0
0
Zachariah Holbrook
1
1
0
0
0
John Hamon
1
3
6
1
1
William Holbrook
1
2
2
0
0
Edey Holbrook
1
0
4
0
0
William Hamon
1
1
3
0
0
Names on Page 1 include Robert Hamon through Joseph Hamon, page 2
Benjamin Hamon through Zachariah Holbrook and page 3 John

Hamon through William Hamon.

William Hammon was older than

60 according to the 1787 census. Some
have recorded his birth as ca 1700 which
would have made him about 87 years
old in 1787. According to this census
record William there was one other male
(21-60) and two females living with him
and his wife, Sarah -aka Sarry- Parsons
Hammon.
Williams three sons listed
above are Ambrose (b. before 1727),
John (born before 1727), and Benjamin
(ca 1727) who journeyed from Virginia.
Martin had probably moved on to
Kentucky by this time and there is no
record of Thomas in North Carolina so
he may have died before 1787.

Based on the records of the 1787 census (the above chart) it is difficult to tell if Benjamin
Hamon is the son of William or one of his grandsons from either John or Ambrose. There is one
white male 21 -60 listed and 1 white male either above 60 or younger than 21 living in the
household where Benjamin is the head of household. Based on just my own analysis which is
tentative at this time it would appear that this Benjamin is 21-60 years old and has one son who
is younger than 21. The last census record for Benjamin Hammon in Wilkes County, North
Carolina is 1830 he is listed as being 70-80 years old. The census records between 1787 and
1830 fits with what appears on the 1790 census as 1 male older than 16 and no other males
which would mean that his one son would have been married by 1790 or had died. In 1800
census Benjamin is listed as probably older than 45 and one son (1 male) 26-45 years old and
possibly Benjamin 21-60 1727-1765; Drusella (possibly living at home); Martin (was off to
Kentucky by this time); Robert 21-60 (ca 1727) - Ambroses son born ca 1758 age 29 in 1787;
Sarah (possibly living at home; Ambrose born before 1727 older than 60 died in 1794; John
born before 1727 (above 60); James 1730-1760 died in Virginia in 1760 father of John Hammon
mentioned above who is the step-son of John Holbrook. Joseph born ca 1733 (possibly died by
1787 only 3 females listed in his household no males; William born ca 1738 (possibly living at
home) 21-60 39 year old Thomas, however, there is no record of Thomas in North Carolina.

28

State Census of North Carolina 1784-1787, pg 177-178 http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncwilkes/pg177.gif and

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncwilkes/pg178.gif

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William Hammon, Minister of the Roaring River Baptist Church,

Wilkes County, North Carolina
Clergymen were rare in North Carolina in the late 1700s. By 1910 there were only
seventy-seven who were ordained in the Baptist Church?29 According to eye witness accounts of
those who were still in this area of Wilkes County in 1810 and who were alive at the time of the
founding of the church in 1779, William Hammon was its first minister.30
The Roaring River Baptist Church in the 1790s was designed as a mission church on the
frontier; at least 13 other small churches were spin-offs of this church. The church first existed as
a log cabin, and then as a frame building on a hill, with an adjacent cemetery. The church is now
a brick building located at the bottom of the hillside cemetery, on the south side of Long Bottom
Road. The cemetery is still active, but it has no tombstones dating from the 1700s.31
The earliest record of William Hammons ministry at Roaring River Baptist Church is in
the testimony of John Taliaferro in 1782. On October 8, 1782, when he was 26 years old, Jesse
Taliaferro married Martha Frances Stamper. According to his brother John who was present,
they were married by William Hammons, a regular Baptist minister.32
The minutes of the Roaring River from Saturday, September 9, 1785, show an entry that
The church deligated Bro. Wm. Hamon [Wm.Hammon Minister], Bro. Andrue Canaway and
Bro. Thomas Laurence to go to the Association the second Satterday in October, at Prices
meeting House on black water.33 This was the yearly conferences as a branch of the Strawberry
Association in Virginia. This Association was located near the mountains and southern line of
the State of Virginia. It was formed in 1776 and was the fruit of labors of the Separate preachers,
who went almost everywhere throughout Virginia preaching the gospel.34
At this particular conference that William Hammon was delegated to attend; it was
probably decided to set in order the idea that they become a branch of the Strawberry
Association because, In 1786, eleven churches, which had previously gathered about the head
of the Yadkin and its waters, began to hold yearly conferences, as a branch of the Strawberry
Association in Virginia.35 Four years later in 1790, these same churches requested dismissal
from the Strawberry Association and formed the Yadkin Association. The ministers belonging to

29

Saunders, The Colonial Records of North Carolina, Saunders, Vol. 5, p. 1183.

Hamon, Stratton O., John Hammon: Revolutionary Soldier and Kentucky - Pioneer,
http://www.tcnet.net/hammons/johnhammon.htmlJOHN
31
Ibid
32
Taliaferro Times, Volume I, March 11, 1998, Issue 39, http://www.spingola.com/TaliaferroTimes/TT39.htm
33
Minutes of The South Fork of (Old) Roaring River Baptist Church, Wilkes Co., N.C. copied from original records
by Mr. & Mrs. Stratton O. Hammon, Louisville, Ky. All spelling is copied as it was noted in the minutes. Brackets
[ ] were added by Mr. & Mrs. Stratton O. Hammon. http://www.fmoran.com/wilkes/roaring.html
34
Benedict, David, A General History of the Baptist Denomination in America, and Other Parts of the World,
Lincoln & Edmands, London, England, No. 53, 1813, Chapter 8 Baptists In America: History of Associations in
Virginia, http://www.fbinstitute.com/baptist-in-america/benedict27.htm
35
Benedict, David, A General History of the Baptist Denomination in America, and Other Parts of the World,
Lincoln & Edmands, London, England, No. 53, 1813, Chapter 10 Baptists In America: North-Carolina,
http://www.fbinstitute.com/baptist-in-america/benedict29.htm
30

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this body at its commencement, were George MNeal, John Cleaveland, William Petty, William
Hammond, Cleaveland Caffee, Andrew Baker, and John Stone.36
The only indication of the reason to form their own unique association comes from the
fact that many of the North Carolina Baptists believed that a moderator for the Association was
not Christian and too much like the world. they were opposed to order, or formality, as they
esteemed it, in their religious proceedings, and pleaded that it was an infringement of Christian
liberty, and too much like worldly assemblies, to have a moderator at their head, whom they
must address when they spoke, and whose liberty they must request, etc.37
John Gano originally from Hopewell, New Jersey became a noted Baptist minister in
South and North Carolina as well as in Kentucky where he finished out his ministry. In Kentucky
his first wife had died after falling off a horse in the early 1790s. It is noted that In 1793, he
made a visit to North-Carolina, where he married, for his second wife, the widow of Captain
Thomas Bryant, and daughter of Colonel Jonathan Hunt, formerly of New-Jersey, one of his old
neighbors, and unchanging friends.38 During this particular visit he noted the difficulties among
the Yadkin Association because of their belief in not having a moderator and he had experience
in handling such prejudices. He prevailed on them to choose a moderator and establish rules, by
which their business was afterwards conduced with much decorum. [Mr. Ganos Life, p. 124.]39

36

Ibid
Benedict, David, A General History of the Baptist Denomination in America, and Other Parts of the World,
Lincoln & Edmands, London, England, No. 53, 1813, Chapter 8 Baptists In America: History of Associations in
Virginia, http://www.fbinstitute.com/baptist-in-america/benedict27.htm
38
Benedict, David, A General History of the Baptist Denomination in America, and Other Parts of the World,
Lincoln & Edmands, London, England, No. 53, 1813, Chapter 17 Baptists in America: Biographical accounts of a
number of characters, whose history could not be with convenience inserted elsewhere.
http://www.fbinstitute.com/baptist-in-america/benedict36.htm
39
Benedict, David, A General History of the Baptist Denomination in America, and Other Parts of the World,
Lincoln & Edmands, London, England, No. 53, 1813, Chapter 10 Baptists In America: North-Carolina,
http://www.fbinstitute.com/baptist-in-america/benedict29.htm
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