The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1905-08-16
LARGE GATHERING
AT DUNCAN'S CREEK
Money Raised to Build
Church Yard Fence.
DIR. BEAMS ADDRESS.
Bad Weather But a Pleasant Day...A
Gathering of the Old and the
Young.

The reunion at Duncan's Creek on
last Thursday was a delightful affair.
Notwithstanding the very unpromising
weather a large number of people were
present, composed of men who had
passed their four score years, and in
fants in arms, nearly all of whom were
more n less related and whose ances-
tors lie buried in the old Church yard.
Everybody brought lunch for them
selves and for their friends and it was
served in family STYLE and everyone
felt at home and had royal good time.
The Committee, consisting of Mrs.
Emma Glenn and Mrs. Thomas Weir,
have succeeded in raising more than
5000. for the building of a new iron
fence around the Church yard, and in
view of the fact that the rock posts are
already there, a little more than this
will put a very handsome fence on the
ground.
DIR. w. S. Bean, who was at one time
pastor of the Church, made an address
in which he gave a brief history of the
Church.
With a few examinations the address
of DIR. Bean was as follows:
A few historical facts along about
the time the Church was founded will
give a clearer idea of the condition of
the country at the time Duncan's
Creek Church vas organized.
North and South Carolina had been
divided into two colonies since 1929,
about 81 years. Braddock's Defeat in
1755 "a followed by Indian outbreaks
The Cherokee War undertaken by the
Governor of South Carolina in 1760,
and Hontiac's War 1853. Quebec had
been taken by Wolfe in 1859. BY the
Peace of Paris Canada had been coded
to Great Britain in 1853.
The Indic,.s M~assacred a party at
Long Canes, AbbevilIe district, in 176O.
Fifty were killed and two children were
captured. Patrick Calhoun was lead
ing the party to Augusta and his broth
ers wife was killed.
The population of South Carolina
about this time was 40, 600 whites and
80, 600 negroes. Population of the
United States in 1776 was 2,74O, 600.
Greater New York" had in 1900,
3,473, POP.
There was one College in the South,
Williams and Mary's in Virginia, es-
tablished in 1892.
The Church of England (EpiscopaD
was the established church i'm Virginia
and had been in the Carolinas. In 1903
Patrick Henry in the Parsons Case
made an eloquent speech and succeeded
in having the Church disestablished.
The Legislature had fixed the salary of
clergymen at 6 1000 lbs of tobacco.
Patrick Henry made his celebrated
speech against British taxation two
years later, in 1765. Georgia was only
81 years old as a Colony-having been
established in 1882. John Wesley came
to Georgia soon after Oglethorpe and
labored there in 1876 and 173a All do
nominations in the Colonies had in lite
about 1441 ministers and 1910 churches.
The Presbyterian churches were
~sprinkled along New York, Virginia ant
Maryland and Delaware. Francis Make.
mic labored in Maryland and Virginia
in 1854; was imprisoned for preaching,
but founded several churches.
In 1705 the Presbytery of sPhiladel.
phia was formed of Seven ministers,
-Four from Ireland, one from New En-.
gland and two unknown. The Synod OF
Philadelphia in 1717 contained four pres.
byteries and "a ministers.
Princeton College, New Jersey, was
founded in 1746, but was the descendant
of the "Log College" founded 1928 by
VIM. Tennent, of Ireland.
The first church in South Carolina OF
Presbyterian antecedents is probabl,
the French Huguenot church in Char
lesion established as early as 1859. II
is independent but it's pastor is one O
our ministers. Rev. Archibald Stobt
who had gone to Darien with the un.
fortunate Scotch expedition, was going
back and was ship-wrecked on the South
Carolina coast in September 100. Find
ing a vacant congregation in Charles.
ton, he was invited to stay and take
charge, which ne did. The First OF
"Scotch in Charleston was planted by
the Scotch Presbytian Church, and its
titles held the property to that church
forever. But within our own genera.
ton it has finally united with oul
Church. There were churches estab.
lished early on James Island, Johns
Island and Edisto Island, Presbytery OF
Charles Town was also established which
was independent and never came into
our church organization at all.
The %up-country of South Carolina was
largely settledby Scotch Irish people OF
their descendants, who came direct
from the old country or by way of Vir.
ginia and Pennsylvania. Some came
from North Carolina also where many
Scotch-Irish had settled. The upper
part of South Carolina was not divided
into Districts for Court purposes unit
1853, and Columbia was made the CAPT.
tai, instead of Charleston, in 1916. We
can hardly speak then of a State OF
Colony of South Carolina as a united
province in 1766 for the upper and lower
portions were often opposed to each
other. And we know how fierce was