 Abt 1722 - 1774 (~ 52 years)
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| Name |
HARRIS Nathaniel [1, 2] |
| Suffix |
Sr. |
| Birth |
Abt 1722 |
Amelia County, Va  [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
1774 |
Orange Co. NC [1, 2] |
| Notes |
- MOUNT BETHEL METHODIST CHURCH
Nathaniel Harris in the mid-eighteenth century acquired a tract of 6000 acres in what is now northern Durham County and the community of Bahama. Thereon his son Archer built a meeting house around 1784 which operated for the benefit of all denominations until 1808 when it affiliated with the Methodist Church. The first building was a log structure and was used by all who desired to worship, white and black. The meeting house, originally known as Crossroads, is mentioned in a deposition filed against Archer Harris in 1784 as part of a boundary dispute.
In 1812 a two-acre tract was conveyed to church trustees. The church was placed within the Granville Circuit of the Virginia Conference. On December 20, 1820, Washington Duke, patriarch of the "Dukes of Durham," was converted to Methodism at the church. His parents, Taylor and Dicey Jones Durham, were members at Mount Bethel. The gifts of the Duke family to Methodist causes, not the least of them the establishment of Duke University, are many. Duke is said to have claimed that "whatever I am, I accredit to the Methodist circuit riders."
The present church building was completed in 1949 and is the congregation's sixth. The raising was the culmination of a prolonged fundraising effort. Harley Chester, minister, recalled that "gallons of Brunswick stew were made and sold, suppers were given, bazaars were held, Negro minstrels, plays, a womanless wedding and almost anything to make an honest dollar."
References:
Jean Bradley Anderson, Durham County: A History of Durham County, North Carolina (1990)
Harley A. Chester, "A History of Mount Bethel Methodist Church" (eight-page pamphlet
published by the church, n.d., 1950?, copy in the marker files, North Carolina
Office of Archives and History)
Orange County Deed Books, North Carolina State Archives
SR 1793 (Bahama Road) at Bahama
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| Person ID |
I7637 |
Booth Family |
| Last Modified |
22 Aug 2013 |
| Family |
SULLIVAN Ellender, b. 1712, Amelia County, Va d. 1783, Orange Co. NC (Age 71 years) |
| Marriage |
Abt 1740 |
Amelia County, Va [1] |
| Children |
| | 1. HARRIS Archer, b. 1744, Prince Edward County, Va d. 10 Nov 1821, Orange Co. NC (Age 77 years) |
| | 2. HARRIS Nathaniel, Jr., b. 31 Jul 1742, Amelia County, Va d. 13 Apr 1800, Rockingham, North Carolina (Age 57 years) |
| | 3. HARRIS Unity, b. 1743, Amelia County, Va d. Abt 1815, Rockingham, North Carolina (Age 72 years) |
| | 4. HARRIS Lenora, b. 1745, Amelia County, Va d. 1800, Henry, Georgia (Age 55 years) |
| | 5. HARRIS Edward, b. 1750, Orange, North Carolina d. Mar 1801, Orange, North Carolina (Age 51 years) |
| | 6. HARRIS Charles, b. 1750, Amelia County, Va d. Abt 1815, Granville, NC (Age 65 years) |
| | 7. HARRIS Mary, b. Abt 1760, Orange Co. NC d. Orange Co. NC |
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| Family ID |
F2671 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
13 Dec 2008 |
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| Sources |
- [S1007] scraigh, Harris200608 (Reliability: 2).
- [S995] James Sterling & Aunt Katherine Harris, [(E-ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE),], James Sterling Harris & Aunt Katherine (Reliability: 3).
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