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1754-1779
Old Bluff Presbyterian Church
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Footnotes
For almost a century, religious services at Old Bluff Presbyterian Church were conducted in the Gaelic language.
The Cape Fear River at one time was known as the Sapona, the Charles River and later as the Clarendon River.
The act establishing Cumberland County also called it "St. David's Parish." In colonial days, each county was both a civil jurisdiction and a parish of the Church of England, mainly for the collection of a small tax - often ignored in practice - for church purposes.
The first woman entrepreneur in the county was Mary Jones, who ran a tavern, according to business licenses.
The first black person whose name is known to Cumberland history is "one Negro girl named Pennallopy." In 1758, Pennallopy, a slave from the estate of James Muse Sr., was deeded to James Jr. by his mother, who was executor of the estate. James Muse Sr. is listed in the first list of Cumberland taxables in 1755 as the owner of three slaves.
William Hooper, one of North Carolina's three signers of the Declaration of Independence, owned land and may have lived in Cross Creek during the 1770s and early 1780s. He was a lawyer and state legislator.
1755: The first tax list of Cumberland County lists 302 whites, 11 mulattoes and 63 Negroes.
1762: The town of Campbellton is established on the west side of the northwest branch of the Cape Fear River, near the mouth of Cross Creek.
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