Pictured are the ruins of Old Jackson Creek Church and cemetery located on the north side of Old Airport Road about seven miles west of Winnsboro in Fairfield County, South Carolina. The footprint of the building...
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John Witherspoon
The following sermon was delivered the evening of Sunday May 10, 1789 by John Witherspoon to a sizeable crowd in New York’s Old First Presbyterian Church (founded 1716). John Rodgers was the pastor, and he would go on...
William Hill, 1769-1852
William was born in Cumberland County, Virginia to Joseph and Joanna (Read) Hill, March 3, 1769. His father died when he was about five years old and after a few years his mother remarried. Her new husband was a widower...
John King, 1740-1813
John was born December 5, 1740 in Chestnut Level, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to Ann (McLaughlin) and Robert King. Robert had emigrated from Ireland and purchased a tract of land which he farmed, and he was an elder...
William A. McDowell, 1789-1851
William Anderson was born to Matthew and Elizabeth Hay (Anderson) McDowell in Lamington, New Jersey, May 15, 1789. His elder brother by nine years was John McDowell. His parents were born in the American Colonies and...
James Inglis, 1777-1819
On the night of September 13, 1814, the British commenced bombarding Fort McHenry in Baltimore’s harbor. Francis Scott Key was viewing the cannon and rocket fire from the deck of a ship. The grand display of explosions...
