|
__________________________
Source
- Source:Kemper, 1920
Related
Discussion
| Peaked Creek Presbyterian as established by May of 1746 when a petition was presented to Augusta County courts for a road in the vicinity of Elkton, in a westerly course to the "New stone Meeting House." The petition was signed by John Stephanson, (among others) who owned land near Cross Keys in present Rockingham County. The Massanutten Meeting house, as it was later known as, was located one-half mile east of Cross Keys, seven miles south of Harrisburg, and two and one half miles south of the base of Peaked Mountain, its namesake. The church lay within the watersheds of Cub Run, Mill Creek, and Williams Run. Mill Creek was also known as Stover's Mill Creek in colonial records. [1]Court records show that a permanent stone structure had been established by may 1749.
|
Members
Kemper, 1920, identifies the following presbyterian families living within the bounds of the Peaked Mountain-massanutten Church between 1745 and 1773:
Family | Location | Comment | Probable person link
| John Craig and Sarah his wife | on lower Cub Run
| William Craig, and Janet his wife with their son John Craig
| Robert Hook and Jean his wife,2.5 miles south of Cross keys
| John Stephenson and Sarah his wife | on Mill Creek where that stream is crossed by the present [in 1920] Keezeltown Road | Daughter Mary married Person:Archibald Houston (2) | Person:John Stephenson (37)
| Archibald Houston and Mary his wife with their family of 12 children | near the headwaters of Mill Creek | | Person:Archibald Houston (2)
| William Williams | Near present Goods Mill on Mill Creek
| Mathew Thompson, Sr and Mathew Thompson, Jr | on Stony Lick Branch (now Williams Run near North River
| Robert Scott | on North River bear present Port Republic
| Samuel Scott and William Beard and Mary his wife | on Cub Run near the base of the Peaked Mountain
| Patrick Frazier and Thomas Hewitt | at the head of Stony Lick Branch, one mile southwest of Cross keys
| Robert Frazier | on Stony Lick Branch
| James Wyat | near head of Mill Creek
| James Laird, his wife and sons James and David, and daughter Mary, | at the head of Cub Run and at the base of Lairds Knob
| Robert Shanklin | on Stony Lick Branch.
|
Footnotes
- ↑ Other signatories of the 1746 petition included: JOhn Craig, William Craig, Robert Hook, William Williams, David Chambers, Mathew Thompson, Sr, Mathew Thompson, Jr. and "eight others who signed in German".
|
|