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JEREMIAH ELROD II (Jeremias or Joseph) was born in North Carolina April 13, 1755. The Moravian Church traces its origins to the followers of John Hus, the Bohemian martyr who was burned at the stake in 1415, and dates its formal beginning from 1457, when one group of Hussites took the Latin name of Unitas Fratrum, or Unity of Brethren. In the 17th century they were reduced to meeting and handing down their faith to their children in secret as they were persecuted in Europe form any years. A group of families moved from Moravia to Saxony in 1722, where they took refuge on the estate of a young Lutheran nobleman, Count Nicholas van Zinzendorf and founded a religious village they named Herrnhut, which means "protected by the Lord." The church was formally reorganized there in 1727. In 1735 an American settlement and mission to the Indians was begun in Georgia, but abandoned after five years. Settlements in northeastern America were begun in 1740 and the congregation town of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1742. It remains the church headquarters today. In the 1740's and 1750's the church brought several shiploads of settlers to Bethlehem and the other congregational communities, the "Sea Congregations," who assembled in Europe and traveled together to America. The church in America made many converts among the Pennsylvania Germans, who were mostly from the Rhineland. Meanwhile, the Herrnhut community attracted additional members from various parts of Europe. Moravian denotes a member of this religious group. The Wachovia Settlement in North Carolina. In the fall of 1752, Bishop August Gottlieb Spangenberg and an accompanying party of five men traveled from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to the east coast of North Carolina and then inland. They purchased 100,000 acres from Lord Granville. The first settlers arrived in November 1753. The tract of land was named Wachau or Wachovia, for the ancestral home of the Zinzendorf family near the Wach River in Europe. By 1765 there was a need for a strong, central town. After several years of planning and construction Salem came fully into being in 1772. Most of the surrounding residents moved them. Salem was the southern counterpart of the congregation town of Bethlehem, organized with boys' and girls' schools and communal residences for single men and women. Although individuals could own private property, the church leadership provided strict control over who could live there, and on how each person served the community. Salem merged with the non-Moravian town of Winston, the Forsyth county seat, in 1913 to form the modern city of Winston-Salem. There were English speaking settlers living in the area who found an affiliation with the Moravians. In the 1760s, Moravian ministers held services in English in the home of John Douthit, who together with Christopher Elrod and others organized Hope Moravian Church in 1780. A group of Moravian families came to North Carolina from Broad Bay, Maine, in 1770. They settled southeast of Salem in the Friedland community, which like others, was organized as a country congregation. Most of these families had come to Broad Bay from the Baden Durlach area of German in 1742. This is not the same church as the "Church of the United Brethren" or other "Brethren's." The Moravians have remained a separate denomination. The 1790 census shows Jeremiah living with his family in Rowan County, North Carolina. Those listed: No free white males 16 or upward. One free white male under 16 years. One free white females including head of families. Three all other freepersons. No slaves. On the 1786 taxables for Rowan County, Jeremiah has 116 acres and one white poll (this has something to do with the government and how much land is owned. Those with more land had two white polls.) Jeremiah and Barbara were separated between 1800 and 1803. He left Joseph, the youngest with his wife. He took all the other unmarried children with him and move to Wayne County, Kentucky. They had 11 children, all born in Friedland, North Carolina. State of North Carolina, Stokes County Whereas Jeremiah and Barbara, his wife, have this day mutually agreed to live separate and apart and in order to support and maintain her, the said Barbara and their youngest child named Joseph (which is left by said Jeremiah Ellrod in the possession of said wife) he the said Jeremiah Elrod hath this day made an assignment of a note of hand on John Closs for the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars and had paid Christopher Folger sixty two dollars and a half in cash and hath also given her (the said Barbara) various articles of household furniture which she hath now in possession. Now he (the said Jeremiah Ellrod) doth hereby agree forever hereafter to quit all right and privilege to the aforesaid note money and property, and also to all estates and property she (the said Barbara ) nay hereafter acquire and that he will not directly or indirectly in any manner or form intercept her (the said Barbara) or the said child or the note money or property above mentioned and for the true performance of all singular the above conditions he (the said Jeremiah Elrod) doth hereby bind himself unto him (the said Christopoher Folger) in the sum of six hundred and twenty five dollars. In testimony whereof he (the said Jeremiah Elrod) hath here unto set his hand and seal date above written. Witnesses present Jacob Blum George McKnight Jeremiah Elrod (Seal) A. Campbell In Ky. he married a woman who was said to be an Indian by some people. Her name was Mary "Polly"_________ (Brittain?). He had 5 boys and 3 girls by Mary that are known. The Christopher Folger (Vogler) mentioned above is probably the brother of Barbara Vogler. The pronunciation of the German V sounds like an F in English. The 1810 census shows Jeremiah living with his family in Wayne County, Kentucky. The 1820 census shows Jeremiah living with his family in Wayne County, Kentucky. After 1820, Jeremiah went to live near the border of Cannon County and Rutherford County, Tennessee. References
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