What sort of Protestant Church was it? Church of England?
It’s nice to stumble on this thread after spending a large part of the day looking for ancestors. With the help of my niece, we are finding a passel of Revolutionary era ancestors. It appears that most of them came to America via Albany,Ga in the 1760s from County Down, Ireland. They were Scots-Irish, farmers and weavers. I have the name of the couple who were my great great great grandparents. John Stewart and Elizabeth (Drennan) Stewart. They settled in a places named Prosperity, Stone Battery, in Newberry Co. Long Cane, in Abbeville Co. SC. Elizabeth moved to Lincoln Co. TN a year after John died. She was 18 years younger than he. Their child, Joseph was the father of R.W. and R.W. was the father of my grandfather. We found which churches they attended in SC. Prosperity, and Cannon’s Creek. The strange thing is that the church where I went with my grandparents as a child in Lincoln Co., TN was named Prosperity and Elizabeth is buried at the cemetery there at the church. Did she help name the church? I wonder.
Niece and I are going to plan a trip for next summer to go get pictures of the tombs in SC and TN.
My niece also dug into my maternal line and found that they also came to TN from SC. It looks like a whole bunch of the folks there came to TN about the same time and settled in the same general middle TN area. I’m thinking they probably knew each other from both sides of my family.Anyway, it’s fun hunting.
Yes, Church of England.