[mnehring]

"Nor was this an isolated incident; throughout the northern Colonies, dissident churches were systematically abused. The Presbyterian church at Newtown, Long Island, had its steeple sawed off, and was used as a prison and guardhouse. Later, it was torn down completely, and its boards used for the construction of soldier huts. In New Jersey, the church at Princeton was stripped of its pews and gallery for fuel, and the churches at Elizabeth and Mount Holly were burned. In New York City, the Presbyterian churches were made into prisons, or used by British officers for stabling their horses." Many Presbyterian ministers lost their homes and property. Bancroft describes one incident, "One Huck, a captain of British militia, fired [i.e. "set aflame"] the library and dwelling-house of the clergy man at William’s plantation in the upper part of South Carolina, and burned every Bible into which the Scotch Irsh translation of the psalms was bound." - Boettner, op. cit., p. 384

[niteowl77]

"One Huck, a captain of British militia, fired [i.e. "set aflame"] the library and dwelling-house of the clergy man at William’s plantation in the upper part of South Carolina, and burned every Bible into which the Scotch Irsh translation of the psalms was bound."

Captain Christian Huck was a lawyer from Philadelphia who commanded a British Legion contingent during the Revolutionary War." He was involved in an incident in the Carolinas at Fishing Creek Church which sounds much like the event you quoted, with the addition of the murder of a young boy reading a Bible.

Huck was apparently an unpleasant fellow even by the standards of a backcountry battlefield, and his death in July 1780 at "Huck's Defeat" was considered not only "just desserts," but an important victory for the American patriots.

Mr. niteowl77