Annual Meeting Workshop: 12-13 November 1999
The Hallelujah Trails: People Who Worship Together, Travel Together
This workshop, held in conjunction with the annual
meeting, will begin at 9:30 a. m. on Nov. 12, 1999 at the McKimmon Center
on the corner of Western Boulevard and Gorman Street. Registration will
begin at 9:00 a. m. The subject of this program is the variety of
religious groups that settled in North Carolina. Quakers, Moravians,
Lutherans and German Reformed, Huguenots, Waldensians, Ulster and Highland
Scots and Baptists will be discussed by authorities on each group. Most of these groups traveled to North Carolina en masse and remained together in cohesive communities. Their presence greatly influenced the overall settlement in the area in which they settled.
Speakers will focus on issues relating to the movement of each group from its homeland into North Carolina and subsequent areas, as well as,
important attributes and contributions of each group to our state's
history. We have included a session on the Sociey for the Propagation of
the Gospel since the English were the majority of the citizenry at the time each of these groups settled in North Carolina and the records of their missionaries include many mentions of the activities of these groups. Where to find records of each group will also be discussed.
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