Anglican
A.M.E.
Baptist
Methodist
Presbyterian
Quaker (Society of Friends)
Bibliography

We have a few church histories and photographs and it would be wonderful to have more. If you can provide any information on Dillon churches - date established, membership rolls, historical sketches, photographs, what have you - please let me know. Thank you!--Victoria

PRESBYTERIAN RECORDS AND CHURCH HISTORIES

On October 10, 1809, the Presbyterian synod of the Carolinas created Harmony Presbytery, which included most of the Little Pee Dee Valley. In November 1889, the Pee Dee Presbytery was formed from a portion of Harmony and it is the regional governing organization to which the Dillon County Presbyterian churches belong today.

• Old Bethel Presbyterian Church
  Located in Hamer, organized 1870.
• Carolina Presbyterian Church
  Located in northwest Dillon County, two miles west of McInnis's Bridge on the Little Pee Dee River. Organized 1849.
  Cemetery - Partial
• Dunbarton Presbyterian Church
  Located one mile south of Floydale, organized 1874.
  Cemetery
• Kentyre Presbyterian Church
  Located five miles north of Dillon in Kentyre and Hamer communities; organized 1871.
  Cemetery

• (Little) Pee Dee Presbyterian Church
  Organized 1820
  Cemetery

• Reedy Creek Presbyterian Church
  Organized 1841
  Cemetery

Some Presbyterian church records for congregations of Southern states are archived at the regional office of the Presbyterian Historical Society in Montreat, N.C.

Presbyterian Historical Society
The Montreat Office
P.O. Box 849, Montreat, NC 28757
Telephone (828) 669-7061 Fax (828) 669-5369
(Address and telephone as of 2000)

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QUAKER (SOCIETY OF FRIENDS)

Mr. Stokes, in his "History of Dillon County" (1978), states "There have never been any Quaker meetings or congregations of Lutherans, German or French Evangelical and Reformed, Congregationalists, or Unitarians in the county." Quakers would have traveled to nearby Marlboro County.

Monthly Meetings (MM) for our area, from "Quaker Families of South Carolina and Georgia" by William F. Medlin

• GUM SWAMP: Located on Gum Swamp near the Marlboro-Dillon line and the North Carlina border. May have existed before 1750 when this area was disputed by the two states; meetings for worship were still being held here about 1830. (All records for this meeting are lost.)

• LITTLE'S CREEK: Located near Pee Dee River at Little's Creek just a short distance into North Carolina in the area disputed by the two states. Members lived in both North & South Carolina.

• PEE DEE: Existed as early as 1740. A small meeting apparently under the care of many other meetings over time... Carver's Creek MM, Piney Grove MM. One of the locations of this Meeting was probably in Marlboro County midway between the Great Pee Dee River and Three Creeks, where several large Quaker families lived.

• PINEY GROVE: Monthly Meeting established in 1801 and laid down (closed) in 1815, and members transferred to Back Creek Monthly meeting in 1816.

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Bibliography

Anglican/Episcopal:

• The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution: The Journal and Other Writings of Charles Woodmason, Anglican Itinerant ed. Richard J. Hooker
  (Chapel Hill; Univ. of N.C. 1953)
• Marion churches and churchmen, 1735-1935 : a narrative of the Church of England and its successor, the Episcopal Church Stanley, Victor Bland, Jr
  (Charleston, S.C. : Southern Print. & Pub., c1938 )
  Copy available through LDS
• Prince Frederick Winyah, 1729-1763 : W.P.A. Project 165-33-7172 Polk, Mrs. Louie H
  LDS Microfilm
• The Register book for the parish Prince Frederick Winyaw, Ann: Dom: 1713 Prince Frederick Parish
  LDS Microfilm

Baptist:

• Minutes of meetings and lists of members, 1802-1971 Catfish Creek Baptist Church
  LDS Microfilm
• Church minutes, 1833-1867 Gapway Baptist Church
  (Nashville : Historical Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1967)
  Available through LDS
• Minutes of the union meetings of Ebenezer, Elim and High Hill Creek Baptist Churches, 1818-1843 : including minutes from Lake Swamp, Willow Creek, Sparrow Swamp, Swift Creek, Gapway, Terrills Bay, Little Pee Dee, Bosticks, Bethlehem, Mizpah, Mount Moriah, Mount Zion, and Bethel Baptist churches Smith, Thomas E and Eaddy, Elaine Y
  (Hemingway, S.C. : Three Rivers Historical Society, 1983 )
• Welsh Neck Baptist Church, South Carolina, 1737-1841
  Available through LDS

Methodist:

• The Journal and Letters of Francis Asbury. Elmer T. Clark, ed.
  (Nashville, TN, Abingdon Press, 1958) Bibliography:
• Francis Asbury, the Prophet of the Long Road. Tipple, E. S.
  (The Methodist Book Concern 1916.)
• Cartwright, Peter, Autobiography of Peter Cartwright
  (Abingdon Press 1956)
• If Saddlebags Could Talk Maser, Frederick and Simpson, Robert Drew
  (Providence Press 1998. )

Some Dillon County churches not listed above

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