Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION
#M-3075
EDENTON METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH RECORD BOOK
Inventory
Abstract: Volume with three parts: a merchandise ledger,
1804-1806; church records, 1815-1853 and 1863; and
commonplace entries, undated. The bulk of the volume
is the records of Edenton Methodist Episcopal Church,
including minutes of quarterly, steward, and other
meetings; records of membership, births, baptisms,
marriages, and deaths; lists of ministers and other
officials; and a running history of the church, whose
membership apparently included whites and both slaves
and free blacks. Church officials mentioned included
Enoch Jones and Bernard Overton.
Online Catalog Terms:
Afro-American Methodists--North Carolina--History--19th
century.
Church records and registers--North Carolina--Edenton--
History--19th century.
Edenton (N.C.)--Church history--19th century.
Edenton Methodist Episcopal Church (N.C.).
Free Afro-Americans--Religious life--North Carolina.
Jones, Enoch, fl. 1808.
Merchants--North Carolina--History--19th century.
Methodist Episcopal Church--North Carolina--History--19th
century.
Methodists--North Carolina--History--19th century.
Overton, Bernard, fl. 1824-1825.
Slaves--Religious life--North Carolina.
Size: 1 volume (1 reel of microfilm).
Provenance: Lent for filming by Mary Leggett Browning of
Edenton, N.C., in November 1954.
Access: No restrictions.
Processing Note: This collection was processed with support
from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers,
or their descendants, as stipulated by United
States copyright law.