Records (1804-1926) of Pitt County, NC Family, including birth and death records, deeds, petitions, and a plat for property in the flat swamp area, including Oak Grove Church and Academy.
Abraham Congleton was born around 1742-44 in Beaufort County. He was the sixth child of William and Sarah Congleton. He and his wife, Martha had three sons and two daughters. Colonial records of North Carolina indicated that Abraham Congleton served as a soldier in the American Revolution and was listed as #795 on the militia roster of North Carolina soldiers. Colonial records also indicated that he was assigned to patrol for runaway slaves. Congleton was co-owner of land in Pitt and Beaufort Counties.
Abraham Congleton was a pastor at Rountree Church in Ayden, N.C., which was widely recognized as the mother church of the North Carolina Disciples of Christ, also known as the Christian Church. Congleton himself was incredibly influential in the rise of the North Carolina Disciples of Christ, spreading the teachings of its founders, Thomas and Alexander Campbell. According to the Biblical Recorder published on January 4, 1834, members of the Neuse Baptist Association declared that Congleton developed the habit of preaching doctrines which were deemed "heretical and subversive of the peach and best interests of our Churches". Congleton's devotion to the teachings of the Christian Church eventually led to the Neuse Baptist Association to recommend his exclusion from the pulpits of churches connected to the association. Congleton, however, continued his pastorate at Rountree, which became a church devoted to the Disciples of Christ. Abraham Congleton died in 1832.
Sources:
Information gathered from documents within the Abraham Congleton Papers.
University and N.C. Baptist Biographical Files Collection, N.p. Print, Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University, Wake Forest, North Carolina, USA - https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/84235
Congleton Descendants: Generation 3 - https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/congleton/126/
The papers include documents describing land sales, petitions, and deeds between the Congleton, Jolly, Clemmons, Keel, Rogers, and Gurganus families. Also included is a document describing a land sale between Oak Grove Church and Academy and Abraham Congleton. The majority of the papers pertain to land records in Pitt County, North Carolina.
Among the papers is a receipt for payment of a property tax for land in Pitt County, N.C. There is a quit-claim deed from Garrett County, Texas. The papers also include the birth and death records for a family named Gurganus, one drawing showing plots of land, and a legal document declaring Abraham Congleton's death.
Gift of J. B. Congleton
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Transcription of Gurganus Family Deed, 1846 - Found on Our Family Tree - https://www.ourfamtree.org/doc_view.php?did=4093&fid=23183