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Lexington Presbyterian Church (Lexington, Ga.) records, 1822-1916

Church records from the Lexington Presbyterian Church (Lexington, Ga.) dating from 1822 to 1916 that document the names of enslaved members of the church, and prominent educators and politicians who resided in Oglethorpe County, Georgia.

More About This Collection

Creator
Lexington Presbyterian Church (Lexington, Ga.)

Date of Original
1822/1916

People
Lumpkin, Joseph Henry, 1799-1867
Crawford, William Harris, 1772-1834

Location
United States, Georgia, Oglethorpe County, Lexington, 33.86984, -83.11182

Medium
church records

Type
Text

Description
The Lexington Presbyterian Church records document the names of enslaved members of the church, and it is not unlikely that for some of the names provided it is the only existing record that these people ever lived. There are also records of prominent educators and politicians who resided in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, including the first chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court and co-founder of the University of Georgia School of Law Joseph Henry Lumpkin (1799-1867), and William Harris Crawford (1772-1834), U.S. Minister to France, Secretary of War, and Secretary of the Treasury, among others.

Metadata URL
https://dlg.usg.edu/collection/gcl_lpc

Language
eng

Holding Institution
Columbia Theological Seminary

Rights