History of the Presbyterian church in New Bern, , with a resumé of early ecclesiastical affairs in eastern North Carolina, and a sketch of the early days of New Bern, . ting the school efliciently. Brief notes about the schoolfrom 1833-37 on several Sabbaths sliow an attendance rangingup to sixty-two. The Baptists had a school of about the samesize ; the Methodists had one somewhat smaller ; and the Episco-palians had one numbering from sixty to one hundred Sabbath, June 16, 1833, the Presbyterian children recitedthe names of the books of the Old Testament; and on the nextS
History of the Presbyterian church in New Bern, , with a resumé of early ecclesiastical affairs in eastern North Carolina, and a sketch of the early days of New Bern, . ting the school efliciently. Brief notes about the schoolfrom 1833-37 on several Sabbaths sliow an attendance rangingup to sixty-two. The Baptists had a school of about the samesize ; the Methodists had one somewhat smaller ; and the Episco-palians had one numbering from sixty to one hundred Sabbath, June 16, 1833, the Presbyterian children recitedthe names of the books of the Old Testament; and on the nextSal^bath they were to recite those of the New Testament, justas they have been recently doing. M!m$t^t$ Irom tfie ftctu Bern Cf^fturcft* The followhig Presbyterian ministers went out from NewBern: Rev. Messrs. Lemuel D. Hatch, John Witherspoon,^Monroe Allen, William Neal (or Neil), Thomas Watson, Nehe-miali H. Harding, and John W. Primrose. Two of these arestill living and preaching—Mr. Watson, in Dardenne, Mo.; andMr. Primrose, in the Second Presbyterian Churcli in Wilming-ton, N. C. Dr. Harding ministered for many years most ac-ceptably to the church in Milton, N. EBENEZER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, NEW BERN. SUNDRY MEMORANDA. 183 Messrs. Robert Hay and Elias Ilawes were the first elderswhose names have reached us. After them came John Jones,Thomas Sparrow, Allen Fitch, Martin Stevenson, CharlesSlover, Richard N. Taylor, Emmet Cuthbert, George Allen,William Hollister, and John Hutchinson. The two last-namedelders were ordained and installed on Sabbath, Fel)ruary 5th,1871. Mr. Hutchinson is now an elder in the Wilson Church,and Messrs. Slover, Allen, and Hollister constitute the presentSession of tiie New Bern Church. All the otliers have passedto the ministry above. The present deacons—the only ones this church has everhad—are Messrs. Claudius E. Foy, George N. Ives, and Alex-ander Miller. In 1854 the pipe-organ was bought for $900. For many years the New Bern Church had
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