The Carson Family
From
Washington County, Virginia
To Rockcastle County, Kentucky
To Jellico, Tennessee
To Davie, Broward County, Florida
The Reverend Charles Cummings
In
April of 1773, two Presbyterian congregations (Sinking Springs in Abingdon and
Ebbing Spring on the Middle Fork of the Holston River) asked Samuel Edmiston
(Edmondson) to present a call letter to the Rev. Charles Cummings when the
Presbytery of Hanover was setting at Tinkling Springs in Augusta County. The
members of the two congregations signed the letter and it was presented in June
1773 at Brown’s meetinghouse in Augusta County. The signers included: Robert
Edmiston, Saml Evans, Robert Craig, Joseph Craig, James Montgomery, Samuel
Houston, George Buchanan, James Dysart, David Snodgrass, James Thompson, William
Edmiston, Saml Edmiston, Margaret Edmiston, John Edmiston, David
Carson, Samuel Buchanan, Robert Buchanan, Thomas Evans, Wm Edmiston, Thos
Edmiston, John Beaty, David Beaty, Rob Buchanan Jr, James Inglis, Richard Moore,
David Craig, Moses Buchanan, Saml Buchanan, Thos Montgomery, John Campbell,
Thomas Ramsey.
(Virginia Governor David Campbell, of the
signers of the call letter, said that in his youth he personally knew many of
them, and that probably everyone of them performed military service against the
Indians, and that a large portion of them saw service against the British at the
battles at King’s Mountain, Gilford Courthouse, and other actions in North and
South Carolina.)
Source: Page 138 Summers “History of Southwest Virginia”
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From "Annals of Southwest Virginia" by Summers
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Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1736 to 1871,
Joseph A. Waddell
pg 92
The Rev. Charles Cummings was born in Ireland and emigrated to Lancaster county, Virginia, where he taught school and studied theology with the Rev. James Waddell. He was licensed to preach by Hanover Presbytery at Tinkling Spring, April 17, 1766. As stated heretofore, he became pastor of Brown's
meeting-house congregation in 1767. The elders present at his ordination were George Moffett, Alexander Walker and John McFarland. In 1773 he was called to minister to two congregations on the Holston, and settled near Abingdon. The call was signed by one hundred and twenty heads of families—Campbells,
Blackburns, Edmondsons, Christians, Thompsons, Montgomerys, and others. The country on the Holston was then exposed to Indian inroads, and Mr. Cummings was in the habit of carrying his rifle with him into the pulpit. On one occasion he was engaged in a deadly conflict with the Indians. In 1776 he
accompanied the troops under Colonel Christian in their expedition against the Cherokees, and was the first minister that ever preached in Tennessee. He died in 1812.
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