James Younger

Claimed to be the son of Alexander Younger & born after 1715 in Essex County, Colony of Virginia. Alexander did name a son James in his 1727 Will.

A Patriot of the American Revolution for NORTH CAROLINA (SOLDIER). DAR Ancestor # A207369

History of North Carolina Baptists, by George Washing Pascal, Vol, 1, pp 290-292, states: "In the Abbotts, Creek community, even before the coming of the Separate Baptists, there was a Welsh Baptist preacher who had come by way of the Welsh Neck settlement in South Carolina. His name was James Younger. For us he is little more than a name. But he left a family, among them a daughter Anna, who married James Evans, and died in 1843 at the extreme old age of ninety-seven years, having long served her community as midwife. Younger seems to have been a man of humble native endowments and little education, and yet able by his pious life and earnest exhortations to make his neighbors realize the claims of God and religion in their lives. That he was not an ordained minister is shown by the fact that his aid was not sought in the origination of Daniel Marshall as pastor of Abbott's Creek church a few years later. Though he was not able to preach himself, like Andrew he sought and found one who was abler than he. The fame of the Separates of Sandy Creek had reached his ears, and thither he went. On his return he brought with him that indefatigable missionary pioneer, Daniel Marshall. As a result of the labors of this earnest and fervent evangelist, in which he doubtless had the assistance of his saintly and gifted wife, Mrs. Martha Stearns Marshall, great numbers turned to the Lord." Silas D. McCaslin, p 15.

participant in the American Revolution... signed the Regulator's Advertisement #9 in 1770. He established the Abbot's Creek Baptist Church in Rowan county (now Davidson County near Thomasville, NC). He is cited as being the second pastor of Bear Creek Baptist Church in 1790 @ 70 years old even though he was never ordained as a minister.

• Military_service: North Carolina Militia - 1777
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