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Colonial and State Records of North Carolina
Petition from Buffalo Presbyterian Church concerning a Presbyterian meeting house
Buffalo Presbyterian Chruch (Greensboro, N.C.)
1770
Volume 08, Page 507

[From the Court Records of Rowan County.]

To the Worshipful Court of Rowan

The petition of your petitioners humbly showeth

That we the Inhabitants of a congregation known by the name of North Buffalow and living on the waters of Reedy Fork North & South Buffalow do certify the worshipful court that we intend to make use of a house on a piece of land purchased from Adam Mitchell Sr as a place of public Worship according to the practice of Protestant dissenters of the Presbyterian denomination and desire it may be entered in the Records of the Court according to the Act of Parliament in that behalf made and your petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray

Signed by a number of persons &c

The above petition was read in open Court and was ordered to be recorded which petition was granted &c