Excerpt from The Winborne FamilyThe Meherrin Baptist Church, about one - half mile out of town, is, I think, the scoond oldest Baptist church in this State, Shiloh Church, in Pasquotank, probably about six years older. One Joseph Parker, ordained by the Shiloh Church, established where the town of Murfreesboro now stands, about the year 1735, the church known as Meherrin Church. The name Meher rin, like Nattawry, Chowan, lfrahaw, was the name of a tribe of Indians. The Meherrins had their camping gronmls in Mamiey's Neck. All along the line of Me herrin River, on each side. Was their hunting grounds. The Indians always selected the most desirable spots of land for their camping villages, and the white man soon learning this, in their search for the happy valley, and the attractive high lands. Made battle against the Red Man, until they succeeded as the occupants of the Red Man's home and sporting parks. But returning, Meherrin Church, after the location of the town, was moved about one-half mile outside of the town limits and located on the land now owned by James N. Law rence, in the old oak grove, just beyond the present drive to the Lawrence Mineral Spring, so much resorted to by the health - seeking people of the town. Later Mr. T. Capehart traded the present site of the church for the. Old church yard, and gave the members a nice little money donation, to aid in the repairing or rebuilding of the new church edifice. From the name of the founder, it was frequently spoken of as Parker's Church.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.