Madison County GaArchives Biographies.....Carrington, Timothy (Rev) 1742 - 1822 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Diane Carrington Bradford lfot@mindspring.com September 14, 2005, 8:20 pm Author: Diane Carrington Bradford Rev. Timothy Carrington, 1742 - Sep 1822 Rev. Timothy Carrington was born in 1742, possibly in Maryland or Virginia, but the location is not yet documented. The first known residence of Timothy Carrington was Loudoun County Virginia, where he was listed in the Tithable records for Cameron Parish in 1768 and 1769. He was recorded as living on the plantation of Col. Francis Lightfoot Lee. Possibly Timothy worked on the plantation. Col. Francis Lightfoot Lee was an uncle to Gen. Robert E. Lee. Col. Lee was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and was a representative at the First Continental Congress. He was a very important man who undoubtedly owned several plantations, but he probably did not live full time on the Loudoun County property. In 1771 Timothy was listed separately from Col. Lee, but right below him, and Timothy continued to appear on the Tithable lists through 1779. He was also mentioned several times in the early Loudoun County, Virginia, deed books on documents dated from 1771 through 1774. Timothy was 32 years old when he married 16-year-old Winnifred "Winney" King in Loudoun County, Virginia, in December 1774. She was the daughter of John King and his wife Mary Osborne. Winney was born in Virginia on July 16, 1758, and died in Coweta County, Georgia, on Oct. 22, 1852. Together Timothy and Winney produced ten (10) children (six boys and four girls), and all but one daughter was still living in 1822 when Timothy died at age 80. Possibly as early as 1777 or as late as 1780, but most probably during 1779, Timothy, Winney and their first two children moved from Loudoun County, Virginia to Wake County, North Carolina. Timothy settled his young family on the north side of Bryar Creek on the Dorum Branch where he was granted 200 acres of land on July 30, 1778. On Jan 21, 1779, he was issued another 100 acres on Dorum Branch (100:50/2..10.) which adjoined his own land and that of John Dempster. Timothy served in the military enlisting as a private for a six-month period in 1781 in Wake County, North Carolina. He participated in the Battle of Eutaw Springs, South Carolina on Sep 8, 1781. He was paid for his services as recorded in the North Carolina Revolutionary Army Accounts. Following his military service he returned to Wake County, North Carolina, where he, Winney, and their three young children continued to live on their 300 acres until after the Revolutionary War concluded and their fourth child was born in June 1783. Exactly when Timothy moved his family to Georgia is unknown, but Timothy was granted 300 acres of land in old Wilkes County in 1786. In the 1805 Georgia Land Lottery, Timothy Carrington drew land lot #259 in the 2nd District of Wilkinson County. Timothy and Winney were enumerated in the 1820 Madison County Census, p 292, as follows: Males 1 (16-26), 1 (45 and up)-Timothy; Females 1 (26-45)-daughter Sarah, 1 (45 and up)-wife, Winney. In addition to farming his land, Timothy Carrington became a Baptist minister after settling in Georgia. Nothing was ever found to indicate he was a minister or even a church member while living in Virginia or North Carolina. Georgia Baptist Association records in the Baptist Archives housed at Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, indicated that Rev. Timothy served several churches over a 31-year span. Timothy worked as an unordained licenciate preacher at Clark's Station Baptist Church in 1788 in Wilkes County, Georgia, and he was ordained a minister of the gospel at Millstone Baptist Church by 1790, also in Wilkes County. Timothy served as pastor Of Cloud's Creek Baptist Church in 1792, 1793 and 1794 in Wilkes County, Georgia. Although the church records did not include the names of pastors prior to 1805, Rev. Timothy apparently remained as pastor at Cloud's Creek until January 1803 when he helped found and became the first pastor at Scull Shoals Baptist, later renamed Lystra Baptist. The "List of Baptist Ministers and the Churches They Served" from the Georgia Baptist Archives does not show him as pastor of any other church between 1792 and 1803. Rev. Timothy was an active participant in the annual meetings of the Georgia Baptist Association and later the newly formed Sarepta Baptist Association. In 1807 Rev. Timothy Carrington gave the introductory sermon [a very high honor] at the Sarepta Association meeting held at Shoals Creek Church in Elbert County. According to the History of the Baptist Denomination in North America by David Benedict, Rev. Timothy was still pastor of Scull Shoals Baptist Church in 1813. The church minutes dated Sep. 12, 1819, recorded that Timothy was relieved of duty because of age, and he died in September 1822. The church minutes of May 6, 1826, still listed Winnifred Carrington as a member. Rev. Timothy Carrington died intestate in Madison County, Georgia, in September 1822. His eldest son, Daniel, became administrator of his father's estate. The tax digests from 1825-30 show that Daniel was the trustee of Timothy's estate administration and that Timothy owned 250 acres in Early County, Georgia, land lot 240 of the 11th district-land probably received in a land lottery. The estate settlement papers were filed in October 1822 in Madison County, and were recorded Oct. 17, 1822, in Book B-C-D, p 266-268. To see the complete story of Rev. Timothy Carrington and his descendants, please visit our Web site "LEAVES FROM OUR TREE." The Carrington index page is at URL: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~strat3926/timcarin/carindex.htm. Main home page URL: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~strat3926/index.htm. Contributed by 4th great granddaughter, Diane Carrington Bradford E-mail to: lfot@mindspring.com File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/madison/bios/carringt846gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 6.3 Kb