Cabarrus County, NC - John Robinson

ROBINSON, John, clergyman, born in Cabarrus county, North Carolina, 8 , 
Jan., 1768; died in Poplar Tent, North Carolina, 14 December, 1843. He 
received an academic education at Winnsborough, South Carolina, studied 
theology, was licensed to preach on 4 April, 1793, and organized 
several churches in Dupin county, North Carolina He accepted tilt 
charge of the Presbyterian church at Fayetteville in 1800, established 
a classical school, preached in Poplar Tent in 1801-'5, and then in 
Fayetteville again till 1818, when he returned to Poplar Tent. The 
University of North Carolina gave him the degree of D. D. in 1829. He 
was one of the most popular and persuasive preachers of his faith, and 
not less eminent as an instructor. He published only a "Eulogy on 
Washington " (1800).

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