[Hooper] Rev. James Craig

[Deanna Baumgardner]

This is evidently the Rev. James Craig mentioned in the Hooper book who 
married James Hooper and Elizabeth Chambers January 6, 1781:
Rev. James CRAIG – 319.9.2. His executor, George Tarry of Mecklenburg 
County, produced a receipt for
363.17.9 in full of the account.

-----According to an account by Bishop Meade, Rev. Craig died in 1795. 
He also practiced medicine. He
owned a mill, on Flat Rock Creek, a short distance from the future 
Bagley’s Mill, and a short distance from
the present town of Kenbridge. During the war, Rev. Meade’s mill was a 
storehouse for public provisions.
Col. Tarleton, “knowing this, and that Mr. Craig was a true American 
and zealous in the cause of the
Revolution, took the mill in his route, and, after he and his men had 
feasted on Mr. Craig’s good mutton
and fed their horses on his corn, caused barrels of flour to be rolled 
into the mill-pond and the whole
establishment to be burned down.”  - Bell: The Old Free State Vol. I, 
p. 362 Rev. Meade was regarded as a
man of the highest integrity, morality and character. Col. Tarleton was 
an officer in the British Army.

Deanna R. (Hooper) Baumgardner
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