The Concord Presbyterian Church was founded as an offshoot of the

Fourth Creek Congregation The community of the Fourth Creek Congregation was a group of Scots-Irish Presbyterians who first arrived in the Province of North Carolina in the mid to late 1730s and established a congregation by 1750 under pastor John Thompson in Anson Coun ...

in 1775. It was located west of the Fourth Creek Congregation that later became the center of the city of

Statesville, North Carolina Statesville is a city in and the county seat of Iredell County, North Carolina, United States, and it is part of the Charlotte metropolitan area. Statesville was established in 1789 by an act of the North Carolina Legislature. The population was r ...

.Keever, Homer M.; ''Iredell Piedmont County'', with illustrations by Louise Gilbert and maps by Mildred Jenkins Miller, published for the Iredell County Bicentennial Commission by Brady Printing Company from type set by the Statesville Record and Landmark, copyright, November 1976, by Homer M. Keever''The Heritage of Iredell County, 1980'', published by the Genealogical Society of Iredell County, PO Box 946, Statesville, North Carolina 28677, , 642 pages with index''The Heritage of Iredell County, NC Vol II, 2000'', published by the Genealogical Society of Iredell County, PO Box 946, Statesville, North Carolina 29866, LC # 00-110956, 574 pages with index

History

After William Sharpe created his map of the Fourth Creek Congregation in 1773, it was decided to create two additional church congregationsConcord Presbyterian Church and Bethany Presbyterian Church. The Concord congregation was located two miles west of the Fourth Creek congregation near Morrison's mill about a mile south of the current location of the church in what was later called Loray, North Carolina. Members of the Concord Presbyterian Church originally worshipped in a log structure. Dr. James Hall was appointed the pastor of all three churches on April 8, 1778. He served all three churches until at least 1790 and then devoted himself to preaching at Bethany which was nearer his home. The first elders of the Concord church were James Adams, James Purviance, John Purviance, William Watts, William McKnight, Samuel Harris, Abraham Hill and Thomas Morrison. There have been four church buildings built for the church, including the original log church, the third building built in 1899, and the fourth and present structure built in 1939. After the U.S. Civil War many of the black families in the area began worshipping at the nearby Logan Presbyterian Church.

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{{Reflist Presbyterian churches in North Carolina Churches completed in 1775 Churches in Iredell County, North Carolina

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