David Purviance -- As I tried to write him up, my gg-grandmother's brother; but some woman from Oak Ridge a self-appointed editor named ORLADY kept insulting me. Here is what I wrote the first time. Its truth remains. And, no, I don't want anything more to do with Wikipedia.
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'''David Purviance''', 1766-
1847, was a member of the '''Kentucky legislature''' and
'''Ohio legislature''' and is considered a co-founder,
in importance after '''Barton W. Stone''', of the
'''Christian Church'''-'''Disciples of
Christ'''-'''Church of Christ''' denominations, which
were born as one denomination (the "Christian Church")
in the '''Restoration Movement'''. The Christian Church
and the '''Mormon Church''' are often said to be the
only native United States Christian denominations,
although this category should also include the
'''Cumberland Presbyterian''' denomination which in 1810
(in Dickson County in Middle Tennessee) broke away from
the '''Presbyterian church''' of Scotland. (The Scots
church or "kirk" adhered to the tenets of Swiss
theologian '''John Calvin''', including predestination,
but after schism in 1810 the Cumberland Presbyterians
rejected what they called the mysterious doctrine of
predestination.)
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'''David Purviance''', 1766- 1847, was a member of the
'''Kentucky legislature''' and '''Ohio legislature'''
and is considered a co-founder, in importance after
[[Barton W. Stone]], of the '''Christian
Church'''-'''Disciples of Christ'''-'''Church of
Christ''' denominations, which were born as one
denomination (the "Christian Church") in the
[[Restoration Movement]].
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David Purviance was also founder of
'''Miami University'''
of Oxford, Ohio, for which he often served as i
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David Purviance was also founder of
[[Miami University]]
of [[Oxford, Ohio]].
He often served as its president ''pro tempore''.
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The religious fervor of the early 19th century U.S.
western frontier found its strongest voice at
'''Cane Ridge Meeting
House''' near Paris in
Bourbon County, Kentucky, site of a series of continual
camp meetings from
1801-1804. In Kentucky, David Purviance, at first a
farmer, engaged in significant debates with
'''John C. Breckinridge'''
over the proper relationship of '''church and
state'''. After participating in the schism from the
Presbyterian church and converting numerous
Presbyterians and Baptists to the new denomination,
David Purviance removed from Bourbon County near Paris
to "New Paris" in '''Preble
County, Ohio''', for two
principal reasons, ''viz''., to help spread the new
Christian Church movement from its Kentucky base; and
because he was an abolitionist in a time when slavery-sentiment
predominated in Kentucky.
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The religious fervor of the early 19th century U.S.
western frontier found its strongest voice at
[[Cane Ridge, Kentucky|Cane
Ridge Meeting House]] in
[[Bourbon County,
Kentucky]], site of a
series of continual [[camp
meeting]]s from
1801-1804. In Kentucky, David Purviance, at first a
farmer, engaged in significant debates with
[[John C. Breckinridge]]
over the proper relationship of '''church and
state'''. After participating in the schism from the
Presbyterian church and converting numerous
Presbyterians and Baptists to the new denomination,
David Purviance removed from Bourbon County near Paris
to "New Paris" in [[Preble
County, Ohio]], for two
principal reasons, ''viz''., to help spread the new
Christian Church movement from its Kentucky base; and
because he was an [[abolitionist]]
in a time when slavery sentiment predominated in
Kentucky.
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Born in '''Iredell
County, North Carolina,'''
an ending point for many colonial pioneers
migrating from Pennsylvania down the
'''Great Wagon Road'''
of the 18th century, David Purviance's family had
removed in 1791 to Sumner County in Middle Tennessee to
help found the old '''Shiloh
Presbyterian Church'''
outside today's '''Gallatin,
Tennessee'''. In 1792,
the Purviance family including son David Purviance
removed from Sumner County,
Tennessee, to farmland near Cane Ridge in the
bluegrass near Paris, Kentucky, because David
Purviance's brother John Purviance had been "scalped" by
hostile native Americans in the year 1792. The murdered
man's wife, Martha King (Mrs. John Purviance, later Mrs.
William McCorkle) watched helplessly as her husband was
slain and was forcibly restrained by family from running
to aid the hapless John Purviance. After the "scalping"
the Purviance family considered
'''Sumner County,
Tennessee,''' temporarily unsafe for white
pioneers at the time, although the parents of David
Purviance returned to Sumner County, from which Wilson
County, Tennessee, was to be carved in 1799.
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Born in [[Iredell
County, North Carolina]],
an ending point for many colonial pioneers migrating
from [[Pennsylvania]]
down the [[Great
Wagon Road]] of the 18th
century, David Purviance's family had removed in 1791 to
[[Sumner County,
Tennessee|Sumner County]] in
[[Middle Tennessee]]
to help found the old Shiloh Presbyterian Church
outside today's [[Gallatin,
Tennessee]]. In 1792,
the Purviance family including son David Purviance
removed from Sumner County to farmland near Cane Ridge
in the [[Bluegrass region|bluegrass]]
near [[Paris,
Kentucky]], because
David Purviance's brother John Purviance had been
"scalped" by hostile native Americans in the year 1792.
The murdered man's wife, Martha King (Mrs. John
Purviance, later Mrs. William McCorkle) watched
helplessly as her husband was slain and was forcibly
restrained by family from running to aid the hapless
John Purviance. After the "scalping" the Purviance
family considered Sumner County temporarily unsafe for
white pioneers at the time, although the parents of
David Purviance returned to Sumner County, from which
[[Wilson County,
Tennessee]], was to be
carved in 1799.
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David Purviance was a signator of the "Last Will and
Testament of the Springfield Presbytery," which ceded
the church property to the new "Christian Church"
denomination. His son Levi
Purviance wrote a biography of him and the new Christian
Church '"restoration movement''' which is available on
the Internet at docsouth.unc.edu courtesy of the
University of North Carolina, of which Purviance
relative '''Samuel Eusebius McCorkle''' was founder.
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David Purviance was a signator of the "Last Will and
Testament of the [[Springfield
Presbytery]]," which
ceded the church property to the new "Christian Church"
denomination.
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* Levi Purviance (1848). ''The Biography of Elder David
Purviance, with His Memoirs: Containing His Views on
Baptism, the Divinity of Christ, and the Atonement.
Written by Himself: with an Appendix; Giving
Biographical Sketches of Elders John Hardy, Reuben
Dooly, William Dye, Thos. Kyle, George Shidler, William
Kinkade, Thomas Adams, Samuel Kyle, and Nathan Worley.
Together with a Historical Sketch of the Great Kentucky
Revival.'' Electronic version available from
[http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/purviance/ University of
North Carolina].
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'''Footnote:'''
Purviance-Thomas-McCorkle-Huie
family histories held by Marsha Cope Huie (LL.M.
Cambridge University, ''hons.'''
1986).
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"Jane" Mary Jane Wasson & John
Purviance, Sr., were the parents of David Purviance. The
person placing on the Internet that David Purviance
removed from Sumner County, Tennessee, in 1791 to
Bourbon Co., KY, is in error; the year was 1792,
subsequent to the time when David's brother John
Purviance Jr. had been "scalped" in Middle Tennessee.
Similarly, David's brother James Purviance was only a
captain, and David's brother-in-law William Thomas
(husband of David's sister Elizabeth Purviance Thomas)
held no high rank either, but each of the three fought
in the North Carolina line, and each from Iredell
County. The Purviance family had been Huguenots who had
fled from the west coast of France up to Northern
Ireland after King Louis XIV's revocation of the Edict
of Nantes. In France they had been purveyors to royalty
so that the first identiable ancestor was known as
Jacques de Purviance (the "de" in France signifying
nobility). It is true that the father of David Purviance,
John Purviance Sr., was called "colonel"
post-Revolutionary War, but the father had nevertheless
been only a lieutenant in the NC line of the
Revolutionary war. The "colonel" was an honorific.
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David Purviance, 1766- 1847, was a member of the Kentucky legislature and Ohio legislature and is considered a co-founder, in importance after Barton W. Stone, of the Christian Church-Disciples of Christ-Church of Christ denominations, which were born as one denomination (the "Christian Church") in the Restoration Movement.
David Purviance was also founder of Miami University of Oxford, Ohio. He often served as its president pro tempore.
The religious fervor of the early 19th century U.S. western frontier found its strongest voice at Cane Ridge Meeting House in Bourbon County, Kentucky, site of a series of continual camp meetings from 1801-1804. In Kentucky, David Purviance, at first a farmer, engaged in significant debates with John C. Breckinridge over the proper relationship of church and state. After participating in the schism from the Presbyterian church and converting numerous Presbyterians and Baptists to the new denomination, David Purviance removed from Bourbon County near Paris to "New Paris" in Preble County, Ohio, for two principal reasons, viz., to help spread the new Christian Church movement from its Kentucky base; and because he was an abolitionist in a time when slavery sentiment predominated in Kentucky.
Born in Iredell County, North Carolina, an ending point for many colonial pioneers migrating from Pennsylvania down the Great Wagon Road of the 18th century, David Purviance's family had removed in 1791 to Sumner County in Middle Tennessee to help found the old Shiloh Presbyterian Church outside today's Gallatin, Tennessee. In 1792, the Purviance family including son David Purviance removed from Sumner County to farmland near Cane Ridge in the bluegrass near Paris, Kentucky, because David Purviance's brother John Purviance had been "scalped" by hostile native Americans in the year 1792. The murdered man's wife, Martha King (Mrs. John Purviance, later Mrs. William McCorkle) watched helplessly as her husband was slain and was forcibly restrained by family from running to aid the hapless John Purviance. After the "scalping" the Purviance family considered Sumner County temporarily unsafe for white pioneers at the time, although the parents of David Purviance returned to Sumner County, from which Wilson County, Tennessee, was to be carved in 1799.
David Purviance was a signator of the "Last Will and Testament of the Springfield Presbytery," which ceded the church property to the new "Christian Church" denomination.