The Wards Caswell Co Church

Courtney has asked about the Wards' Church that I mentioned in one post...

There are a couple of things here that will certainly be of interest to Huggins descendants:

Lynches Creek Primitive Baptist Church was just North of the Orange Co line.  Today all that's left is a just a small gathering of gravestones, surrounded by a fence.  Many of the stones are now being engulfed by the woods.

  According to the church records, the very first Ward to become a member of the Lynches Creek was Susannah Ward, who joined by baptism in July, 1813.
   While about a dozen Wards eventually became members here--including Sutton's son, James and the latter's wife, Rebecca Oakley Ward--the ones of most interest here would be John and Linnea Ward and their daughter, Cassander.

    This particular John Ward married Linney (Melinda) Compton in 1809.  (Sutton Ward placed the bond.)  But this was not the John who was Sutton's son--that one died at the very same time as Sutton in Feb, 1816.
   To be honest, nobody has yet figured out just who the parents of this John were.

    But we do know this about him:  he was the only related John Ward alive in the area at the time of the wedding of Susannah Ward and Jacob Douglas Huggins.  So it was clearly this John Ward who placed the bond for that wedding in Oct, 1817. 
   Also, there is at least one estate file in Orange Co where you can see this John and Jacob Huggins Jr jointly indebt to the deceased's estate.  These two guys were very close even before Susannah married Jacob--to the point of borrowing money together.

    So, you can see that both Susannah and the bondsman of her wedding to Jacob Huggins Jr were both members of the Caswell church.  And it was this fact that led me to state that this was likely the reason the wedding took place in Caswell....