William Sterling Lacy (1791-1880), Fayette County, Tennessee to Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, Williamsburg, Virginia

Containers:
Box 48, Folder 6
Scope and content:

Has met with Jack Taylor who had ferry in Mecklenburg County, Virgnia. Knew Nathaniel Beverley Tucker as young man and is now an elder in one of Lacy's churches. Lacy has been preaching and felt some encouragement in preaching to Blacks. "I have sometimes has 2 or 300 hearers, with the most perfect confidence and entire approbation of the Planters, for they know that I am an Old School Presbyterian, and decided anti-Radical, anti-abolitionists and anti every thing else they dislike." Most people here Methodists and some Episcopalian. Lacy is keeping school.

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