Available from the Daughters of the American Revolution is a collection of papers related to descendants of David Caldwell.

The DAR Library
1776 D St., N. W.
Washington, D.C. 20006-5392
202-879-3229

* Title: [Notes and correspondence on the David Caldwell family]
* For similar materials, try:
* Caldwell, David (1725-1824) - Descendants
* Other Information:
* Publisher: Theodore L. Brownyard Collection
* Description: 1 folder
* Location:
* Misc. Coll 078 Box-8 File-9

* Title: Caldwell Family Newsletter for the descendants of Andrew and Martha Caldwell of Lancaster County, PA .../edited by June Faler, Betty Sedgley, & Donelle Meyer. 169 pages. Illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits. 1990.

* Title: North Carolina DAR GRC report; s1 v251: North Carolina deeds, wills, other records/Rachel Caldwell chapter. Author: Rachel Caldwell chapter.

The DAR also has information about Rachel Caldwell. She appears in the DAR Patriot Index.

The National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution has a NSSAR Historical and Genealogical Library. The library is located at 1000 South Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40203. (502) 589-1776. The NSSAR Library Catalog is on-line: http://www.sar.library.net, or http://208.132.204.59/

Copies of individual nominations to the National Register of Historic Sites can be obtained from National Register Reference Desk, National Park Service, 1849 C Street, NW, NC 400, Washington, DC 20240.

The University of North Carolina has a special collection of papers related to David Caldwell, as well as the medical journals and family correspondence of David Thomas Caldwell, and the account books of Robert Baxter Caldwell, genealogical material related to the Craighead family, and some photographs, including one of David Thomas Caldwell. The UNC at Chapel Hill has an 83 page book with a coat of arms entitled Record of Caldwell Family/collected and recorded by Grace Bradford McDowell. Call No. C929.2 C147m. The UNC at Chapel Hill also has Mark E. Miller, David Caldwell Research Report [microfilm], 1978, and Mark F. Miller, David Caldwell, the Forming of a Southern Educator, 1979; David T. Morgan, The North Carolina Clergy and the American Revolution, 1963, Call No. 378.756; David T. Morgan and William J. Schmidt, North Carolinians in the Continental Congress, Winston-Salem, North Carolina: J.F. Blair, 1976; Lindley S. Butler, North Carolina and the Coming of the Revolution, 1763-1776, Raleigh: North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, 1976; Stephen E. Massengill, North Carolina Votes on the Constitution: a Roster of Delegates to the State Ratification Conventions of 1788 and 1789, Raleigh, North Carolina, Dept. of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, 1988; Frank Nash, The North Carolina Constitution of 1776 and Its Makers, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina, 1912 [In storage: use request form. Call No. JK425 1776.N373 1912; Lars C. Golumbie, "Who Shall Dictate the Law?: Political Wrangling Between "Whig" Lawyers and Backcountry Farmers in Revolutionary Era North Carolina," North Carolina Historical Review, vol. 73, no. 1 (Jan. 1996). The University or some local Charlotte library may also have a copy of Charles W. Summerville, the History of Hopewell Presbyterian Church (Charlotte: Hopewell Presbyterian Church, 1939), and Charles G. Davidson, The Plantation World Around Davidson, 2d ed. (Davidson, NC: Mecklenburg Association, 1973); Charles Lee Smith, "David Caldwell -- Teacher, Preacher, Patriot," North Carolina Booklet, vol. XI, no. 4, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1912; and Stephen B. Weeks, "The Religious Development in the Province of North Carolina," John Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, vol. X, nos. 5 and 6, Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1892.

The Jackson Library of University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) has copies of the E. W. Caruthers. Ethel Stephens Arnett, and Mark F. Miller’s biographies of David Caldwell.

The Buffalo Presbyterian Church library in Greensboro, North Carolina, has information on David Caldwell, as does the Greensboro Historical Museum. The Greensboro Public Library, 219 N. Church St., Greensboro, North Carolina 27402 (336) 335-5430 (Reference Division) [www.greensborolibrary.org] has in its North Carolina Collection a book entitled History of Rachel Caldwell Chapter, National Society of Daughters of American Revolution It also has the pedigree charts of the Guilford County genealogical Society.

Additional references include The History of Guilford County, North Carolina, by Sallie W. Stockard, typed and indexed by Ruth F. Thompson (Guilford Co. Genealogical Society, 1983), also, published Knoxville: Gaut-Ogden, 1902. (NC 975.662 S86); Raymond Dufau Donnell, Buffalo Presbyterian Church and Cemetery, Greensboro, North Carolina, Guilford Co. Genealogical Society; Hugh Williamson, The History of North Carolina, 1735-1819, Thomas Dobson, publisher, Fry and Kammerer printers, 1812; Delbert Harold Gilpatrick, Jeffersonian Democracy in North Carolina, 1789-1816, New York, Columbia University, 1931; John H. Wheeler, Historical Sketches of North Carolina, Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo & Company (1851); John H. Wheeler, Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians, Columbus, Ohio, The author (1884); Gaius J. Slosser, ed., They Seek a Country; The American Presbyterians, Some Aspects, New York, Macmillan, 1955; and Andrew L. Drummond, Story of American Protestantism, Boston, Beacon Press, 1950; Hughes, Fred. Guilford County: a Map Supplement. Jamestown: The Custom House, 1988. (NC 975.662 H89); Robinson, Blackwell P., and Alexander R. Stoesen. The History of Guilford County, North Carolina, U.S.A. to 1980, A.D. Edited by Sydney M. Cone, Jr. 1981? (NC 975.662 R65); Sieber, H. A. Holy Ground: Significant Events in the Civil Rights-Related History of the African-American Communities of Guilford County, North Carolina, 1771-1995. Greensboro: Project Homestead, 1995. (NC 975.662 S57); Stoesen, Alexander R. Guilford County: A Brief History. Raleigh: N.C. Division of Archives and History, 1993. (NC 975.662 S87); Weatherly, Andrew Earl. The First Hundred Years of Historic Guilford, 1771-1871. Greensboro: Greensboro Print Co., 1972. (NC 975.662 W53).

The State of North Carolina has preserved historical documents, including out of print books, maps, newspapers, and picture gallery. The Colonial Records of North Carolina [Second Series] began in 1963, and is likely to have extensive references to David and Rachel Caldwell. A new publication, Society in Early North Carolina, edited by Dr. Alan Watson, is scheduled to be published in 2000. The Colonial Records Project of Historical Publications Section is located at 4622 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-4622 Phone: (919) 733-7442. Fax: (919) 733-1439. The North Carolina State Archives is located at 109 East Jones Street, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27611.

Of potential help are two indices: The North Carolina Historical Review: Fifty-Year Index, 1924-1973, Edited by Beth Gilbert Crabtree and Ruth Clow Langston (1984), ISBN 0-86526-211-X (1973), and The North Carolina Historical Review: Supplement to Fifty-Year Index, 1974-1983, Edited by Ruth Clow Langston (2nd printing (1999).

Princeton Theological Library at Princeton University possibly may have correspondence to and from David Caldwell in the collections of papers relating to former University Presidents Samuel Davies, John Witherspoon, and Samuel Stanhope Smith.

The Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room, a department of the Main Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, 310 North Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC 28202 (704) 336-2725, houses historical information on Mecklenburg County and Charlotte. (e.g., D. A. Tompkins, History of Mecklenburg County and the City of Charlotte from 1740 to 1903, 2 vols., Charlotte, North Carolina, Observer Printing House, 1903.)

The Caldwell Family Newsletter is published by the Caldwell Family Committee, a non-profit organization founded in August 1981. The historian and editor is Donelle Meyer, 4227 Stone Brooke Road, Ames, Iowa 50010 (515) 233-2347. Back issues of the newsletter can be ordered from Marilyn Janda, Editor, Caldwell Family Newsletter, 3406A Primm Lane, Birmingham, Alabama 35216. (205) 979-8966.

The Presbyterian Historical Society can provide information. Dept. of History & Record Management Services, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), 425 Lombard Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19147-1516.

Microfilm records of Bath County, Virginia, include the following: V163-143, item 9 or F-3692, 1 fiche. A.J. Ponton, A History of Windy Cove Presbyterian Church, Millboro Springs, Virginia, 1749-1929, comp. by A.J. Ponton. Including an historic sermon preached by Dr. Samuel Brown, Feb 28, 1875. Also contains biographical sketches. 51 pages. These records would include mention of Alexander Craighead.

The East Tennessee Historical Society and First Families of Tennessee acknowledge the children and surviving wife of Alexander Caldwell as among the first settlers of Tennessee.

The Greensboro Community Foundation funds scholarships to Guilford College, Greensboro College, and David Caldwell Academy in name of David Caldwell.

The following genealogical books may be of use:

o History of the county of Ayr: with a genealogical account of the families of Ayrshire, by James Paterson, published Ayr, 1847.
o Ayrshire Nights Entertainment: A Descriptive Guide to the History, Traditions, Antiquities of the County of Ayr, by John MacIntosh of Galston, Ayrshire, published in 1894, by John Menzies & Co. of Kilmarnock, Dunlop and Drennan.
o Ayrshire & Arran: an Illustrated Architectural Guide, by Rob Close, published in 1992 by RIAS (ISBN 1-873190-06-9) and available from RIAS bookshops in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
o Ayrshire: Its History and Historic Families, by William Robertson, published Kilmarnock, 1908.
o Mining: Ayrshire's Lost Industry, by Guthrie Hutton, published 1996 by Richard Stenlake Publishing (ISBN 1-872074-88-X).
o Tracing Your Family Tree - sources in East Ayrshire Libraries, is published by the East Ayrshire District Library, Local Studies Department, The Dick Institute, Elmbank Avenue, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire KA1 3BU, Scotland
o Pre-1855 Gravestone Inscriptions; an index for Carrick, Ayrshire, edited by Alison Mitchell, and published in Edinburgh in 1988 by the Scottish Genealogy Society. This covers the parishes of Ballantrae, Barr, Colmonell, Barrhill cemetery, Old Dailly, New Dailly, Girvan, Kirkmichael, Kirkoswald, Crossraguel cemetery, Maybole, Straiton, Patna and Alloway.
o Pre-1855 Gravestone Inscriptions in Kilmarnock and Loudoun District, edited by Alistair G. Beattie and Margaret H. Beattie and published in Edinburgh in 1989 (reprint) by the Scottish Genealogy Society. This covers burial grounds in the parishes of Dunlop, Stewarton, Fenwick, Kilmaurs, Kilmarnock, Riccarton, Galston and Loudoun.

The Troon and District Family History Society has published the following books of Monumental Inscriptions: Old Alloway, Coylton, Craigie, Crosbie (Troon), Dundonald, Monkton, Newton Green Cemetery (Ayr), Six Kyle graveyards (includes Barnweill, Culzean, Coodham, Fairfield, Newton-on-Ayr and St. Margaret's, John St., Ayr), The Secessionist Graveyard (King St., Ayr), St. Nicholas (Prestwick), St. Quivox, Symington, Wallacetown Cemetery (Ayr), Ayr Auld Kirk.

LDS Family History Centers also carry microfiche indexes to the 1881 Census returns. Computerised indexes for the 1881 and 1891 Census returns are available at the General Register Office in Edinburgh. The 1891 index is now available through the Scots Origins website.

Church Records

Some of the Kirk Session records for the Presbyteries covering Ayrshire are held in the Scottish Record Office in Edinburgh. Some Kirk Session material is often to be found amongst the Old Parochial Records.

Records of many other churches, particularly the Free Churches and United Presbyterian Churches, may also be found in at the National Archives of Scotland, formerly known as the Scottish Record Office, in Edinburgh. Some of these records include baptism and marriage registers.

The Heritors were the landowners in each parish who were responsible (until 1925) for the maintenance of the church and manse and (before 1878) for the parochial school. They were also responsible, with the Kirk Session, for the poor of the parish until 1845. Their records are also to be found in the Scottish Record Office in Edinburgh.

The original Old Parochial Records of the Church of Scotland are held in the General Register Office for Scotland [GROS] in Edinburgh, and copies on microfilm may be consulted in LDS Family History Centers around the world. The birth and marriage records are indexed on microfiche. Copies (not necessarily of all parishes) are also held by some of the Family History Societies in the county and also in some local libraries. The birth, marriage and death records can also be searched at Scots Origins -- the online database of Scottish Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes at the General Register Office.