Tinkling Springs Church

Augusta County, Virginia

Photographs Courtesy of Georgia Hendrix, Jun 2004

Daugherty, Magill, Patterson and other allied families' children were baptized here by the Rev. John Craig (some of whose children married into these families).

Founding Members

The first church established in new Augusta Co. was Tinkling Springs Church, the first in western Virginia. Several Patterson children married children of its first minister, the Rev. John Craig. He baptized Patterson, Magill, Daugherty, and many other children, as listed in Fay Maxwell's book, Augusta County, Virginia, Record of Baptisms 1740-1749: John Craig, D.D., Pastor (W. Augusta became Pa. 1780), published in Columbus, OH, 1975.

The building now houses a museum:

• DAUGHERTY Family ~ MAGILL Family
• PATTERSON Family ~ PATTERSON in Scotland ~
• PATTERSON in Tryon Co., NC-SC ~
• PATTERSON in Augusta Co, VA
• William PATTERSON & Margaret Donnell & son Robert "R" Patterson
• PATTERSON in Sevier & McMinn Co., TN ~ PATTERSON in Abbeville Co., SC
• Wm. T. PATTERSON 1814-1891 Estate, Austin, TX
• Another William Tryon Patterson (ca 1765-1838), brother of our Samuel??
• William Patterson of Augusta Co., VA & Anderson Co., TN Revolutionary Pension file
• Descendants of Robert & Frances Patterson: son John Patterson & Margaret Baskin

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