I preached in a German meeting-house on Hard Labor Creek, where my appointments were to commence here was a formerly Lutheran congregation, but no remains of it are found here the Methodists and Baptists have pulled each other out of the pulpit. Miller in his missionary tour in 1811, and the following is his report concerning this church: "Sunday, November 10th. George's Lutheran Church on Hard Labor Creek was also visited by Rev. It might seem implausible that John David was first a Lutheran minister and then a Methodist minister, but we have corroboration from G. Harmon Gable who lived to be over one hundred years old, told his son who is now living in this locality that he often heard the Reverend Sibert preach, clad in long hose and knee breeches with silver buckles at the knees. stated that when he was a small boy he heard the Reverend Sibert preach in this church and that his German accent was so strong that he could hardly understand him. George’s Church on the Troy-Edgefield road. Apparently, John David and some of the congregation had converted to Methodism, and moved down the road to form the Tranquil Methodist Church in Troy which was built about one mile northwest of the St. George Lutheran Church, but he left before 4 January 1788, when the church was incorporated with a different pastor. It is not known how long after the war John David remained with St. Probably he was a soldier in the local militia his son David recounts how on one occasion he was forced to hide from the British in a hollow log until he was almost famished. Īccording to John David’s son David, John David was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. After the Revolutionary War, the church opened as a Lutheran church with John David as its pastor.
He married a Miss Wilmore of Virginia and bought a farm on Hard Labor Creek in Abbeville District, now in McCormick County, and at some point, he became the minister of St. Beeson claims that the Reverend John David Sibert came to America not long before the Revolutionary War. It is not known what the result of this request was perhaps it was not immediately granted, and the congregation was forced to rely on clergymen from other denominations. It petitioned the Commissioners of Trade and Plantations for a Lutheran minister. George Lutheran Church was organized there. The colonial government ordered a log house built for the colonists, and it appears that as early as 1769 the congregation of the St. Land was granted to 56 people, and by autumn 1765 there were about 250 settlers, mostly German Palatine immigrants. In 1762 some twenty thousand acres on Hard Labor Creek in present-day Greenwood and McCormick Counties in South Carolina were laid out as a buffer between the Cherokee Indians and low-country plantations.
REVEREND JOHN DAVID SIBERT (say 1755 – 1820/30) Send comments and corrections to First Generationġ. The Sibert Family of South Carolina and Alabama
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