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ROBERT T. DANIEL,

the son of Samuel Daniel and Eliza Thomas, of Caroline,
was born on the 10th of June 1773. At the close of the Revolutionary
War his family removed to Orange county, N. C., and
settled near Hillsboro. Here Robert Daniel was united in
marriage to Miss Penelope Cain Flowers, of Chatham county,
N. C., on March 1, 1796. His ministry extended over the States
of North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Mississippi. During
the forty years of his ministry he traveled over sixty thousand
miles, preached five thousand sermons and baptized more than


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fifteen hundred people. He was often connected with the mission
board of his church and served acceptably as a home missionary.
He died in 1838.