Rev. George White in his book, Historical Collections of Georgia , written in 1854, stated in the section on the history of Madison County on page 544: "..There are several instances of longevity. Mr. James Pittman, 93; Mrs. Lettuce Mulligan, 89; Mr, Stephen Groves was over 93; James Thompson was over 80; Mr. James Caruth, over 80; Mr. James Saunders, 80; Captain Robert L. Tate [sic], 80; Rev. Timothy Carrington died at 80; Alexander Haman, at 80; /Wm. Cheek, at 89; Charles Tugle [sic], 87...."

Not only did Rev. White talk with local citizens in the various counties, but in 1853 when he was researching his book, Rev. Timothy's oldest child, Daniel Carrington was still living in neighboring Wilkes County. Daniel's longevity was also noted in the Wilkes County chapter, so it is very possible that Rev. White talked personally with Daniel Carrington regarding his and Rev. Timothy's long lives.

We know that Rev. Timothy died in September 1822, so subtracting 80 years from 1822 produces a birth year of 1742 for Rev. Timothy. Therefore, Rev. Timothy was 32 years old in 1774 when he married 16-year-old Winnifred King.

Timothy served in the military enlisting as a private for a six-month period in 1781 in Wake County, North Carolina. He participated in the Battle of Eutaw Springs, South Carolina on Sep 8, 1781. He was paid for his services as shown by the following entry from North Carolina Revolutionary Army Accounts, Vol. 1, Book 3, page 36:

"Specia Certificates pd into the comptrollers office by John Armstrong & c.: No 1160, granted by Bledsoe & Williams to TIMOTHY CARRINTON (sic), 10 June 1783, Sum=17£, interest 7.7 to 29 Oct 1783; Prin & Int=£17.7.7."

From Wake County, North Carolina, Court Minutes:

Page 216— Timothy Carrington - Grants ordered to be registered, 200 acres, Grant # 137.

Page 307— A deed from Timothy Carrington to James Brown was proved in Open Court by the Oath of John Humphries Va. a witness thereto and Ordered to be registered.

Timothy was ordained a minister of the gospel at Millstone Baptist Church by 1790 in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. Verbatim excerpt from the "List of Baptist Ministers and the Churches They Served," a reference list compiled for use of the librarians in the Special Collections Room at the Tarver Library, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia:

Carrington, Timothy: Clarks Station 1788 Millstone 1790 Georgia
Assoc. 1788-- Ord. by 1790 Clouds Creek 1792
Asplund 1790 Ord. Millstone, Wilkes Co. [later Oglethorpe Co.]
Sarepta Assoc. had written circular letter
in 1803 Skull Shoals in Elbert Co. 1804 Sarepta
Assoc. 1804 Asked to write letter to Bethel Assoc.
S.C. 1804 Messenger to Georgia Assoc.

In the minutes of the various association meetings of 1788, 1790, 1792 and 1793, the names of the ordained ministers always were printed in Capitals, the unordained preachers were in italics. and delegates to the meeting were in plain type.

In 1788 Rev. Timothy's name was in plain type indicating he was simply a lay delegate to the Georgia Association meeting at Clarks Station.. In 1790 his name was in all caps indicating he was the ordained minister representing his pastorate at Millstone Baptist, and in 1792 and 1793, his pastorate at Clouds Creek.

Timothy served as pastor of Millstone Creek Baptist Church in 1790 in Wilkes County, Georgia. According to the Minutes of the Georgia Association Meeting held at Reed's Creek on Oct 16, 1790, Millstone Baptist Church had 51 members that year, one member was baptized and 2 were "received by letter" [when they joined the church].

Delegates to the Association meeting were Rev. Timothy Carrington, pastor, James Dye and Jesse Willingham.

Timothy served as pastor Of Cloud's Creek Baptist Church in 1792 and 1793 in Wilkes County, Georgia. In 1792 Rev. Timothy Carrington was the only delegate from Cloud's Creek to the Georgia Association Meeting. That year he reported that the church had 57 members, two of which were received by baptism and six were received by letter.

In 1793 Rev. Timothy Carrington, pastor, and Isaiah Hales, a licensed preacher, were the Cloud's Creek delegates to the Georgia Association meeting. He reported a membership of 53, of which 3 were baptised, 7 were received by letter, and 3 were excommunicated.

Although the church records did not include the names of pastors prior to 1805, Rev. Timothy might have remained as pastor at Cloud's Creek until 1803 when he helped found and became the first pastor at Scull Shoals Baptist, later renamed Lystra Baptist. The List of Baptist Ministers and the Churches They Served from the Georgia Baptist Archives does not show him as pastor of any other church between 1792 and 1803.

Cloud's Creek Baptist Church was organized Sep 20, 1788 with charter members: Jos. Embrey, Robertson Hendon, Thos. Hendon, Jimmy Smith, William Hnedon, Benjamin Staniford, William Lawrence, Ruben Johnson, Thos. Johnson, Abel Gower, Benjamin Tribble, Adam Simmons, Timothy Carrington, Isaiah Hales, Rachel Embry, Elizabeth Hendon, Casandra Hendon, Elizabeth Hendon (No. 2), Keronhappuch Olive, Mary Bridges, Lyda Johnson, Penelope Johnson, Rhoda Lawrence, Tabitha Simillion and Rachel Staniford.

Timothy Carrington and Isaiah Hales were both later ordained as Baptist ministers.

Today there is a bronze plaque on the front exterior wall of the church by the front door listing all the charter members.

Timothy worked as pastor at Cloud's Creek from 1798 until 1803. In 1798 eight churches withdrew from the Georgia Baptist Association—Shoal Creek, Doves Creek, Van's Creek, Holly Springs, Cabin Creek, Millstone, Trail Creek and Nail's Creek. In October 1799 delegates from those eight churches met at Van's Creek Church in Elbert County and formed the Sarepta Baptist Association.

The second session of the Sarepta Association was held at Millstone Baptist Church in 1800, and records show that "Cloud's Creek Church came in with her letter from the Georgia association...," making nine churches in all.

In 1803 the Sarepta Association met at Cloud's Creek Church and Rev. Timothy Carrington was a delegate and helped write a Circular Letter.

Timothy was a co-founder and the first minister, and he & Winney were charter members of the Lystra Primitive Baptist Church which was constituted January 15, 1803, at Scull Shoals in Elbert County, Georgia. Lystra was originally called Scull Shoals Baptist Church. Lystra Church was a topic in one of the Foxfire 7 book, and was featured in at least two newspaper articles over the years.

In 1804 Rev. timothy Carrington was again a delegate to the Sarepta Association meeting. He was asked to write a letter to the Bethel Association in South Carolina.

In 1804 he was also a messenger from the Sarepta Association to the Georgia Association meeting.

in 1807 the Sarepta Association met at Shoals Creek in Elbert County, and Rev. Timothy Carrington gave the introductory sermon.

Church records indicated that Rev. Timothy Carrington performed a marriage in Elbert County on Sep. 24, 1807.

According to the History of the Baptist Denomination in North America by David Benedict, Rev. Timothy was still pastor of Scull Shoals Baptist Church in 1813. The church minutes dated Sep. 12, 1819, recorded that Timothy was relieved of duty because of age, and he died in September 1822. The church minutes of May 6, 1826, still listed Winnifred Carrington as a member.

Carrington, Timothy...EL/gr ...1801...203

Note: "EL/gr" meant Elbert County, Grimes District.

From: Georgia Tax Digests 1800-1802, Vol. II, p 14, taken from GADH microfilm # 10/82.

Timothy registered for a draw in the 1805 Goergia Land Lottery as follows:

Carrington, Timothy 430 BB Elbert

[He did not win any land]

The following notice appeared in the Athens Gazette edition of Thursday, Mar 30, 1815:

"The Rev. Mr. Carrington will preach in the Chapel in Athens the Sunday after the 4th Saturday in April next."

The transcribed tax digest appeared in the Georgia Genealogical Magazine Vol. 33, No. 2-3 (Issues 128-129), Spring/Summer 1993, p 131-43:

Tax Receiver: James Bradberry
Repository: Georgia Department of Archives and History, Drawer #172, Box #48.
[abbr: a=acres, BB, BR, SS, etc.= abbr for water course the land adjoined, n=no. of taxable Negroes, unk=unknown to whom land was originally granted]

"Captain Orr District"

On p 20
Timothy Carrington, 295a, BR, 1n, J. Dean, adjoined R. Griffith.

Rev. Timothy Carrington owned 295 acres; water course = Broad River; owned one taxable slave; the land was originally granted to J. Dean, and the land adjoined that of R. Giffith.

[Rev. Timothy was listed directly below his third son, Osborne.]

The following Legal Notice appeared in The Georgie Journal, Milledgeville, Georgia on Apr 28, 1818:

"Georgia, Madison County. Clerk's Office, Inferior Court. Tolled before...BENJAMIN GHOLSTON, Esq.,...by TIMOTHY CARRINGTON, one bay horse, 12 years old...a small bell on and swab tail...(Signed) WILLIAM GRIFFITH, Clerk."

State: GA; Co.: Madison; Dist: unk;
Enumerator: John Sanders, Asst. Marshall;
Roll M33_9, Image 0079, LN 26, Page 52
===================================
Head of Household: Timothy Carrington
....White males: 1 (16-20)*, 1 (45-up);
White Females: 1 (26-45), 1 (45-up);
.....Agriculture: 1
...........Slaves: 0

* Although he would have been 28 years old in 1820, this male was most likely their youngest son and ninth child, William W. Carrington, who was unmarried. It also might have been a grandson, or a farm laborer or boarder living there to help out since Rev. Timothy was about 78 years old and reputedly in poor health when he was replaced as pastor of Lystra Primitive Baptist Church in 1819.

The female 26-45 was Sarah "Salley" Carrington, their fourth child, who never married.

Second son, Henson T. Carrington, lived two doors away.

Timothy successfully drew land in the 1820 Goergia Land Lottery as follows:

Carrington, Timothy Madison Orrs 240/11 Early

• Married: Dec 1774 in Loudoun County, Virginia ³
• Note: Place and date of marriage are taken from the application for bounty land and pension which Daniel Carrington filed based on his father Timothy's Revolutionary War service.
• Event: Alt. Marriage Dec 1774 in Loudoun County, Virginia
• Change Date: 25 Aug 2009

1. Daniel CARRINGTON b: 25 Dec 1776 in Loudoun County, Virginia
2. Nancy CARRINGTON b: 18 Apr 1778 in Loudoun County, Virginia
3. Henson T. CARRINGTON b: 25 Dec 1780 in Wake County, North Carolina
4. Sarah "Salley" CARRINGTON b: 30 Jun 1783 in Wake County, North Carolina
5. Osborne CARRINGTON b: 28 Sep 1786 in Wilkes County, Georgia
6. Winnifred "Winny" King CARRINGTON b: 29 Jan 1789 in Wilkes County, Georgia
7. Micajah CARRINGTON b: 8 Dec 1790 in Wilkes County, Georgia
8. John CARRINGTON b: 1791 in Georgia, USA
9. William W. CARRINGTON b: Abt 1792 in Georgia, USA
10. Mary "Polly" CARRINGTON b: Abt 1793 in Georgia, USA

1. Media: Census/Tax
   Title: 1820 Madison County, Georgia, Census
   Publication: [primary source] Danielsville, GA, 1820. [Ancestry.com electronic database: images of original documents]
   Date: 15 Dec 1999
   Page: Roll M33_9, Image 0079, LN 26, Page 52
2. Media: Book
   Title: Historical Sketches: Presbyterian Churches and Early Settlers in Northeast Georgia
   Author: Cartledge, Groves Harrison, author; compiled by Jessie Julia Mize and Virginia Louise Newton
   Publication: [secondary source] Athens, GA, University of Georgia Press, 1960; Third Printing by Madison County Heritage foundation, Danielsville, GA, 1988
   Note:
   [A compilation of historical and biographical sketches of people in the frontier Presbyterian communities of northeast Georgia. Many of these sketches were printed in church periodicals during his lifetime (Feb 15, 1820-Jul 5, 1899). He knew and/or ministered to many of the people mentioned in his sketches.]
   Page: p 75
3. Media: Book
   Title: Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, Volume I: A-E
   Author: White, Virgil D. (abstracted by)
   Publication: [primary source] Waynesboro, TN: National Historical Publishing Company, 1990
   Page: R1730, p 554
4. Media: Research collection
   Title: King Family Research Files
   Author: King, Donald, Compiler/Editor
   Publication: [primary and secondary source] 1999. Various e-mail messages to Diane Carrington Bradford. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~purdue or dking4@gte.net
   Note:
   [Donald King is a descendant of John and Mary Osborne King of Virginia, through their son Smith King.]
5. Media: Research collection
   Title: Helen Gunnin Mishasek Research Collection
   Publication: [primary and secondary source] Atlanta, GA, 1930-1998
   Note:
   [Helen Gunnin Mishasek is a descendant of Rev. Timothy Carrington and of James Thompson, two of the earliest settlers of Madison County, Georgia. She devoted years to researching her family lines and in the process developed a collection of hundreds of books and thousands of index cards containing her research notes which she indexed and cross-referenced. In 1998 when she moved to Pueblo, CO., to be near her son, she gave all of her research materials on the Carrington and Carithers lines to Robert S. Shepherd, Monticello, FL, some other materials to other cousins, and the bulk of her materials to the publishers of Heritage Papers in Athens, GA.]
6. Media: Research collection
   Title: Bates/King /Floyd Family Files
   Author: Bates, Wayne Witt, Compiler
   Publication: [primary and secondary source] Virginia, 1999 wittbates@aol.com
   Note:
   [Wayne Witt Bates is a descendant of Rev. Timothy and Winifred King Carrington and of William and Sarah King Floyd of early Madison County, Georgia. Winifred and Sarah were sisters and the daughters of John and Mary Osborne King of Loudoun County, Virginia.]
7. Media: Bible
   Title: Family Bible Records [handwritten]
   Author: Rev. Timothy Carrington
   Publication: [primary source] 1774-1822 [photocopy in possession of compiler]
8. Media: Court Records
   Title: "Will of Mary Osborne King,"
   Publication: Loudoun County, Virginia, Will Book C, pp 148-149 (died 1784, will proved Dec 13, 1790) [primary source]
   Date: 20 Nov 2002
9. Media: Book
   Title: Historical Collections of Georgia: Containing the Most Interesting Facts, Traditions, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, etc. Relating to Its History and Antiquities, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time
   Author: White, M.A., Rev. George, Author
   Publication: [primary and secondary source] 688 pages. New York: Pudney & Russell, Publishers, 1854 (reprinted by Heritage Papers, Danielsville, Georgia, 1968)
   Date: 6 Mar 2002
   Note:
   [Excerpt from the Preface of this book: "...Ten years of incessant labour, expense and travel throughout the State, have been cheerfully bestowed, and the "HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GEORGIA" are the result.
   
   "No source of knowledge has been neglected or despised. The Libraries of Charleston, Savannah, Milledgeville, and New-York [sic], have been diligently searched.
   
   "The Colonial Documents kindly furnished me by the Legislature of Georgia, to aid in the compilation of this work, have been freely used. A large amount of information has been gleaned, moreover, from aged persons-'the oldest inhabitants' of many of our towns and villages-whose memories are proverbially tenacious in regard to events, which made their vivid impressions in early youth. This oral tradition, indeed, often furnishes the warm flesh and blood of the body of History, while documentary evidence can be relied on for the putting together of the dry skeleton alone.
   
   "Correctness rather than elegance has been the end chiefly sought; and the pains unsparingly taken give me a right to claim general reliability for all facts stated.
   
   "But in a field of original research, so new, so extended, and so largely unexplored before, it is too much to expect that entire freedom from error has been attained....
   
   This work does not assume to be a consecutive History. It is but a collection of materials for the use of the future historian....
   
   G. W.
   
   "Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, 1st January, 1854"]
   Page: p 544
10. Media: Original Document
    Title: Family Record Written in his Bible
    Author: Lucas Nesbitt Carrington
    Publication: [primary source] Handwritten verbatim copy of the family record made for Nathaniel and Anne Carrington in the 1940s. [Now in the possession of Diane Carrington Bradford, daughter of Nathaniel and Anne Carrington.]
    Note:
    [Lucas Nesbitt Carrington was a 2nd great grandson of Rev. Timothy Carrington (James Timothy, King, Osborne, Rev. Timothy).]
11. Media: Research collection
    Title: Lassiter/Thompson Research Files
    Author: Lassiter, Darrell Curtis "Skip," Compiler
    Publication: [primary and secondary source] Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, 1999 DLassiters@aol. com
    Note:
    [Darrell Curtis "Skip" Lassiter is a descendant of the Carrington, Thompson, and related families of early Madison County, Georgia.]
12. Media: Research collection
    Title: Lanny Cauthen Research Files
    Author: Cauthen, Lanny Everett, Compiler
    Publication: [primary and secondary source] Fayetteville, GA, 1999, lcauthen@mindspring.com [Family documents, pictures, and research materials in possession of compiler]
    Note:
    [Lanny Everett Cauthen is a descendant of the Carrington, Thompson, and related families of early Madison County, Georgia.]
13. Media: Military
    Title: North Carolina Revolutionary Army Accounts
    Publication: [primary source] Raleigh, NC: Treasurers and Comptrollers Papers.
    Date: 16 Mar 2004
    Page: Vol. 1, Book 3, page 36
14. Media: Church
    Title: "List of Baptist Ministers and the Churches They Served" (Baptist Church of Georgia)
    Publication: [primary source] Library reference list. On file at the Georgia Baptist Archives, Special Collections Room, 3rd Floor, Tarver Library, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia (photocopy in possession of Diane Carrington Bradford)
    Date: 17 Apr 2003
15. Media: Church
    Title: Minutes of the Georgia Association (Baptist Church of Georgia)
    Publication: [primary source] Baptist Church of Georgia. On file at the Georgia Baptist Archives, Special Collections Room, 3rd Floor, Tarver Library, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia (photocopy in possession of Diane Carrington Bradford)
    Date: 17 Apr 2003
    Page: 2nd District: Moreland, White Oak
16. Media: Church
    Title: Minutes of the Georgia Association (Baptist Church of Georgia)
    Publication: [primary source] Baptist Church of Georgia. On file at the Georgia Baptist Archives, Special Collections Room, 3rd Floor, Tarver Library, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia (photocopy in possession of Diane Carrington Bradford)
    Date: 17 Apr 2003
    Page: Meeting of Oct 20, 1792
17. Media: Church
    Title: Minutes of the Georgia Association (Baptist Church of Georgia)
    Publication: [primary source] Baptist Church of Georgia. On file at the Georgia Baptist Archives, Special Collections Room, 3rd Floor, Tarver Library, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia (photocopy in possession of Diane Carrington Bradford)
    Date: 17 Apr 2003
    Page: Meeting of Oct 19, 1793
18. Media: Book
    Title: History of the Sarepta Baptist Association of Georgia and Historical Sketches of Churches Composing the Association
    Author: Hardman, Rev. T. C., Coile, Rev. W. M. and Rogers, Col. Z. B., Committee
    Publication: [primary source] Athens, Georgia: The MacGregor Co., 1943
    Date: 20 Apr 2003
    Note:
    [Information compiled from the Minutes of the Sarepta Baptist Association of Georgia.]
    Page: p 1 and p 30
19. Media: Church
    Title: "List of Baptist Ministers and the Churches They Served" (Baptist Church of Georgia)
    Publication: [primary source] Library reference list. On file at the Georgia Baptist Archives, Special Collections Room, 3rd Floor, Tarver Library, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia (photocopy in possession of Diane Carrington Bradford)
    Date: 17 Apr 2003
    Page: Excerpt of names beginning with letter "C"—Camp through Carruth
20. Media: Book
    Title: Historical Sketches: Presbyterian Churches and Early Settlers in Northeast Georgia
    Author: Cartledge, Groves Harrison, author; compiled by Jessie Julia Mize and Virginia Louise Newton
    Publication: [secondary source] Athens, GA, University of Georgia Press, 1960; Third Printing by Madison County Heritage foundation, Danielsville, GA, 1988
    Note:
    [A compilation of historical and biographical sketches of people in the frontier Presbyterian communities of northeast Georgia. Many of these sketches were printed in church periodicals during his lifetime (Feb 15, 1820-Jul 5, 1899). He knew and/or ministered to many of the people mentioned in his sketches.]
    Page: p 72
21. Media: Book
    Title: Georgia Tax Digests 1800-1802, Vol. II
    Publication: [primary source] Atlanta: R. J. Taylor Foundation, 1986. Taken from Georgia Department of Archives and History microfilm # 10/82.
    Date: 29 Mar 2007
    Page: p 14
22. Media: Book
    Title: 1805 Georgia Land Lottery
    Author: Wood, Virginia S., and Ralph W. Wood, transcribed and indexed by
    Publication: [primary source] Cambridge, MA: The Greenewood Press, 1964
    Date: 16 Oct 2003
    Page: p 57
23. Media: Newspaper
    Title: Athens Gazette
    Publication: [primary source] Athens, Clarke County, Georgia
    Date: 30 Mar 2007
    Page: Vol. II, No. LIX, Thursday, Mar 30, 1815
24. Media: Periodical
    Title: Georgia Genealogical Magazine: A Magazine of Source Material Concerning Georgians
    Author: Lucas, The Rev. Silas Emmett, Jr., Editor/Owner
    Publication: [primary source] Easley, SC: Published quarterly: Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall.
    Date: 20 Oct 2003
    Page: Vol. 33, No. 2-3 (Issues 128-129), Spring/Summer 1993, p 131-43
25. Media: Book
    Title: Genealogical Abstracts from the Georgia Journal, (Milledgeville) Newspaper, 1819-1840, Volume One, 1809-1818
    Author: Hartz, Fred R. and Hartz, Emilie K., (abstracted and compiled by)
    Publication: [primary source] Vidalia, GA: 1990.
    Date: 29 Mar 2005
    Page: p 848
26. Media: Book
    Title: The Third or 1820 Land Lottery of Georgia
    Author: Lucas, The Rev. Silas Emmett, Jr., Compiler
    Publication: [primary source] Easly, SC: Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1986
    Date: 16 Oct 2003
    Page: p 56