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in North Carolina, Daniel was offered the position, but his terms were considered too extravagant. However, he did lead troops during the Yamasee War in South Carolina in 1715.
When Governor Charles Craven left South Carolina in the spring of 1716, he named Daniel as his deput)? to preside over the government. By this time Daniel was an old man close to senility, and he became embroiled in a series of petty arguments with the legislature over questions of personal privilege. He was succeeded bv Governor Robert Johnson in the fall of 1717. By early May 1718 Daniel was dead. He had named his wife Martha as his executrix and had made bequests to a son- and daughter-in-law and two grandsons. He was also survived by a daughter, Martha, a noted South Carolina florist and wife of Charles Logan She died in 1779 at the age of seventy-seven.
SEE: William Darlington, Memorials of John Bertram and Humphrey Marshal! with Notices of their Botanical Contemporaries (1849); Deeds of Beaufort County (North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh); Caroline T. Moore and Agatha A. Simmons, eds.. Abstracts of the Wills of .. . South Carolina, 2670-2740 (1960); William S. Pnce, Jr., ed., Colonial Records of North Carolina, Higher-Court Records, 1702-1708, vol. 5 (1977); William L. Saunders, cd., Colonial Records of North Carolina, vol. 1 (1886); M. Eugene Simians, Colonial South Carolina (1966); Stephen B. Weeks, "Robert Daniel," C. L. Van Noppen Papers (Manuscript Department, Library, Duke University, Durham).
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Daniel, Robert Thomas (10 June 1773-14 S*p<. J840), Baptist minister and agent for benevolent agencies, was bom in Middlesex County, Va., the fifth son of Samuel arid Eliza Thomas Daniel. At the close of the Revolutionary War, the family migrated to Orange County, N.C., and settled near Hillsborough. Young Daniel probably attended a local school for a short time. He was brought up in the two businesses conducted by his father, a blacksmith and cabinetmaker
In July 1802 Daniel professed his faith and in August was baptized by Elder Isaac Hicks at Holly Springs Baptist Church, Wake County, of which he became a member. By 1803 he felt the call to begin speaking at church meetings; he was formally licensed to preach in April. Three months later he was ordained at Hollv Springs by Elders Isaac Hicks, his pastor, and Nathan Gullv From that day until his death he devoted himself exclusively to the ministry, thereby expending his fortune and his health.
Throughout his career, Daniel spent most of his time traveling as an agent for various Baptist causes but he did have several brief pastorates. As one of the first missionaries of the North Carolina Baptist Benevolent Society, he organized the Raleigh First Baptist Church (presently located on Salisbury Street near the state capitol), on 8 Mar. 1812, serving as pastor in 1812-13 and again in 1822-26. During the latter period, he began sunrise services and took steps to increase the Negro membership. In 1823, one Joseph, a slave of Sherwood'Haywood, was appointed to officiate for member* of his race at the Lord's Supper; in the same year pesfonission was granted for any colored minister of like fai||n ?possessing proper credentials" to preach in the church whenever it was not being used. Success as a pastor did not affect Daniel's desire to travel, and he again resumed his missionary efforts.
On 14 Aug. 1814, Daniel helped organize Yates (now Mount Pisgah) Baptist Church in Chatham Countv and was its pastor until 1818 and again in 1822. He also assisted in the organization of Mount Carmel ?4ptist Church (1816) and Sandy Fields Baptist Chinch (1823), both in Orange County. From 1819 until 1820 he was , pastor of Grassy Creek Baptist Church, Granville County. During his travels as agent, he preached at many churches?at May's Chapel, Chatham County, at Carthage; and at Sawmill Baptist Church in South Carolina, among others.
According to abstracts of the minutes of the Sandy Creek Baptist Association, Daniel served as a delegate to the Raleigh Baptist Association (1808, 1825), to the Pee Dee Baptist Association and the General Meeting of Correspondence, North Carolina (1815), and (o the Charleston Baptist Association (1817, 1821); as a correspondent with the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions (1815, 1817); and as moderator for the Sandy Creek Baptist Association (1816, 1817, and 1822)/He wrote a circular letter for the Sandy Creek Association in 1816 and another in 1822 on "The Encouragement of Itinerant Preachers." In 1823 he was present at the Sandy Creek Association as an agent for domestic missions and took up a collection of $18.73 and a gold nng.
In 1826 Daniel went to Virginia where he served the Black Creek and High Hills Baptist churches in the Vir-ginia-Portsmouth Baptist Associatiori; at Black Creek he took the position of a pastor who would not baptize slaveholders. In November 1827 he began to preach just across the state line in Gates County, and by February 1828 he began baptising converts. That May he organized a church of thirty-one members at Sandy Cross. For four years (1827-30) he attended the Chowan Baptist Association as a delegate from the Virginia-Portsmouth Baptist Association',
At the first meeting of the North Carolina Baptist State Convention, held in 1830, Daniel was appointed an agent of the contention. He soon was prcaching and traveling from Northampton Countv to Camden County in northeastern North Carolina. Daniel then removed to Tennessee and, after spending some time in itinerant work inlhe central part of the state, settled in Lexington. From there he moved to Paris, Tenn In July 1837 he wrote to the Biblical Recorder that his health was restored and that he was able to travel and preach each day. In the fall -he was elected as a delegate from Paris Baptist Church to the Western Baptist Convention of Tennessee an4 the Western Baptist Education Societv.
As a member1 of the committee to locate a literary institution, he persuaded the delegates to select Pans for the site; he also served on the committees assigned to secure a charter from the legislature and to appoint trustees for/the institution, In August 1837 he informed the Biblical iRecorder about the committee's determination to establish an educational institution and requested the support of other states.
In 1839(iDaniel moved to Mississippi. There he issued a circular/calling for a meeting to organize a Southern Home Mission Society. At the meeting, held in Colum bus, he ivas elected as the general agent to travel in the society'/ behalf, He finally settled in Salem, Miss., which fie regarded as home for the remainder of his life. I
Dariiel was a wanderer and had no continuing home base./He was easily discouraged and just as easily induced to change his place by the prospect of greater usefulness elsewhere. The revival spirit appealed to him and he was disposed to fix his residence where religious excitement prevailed. Consequently, he plaved a