74; and Baird, _A Collection_, etc., pp.
816-817.] [Footnote 2: Paul C.Cameron, a son of Judge Duncan of North Carolina, said: "In my boyhood life at my father's home I often saw John Chavis, a venerable old negro man, recognized as a freeman and as a preacher or clergyman of the Presbyterian Church.

As such he was received by my father and treated with kindness and consideration, and respected as a man of education, good sense and most estimable character." Mr.George Wortham, a lawyer of Granville County, said: "I have heard him read and explain the Scriptures to my father's family repeatedly.

His English was remarkably pure, containing no 'negroisms'; his manner was impressive, his explanations clear and concise, and his views, as I then thought and still think, entirely orthodox.

He was said to have been an acceptable preacher, his sermons abounding in strong common sense views and happy illustrations, without any effort at oratory or sensational appeals to the passions of his hearers." See Bassett, _Slavery in N.C_., pp.

74-75.] [Footnote 3: See Chapter VII.] [Footnote 4: Bassett, _Slavery in North Carolina_, p.