Mcree, James, Dd

McRee, James, D.D.

a Presbyterian minister, was born in Iredell County, N.C., May 10, 1752, of parents who had emigrated from Ireland in 1730. He was educated in New Jersey College, studied theology privately, was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Orange in April 1778, and became pastor in Mecklenburg County, N.C., where he remained twenty years. He died March 28, 1840. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 3:322.