David Caldwell (North Carolina minister)

David Stewart Caldwell (1725–1824) was a Presbyterian minister, educator, physician, statesman, and early settler in Guilford County, North Carolina, in the mid 1700s.

Caldwell served as a carpenter until age twenty five when he entered the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and was graduated in 1761.

[1][2] A lack of physicians in the area of North Carolina where he lived, prompted him to study medicine from books that he acquired from Philadelphia.

This David Caldwell was also depicted in William Sharpe's 1773 map of the Fourth Creek Congregation in Rowan County.

David Caldwell died on August 25, 1824, in Guilford County, North Carolina, and was buried at the Buffalo Presbyterian Church Cemetery.