| St. Margaret's Parish | Church of England, Wake County, est. with the formation of the county in 1770 and coextensive with it. (The parish probably was named for Saint Margaret because the county was named for Margaret Wake, wife of Governor William Tryon.) |
| St. Mark's District | one of the districts into which Orange County was divided at the time of the 1790 census. It contained 138 heads of families. |
| St. Martin | community in S Stanly County between Big Bear Creek and Little Bear Creek. Named for a local Lutheran church. |
| St. Martin's Parish | Church of England, Bladen County, est. in 1734 when the county was formed and coextensive with the county. The parish had 791 white taxables in 1767, described as being "in middling circumstances." |
| St. Martin's Parish | Church of England, Martin County, est. 1774 with the formation of the county and coextensive with it. |
| St. Martin's Parish | Church of England, Mecklenburg County, est. 1762 with the formation of the county and coextensive with it. The parish in 1767 had 1,600 white taxables, described as "mostly Presbyterians." St. Martin's Episcopal Church still exists in Charlotte. |
| St. Mary's District | one of the districts into which Orange County was divided at the time of the 1790 census. It contained 237 heads of families. |
| St. Mary's Parish | Church of England, Edgecombe County, est. 1756 by the division of the Parish of Edgecombe. St. Mary's Parish was in the S and the Parish of Edgecombe in the n. With the creation of Halifax County from Edgecombe County in 1758, the Parish of Edgecombe (est. 1741 with the formation of Edgecombe County) became coextensive with the new county. St. Mary's Parish then became coextensive with Edgecombe County. In 1767 St. Mary's Parish had 1,200 white taxables. |
| St. Marys Township | E Wake County. |
| St. Matthew's Parish | Church of England, Orange County, est. in 1752 with the formation of the county and coextensive with it. In 1767 the parish had 3,573 white taxables, making it the most populous parish in the colony. Reestablished in 1824, St. Matthew's Parish of the Episcopal Church continues to function in Hillsborough. |