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esides the pastor, two other preachers, viz., Joseph Breed and Daniel Marshall, neither of whom was ordained. Thus organized they began their work, kindling a fire which soon began to burn brightly indeed, spreading in a few years over Virginia, North and South Carolina and Georgia. The subsequent events seem completely to have verified Mr. Stearns’s impressions concerning a great work of God in the West.
CHAPTER 2. — FROM THEIR FINAL SETTLEMENT IN NORTH CAROLINA UNTIL THE COMMENCEMENT OF LEGAL PERSECUTION. THE natives around about this little colony of Baptists, although brought up in the Christian religion, were grossly ignorant of its essential principles. Having the form of godliness, they knew nothing of its power. The doctrine of Mr. Stearns and his party was consequently quite strange. To be born again appeared to them as absurd as it did to the Jewish doctor, when he asked if he must enter the second time into his mother’s womb and be born again. Having always supposed that religion consisted in nothing more than the practice of its outward duties, they could not comprehend how it should be necessary to feel conviction and conversion. But to be able to ascertain the time and place of one’s conversion was, in their estimation, wonderful indeed. These points were all strenuously contended for by the new preachers. But their manner of preaching was, if possible, much more novel than their doctrines. The Separates in New England had acquired a very warm and pathetic address, accompanied by strong gestures and a singular tone of voice. Being often deeply affected themselves while preaching, correspondent affections were felt by their pious hearers, which were frequently expressed by tears, trembling, screams, shouts and acclamations. All these they brought with them into their new habitation. The people were greatly astonished, having never seen things on this wise before. Many mocked, but, the power of God attending them, many also trembled. In process of time some of the natives became converts, and bowed obedience to the Redeemer’s sceptre. These, uniting their labors with the chosen band, a powerful and extensive work broke out. From sixteen, Sandy Creek church soon swelled to six hundred and six members, so mightily grew the work of God! Daniel Marshall, though not possessed of great talents, was indefatigable in his endeavors. He sallied out into the adjacent neighborhoods and planted the Redeemer’s standard in many of the strongholds of Satan. At Abbott’s Creek, about thirty miles from Sandy Creek, the Gospel prospered so largely that they petitioned the mother church for a constitution and for the ordination of Mr. Marshall as their pastor. Mr. Marshall accepted the call and went to live among them. His ordination, however, was a matter of some difficulty. It required a plurality of elders to constitute a presbytery; Mr. Stearns was the only ordained minister among them. In this dilemma they were informed that there were some Regular Baptist preachers living on Pedee. To one of these Mr. Stearns
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THE BAPTIST HISTORY COLLECTION STAT
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TO THE BAPTIST GENERAL MEETING OF C
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Convention, serving until his death
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PREFACE. UNLESS the compiler is who
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PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION. THE
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A correspondent writing from New Yo
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“‘Having finished his course on
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government was entirely upon the pl
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send delegates to his meeting-house
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journey, accompanied by Mr. Graves
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with their diligence, many believed
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CHAPTER 3. — FROM THE COMMENCEMEN
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After their discharge, which was a
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The rage of persecutors had in nowi
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this season they received the most
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‘Tis true, they had some outward
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To preserve the purity of doctrine
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minister admitted into a parish was
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were put on the same footing as all
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time to favor Zion at length arrive
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plausible guess about what happened
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they communicate to each other the
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from Virginia and both the Carolina
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Adjourned till Monday morning 8 o
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The church of Shenandoah and Fauqui
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elders, etc. From which it would se
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Query. Ought all the ministerial gi
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were still in use. Mr. Ford also wr
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It seems that one great object in u
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Some rules for the government of As
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The large number of churches and th
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CHAPTER 6. — CONTAINING A HISTORY
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It was then consulted, whether it w
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a place; that if there were some am
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composed of delegates from all the
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The next General Committee met at N
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they went much conversation and agi
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The last act of the General Committ
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The former moderator being absent b
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finally divide. f82 To the Lower Di
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presbyteries could be; that the imp
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very interesting. The business was
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to clear up most of the doubts. The
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£68 11s. 6d., which, with the pres
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CHAPTER 9. — HISTORICAL SKETCHES
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HOPEFUL. This is quite a new church
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ut no personal violence. During the
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Some were excluded, and among this
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He is a lively and warm preacher. B
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parish, who had come to hear him, a
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pious and zealous preacher, and und
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since their first constitution. Thi
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Upper Essex church have sprung Uppe
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His life was good preaching to all
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talents, dwelt among them. He, howe
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formed into a church April 29, 1786
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FARNHAM. F129 This church was raise
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CHAPTER 12. — HISTORY OF THE PROC
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October 18, 1793. — They met acco
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October 19, 1799. — Letters from
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church, but to other churches likew
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CHAPTER 13. — HISTORICAL SKETCHES
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PINEY BRANCH. F142 This church was
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GUINEA’S BRIDGE. F147 This church
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COUNTY LINE. F152 This church was a
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accordingly preached for them state
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THOMPSON’S OR GOLDMINE. F160 The
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labored in these parts at an early
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Under his ministry the church has e
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Assemblies paid them a visit and in
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CHAPTER 15. — HISTORY OF THE CULP
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of Virginia generally, when the chu
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Dulaney himself, who was not a Bapt
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MILL CREEK. This is also a mother c
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Mill Creek was a large church when
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Mill Creek church has had many ebbs
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Silas Hart, a native of Pennsylvani
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They held their first session, afte
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these been baptized, without requir
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when he moved westward. Simeon Walt
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part, with their pastor, Elder Samu
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CHAPTER 17. — HISTORY OF APPOMATT
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STAUNTON RIVER. There had been some
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Hankins (1834), H.L. Pettus (1837),
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PROVIDENCE F237 is not a very prosp
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f238 Union Hill. These bodies, adde
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for a long time without any stated
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MALONE’S F244 OR GENETO. This chu
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whenever Zion languishes, he feels
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JAMES’S is a young church, concer
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CHAPTER 19. — HISTORY OF THE PROC
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October, 1793, they met at Hart’s
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is a serious truth. The spirit of t
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on the extremity might be dismissed
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October, 1807, they met at Millston
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BUFFALOE F263 was also the fruits o
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impetuous passions, and not keeping
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die one of the brightest lights of
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UPPER BANISTER. F282 This church ha
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displays talents and animation, by
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CHAPTER 21. — HISTORY OF THE STRA
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NORTH FORK OF OTTER. No information
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unimportant to him what kind of hou
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CHAPTER 22. — HISTORY OF THE NEW
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Rev. William Howard has generally a
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CATAWBA, F316 when first constitute
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CHAPTER 23. — HISTORY OF THE HOLS
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MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION was constitute
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CHAPTER 24. — HISTORY OF THE ACCO
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LOWER NORTHAMPTON. F335 Within the
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was Joseph Flood. He was for eight
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CHAPTER 25. — OF THE ORIGIN AND P
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meetings preaching was kept up for
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Sometimes the preachers, and even s
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which had been previously inserted
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In 1789, the Ketocton Association w
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was accordingly done. They were tre
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Robert Latham f353 as their pastor,
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thirteen years. Subsequently O.W. B
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BULL RUN F357 has been a more numer
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have not yet made him weary in well
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BRENT TOWN. This church was stricke
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stands. The church was at first an
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Samuel O’Hendren, their pastor, i
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Mr. Hutchinson is respected as a pr
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CHAPTER 28. — HISTORY OF GREENBRI
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ecovered from a very severe spell o
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“They,” says our informant, “
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[This church was located in the sou
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CHAPTER 29. — HISTORY OF THE UNIO
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CHAPTER 30. — HISTORY OF THE RED
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CHAPTER 31. — HISTORY OF THE PORT
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Palmer and Parker were both Arminia
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Jesus was essential to baptism, yet
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Elders William Browne, James Wright
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off if he were to live an hundred y
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[This church was at first an arm of
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RACCOON SWAMP has been a large and
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DAVENPORT’S has very few white me
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ELDER JOHN COURTNEY was a native of
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Broaddus, and was in its eloquence
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the house of a woman upon a certain
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towards the end of his life labored
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To Nathaniel Saunders, a Minister o
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together as to make the numerous pe
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wall thereof, and it shall be trodd
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Williams to present this address an
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Commonwealth of Virginia, and it is
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Signed by order. SAM’L HARRISS, M
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As the bill violates equality by su
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equal and complete liberty, if it d
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eplies is well expressed in the fol
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ministry. Dying November 2, 1784, h
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ft28 In the warrant (still on file
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having secretly immersed General Wa
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in the history of Virginia. For the
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ft90 The day was uniformly observed
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ft107 This church was located in Ca
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ft117 This church is located in the
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spent the evening in much peace and
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ft140 The meeting-house of Mine Roa
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occasion. It was, however, received
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ft165 Little River church is in Lou
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also at the siege of Yorktown. Subs
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Georgetown. He established the firs
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T.W. Sydnor by an aged citizen. Its
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church in Rocky Swamp. He was later
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itinerant labors. The First church
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ft254 Removed to Kentucky and becam
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ft270 Childrey, located in the uppe
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ft284 This body was located in the
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His son, Dr. John G. Carter, afterw
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ft314 This body took their name fro
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ft336 Hungar’s (or Hungo’s) chu
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completed a new and elegant one, be
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Hickerson a little farm in Culpeper
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ft382 Olive Branch was in Harrison
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was changed to Northwest. Pleasant
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