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into Culpeper and Spotsylvania, viz.: in consequence of a special message to the preachers from some of the inhabitants. They constituted the first church in 1769, with about forty members, which was called Nottoway. f22 Mr. Walker soon moved and took pastoral charge of them. He had been preaching some time before this in North Carolina, his native State; he now removed to Virginia, and for several years acted a conspicuous part in the concerns of Virginia Baptists.
CHAPTER 3. — FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF LEGAL PERSECUTION UNTIL THE ABOLITION OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH. WHEN the Baptists first appeared in North Carolina and Virginia they were viewed by men in power as beneath their notice; none, said they, but the weak and wicked join them; let them alone, they will soon fall out among themselves and come to nothing. In some places this maxim was adhered to, and persecution, in a legal shape, was never seen. But in many places, alarmed by the rapid increase of the Baptists, the men in power strained every penal law in the Virginia code to obtain ways and means to put down these disturbers of the peace, as they were now called. It seems by no means certain that any law in force in Virginia authorized the imprisonment of any person for preaching. The law for the preservation of peace, however, was so interpreted as to answer this purpose; and, accordingly, whenever the preachers were apprehended, it was done by a peace warrant. The first instance of actual imprisonment, we believe, that ever took place in Virginia, was in the county of Spotsylvania. On the 4th of June, 1768, John Waller, Lewis Craig, James Childs, &c., were seized by the sheriff and hauled before three magistrates, who stood in the meeting-house yard, f23 and who bound them in the penalty of one thousand pounds, to appear at court two days after. At court they were arraigned as disturbers of the peace; on their trial, they were vehemently accused, by a certain lawyer, who said to the court, “May it please your worships, these men are great disturbers of the peace; they cannot meet a man upon the road, but they must ram a text of Scripture down his throat.” Mr. Waller made his own and his brethren’s defence so ingeniously that they were somewhat puzzled to know how to dispose of them. They offered to release them if they would promise to preach no more in the county for a year and a day. This they refused; and, therefore, were sent into close jail. As they were moving on, from the court-house to the prison, through the streets of Fredericksburg, they sung the hymn “Broad is the road that leads to death,” &c. This had an awful appearance. After four weeks’ confinement, Lewis Craig f24 was released from prison and immediately went down to Williamsburg to get a release for his companions. He waited on the deputy-governor, the Hon. John
Page 1 and 2: THE BAPTIST HISTORY COLLECTION STAT
Page 3 and 4: TO THE BAPTIST GENERAL MEETING OF C
Page 5 and 6: Convention, serving until his death
Page 7 and 8: PREFACE. UNLESS the compiler is who
Page 9 and 10: PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION. THE
Page 11 and 12: A correspondent writing from New Yo
Page 13 and 14: “‘Having finished his course on
Page 15 and 16: government was entirely upon the pl
Page 17 and 18: CHAPTER 2. — FROM THEIR FINAL SET
Page 19 and 20: send delegates to his meeting-house
Page 21 and 22: journey, accompanied by Mr. Graves
Page 23: with their diligence, many believed
Page 27 and 28: After their discharge, which was a
Page 29 and 30: The rage of persecutors had in nowi
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Page 33 and 34: ‘Tis true, they had some outward
Page 35 and 36: To preserve the purity of doctrine
Page 37 and 38: minister admitted into a parish was
Page 39 and 40: were put on the same footing as all
Page 41 and 42: time to favor Zion at length arrive
Page 43 and 44: plausible guess about what happened
Page 45 and 46: they communicate to each other the
Page 47 and 48: from Virginia and both the Carolina
Page 49 and 50: Adjourned till Monday morning 8 o
Page 51 and 52: The church of Shenandoah and Fauqui
Page 53 and 54: elders, etc. From which it would se
Page 55 and 56: Query. Ought all the ministerial gi
Page 57 and 58: were still in use. Mr. Ford also wr
Page 59 and 60: It seems that one great object in u
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Page 63 and 64: The large number of churches and th
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Page 67 and 68: It was then consulted, whether it w
Page 69 and 70: a place; that if there were some am
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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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