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Massachusetts Baptist churches thus began in Boston: “Some Baptist friends
from England” had a “meeting” called, “the church was formed, consisting of”
— and here follow the names. f911 Only two of these names are mentioned by
Benedict as not being Baptists up to the formation of this church. Speaking of
a number of those who went into this church Backus says: “Goodall came
recommended from Mr. Kiflin’s church in London; Turner and Lambert from
Mr. Stead’s church in Dart-mouth, having been regular walkers in the Baptist
order before they came to this country.” f912
The first Baptist church in Virginia, and, “in some sense, the mother of all the
rest,” was constituted under the pastoral care of Rev. Dutton Lane, and by Rev.
“Daniel Marshall,” who got his baptism in regular order from a regular Baptist
church in the Philadelphia association. f913
The first Baptist church in Pennsylvania thus originated:
“In 1684 Thomas Dungan removed from Rhode Island. … This Baptist
preacher and pioneer was probably accompanied with associates of his own
faith. Here he founded a church of his own order, which in the end was
shortly absorbed by the next company I shall name.” f915
The next company, absorbing the church first named, was “Welsh emigrants,
who settled in Pennepeck, or Lower Dublin, 1686.” This church was made up
of regular Baptist members. f916 The first Baptist church in Philadelphia was
organized in 1698, of English Baptists, some of whom were of Hansard
Knollys’ church “in London.” f917
Maryland Baptist churches were begun in 1742, by
“Henry Sator, a layman. … Soon after his settlement in this colony he invited
Baptist ministers to preach in his house, by which means a few, from time to
time, were proselyted to his sentiments, and after many years a church was
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gathered in his neighborhood.”
In North Carolina the first Baptist
“church which ever existed was gathered by one Paul Palmer, about the year
1727. … Mr. Palmer is said to be a native of Maryland, was baptized at Welsh
Tract, in Delaware, by Owen Thomas, the pastor of the church in that place.”
f918
South Carolina Baptist churches began thus:
“Of the early settlers of South Carolina, a considerable portion were Baptists.
They came in separate colonies about the year 1683, partly from the west of
England … and partly from Piscataqua, in the district of Maine. Of the
former some settled at Ashley and Cooper Rivers, others about the mouth of
the Edisto River. The latter settled at a place called Summerton, situated on