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A History of the Sandy Creek Baptist Association
FROM ITS ORGANIZATION IN A. D. 1785, TO A, D. 1858,
BY ELDER GEO. W. PUREFOY,
BEING AN ENLARGEMENT OF THE CENTENARY SERMON DELIVERED BY HIM AT ITS ONE
HUNDREDTH ANNUAL SESSION
at LOVE'S CREEK MEETING-HOUSE, CHATHAM COUNTY, NC, ON THE 3d DAY OF OCTOBER, 1858
"From the days of John the Baptist until now."—Matt. xi. 12. "The Baptists may
be considered as the only Christian community" which Has stood since the days of
the Apostles."—Des Dermount and Ypeig.
SHELDON & CO., PUBLISHERS, No. 115 NASSAU-STREET. 1859.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I.
A Concise View of the Origin of the Baptists
CHAPTER II.
The Origin of the Baptists in the United States—Edger Williams not their Founder
CHAPTER III.
Some Account of the First Baptists that Settled in North Carolina
CHAPTER IV.
The First Settlement of Baptists in the Bounds of the Sandy Creek Baptist
Association
CHAPTER V.
The Regular Baptists, comprising the Sandy Creek Baptist Association, together
with the Great Body of Baptists in the United States, shown to be the "Old
School" or "Primitive Baptists." They are not Seceders from the Anti-mission
Baptists, or from any other Denomination
CHAPTER VI.
The Organization of the Sandy Creek Baptist Association
CHAPTER VII.
History of the Sandy Creek Baptist Association, as derived from the Minutes of
that Body, in which is shown for each Year, by whom the Introductory Sermon was
preached; who acted as Moderator and Clerk; who preached on Sabbath; the Names
of Corresponding Messengers to and from the Association; the Number baptized;
the Total in Fellowship; and, also, the Queries, with their Answers,
Resolutions, &c
CHAPTER VIII.
A Concise History of the Churches belonging to the Sandy Creek Association:
Mount Carmel; Reave's Chapel; Antioch; Mount Gilead; Moon's Chapel; Cedar Falls;
May's Chapel; Crane's Creek; Fayetteville; Cool Spring; Bear Creek; Mineral
Spring; Emmaus; Fall Creek; Friendship; Carthage; Bethlehem; Mechanic's Hill;
Juniper Spring; Gum Spring; Mount Olive; Chapel-Hill; Mount Zion; Rocky River;
Pleasant Grove; Sandy Creek; Lystra; Pittsborough
CHAPTER IX.
Biographical Sketches: Elder Shubal Stearns; Daniel Marshal; Elder Elnathan
Davis; Elder George Pope; Elder Isaac Hicks; Elder Thomas Brown; Elder Robert
Thomas Daniel; William T. Brantly, D.D.; Elder William H. Merritt; Elder Eli
Phillips; Elder Hezekiah Harman; Elder John Culpeper; Elder Ralph Freeman
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