Author: James Oliver Young

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-27

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9780265796276

Excerpt from A Baptist Looks Back: The Origin and Early History of Roan Mountain Baptist Association, Now Mitchell Baptist Association T the'same time that many of 1those leaving central North Carolina were crossing over the mountains into what is now Tennessee, many others were crossing the Yadkin and Catawba Rivers and their tributaries, and settling along the foothills of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina and in northwestern South Carolina. Even before Tryoon's ruthless suppression 1of the Regulators, many people were pressing westward. Missionaries from the Sandy Creek Association came into these areas quite early. In 1759 Elder Philip Mulky led a group of thirteen people from the Deep River Church, which belonged to the Sandy Creek Association, and organized a church in the Broad River section Of South Carolina. In two years this church grew to a member ship of 104. Then the group that organized this church moved on 100 miles southward and established a work at Fair Forest near the pres ent town of Union, South Carolina. This church grew in membership to 167 m ten years The growth in membership of these churches ln dicates the strength of this early westward migration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.