Author: French Broad Baptist Association

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-31

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9781527940574

Excerpt from History of French Broad Baptist Association, 1807-1994: And Histories of the Fifty-Eight Churches Fugitives from the Yadkin founded the first Baptist church in eastern Tennessee and began a movement which was to penetrate the mountains of Western North Carolina. On November 6, l 780, Baptists who settled in the Carolina mountains organized the French Broad Baptist Church in what is now Henderson County, the first church of any faith to be organized west of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina. By the next year Baptists in Ten nessee and Carolina had established five or six churches and organized a temporary association through which they retained membership in the Sandy Creek Association. In 1 786, however, the new churches gave up the distant parent and formed the Holston Association. During the next two decades other churches were organized in the area. By 1800 thirty-six congregations with from two to three thousand members had been estab lished. For geographic reasons some of the Caro lina churches became members of the Broad River Association in South Carolina. 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.