Special Collections & Archives

The Mount Pisgah Baptist Church was organized on August 26, 1814 by a presbytery consisting of James Weathers and Elder Robert Thomas Daniel at Yates Meeting House. There were 25 charter members- 4 males and 21 females. Daniel was chosen as their first pastor. In 1818, the church changed its name to Mount Pisgah from Yates Meeting House (1814-1818). This volume contains organization of the church (1814), articles of faith (1814), church meeting minutes (1815-1869), membership rolls of males, female, and African Americans with notes of dates of dismission, decease, marriage, etc. (1815-1869), and church statistics (1814-1868).

Mount Sinai Baptist Church was constituted May 20, 1848. This church has been a member of the following Baptist associations: Broad River (1848-1851); Kings Mountain (1851-1861); Constitutional Kings Mountain (1862-1867); Kings Mountain (1867-present). This collection includes church minutes, membership rolls, and church histories.

The Mount Vernon Baptist Church is located 3 miles west of the Neuse River in Wake County, N.C. The church was formally known as Wake Liberty, 1810-1847. The church was constituted August 18, 1810 by Elders John Purefoy and Bartholomew Fuller. This volume contains "Declaration of Faith", name lists of male and female members that were copied down from "the 1833 original book" with notes of dates (the earliest date: 1821), church meeting minutes (1840-1859, 1869), and "Treasurer's Account Book" (1840-1858). It is handwritten in a hardcover notebook. A dismission note on a loose-leaf paper (1870) is also included.

Mount View Baptist Church in King, N.C., was organized in 1911 and is a member of the Triad Church Network, formerly the Pilot Mountain Baptist Association. This collection includes a centennial scrapbook and a digital versatile disc (DVD) with the same content.

One share issued for the Southern Baptist Assembly, Ridgecrest, North Carolina, Sept. 10 1913, signed by B.W. Spilman and J.C. Pritchard.