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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <ead xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9 http://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd"> <eadheader countryencoding="iso3166-1" dateencoding="iso8601" findaidstatus="completed" langencoding="iso639-2b" repositoryencoding="iso15511"> <eadid url="http://hdl.handle.net/10339/92967">ms740</eadid> <filedesc> <titlestmt> <titleproper>Cashie Baptist Church (Windsor, N.C.) Records <num>MS740</num></titleproper> <author>Processed by Juno Zhu, Stephanie Bennett, and Weihua Wang</author> </titlestmt> <publicationstmt> <publisher>Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives</publisher> <p> <date>2017 April </date> </p> <address> <addressline>PO Box 7777</addressline> <addressline>Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27109</addressline> <addressline>URL: <extptr xlink:href="http://zsr.wfu.edu/special/" xlink:show="new" xlink:title="http://zsr.wfu.edu/special/" xlink:type="simple"/></addressline> </address> </publicationstmt> </filedesc> <profiledesc> <creation>This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on <date>2021-05-06 14:32:48 -0400</date>.</creation> <descrules>Describing Archives: A Content Standard</descrules> </profiledesc> <revisiondesc> <change> <date>2018 November, 2020</date> <item>Revised by Katie Lawrence, Olivia Field</item> </change> </revisiondesc> </eadheader> <archdesc level="collection"> <did> <repository> <corpname>Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives</corpname> </repository> <unittitle>Cashie Baptist Church (Windsor, N.C.) Records</unittitle> <unitid>MS740</unitid> <physdesc altrender="whole"> <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1.71 Linear Feet</extent> <extent altrender="carrier">1 half-document box, 1 oversize box</extent> </physdesc> <unitdate normal="1776/1925" type="inclusive">1776-1925</unitdate> <abstract id="aspace_9351ce62e68c932b3ca3542406f3bde2">The Cashie Baptist Church was constituted in 1771 by Elder Jeremiah Dargan, who was elected as the first pastor. Cashie joined the Kehukee Association in 1778 and the association met at Cashie Meeting House in 1798. This collection contains church deeds, meeting minutes, biographical sketches, financial records, notes and letters related to members, and a membership roll.</abstract> <langmaterial><language langcode="eng">English</language> . </langmaterial> </did> <bioghist id="aspace_b36f2c7d175aa79b1f9e3123d8e7fb60"> <head>Historical note</head> <p>The Cashie Baptist Church was constituted in 1771 by Elder Jeremiah Dargan who was elected as the first pastor. Cashie was received into the Kehukee Association in 1778 and the association met at Cashie Meeting House in 1798. Wiccacon and Ballard's Bridge Churches were formed from Cashie. The Baptist Philanthropic Society was formed at Cashie in 1805.</p> <p>Association membership: Kehukee (1778-c1806); Chowan (1806-1883); West Chowan (1883-)</p> <p>Pastors: Jeremiah Dargan (1771-c1786); Aaron Spivey (1794-1822); Reuben Lawrence (1823-1843); David Harrell (1844-1851); Aaron J. Spivey (1851-1854); Andrew Murdock Craic (1855-1869); Marmaduke Cartright Rhodes (1869-1870); Jeremiach Bunch (1870-1873); Andrew Murdock Craig (1873-1874); A. D. Cohen (1874-1879); T. G. Wood (1879-1882); J. A. Speight (1882-1884); R. VanDeventer (1884-1887); T. T. Speight (1887-1893); J. B. Boone (1893-); R. D. Cross (1895-c1898); R. H. Gilbert (1899); John T. Douglas (1900-1901); J. O. Alderman (1901-1903); C. M. McIntosh (1903-1904); R. L. Gay (1905-1907); R. D. Stephenson (1908); Q. C. Davis (1909-1912); D. P. Harris (1913-1916); W. R. Haight (1916-1923); Charles C. Snow (1923-1927); C. C. Cox (1927-c1929); Ernest C. Kolb (1930-1936); J. R. Link (1936-1938); Millard P. Booe (1938-1942); W. F. Woodall (1942-); R. L. Council (1943-c1945); Pastor not known (1946-1949); W. I. Johnson (1950-1954); Charles W. Duling (1954-1960); E. Len Weston (1960-)</p> <p>Digitized materials from this collection are available in <a href="https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/63998/browse?value=Cashie+Baptist+Church+%28Windsor%2C+N.C.%29+Records+%28MS740%29&amp;type=relationcollection">Z. Smith Reynolds Library Digital Collections</a>.</p> </bioghist> <scopecontent id="aspace_0321c0cc10609281be2bdbd399edf296"> <head>Collection Overview</head> <p>This volume contains a photocopy of the church deed (1776), church meeting minutes (1790-1924)[broken series], biographical sketches (undated),financial records (undated), a note recording varied incidents (1882-1895), dismissal letters and a request letter of dismissal (1873-1925), letters (1873-1884), a blank form for membership discontinuation (1884), and a letter (1867) with a membership roll on the other side of the paper (1874).</p> <p> Digitized materials from this collection are available in <a href="https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/63998/browse?value=Cashie+Baptist+Church+%28Windsor%2C+N.C.%29+Records+%28MS740%29&amp;type=relationcollection">Z. Smith Reynolds Library Digital Collections</a>.</p> </scopecontent> <prefercite id="aspace_af75ba159d969ea61fdca9c60a29fdf5"> <head>Preferred Citation</head> <p>Cashie Baptist Church (Windsor, N.C.) Records, (MS740), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.</p> </prefercite> <userestrict id="aspace_b471b1770507050dad13c9f5169f1b30"> <head>Copyright Notice</head> <p>The nature of the WFU Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The Archives and Special Collections of ZSR Library claims only physical ownership of most materials. The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to the U.S. Copyright Law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.</p> </userestrict> <relatedmaterial id="aspace_e132943c48b6ca4b6f5aed09b9314f76"> <head>Related Materials</head> <p>Cashie Baptist Church (Windsor, N.C.) (CRMF649), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives.</p> </relatedmaterial> <relatedmaterial id="aspace_aa23add16a935b98e915f8b3d891a864"> <head>Related Materials</head> <p>Digitized materials from this collection are available in <a href="https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/63998/browse?value=Cashie+Baptist+Church+%28Windsor%2C+N.C.%29+Records+%28MS740%29&amp;type=relationcollection">Z. Smith Reynolds Library Digital Collections</a>.</p> </relatedmaterial> <controlaccess> <subject source="lcsh">Baptists -- North Carolina -- Bertie County -- History -- Sources</subject> <subject source="lcsh">Church records and registers -- North Carolina -- Windsor</subject> <subject source="lcsh">Church records and registers -- North Carolina -- Bertie County</subject> <geogname source="lcsh">Bertie County (N.C.) -- Church history -- Sources</geogname> </controlaccess> <dsc> <c id="aspace_ref29_lrz" level="file"> <did> <unittitle> <extref xlink:href="https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/64736" xlink:show="new" xlink:actuate="onrequest">Deed, photocopy</extref> </unittitle> <unitdate normal="1776/1776">1776</unitdate> <container id="aspace_4644f3b105c6c418f06211e073de3cb7" label="Text" type="box">2</container> <container id="aspace_311aed1249f65ab1fe321d83b2e4fc29" parent="aspace_4644f3b105c6c418f06211e073de3cb7" type="folder">2</container> </did> </c> <c id="aspace_ref5_7yg" level="file"> <did> <unittitle> <extref xlink:href="https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/64719" xlink:show="new" xlink:actuate="onrequest">Minute book</extref> </unittitle> <unitdate normal="1790/1897" type="inclusive">1790-1897</unitdate> <abstract id="aspace_fbde71de2a356e4efd63d392ce374c5a">Contains minutes of church conferences from January 4, 1834 to October 2, 1897; rules of decorum, 1833; church covenant; sextant rules, 1832; white male and female membership lists, 1871, 1873, 1884, and undated; colored male and female membership lists, undated; treasurer's records and financial reports, 1853, ciation letters, 1875-85, 1888-97; the ordinations of Dancey Cale (223) and Abram M. Poindexter (23); and obituary notices for Reuben Lawrence (53), Lewis Bond (89-91); Aaron J. Spivey (94, 114), Andrew Murdock Craig (190); Moses Gillman (231), Jonathon S. Tayloe (288), David Harrell (202-03), John P. Rascoe, Benjamin Gillam, Francis Mitchell, Harriet Cale, and Mary Jordan (238), David E. Taylor (270-271), Thomas Gillam, Sr. and Hattie Leary (283), Willie A. Shepperd (289); resolutions of respect for Rev. J.B. Boone. This volume also contains an incomplete index in the back of the book.</abstract> <container id="aspace_cf2ace3c1964348a53fecb0deeda06a0" label="Text" type="box">1</container> <container id="aspace_13551df78ee483a380bd52aefd54a64c" parent="aspace_cf2ace3c1964348a53fecb0deeda06a0" type="volume">1</container> </did> </c> <c id="aspace_ref2_g2q" level="file"> <did> <unittitle> <extref xlink:href="https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/64737" xlink:show="new" xlink:actuate="onrequest">Minutes, volume 1</extref> </unittitle> <unitdate normal="1791/1832" type="inclusive">1791-1832</unitdate> <abstract id="aspace_b6749ed0570d530c2f8b58ab45a400cc">Contains minutes of church conferences from April 2, 1791 to June 2, 1832; Ordination of Aaron Spivey (11); church permission for Moses Gillam to preach (15); biographical sketches of Ann Dargan (56); Aaron Spivey (87-104); George Outlaw (133-36); and Benjamin Folk (163-66). Minutes are missing from September, 1799 to March, 1801. This volume has been laminated but is unbound.</abstract> <container id="aspace_92e387337635386af74fceadd5c855f0" label="Text" type="box">2</container> <container id="aspace_999e567a6d7e8dac19a2ad6bfded71f1" parent="aspace_92e387337635386af74fceadd5c855f0" type="folder">3-5</container> </did> </c> <c id="aspace_ref7_ih2" level="file"> <did> <unittitle> <extref xlink:href="https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/64730" xlink:show="new" xlink:actuate="onrequest">Minute book</extref> </unittitle> <unitdate normal="1858/1924" type="inclusive">1858-1924</unitdate> <abstract id="aspace_4efba9c5913012c9c0093e15c1fdaf98">Contains minutes of church conferences from October 31, 1897 to January 15, 1924; the church covenant, rules of decorum, and articles of faith; two alphabetical male and female membership rolls; SUnday School statistics, 1898-1905; treasurer's reports, 1908-1904; list of church and Sunday School officers, 1923; dedication of the new church, 1917; resignations of Rev. Q.C. Davis, 1912, and Rev. D. P. Harris, 1916; synopsis of the association letters, 1898-1905; obituaries, memorials or resolutions of respect for Joseph A. Spivey, Sr. (24), Levi S. Davis (95), Adoniram Judson Cobb (95), Abram Badin (158), Mrs. C.L. Grant (163), Mrs. J.E. Tadlock (166), Jonathan Standley Tayloe (186), Rev. Charles M. 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Unidentifified lists of figures and an undated list of contributions.</abstract> <container id="aspace_7825ee50af515a3845570fc812bf68f8" label="Text" type="box">2</container> <container id="aspace_feb1d564075b0be873ebdb442b102144" parent="aspace_7825ee50af515a3845570fc812bf68f8" type="folder">1</container> </did> </c> </dsc> </archdesc> </ead>