Liberty Baptist Church (Davidson County, N.C.) records
In November, 1824, Joshua Lee, Peter Owen, Phillip Copple, and approximately 20 others met near a spring one mile east of the present Liberty Baptist Church and organized as an arm of Tom's Creek Baptist Church. On August 22, 1829, this arm was constituted into a Baptist Church by a presbytery consisting of Elders Eli Phillips, Jesse Sowell, Ashley Swaim, and the deacons of Tom's Creek Baptist Church. Liberty was constituted with a membership of 25. This collection contains minutes of church conferences, articles of faith, the constitution of the church as an arm of Toms Creek, their constitution as a church, a list of charter members and histories of the church by G.W. Miller and H.T. Penry.
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Summary Information
- Repository
- Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives
- Title
- Liberty Baptist Church (Davidson County, N.C.) Records
- Date
- 1827-1961 (inclusive)
- Extent
- 0.5 Linear Feet / 1 document box
- ID
- MS763
Biographical and Historical Note
In November, 1824, Joshua Lee, Peter Owen, Phillip Copple, and approximately 20 others met near a spring one mile east of the present Liberty Baptist Church and organized as an arm of Tom's Creek Baptist Church. On August 22, 1829, this arm was constituted into a Baptist Church by a presbytery consisting of Elders Eli Phillips, Jesse Sowell, Ashley Swaim, and the deacons of Tom's Creek Baptist Church. Liberty was constituted with a membership of 25.
Association Membership: Abbott's Creek Union, 1829-1832; Liberty, 1832-
Pastors: Ashely Swaim, 1829-1832(?); Eli Carroll, 1836-1838; Peter Owen, 1839-1841; Ashley Swaim, 1838-circa 1842; No pastor, 1842; Benjamin Lanier, 1843-1850; Zebulon Minor, 1851; John A. Crouch, 1851; Benjamin Lanier, 1853-1855; Amos Weaver, 1856; No pastor, 1857; John A. Cornish, 1858-1859; No pastor, 1860; Azariah Williams, 1861-1862; Benjamin Lanier, 1863-1868; A.P. Stoker, 1868-1869; Wyatt N. Thayer, 1869-1871; Alijah Allison, 1872-1873; Benjamin Lanier, 1873-1876; Robert Alexander Moore, 1877-1878; Henry Sheets, 1879-1882; William Turner, 1883-1885; J.N. Stallings, 1886-1889; H. Morton, 1889-1893; Joseph Marcellus Hilliard, 1893; John A. Summey, 1894; Joseph Marcellus Hilliard, 1895; Thomas Carrick, 1896; S.J. Beeker, 1897; John A. Summer, 1897-1900; Jeff A. Lanning, 1900-1902; John A. Summey, 1902-1905; Jeff A. Lanning, 1905-1907; H. Morton, 1907; J.H. Vipperman, 1908; W.J. Laffoon, 1908-1911; Jeff A. Lanning, 1911-1915; Charles L. Taylor, 1915; Oscar A. Keller, 1916; Henry Sheets, 1917; Hoyle Love, 1917-1921; William Amos Hough, 1921-1924; Luther Allen Connell, 1925-1927; Paul V. Berry, 1927-1928; J.M. Hayes, 1928-1929; M.A. Adams, 1929; M.O. Alexander, 1929; H.T. Penry, 1930-1935; E.F. Mumford, 1936-1939; Farrell F. James, 1940; Worth C. Grant, 1941; Holcombe McLain Stroup, 1942-1944; E.C. Roach, 1945-1947; D.M. Hartman, 1948-1952; C.H. Martin, 1953-1955; R.H. Kelly, 1956-1959; Kenneth Miller, 1959-1965; Gerald Hewitt, 1966-1967; Philip Morrow, 1967-
Cemetery/Records/Dates: This church has a cemetery that is mentioned frequently in the minutes of the church but no seperate records have been located.
Histories: Penry, H.T. and May, H.P., "History of Liberty Baptist Church", 23 Nov. 1930. 5 p. mss (NCCF) Also a newspaper clipping with the same history sketch of Liberty (Asheboro, N.C. COURIER), 13 Sept. 1934 (NCCF) Mille, G.W., "History of Liberty Baptist church read at the dedication on May 17, 1925." Liberty church minutes, vol. 4, pp. 184-188.
Collection Overview
This collection contains 5 volumes [manuscripts]. In these are minutes of church conferences from September 1832 to December 10, 1961 [broken series], including articles of faith, the constitution of the church as an arm of Toms Creek, October 1824; their constitution as a church, August 22, 1829; a list of charter members and histories of the church by G.W. Miller and H.T. Penry.
Administrative Information
- Publication Information
- Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives
- Revision Description
- Revised by Katie Lawrence and Finley Turner, 2018 November
- Access Restrictions
- This collection is open for use.
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- Preferred Citation
- Liberty Baptist Church (Davidson County, N.C.) Records, (MS763), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.