Sandy Run Baptist Church (Bertie County, N.C.) Records

MS793

Sandy Run Baptist Church was organized in 1740 and restored in 1773. This church was listed as Bertie, 1769-1825. This church has been a member of the Kehukee (1769-1805); Chowan (1806-83); and West Chowan (1883-present) Baptist associations. This volume contains church meeting minutes at Sandy Run and meeting minutes at Pottacasy meeting house [later formed Potecasi Baptist Church], a copy of deed, biographical sketches of Lemuel Burkitt, and membership rolls of males, females, and African Americans (free Black members and enslaved peoples).

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Repository
Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives
Title
Sandy Run Baptist Church (Bertie County, N.C.) Records
Date
1773-1821 (inclusive)
Extent
1 Linear Feet / 1 box
ID
MS793

Biographical and Historical Note

Sandy Run Baptist Church was organized in 1740 and restored in 1773. This church was listed as Bertie, 1769-1825. This church has been a member of the Kehukee (1769-1805); Chowan (1806-83); and West Chowan (1883-present) Baptist associations.

Collection Overview

This volume contains church meeting minutes at Sandy Run and meeting minutes at Pottacasy meeting house [later formed Potecasi Baptist Church] (1773-1804) [broken series], a copy of deed (1821), biographical sketches of Lemuel Burkitt (1807), and membership rolls of males, females, and African Americans (free blacks and slaves).

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Juno Zhu and Stephanie Bennett
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Revised by Katie Lawrence, 2018 November
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Preferred Citation
Sandy Run Baptist Church (Bertie County, N.C.) Records, (MS793), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA. 

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