Fairview Baptist Church (Madison County, N.C.) Records

MS815

Fairview Baptist Church was constituted in 1832. This collection includes membership rolls, church meeting minutes, a letter, and contribution records.

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Summary Information
Biographical and Historical Note
Collection Overview
Collection Inventory
Administrative Information

Summary Information

Repository: Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives
Title: Fairview Baptist Church (Madison County, N.C.) Records
Date: 1832-1905 (inclusive)
Extent: 0.21 Linear Feet / 1 half document box
ID: MS815

Biographical and Historical Note

The church was constituted as Pine Creek Baptist Church on May 5, 1832 under the presbytery of Moses Freeman, Isaac Miles, and Isaac Tillery after petitioning New Found Church. The members were: James Davis, James Roberts, Evan Davis, Prissale Davis, Tamina Roberts, Lucinda Hawkins, Rebecca Carley, Rachel Whitten, and Cathy Roberts. It became Bear Creek on September 4, 1852 and Fairview Baptist Church on June 19, 1869.

Collection Overview

This volume contains membership rolls from 1832, 1846, 1852, and 1869; a list of those dismissed in 1875-1876; church meeting minutes (1832-1876) [broken series]; a letter (1883); and contribution records (1869-1873). Three names are shown: "Pine Creek Baptist Church" (first recorded in the minutes of May 5, 1832), "Bare [Bear] Creek Baptist Church" (first recorded in the minutes of August 28, 1852), and "Fareview [Fairview] Baptist Church" (first recorded in the minute of June 19, 1869). They are handwritten in a hardcover notebook, which has edge-worn covers, a broken spine, loose binding, brittle stained paper, and loose leaves. Some paper sheets are torn or missing. A receipt (1905) on a slip of paper is also included.

Administrative Information

Publication Information: John Hagerty and Stephanie Bennett
Revision Description: Revised by Katie Lawrence, 2018 December
Access Restrictions: This collection is open for use.
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Preferred Citation: Fairview Baptist Church (Madison County, N.C.) Records (MS815), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.

Collection Inventory

Minute book (1832-1905) box 1 volume 1Contains minutes of church conferences from May 5, 1832 to February 20, 1876; names of those present when church was constituted, lists of members May 5, 1832, August 1, 1846, May 13, ?, July 1, 1852, July 17, 1869; a list of contributions for pastoral services, 1869, pledges for building a church house and for minutes, and a list of "Subscription for services of pastors," August 16, 1873; letter to association (New Found?) is a loose page in back of book; conflicting reports about association: May 11, 1833, "The church agreed to join the association," March 4, 1837, "...that we the Pine Creek Church of Christ ask to join the association according to promise..." Toward back of book there is a letter dated 1883 to Tea Gordon and Co. from B.S. Green, still attached to minute book.

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