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Paul Palmer (died 1747) was the founder of several Baptist churches that became affiliated with the General Baptists. Palmer started several early Baptist churches in North Carolina, including the first known Baptist church in the state. He was an Arminian baptist and founder of the movement Free Will Baptist with Benjamin Randall.
In 1636 Roger Williams founded the First Baptist Church in America in Providence, Rhode Island. It remains the first and oldest congregation in the United States. The meeting house dates from 1775. Roger Williams and John Clarke, his compatriot in working for religious freedom, are credited with founding the Baptist faith in North America. [5]
The Baptist congregation was founded around 1755 by settlers from New Jersey. Among them was Benjamin Merrill, a local leader in the Regulator movement from 1765 to 1771, who was captured and executed following the Battle of Alamance. [2] The current Greek Revival church meeting house was built in 1842 near the Jersey Baptist Church Cemetery ...
Primitive Baptists – also known as Regular Baptists, Old School Baptists, Foot Washing Baptists, or, derisively, Hard Shell Baptists [2] – are conservative Baptists adhering to a degree of Calvinist beliefs who coalesced out of the controversy among Baptists in the early 19th century over the appropriateness of mission boards, tract societies, and temperance societies.
In 1702, English General Baptists who had settled in the Province of Carolina requested help from the General Baptists in England.Though they did not receive the requested assistance, native Paul Palmer labored there about 25 years later, and founded the first "General" or "Free Will" Baptist church in Chowan County, North Carolina, in 1727.
William Cathcart (1881). "The Baptists of North Carolina". The Baptist Encyclopedia. Baptist History Series. Vol. 2 (reprinted by The Baptist Standard Bearer, Inc. 2001 ed.). Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts. p. 854. ISBN 978-1-57978-910-7. Livingston Johnson (1908). History of the North Carolina Baptist State Convention. Raleigh, NC: Edwards ...
Kehukee Primitive Baptist Church is a historic Primitive Baptist church building in Halifax County, North Carolina located about a mile (1.5 km) south of Scotland Neck off NC Route 125. [2] It was built in 1872 and is a simple gable-front frame structure subsequently sheathed in weatherboard . [ 3 ]
Shubal Stearns (sometimes spelled Shubael; 28 January 1706 – November 20, 1771), was a colonial evangelist and preacher during the Great Awakening.He converted after hearing George Whitefield and planted a Baptist Church in Sandy Creek, Guilford County, North Carolina. [1]