South Carolina Baptists 1670 1800 PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... 7.30. P.m.--At the Citadel Square Baptist Church.--Report of the board of trustees of Furman University. Addresses by Rev. Charles Manly, D.D., and Rev. J. L. M. Curry, D.D. The Convention adjourned at half-past 9 o'clock, after prayer by the Rev. R. W. Sanders, until half-past 10 this morning, SOUTH CAROLINA BAPTISTS. Saturday, November 24th, the following appeared in The News and Courier: HISTORY OF THE DENOMINATION IN THIS STATE--FOUNDERS AND EARLY WRITERS OF THE SECT--WHAT THEY AND THEIR DESCENDANTS HAVE DONE FOR THE CAUSE OF RELIGION. An attentive correspondent who is understood to have been Wm. G. Whilden, Esq., in view of the two hundredth anniversary of the First Baptist Church of Charleston, has furnished the News and Courier with an account of the genealogy of some of the early ministers of the Baptist denomination in South Carolina. It is not claimed that the record is complete, but it will doubtless be read with considerable interest just at this time, and will show at least the honorable ancestry of many of the leading Baptist families in the State. A list of the names of several of the early members of the "Church in Charleston" is also included. Some have disappeared entirely from the State, others have their descendants with us. The Rev. William Screven, born in Somersetshire, England, in 1629, settled in Kittery, in the Province of Maine. He was married to Bridget Cutt, a daughter of Robert Cutt, a member of the British Parliament, whose second wife was Mary Hart, of Barbadoes, W. I. Robert and Mary Cutt had four daughters and two sons. He died about 1675. His widow married Capt. Francis Champernown, a native of Devonshire, England, a kinsman of Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir John, Sir Adrian and Sir Humphrey Gilbert. He left...