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Baptists in Early North America-Meherrin, Virginia - Volume VI (Hardcover)
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Baptists in Early North America-Meherrin, Virginia - Volume VI (Hardcover)
Series: Baptists in Early North America Series
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Baptists in Early North America-Meherrin, Virginia features the
transcription of the records of Meherrin, an eighteenth- and early
nineteenth-century Baptist church on the frontier of Virginia in
rural Lunenburg County. Despite its backwater location and
relatively small congregation, Meherrin played a significant role
in one of the great episodes of Baptist history in young America:
the rise of Separate Baptists and their influence in Virginia.
Numerous important Separate Baptists including Samuel Harris,
Jeremiah Walker, Elijah Baker, John Weatherford (all imprisoned for
their faith), and John Williams (scribe of the Separates) figured
in the Meherrin story. Meherrin was a microcosm of Virginia Baptist
life including evangelism, theological divisions, church
discipline, the struggle for religious liberty in the time of a
state church, and the role of enslaved Africans. Meherrin was a
mother church for several churches in Southside Virginia and a
colony from Meherrin even migrated into North Carolina where
another church, also named Meherrin, was established. The original
record book (1771-1844) is among the treasures in the library of
the Virginia Baptist Historical Society. In addition, the volume
includes an essay on Meherrin's place within the larger Virginia
Baptist story by editor Fred Anderson, who served as executive
director of the VBHS for thirty-eight years. Meherrin became
extinct in 1844 when it divided, then dissolved, in the midst of
the Campbellism controversy.
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