GEORGIA BIOGRAPHIES:  EDMUND BOTSFORD
File Contributed by Barbara Walker Winge [barbarawinge@yahoo.com], courtesy of 
Oldbuck Press, Inc.[obsales@aol.com]

SOURCE: GEORGIA BAPTIST: HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL, Jesse 
H. Campbell, (1847) 1993, published by Oldbuck Press, Inc., PO Box 1623, Conway,
Arkansas 72034, pp. 07-14.       .  A copy of this book can be purchased for $21.00 postage paid from the publisher.

     Edmund Botsford was born at Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, in 1745 - left an
orphan at seven years of age.  He was sent to board with Mrs. Barnes, an intimate
friend of his mother's, with whom he attended meetings at a Baptist church....

     He left England for Charleston, South Carolinan in 1766.  There he was baptized, 
and later licensed to preach...

     He finally concluded to leave Charleston...  Near Tuckaseeking, a settlement 
about forty miles from Savannah, in Georgia, were a few Baptist, who constitued
a branch of the Euhaw church... Hearing of Mr. Botsford, they invited him to come 
over and help them... He preached his first sermon to them on the 27th of June, 
1771...




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