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"History of Lincoln County, Georgia", By Clinton J. Perryman, page 32

Chapter X.  Churches of Lincoln County.  
Baptist Churches (White)

"GREENWOOD.  In 1784 this church, the sixth Baptist Church in the state, and
then known as Upton's Creek, was constituted in the southern part of Wilkes
County.  A few years later, it was moved several miles eastward and its name
changed to "Greenwood."  In 1811 it was incorporated, with JOHN HAMMOCK, GEORGE
ZOELLNER (ZELLNER), LEVIN PARKINSON, WILLIAM MONCRIEF, and JOHN H. WALKER, as
trustees. (Acts, 1811, pages 146-148).  About 1820 it was moved two miles
further east into Lincoln County, its present location...."

"History of the Georgia Baptist Association", by Jesse Mercer, page 19

"In the following year, 1784, Upton's Creek Church was constituted.  This was
situated in the lower part of Wilkes (County, Georgia), and went by the name of
Upton's Creek for some time, but upon building a new and convienient 
Meeting-house some miles below, in a pine wood, thus surrounded by evergreens,
it received the style of Greenwood, by which it is still known.  By whom this
Church was founded we do not know, but doubtless it was constituted of members
from Kiokee Church, and formed under her auspicies.  Here the Reverand Peter
Smith was settled soon after the war (Rev. War) closed, and and it is altogether
probable that he was instrumental in the formation of the Church.  --- he was
the first Pastor.  In short time, however, Mr. S. (Smith) removed to the state
of Ohio, where he ended his earthly career."

"A Brief History of Greenwood Baptist Church" by Mrs. J. Robert Eubanks (Hazel
Bentley), 1978, page 15

1788 - Pastor: Peter SMITH; Messengers: Hezekiah BUSSY, John BENTLEY, John CHANDLER
1792 - Pastor: Peter SMITH; Messengers: Balaam BENTLEY
1793 - Pastor: Peter SMITH; Messengers: Balaam BENTLEY
1798 - Pastor: William GREEN;  Messengers:  Balaam BENTLEY
1803 - Pastor: William GREEN;  Messengers:  John BENTLEY, Thomas LEVERETT
1804 - Pastor: William GREEN;  Messengers:  John HAMBRICK, Levin PARKSON
(PARKINSON)
1806 - Pastor: Stephen STAFFORD;  Messengers: James BENTLEY, Thomas LEVERETT
1811 - Pastor:  Abram Marshall;  Messengers:  J. H. WALKER, William MONCRIEF
1814 - Pastor Winder HILLMAN;  Messengers:  William MONCRIEF, Arnold ZEOLNOR
(ZELLNER)

Additional Comments:
1788- This John Bentley is the older brother of Balaam Bentley.  JOhn Bentley
was a Revolutionary War soldier.
1788- John Chandler witnessed the will of William Bentley (a Revolutionary War
Soldier), father of Balaam Bentley.
1804- Levin Parkinson's daughter, Rachel, married Balaam's nephew James Bentley.
Levin was a Revolutionary War soldier from Virginia.
1806- James Bentley, nephew of Balaam Bentley
1814- Arnold Zeolner (Zellner) son of George Zellnor and 1/2 brother of Barbary
Zellner who married William W. T. Bentley another nephew of Balaam Bentley. 
George Peter Zellner is listed in the index of "Mercenaries From
Ansbach/Bayreuth, Germany, Who Remained in America After the Revolution"
(Westland Publishers: McNeal, AZ, 1979)

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