Unknown County GaArchives Church Records.....Georgia Baptists Itchaconnah Association Copyright Date 1874
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ITCHACONNAH ASSOCIATION.*

  This union was formed in the winter of 1829, at Mount Carmel, in Crawford
county, the churches, nineteen in number, having been dismissed from the Flint
River in the preceding October. They are situated in Bibb, Crawford, Monroe,
Houston, etc. The presbytery were John Milner, William Moseley and Joseph
Chipman. John Blackstone was the first moderator, and Austin Ellis, clerk. The
meeting for 1832 was at Bethlehem, Upson county. The same officers continued.
Nothing of importance done. The following year the session is at Union, Bibb
county. This body has stood aloof from missions, Bible societies,
Sunday-schools, temperance societies, etc. Baptisms, eighty-one, thirty-three of
which are at Bethesda, administered by Jacob King. Number of members, one
thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine.

  The meeting for 1837 is held at Bethel church, Houston county. Churches,
twenty-eight; members, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. "Resolved,
That the systems of the day, benevolent, so called, such as Bible, missionary,
temperance, tract societies, etc., are unscriptural, unsupported by divine
revelation, and therefore anti-Christian" etc.

  A committee was appointed to organize new bodies out of churches broken off
from orderly Associations on account of difference of opinion touching the
benevolent institutions of the day.

  This now seems to be a working body, and has its hands full of business in her
endeavors to suppress missions, temperance, etc. Some of her most prominent
ministers have been violent in their opposition to these things. A few of these
have been called to their last account! Jonathan Neal was moderator of this body
for several years. Like all other bodies entertaining such sentiments, it is on
the decline.

  * A creek of this name falls into the Ocmulgee within the bounds of this body,
after which the Association is named. It is an Indian name, and signifies in
English a "deer trap."


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GEORGIA BAPTISTS: HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL
BY
J. H. CAMPBELL,
PERRY, GEORGIA.


MACON, GA.: J. W. BURKE & COMPANY. 1874.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by
J. H. CAMPBELL,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.


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