WILKES COUNTY, NC - CHURCHES - Zion Hill Baptist Church, 
			       Membership List ca. 1814
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Zion Hill Baptist Church, Wilkes Co., North Carolina
Membership List ca. 1814

The following membership list is one of at least three on a
microfilm copy of the Minutes of this church found at Wake
Forest University in early 2001.  The Accession Sheet at the
beginning of this film, dated 1967, has this description:

History-Scope and Content...
Zion Hill Baptist Church (Wilkes Co.)
Records 1814-1867.  4 Vols., 2 items.
Org. 10 Ap 1814.  Church minute books,
4 vols., 1814-1967; Lower Creek Baptist
Association Minutes, ca. 1854; and a letter
from N.C. Teague, 1934.

Unpublished descriptive list in BHC.
1. Zion Hill Baptist Church. BRUSHY MOUNTAIN
2. Zion Hill Baptist Church YADKIN
3. Zion Hill Baptist Church BRIER CREEK
4. Zion Hill Baptist Church LEWIS FORK
5. Zion Hill Baptist Church UNITED BAPTIST
6.  Wilkes Co. N.C. Zion Hill Baptist Church
7. N.C. Baptist Church Records. Manuscripts.
8. Shelf List
9. Teague, N.C.
10. Lower Creek Baptist Association

The minute book begins with the following:

[some one has written "William Williams" at the top of this
page.]

The Baptist Church at Zion Hill Warrior Creek is as follows
as appears on the records of the former Church Books
To wit

Male Members     Female Members   Transcribers notes
--------------   --------------   ------------------------
James Broyhill   Anney Greyson    
William Tilley   Rebecah          
                 Broyhill
*John Laws       Polley Brown     A letter that looks like
                                  G is written before John
                                  Laws name
Shadrack Laws    Mary Allison     
*John Laws       Lucy Pettey      A letter that looks like
                                  M is written before John
                                  Laws name
William Mitchell Rebeccah Dyer    
Sen.r
*John Laws       Polley Mitchell  A letter that looks like
                                  P is written before John
                                  Laws name
David Mikel      Chloe Hamby      
William Mitchell Sally Laws       
Jun.r
Richard Hood                      
Jonathan Hood    Lucy Mikel       
James Laws       Nancy Earp       Nancy Earp's name has
                                  been crossed out; not
                                  totally clear
Joseph Grissom   Tabitha Mitchel  
Elijah Laws      Agnes Dyer       
Charles Hood     Frankey Parks    
Zachariah Pettey Lucy Mi___       Perhaps Lucy Mikel
William Johnson  Illegible name   
(second page)                     
Brought over     Brought over     
17               [no number]
Martin Hood      Hannah Earp      
Peter Campbell   Frankey Ham__    
Rhaney Brock     Patty Greyson    
James Doss       Polly Greyson    
Simpson Hambey   Dinah Laws       
Wheeler Mitchell Lavinah John     
                 Judith Hood      
James Greyham    Lucy Cox         
Negros: Abram    Peggy Walker     
Peter            Anney Laws       
Thomas                            
George Walker    Sarah Hampton    
Francis Brown    Mihaley Hood     
John Pond - Gone                  The words "Gone 3" after
3                                 Pond's name may be "Gone
                                  31"
Peter Bird       Salley Walker    
                 Nancy Land       
September 2      Lindy Davis      The female column is a
Satterday 1822                    continuation of that
                                  above; the male column
                                  has additions in another
                                  hand dated 2 Sept. 1822
John Swanson                      
Philip Swanson   Elizabeth        
                 Holder fo.
Samuel  Howell   Letty Hambey     
                 Elisabey Laws    
[Third page]                      
Female Members   Female Members   Females in both columns
Amelia Tasson    Brought forward  
                 36
Sally [or Polly  Nancy Pearson    
or Patty} Harris
"Excommunicated"
Abigail Mitchell Millenda         
                 Fogerson
Sary Mikel       Hannah Hampton   
September John   Sarah Hambey     "September John" marked
                                  out, not clear
Mary Allen       Milddey [?]      
                 Martin
Elizabeth Allen  Lidey Doss       
Anna Calar       Elizabeth Hamby  Perhaps "Anna Color"
                                  meaning a Negro
Mary Dyer came a Diannah Dyer     
member 2         Elizabeth Hamby
Satterday of
September 1825
John Campbell +  Negro Pinder     The "+ son" is not
son              Hannah negro     totally clear
June 12, 1824
Jakeby           [Negro] Judtih   
Ellexander       [Negro] Winney
Baptized and
became a member
June 13 1824

___ 2 Saturday   Polley Pond      Left column becomes very
182?             "Gone"           faint here
Petty gr__       Phebey Boman
[Green? Grim?]   Rhoda Brown
was Received
May Meeting 2    Elizabeth Hamby  
Satterday        Nancy Brock
                                  Barns' entry is very
John Barns was                    faint
Received by the
Church who
became a member
1827
                                  
Nancy _otherson
Elizabeth Doss   _ilah            Maybe Huldah or Adah
                 Blankenship
                                  
A letter of dismissal is attached to one page of this list
pertaining to Lishaba Laws.  It states that she "applied to
us for a Letter of Dismission we do therefore certify that
she hath been an orderly member during her residence with us
in Christian fellowship and when she shall be joined to any
other Church of the same faith & order  . stand dismissed
from us."


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