ACCOMACK COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES - Baker Monument
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Elijah Baker monument
                  1938 Jan. 19
                  Research made by Edwin L. Mapp

Cemetery Location:  In Baptist Church Yard, Accomac, Virginia.
                    Accomack County




The following inscription was copied from the monument:

Elijah Baker
Pioneer Baptist of the Eastern Shore of Virginia who landed at Hunts Point, 
Old Plantation Creek, on Easter Sunday 1776 and at the same day preached the 
first Baptist Sermon, “At the End of a Horsing Tree”.  Opposition of the 
established Church caused him to be deported; but kind providence brought him 
back.  He was later imprisoned 56 days in the Old Debtor’s Jail at Accomac for 
the crime of Preaching the Gospel.
(Acts IV; 19,20)
In gratitude of the rich heritage that is ours because of his suffering and 
imprisonment this memorial is erected by the Churches of the Accomac Baptist 
Association, April 4, 1926


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