Elam information excerpted from:
Minute Book of the Meherrin Baptist Church 1771-1837, 1842-1844

Submitted by Annette E. Wetzel 4/98    (awetzel@juno.com)

Virginia State Library and Archives, Richmond, VA. Accession No.
24896

Joel Elam - name listed as "present at Williams Meeting House,
Lunenburg, 27 & 28 	November, 1771, constituting Church."

Joel Elam - name listed among "members on Bluestone dismissed for
constitution, 	October 6, 1772." (Note: church boundary line
change)

Joel Elam "appeared from Bluestone Church requesting loan of a
	preaching breathren last Saturday or Sunday in September,
	1773."

pages 48-49
Letty Elam baptized; dismissed by letter September, 1816

Susanna Elam, July, 1810 baptized; dismissed by letter June, 1812

Martha Gregory now Elam baptized October, 1817; dismissed by
letter March, 1821 

Anderson S. Elam baptized December, 1817;
dismissed by letter August, 1819 

Letty Elam received by letter April, 1818; dismissed by letter
August, 1819 

Edney Elam, received by letter; dismissed by letter

page 116 - Susanna Elam received at June meeting, baptized July
1, 1810 by Richard 	Dabbs, minister.

September 2, 1810, Sunday "Lord's Supper administered to Elam"
	
page 122 - First Sunday, June, 1812 "Sister Susan Elam moved into
bounds of 	Bluestone Church and requests letter of dissunion be
issued"

page 138 - "Union meeting Friday before the 4th Sunday in
September, 1816...letter of disunion for Sister Letty Elam"

page 143 - Meeting Meherrin Church 1st Saturday, April 1818 -"
letter of disunion from 	Sandy Creek Church produced by sister
Letty Elam for the purpose of 	joining this church"

page 149 - [1819]  "Our August meeting was attend by Elder Petty
when brother A. S. Ealam and Letty his wife obtained letters of
dismission, being about to remove to broad river."

My thanks to JoLee Spears, keeper of the Charlotte and
Mecklenburg County VaGenWeb pages for alerting me to this
resource.
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