Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Newspapers.....Black Creek Baptist, 1971 

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"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 49, No. 123, Mon., May 24, 1971, p. 8 

185th Anniversary Held At Black Creek 

  FRANKLIN - The Black Creek Baptist Church celebrated it's 185th anniversary 
on Sunday. 

  The first instance of Baptist preaching in the Black Creek neighborhood was 
in the year 1772, when James Dupree, of whom little is known, appeared on the 
scene.  He was followed by John McGlamre of Raccoon Swamp Church (now Antioch 
Church in Sussex County) and Davis Barrow of the church in Isle of Wight 
County (now Mill Swamp).  On September 16, 1774, several persons from Black 
Creek were baptized by Elder Barrow into the fellowship of the Isle of Wight 
church.  This small group, led by Abraham Marshall, asked to meet separately 
under the supervision of the Isle of Wight church.  Twelve years later, on May 
27, 1786, the congregation, then numbering 70 members, adopted a covenant and 
constituted themselves an independent church.  The original covenant was an 
elaborately worded document based on the Confession of Faith of the Baptist 
Association of 1742, and took up five and one-half closely written pages in 
the record book started in 1786.  This book is preserved in Richmond by the 
Virginia Baptist Historical Society. 

  Church membership now stands at 375 with the Rev. Sidney W. Cowles serving 
as pastor. 

  Members and former members, and friends attended the 185th anniversary 
celebration of the church. 


Additional information: 

Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Black Creek list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/blkcrk.txt 


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