Sawyers Creek Baptist Church Records, 1815-1937

Summary

Creator:
Sawyers Creek Baptist Church (Camden County, N.C.)
Abstract:

Microfilm only. Sawyers Creek Baptist Church, Camden County, N.C., founded circa 1790, was an interracial church affiliated with the Chowan Association and later with the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina and the Southern Baptist Convention. Primarily minutes of church conferences held every month in the early years and quarterly in later years, with special called meetings as needed. The minutes record transactions of church business and finance; matters relating to the admission, discipline, expulsion, or removal of members; the calling of pastors and the election of church officials; the care of church property; and relations with other Baptist churches. Also included are lists of members indicating gender and race, lists of contributions, and the church covenant and rules of decorum.

Extent:
6 Volumes (1 reel of microfilm)
Language:
Materials in English
Library Catalog Link:
View UNC library catalog record for this item

Background

Biographical / historical:

Sawyers Creek Baptist Church, Camden County, N.C., founded circa 1790, was an interracial church affiliated with the Chowan Association and later with the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina and the Southern Baptist Convention.

Scope and content:

Six volumes of records (on microfilm) of the interracial Sawyers Creek Baptist Church, Camden County, N.C., are primarily minutes of church conferences held every month in the early years and quarterly in later years, with special called meetings as needed. The minutes record transactions of church business and finance; matters relating to the admission, discipline, expulsion, or removal of members; the calling of pastors and the election of church officials; the care of church property; and relations with other Baptist churches. Also included are lists of members indicating gender and race, lists of contributions, and the church covenant and rules of decorum.

Acquisition information:

Lent for filming by Sawyers Creek Baptist Church in Belcross, N.C., by the pastor, Irvin H. Acree, and clerk, Mrs. Walter L. Midgette, in December 1965.

Processing information:

Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, August 1996

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.

Remediation by: Nancy Kaiser, July 2020. Updated abstract, subject headings, scope and content note, and container list.

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Access and use

Restrictions to access:

No restrictions. Open for research.

Restrictions to use:

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

No usage restrictions.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], in the Sawyers Creek Baptist Church Records #3724, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Location of this collection:
Louis Round Wilson Library
200 South Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27515
Contact:
(919) 962-3765
wilsonlibrary@unc.edu