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           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                             #4418-z
                FALL CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH RECORDS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      Fall Creek Baptist Church, in extreme southwest
           Chatham County, N.C., was established in 1799.  It was
           a member of the Sandy Creek Baptist Association.
               Minutes of congregational meetings of the Fall
           Creek Baptist Church, Chatham County, N.C., 1819-1890.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Baptists--North Carolina--History--19th century.
   Chatham County (N.C.)--Church history.
   Church records and registers--North Carolina.
   Fall Creek Baptist Church (Chatham County, N.C.).

Size:  1 item (2 folders).

Provenance:  Received from Nancy Carol Smith Purvis of Bennett,
             North Carolina, in August 1985.

Access:  No restrictions.

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

Table of Contents
       Description

                           DESCRIPTION

   The Fall Creek Baptist Church was established in 1799 in the
southwest corner of Chatham County near the Moore and Randolph
County lines.  Fall Creek was a sister church to Friendship
Baptist Church in Moore County and was a member of the Sandy
Creek Baptist Association.

   These records are photocopies of about 250 pages.  The
originals are in the possession of Francis Brewer of High Falls,
North Carolina.  The church minutes from 1799 to 1819 were
destroyed or lost.

Folder 1       Minutes, 1819-1844
       2       Minutes, 1845-1890