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• Church records and registers--Virginia.
• Grayson County (N.C.)--Church history.
• Peach Bottom Primitive Baptist Church (Grayson County, Va.)
• Primitive Baptists--Blue Ridge Mountains.
• Primitive Baptists--Virginia.
• Rock Creek Primitive Baptist Church.
• Saddle Creek Primitive Baptist Church.

The Primitive Baptist Church at Peach Bottom, a member of the Mountain District Association, is located in Independence, Grayson County, Va. The church was established by fourteen former members of the Saddle Creek and Rock Creek Primitive Baptist congregations in May 1876. The church remained active in 1983, with about thirty members.

MICROFILM ONLY. One volume containing minutes of monthly church meetings and lists of members and their status in the church, 1910-1983. The minutes include, in limited detail, records of the business of church meetings and the names of preachers and other church officials. The volume also includes scant biographical information about several church members, the text of the constitution of the Peach Bottom Church, dated 1876, and "Articles of Faith."