Philadelphia Baptist Church was constituted March 27, 1859. This church has been a member of the Tar River Baptist Association since 1859.
Pastors: R.W. Delbridge, 1860-1866; J.G. Barkley, 1867; R.W. Delbridge, 1868; G.M. Duke, 1869-1883; D. Wester, 1885; G.M. Duke, 1888-1891; R.D. Harper, 1892; G.M. Duke, 1893-1900; W.C. Nowell, 1904; J.E. Hocutt, 1905-1908; G.M. Duke, 1909; G.W. May, 1910-1919; J.P. Gulley, 1920-1921; G.W. May, 1922-1928; A. Corey, 1929-1934; E.G. Willis, 1935-1936; R.E. Tripp, 1937; J.M. Johnson, 1938-1940; W.F. Gentry, 1942-1948; W.C. Francis, 1949-1951; J.C. Brooks, 1952-1956; Hershel Chevallier, 1958-1961; D. E. Glascoe, 1962-1963; D.T. Griffin, 1964-1965; J.W. Week, 1966-1968
This collection contains church minute books from August 26, 1871 to August 27, 1888 and membership lists.
Philadelphia Baptist Church (Nashville, N.C.) records, (MS781), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
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Collection described by Kathleen Darling, 2014. Formerly identified as CR47.