ms793Sandy Run Baptist Church (Bertie County, N.C.) Records MS793Juno Zhu and Stephanie Bennett Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives

2017 May

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Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives Sandy Run Baptist Church (Bertie County, N.C.) Records MS793 1 Linear Feet 1 box 1773-1821 Sandy Run Baptist Church was organized in 1740 and restored in 1773. This church was listed as Bertie, 1769-1825. This church has been a member of the Kehukee (1769-1805); Chowan (1806-83); and West Chowan (1883-present) Baptist associations. This volume contains church meeting minutes at Sandy Run and meeting minutes at Pottacasy meeting house [later formed Potecasi Baptist Church], a copy of deed, biographical sketches of Lemuel Burkitt, and membership rolls of males, females, and African Americans (free Black members and enslaved peoples). English . Historical Note

Sandy Run Baptist Church was organized in 1740 and restored in 1773. This church was listed as Bertie, 1769-1825. This church has been a member of the Kehukee (1769-1805); Chowan (1806-83); and West Chowan (1883-present) Baptist associations.

Collection Overview

This volume contains church meeting minutes at Sandy Run and meeting minutes at Pottacasy meeting house [later formed Potecasi Baptist Church] (1773-1804) [broken series], a copy of deed (1821), biographical sketches of Lemuel Burkitt (1807), and membership rolls of males, females, and African Americans (free blacks and slaves).

Preferred Citation

Sandy Run Baptist Church (Bertie County, N.C.) Records, (MS793), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.

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Related Materials

Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives holds a related microfilm collection, Sandy Run Baptist Church (Roxobel N.C.) records.

Processing Information

Collection described by Kathleen Darling, 2014. Formerly identified as CR59.

Church records and registers -- North Carolina -- Roxobel Church records and registers -- North Carolina -- Bertie County Bertie County (N.C.) -- Church history -- Sources Baptists -- North Carolina -- Bertie County -- History -- Sources African American Baptists -- North Carolina -- Bertie County Minute book1773-1821Minutes from November, 1773 to January, 1804 include church covenant adopted on October 26, 1799; membership rolls of white female members and free ones of color, negro members, male and female, lists of the non existing white male members under the care of Lemuel Burkitt; copy of tha land where stands the meeting house. Biographical sketch of life ministry, and death of the late Pastor Lemuel Burkitt11