Hester Baptist Church, located in the northwest corner of Oxford Township, 5 miles northwest of the Town of Oxford on the Oxford-Virgilina Road, was organized on September 13, 1823. Two young ministers were present: Brother Samuel Duty, a native of Granville County, and Reverend Robert T. Daniel, born in Virginia and reared in Chatham County, North Carolina. The place of meeting: a log house, 20 x 20 donated with the lot by Captain Benjamin Hester, for whom the church was named.
Records consist of church minutes.
Received from Hester Baptist Church, 310 Cherry Street, Oxford, North Carolina on November 20, 1968 for microfilming and return to the church.
Processed by Lindsey Rogers on April 2, 2012.
Hester Baptist Church (Oxford, N.C.) records, CRMF41, Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
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