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<ead xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9 http://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd"><eadheader countryencoding="iso3166-1" dateencoding="iso8601" findaidstatus="completed" langencoding="iso639-2b" repositoryencoding="iso15511"><eadid url="http://hdl.handle.net/10339/93882">ms793</eadid><filedesc><titlestmt><titleproper>Sandy Run Baptist Church (Bertie County, N.C.) Records <num>MS793</num></titleproper><author>Juno Zhu and Stephanie Bennett </author></titlestmt><publicationstmt><publisher>Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives</publisher><p><date>2017 May</date></p><address><addressline>PO Box 7777</addressline><addressline>Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27109</addressline><addressline>URL: <extptr xlink:href="http://zsr.wfu.edu/special/" xlink:show="new" xlink:title="http://zsr.wfu.edu/special/" xlink:type="simple"/></addressline></address></publicationstmt></filedesc><profiledesc><creation>This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on <date>2021-06-02 14:46:54 -0400</date>.</creation><descrules>Describing Archives: A Content Standard</descrules></profiledesc><revisiondesc><change><date>2018 November</date><item>Revised by Katie Lawrence</item></change></revisiondesc></eadheader><archdesc level="collection">
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    <unittitle>Sandy Run Baptist Church (Bertie County, N.C.) Records</unittitle>
    <unitid>MS793</unitid>
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      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 Linear Feet</extent>
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    <unitdate normal="1773/1821" type="inclusive">1773-1821</unitdate>
    <abstract id="aspace_cd649e1d191da30eb6e5ce68910bd921">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).</abstract>
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      <language langcode="eng">English</language>
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    <head>Historical Note</head>
<p>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.</p>  </bioghist>
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    <head>Collection Overview</head>
<p>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).</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <head>Preferred Citation</head>
<p>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.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>This collection is open for use.</p>  </accessrestrict>
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    <head>Copyright Notice</head>
<p>The nature of the WFU Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The Archives and Special Collections of ZSR Library claims only physical ownership of most materials. The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to the U.S. Copyright Law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.</p>  </userestrict>
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    <head>Related Materials</head>
<p>Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives holds a related microfilm collection, <extref xlink:href="https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/37727
" xlink:show="new" xlink:actuate="onrequest">Sandy Run Baptist Church (Roxobel N.C.) records</extref>.</p>  </relatedmaterial>
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    <head>Processing Information</head>
<p>Collection described by Kathleen Darling, 2014. Formerly identified as CR59.</p>  </processinfo>
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    <subject source="lcsh">Church records and registers -- North Carolina -- Roxobel</subject>
    <subject source="lcsh">Church records and registers -- North Carolina -- Bertie County</subject>
    <geogname source="lcsh">Bertie County (N.C.) -- Church history -- Sources</geogname>
    <subject source="lcsh">Baptists -- North Carolina -- Bertie County -- History -- Sources</subject>
    <subject source="lcsh">African American Baptists -- North Carolina -- Bertie County</subject>
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  <dsc><c id="aspace_ref7_pt4" level="file"><did><unittitle><extref xlink:href="https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/71171" xlink:show="new" xlink:actuate="onrequest">Minute book</extref></unittitle><unitdate normal="1773/1821" type="inclusive">1773-1821</unitdate><abstract id="aspace_3769197738482fac23ef7a7195a8912f">Minutes 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 Burkitt</abstract><container id="aspace_fc4c7561b550d60efc7e7b5505cbcede" label="Text" type="box">1</container><container id="aspace_5ae6ba81627ba9933cb7fc036b7ccf56" parent="aspace_fc4c7561b550d60efc7e7b5505cbcede" type="volume">1</container></did></c></dsc>
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