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I'm very pleased to welcome you to my blog on history of First Baptist Church, Washington, Georgia. I started it last year after spending much time thinking about how to do it. The sources I had to use were the minutes of my church's conferences and the minutes of the annual meetings of the Georgia Baptist Associatiion of Churches, as well as my church's website. I decided not to write about long periods of time - decades, centuries, but about years, since that fit better with the Association's minutes. I have not, and probably will not, finish this job.

William T. Johnson

Sunday, November 29, 2009

1837

This is a record of activities of First Baptist Church of Washington, Georgia, during the church year shown in the title above and ending September 30 of that year.

The church elected Jesse Mercer as pastor on January 20, 1828, and he remained as pastor at the end of this year.

The Georgia Baptist Association of churches met at New Ford Baptist Church in Wilkes County on October 6-9 following the end of the church year. This church elected as messengers to that meeting the members shown as labels below.

The church letter reported  members gained by baptism: 0, gained by letter: 9, gained by restoration: 1, lost  by dismissal: 5 , lost by exclusion: 1 , lost by death: 4, and total remaining: 63.
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