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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

Monday, November 30, 2009

1845


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 Nathaniel Macon Crawford as interim pastor in December 1844 and he was still in service at the end of the church year.


The Georgia Baptist Association of churches met at Fishing Creek Baptist Church in Wilkes County on October 11-13 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: 5:, gained by letter: 7, lost  by dismissal: 5 , lost by exclusion: 6 , lost by death: 1, and total remaining: 167, and of these 27 were white and 140 were black.

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