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A Timeline of the Key Events in the Life of David Benedict (1779-1874), the Baptist Historian. Together with his Circular Letter “On Religious Revivals,” presented before the Warren Baptist Associatio … read more

Though “unskilled in the learning of the schools,” wrote Lewis Halsey, “his strong common-sense and logical mind gave him power as a sermonizer, while his acute sensibility to the humorous or the path … read more

A complete biography of John Peck, wrote his friend and biographer George Eaton in 1851, “would embrace a history of the Baptist denomination in Central and Western New York, from its feeblest beginni … read more

Lott Cary was a pioneer settler and founding father of the new settlement of Liberia in West Africa for African-Americans, freed from slavery, for a homeland of their own. He fought for the survival … read more

David Benedict (1779-1874) walked 95 years on this earth as the foremost chronicler of American Baptist church growth since Morgan Edwards rode saddle and pack through the original colonies....Benedic … read more