Source: History of Newberry County by Pope p. 82 The Dunkers The Dunker settlement was on Palmetto Branch (now called Kinard's Branch), a tributary of Bush River a few miles south of the town of Newberry. The Chapmans, Summers, Lynches, Prathers, and Martins were Dunkers. Their meetinghouse, of which no vestige remains, stood next to the old Dunker Cemetery which is located near the road from Newberry to St. Luke's. Joseph Summers of Maryland was the leader of the small band of Duners. His son-in-law, the Reverend Giles Chapman, who was born in Virginia, was a saddler by trade and a preacher by avocation. He began to preach in 1782. This congregation later became Universalists, but in the early years they practiced their rather unusual form of religion. Believing in immersion like the Baptist, they knelt in the water and were plunged three times under it while in that position. They neither shaved their faces nor their heads. Footnotes: Deed Book U, p. 148, Newberry County clerk's office. On November 24, 1823, Daniel Morgan conveyed two and a half acres to Joseph Summers, Samuel Summers, Samuel Chapman, and Maramduke Coate, Esq. Trustees of the Univeralist Meeting House in Newberry District... (char's note: I think the Esq. after the name must have some connection to when they were justices of the peace) ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com