This should tell you everything you want to know about the Baptist Church minutes. Alley Blackford (Dodson List Mgr) wchs@prodigy.net "Minutes of Broad Run Baptist Church, Faquier Co., Va., 1762-1872." "60 pp., photocopy of "Genealogical Record" Vol 7, No. 3, Sept. 1965 through Vol. 9, No. 4, Dec. 1967." The "Genealogical Record" was published by Houston Gen. Forum, Houston, Texas. This was found by Mary Gregg at the Texas State Library in Austin, Texas. The first 35 pages were posted on the Prodigy Genealogy Bulletin Board. People who have already read those pages can find the beginning of the new part by searching for the word PRODIGY which will take you to the end of the posted part. This file is 86 pages long. It contains the entire transcript of the Broad Run Baptist Church, Fauquier Co., Va. Particular attention should be given to the last two pages, where early birth records from the 1760s are appended. This is the way this record was published. Please note that because this was scanned from old typewritten text, some scanning errors undoubtedly have slipped by. The text from which this was scanned was typed on a typewriter that used large and small upper case letters, which resulted in this scan being all uppercase letters. Also, the scanner tends to make these errors which may have slipped by: ones and zeros are read as I's and O's, and vice versa. The letters TH, when they appear together, were often read as M, and if all the Ms weren't found, they may be confusing. The slash markes (/) that appear throughout this text were inserted by the original transcriber to denote the end of lines in the original. That transcriber put her comments in parentheses; mine are in brackets. From THE GENEALOGICAL RECORD Published Quarterly by The Houston Genealogical Forum, Houston, Texas. Volume VII, Number 3, September 1965. MINUTES OF THE BROAD.RUN.BAPTIST CHURCH NEAR WARRENTON, FAUQUIER COUNTY, VIRGINIA 1762 - 1872 FOREWORD: WITH THIS ISSUE OF THE RECORD, THE HOUSTON GENEALOGICAL FORUM BEGINS SERIAL PUBLICATION OF THE MINUTES OF THE BROAD RUN BAPTIST CHURRH. FOR PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND PUBLISH THE MINUTES, THE FORUM HEREBY EXPRESSES ITS GRATITUDE TO LT. COL. AND MRS. RICHARD H. KLITCH, 618INFANTRY POST ROAD, FORT SAM HOUSTON, TEXAS. THE MINUTES ARE A COPY OFTHE ORIGINAL IN TWO NOTEBOOKS OWNED BY MRS. KLITCH NEE HELEN JEFFRIES,FORMERLY OF WARRENTON, VIRGINIA. THE COPY WAS HANDED DOWN TO MRS. KLITCH FROM HER FATHER, CHARLES EDWARD JEFFRFES(DECD. AND IN TURN FROM HIS FATHER, JOSEPH ARTHUR JEFFRIES(DECD.), BOTH OF WARRENTON. BOTH MESSRS. JEFFRIES FOSTERED LIFELONG INTEREST IN THE HISTORY OF WARRENTON AND FAUQUIER COUNTY. AND B0TH WERE ACCOUNTED AS THE PRINCIPAL HISTORIANS OF THE AREA. FOR MANY YEARS IN THE EARLY 1900S, MR.JOSEPH JEFFRIES AUTHORED A LOCAL AND FAMILY HISTORY COLUMN IN THE WARRENTON NEWSPAPER UNDER THE LITERARY NAME OF AITOCS, A REVERSE SPELLING FOR HIS FAMILY FARM, SCOTIA. EXACTLY HOW MR. JEFFRIES CAME INTO POSSESSION OF THE COPY OF THE MINUTES IS UNKNOWN. WHETHER THE ORIGINAL OR OTHER COPIES ARE ELSEWHERE IN EXISTENCE IS ALSO UNKNOWN.ALTHOUGH THE MAJORITY OF READERS MAY NEVER FIND AN ANCESTOR IN THE MINUTES, THEY WILL FIND IT INSTRUCTIVE TO BECOME MORE FAMILIAR WITH THIS VALUABLE BUT LITTLE USED TYPE OF GENEALOGICAL SOURCE, AND WILL BEENTERTAINED BY THE "SUCCESSES" AND "FAILURES" OF HUMAN NATURE REFLECTED IN THE CHURCH'S DEALINGS WITH ITS COMMUNICANTS. OF MAJOR HISTORICAL INTEREST ARE THE BAPTISMAL RECORD OF NANCY HANKS(PAGE 13), THE MOTHER OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, AND THE RECORD OF OTHERS OF THE HANKS FAMILY. THE MINUTES ARE REPRODUCED IN EXACT FORM WITHOUT ALTERATION OF ABBREVIATIONS MISSPELLING PUNCTUATION, ETC. QUESTIONABLE INTERPRETATIONS OF HANDWRITING ARE SO LABELED. WHERE REMARKS AND GENEALOGICAL DATA HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IN THE MARGINS BY MR. JOSEPH JEFFRIES, MOSTLY ABOUT HIS OWN RELATIVES, THESE HAVE BEEN SO INDICATED.PAGE NUMBERS OF THE SOURCE NOTEBOOKS ARE SHOWN. IN THE LISTS OF BAPTISMS SHOWN,STATEMENTS OF DISMISSAL, DECEASE, EXCOMMUNICATION, ETC.ARE UNDOUBTEDLY ENTRIES ADDED TO THE ORIGINAL MINUTES AT A LATER DATE BY THE CLERK. A XEROX COPY OF THE NOTEBOOKS 1S ON FILE AT THE HOUSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY. (EDITOR's NOTE - MR. ROBERT L. KITE, MEMBER OF THE HOUSTON GENEALOGICAL FORUM, BROUGHT THE MINUTES TO OUR ATTENTION AND PREPARED THE INTERESTING FOREWORD. To INDICATE THE LINES OF COPY IN THE ORIGINAL NOTEBOOKS, DIAGONAL (/) MARKS HAVE BEEN EMPLOYED IN THIS GENEALOGICAL RECORD SERIES.) (PAGE 1) THE CHURCH WAS CONSTITUTED DECEMBER 3D 1762 /CONSISTING OF THE TEN FOLLOWING MEMBERS / BEING NEAR BROAD RUN IN FAUQUIER COUNTY / IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA /EDMOND HAYES ELIZABETH HAYES/PETER CORNWELL SARAH CORNWELL JOSHUA DODSON RUTH DODSON THOMAS DODSON ELIZABETH DODSON/WILLIAM STAMPS DECEASED BETTY BENNETT/THE ABOVE JOSHUA DODSON AND RUTH DODSON /THOS DODSON,ELIZABETH AND BETTY BENNETT /WERE DISMISSED TO HALIFAX. OUR REVD BROTHER DAVID THOMAS HAVING A / REGULAR LETTER OF DISMISSION FROM THE CHURCH / AT VINCENT WAS RECEIVED BY THE CHURCH HERE / AS A MEMBER THEREOF. / DECEMBER 4TH 1762 / WAS ADDED THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS BY BAPTISM ABRAHAM DODSON DECEASED/OBED CORNWELL DECEASE /BARBARY DODSON CENSORED JUNE 1775/JOHN BENNETT DISMISSED To HALIFAX / (PAGE 2) JOSEPH MORRISON DISMISSED To HALIFAX / MARGARET MORRISON DISMISSED To HALIFAX /JOHN CREEL DISMISSED TO HALIFAX /RHODA CREEL DISMISSED To HALIFAX /ELISHA DODSONDISMISSED TO HALIFAX / SARAH DODSON DISMISSED TO HALIFAX/ELIZH. CORNWELL EXCOMMUNICATED JAN 4 1777 / MARY HIGGINSEXCOMMUNICATED AUG 24 1782 / ANN EDWARDS DISMISSED TO HALIFAX / WILLIAM MURPHY DISMISSED TO HALIFAX / JOHN WHITEIN DISMISSED TO HALIFAX / JOSEPH DODSON / WILLIAM DAVIS / JOHN DAVIS / LUCY DAVIS / KATHERINE RHODES DISMISSED To HALIFAX /MICHAEL OWENS DISMISSED To HALIFAX / APRIL 10TH 1763 WAS ADDED THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS BY BAPTISM/ WILLIAM CARTER / ELIZABETH CARTER / SARAH LEACHMAN DISMISSED To HALIFAX /MARY LEACHMAN / ELIZABETH DAVIS DECEASED / ANN MURPHY DISMISSED TO LONDON / (PAGE 3) MAY 7TH 1763 / WAS ADDED THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS BY BAPTISM / TIMOTHY STAMPS DISMISSED To HALIFAX / NANCY HOLSCLAW DECEASED / JAMES SPENCER DISMISSED To LOUDON / GEORGE DODSON GONE To HALIFAX / ANN DODSON DISMISSED TO HALIFAX / ELIZABETH DODSON DISMISSED To HALIFAX /DORCAS DODSON / SARAH UGELBY DISMISSED To HALIFAX / MARY WIATT DISMISSED TO HALIFAX / ---------- > From: MNRiley <katelyn@telis.org> > To: DODSON-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: Baptist Church Minutes > Date: Thursday, November 13, 1997 11:09 AM > > What do these Baptist minutes contain and for what area are they for? > Nancy Dotson Riley > -----Original Message----- > From: Bernice <daviesb@tdn.com> > To: dodson-l@rootsweb.com <dodson-l@rootsweb.com> > Date: Tuesday, November 11, 1997 7:49 PM > Subject: Baptist Church Minutes > > > >I would like to have the "Minutes of Broad Run Baptist Church" but > >not sure who to contact. I tried to contact Libbie Griffin at > >yyex00@prodigy.com but it came back address unknown. > > > >I would like to make contact with whoever has this informaton. > >Thank You > >Bernice > >saviesb@tdn.com > >