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    1. [NCROBESO-L] Raft Swamp Baptist Church Membership Rolls
    2. Lynn Prettyman
    3. As Margaret rightfully pointed out, some things do fall in the province of public domain, and certainly a membership list would be one. Here is part of the roll of members. " At the Raft Swamp Meeting House on September 29, 1854, Elders Elias DAVIS, Haynes LENNON and Isham STONE met to constitute a Baptist church. Haynes LENNON was appointed moderator. The following persons came forward at that time with letters of dismission from other churches." James PREVATT, Charles STATEN, James DAVIS, Abraham MOORE, Richardson TOWNSEND, Henry PREVATT, Thomas PURNELL, Cary WILKINS, Orra PREVATT, Sara PREVATT, Susannah OLDHAM, Martha TOWNSEND, Luvina MOORE, Elizabeth DAVIS, Sara WILLOUGHBY, Eliza CARTER and Margaret WILKINS. "At the time that the others were being received by letters from other churches, the following were initiated by baptism into the church:" Benjamin TYNER, Eli PREVATT, Sion WILKINS, Jerry, the Negro servant of Rufus KING, Mary Ann TYNER, Mary Jane MOORE, Orrra MOORE, Clarissa PREVATT and Mary PURNELL. I will have to break the roll into 2 separate postings because the next one covers 1854-1868 and is lengthy. As you can see, husbands and wives are not identified as such. Lynn

    06/06/2000 04:29:30