At 12:51 PM -0500 12/6/1998, Janice Shives wrote: >Now that I have said that I want to ask the list a question. I had an >ancestor who might have been a Baptist minister in Stokes County around >1790. His name was John Newman. I found this information on a >reproduction of an old Stokes County map. He was the minister of the >Soapstone Creek Baptist Church in Northern Stokes County. I visited >Stokes County last summer and think I found the area where this church >once stood. Hi Janice, Where was the Soapstone church located? Have you checked The Baptist Historical Collection at the Wake Forest University Library? They have collected letters, diaries and other documents from various NC Baptist churches and ministers. The mailing address is (was? I have an old brochure): P.O. Box 7777, Reynolda Station, Winston-Salem, NC 27109. By now they may even have something online, I haven't checked: http://www.wfu.edu The director is John Woodward, who has been very helpful to researchers I know. There is something similar at Duke University for Methodist churches. Good luck with your search! --- Mike Warren <http://www.netunlimited.net/~mwarren> Sine Nomine Farm, Tobaccoville, NC