Hi Joanne, Your info for Cashaway is incomplete. The deed for one acre on Cleveland Hill, in 1788 is correct for MUDDY CREEK Baptist, which later became Brownsville Baptist, in honor of Rev. John Brown. This site is now known as Rogers Cemetery on Screwpin Road. This Church was formed when Cashaway split between Muddy Creek and Black River Baptist in Darlington County (more accessable to Mechanicsville members). The Cashaway Church building was moved about 5 miles inland to Cleveland hill in 1788(this building was noted for still having musket ball holes in the shutters, from a Revolutionary War skirmish at Cashaway, between patriots and tories).Muddy Creek (currently Brownsville) was officially organized in 1789. Cashaway Church split from Welsh Neck, and started meeting in 1756. However, Catfish Baptist in Dillon County(old Marion) predates Cashaway, it split from Welsh Neck in 1754. It apparently was formed by members of Welsh Neck who remained in the area of the original Welsh Neck site in old Marion County. The third Church split from Welsh Neck was Beauty Spot Baptist, I think aroud 1760(?), which was inland from the river near Bennettsville. The Beauty Spot Cemetery is near Beauty Spot road and US Hwy 15-401. This Church congregation later moved to McColl. I am also aware of a church that was in the Cheraw area, and this is probaly the one you mention at Cheraw Hill in 1782, although I had some impression that it was on the Marlboro side of the Pee Dee( but it makes much more sense for it to be in Cheraw). One additional note, Welsh Neck itself removed from Marlboro County to Society Hill in 1795. This was probaly because several members living north of Welsh Neck moved to the new church at Carlilse, and Welsh Neck moved to a more central location(and higher ground) among it's remaining members to the south of the former location. This last sentence is speculation on my part, but seems logical to me. Hoped this helped to fill in some of the missing pieces. By the way, I have heard of a Pledger's Mill. I think I know where it is, but I need to verify which of three places I think it could be. Jeff Dudley At 04:51 PM 3/10/02 -0500, you wrote: >Thank you for the information on the Sawmill Baptist church, Jeff. I >believe , after reading everything, that the first group to break away from >the Welsh Neck group had some kind of meeting house in Cheraw Hill, >organized in 1782, and the group that broke away from it organized the Old >Sawmill Baptist Church which was probably built on the two acres of land >stated in Capt. Phillip Pledger's records as being given to the "Baptist >Church" in 1785. Pledger's son- in- law, Tristram Thomas is buried there >with his second wife. It states that Rev. Joshua Lewis preached at both >Cheraw and Sawmill and died ca. 1812, and is buried at Old Sawmill. The >congregation built a new Sawmill in 1820, but left it to go into the new >city limits where the new courthouse was being built with a new church in >1832 which is probably the Thomas Memorial Baptist. At any rate, the old >Sawmill Church predates Cashway by about three years, which was organized >by Moses Pearson and some of his friends : > >" Moses Pearson then helped established the Cashaway Neck Church of Christ >on the banks of the Great PeeDee River in Marlboro Co. in 1788 near the >border with Darlington Co and next to the present Hwy. #34. The members had >broken away from The Welsh Neck church and had been meeting at Pearson's >house until they arranged for the land and building of the Cashaway church. >Moses Pearson & Joseph Allison, for ten pounds sterling, bought one acre of >land from John Brown near Brown's Mill on Cleveland Hill for said church. >Other names as witnesses: Matthew M. Murfee, Jesse Brown, Rachel Pearson, >attested to before Tho. Evans in 1792. > >It seems like I saw something along the way that pointed to Pledger having a >mill. Will have to dig further. > > >Joanne > > > > > > > > >