This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HILL, HAYNES/HAINS. HALL, WRIGHT, SNYDER, TIPTON, GRINDSTAFF, CAMPBELL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EeB.2ACE/376 Message Board Post: I was given a 1-page transcription of a church document (believe the church is Baptist, but that's only a guess based on family affiliations elsewhere). The document says: the congregation was first organized at the home of W. M. SNYDER, the 1st preaching at the home of John HILL (b. 1802 in Burke Co., NC--my 3rd great-grandfather), and the lst pastors were Bro. D. T. WRIGHT and Jas. I. TIPTON. After these meetings in the homes of WM SNYDER and JOHN HILL ( in April, 1842) the congregation built a church and called it Mount Pleasant. Preachers included T.J. Wright [sic], with aid of other ministers as helpers: S. H. MILLARD, A. CAMPBELL, John WRIGHT, Jas. I TIPTON, and R. ELLIS. From Mount Pleasant church moved to Fisher's old field "where the church grew rapidly for a season." First families of this church congregation included the Michael Grindstaff family, sons of the Campbells, Hills, Snyders, Halls, probably some Lacys, Simerlys, and others...." according to personal interviews with Lyde Hall, John Campbell, and others conducted in May, 1950. I am looking for any info on the location(s) of this church (Hampton, Elizabethtown, etc.?), church records. etc., as well as any suggestions as to which libraries, church associations, or county records I might contact. In particular, the 1-page transcription I have (but no source name for the book in which it appears or the earlier record from which it is copied) references the meeting when "John Hill and his father 'confessed Christ' followed by others...." This is the ONLY reference I have to John Hill's father--a brick wall for me and multitudes of other Hill researchers. I believe John's father is old Swinfield Hill from Burke Co., NC, and hope there might be a reference to John's father and/or brothers (esp. any Absolom Hill ) in early church records. In April, 1842 John Hill was probably a widower with 7 children ranging in age from 7-21. He will soon marry Elizabeth Haynes/Hains somewhere in Carter Co. around 1843 and later moves (1846?) to McMinn Co., TN wher! e he dies 21 Mar 1877. Please contact me if you have information or can suggest where I might look further. With many thanks, Fran Hill [email protected]