Was the Forks of Cheat Baptist Church one of the early ones started by Rev. Corbly? It seems like I saw a charter and some cemetery information on one of the W.P.A. Historical Records Survey microfilms, available from the LDS. Brian Brian D. Core P.O. Box 1166 Brighton, CO 80601 [email protected] Web Page: http://pages.prodigy.net/greenhouseguy For attachments, use: [email protected] ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

At 08:25 PM 3/7/2001 -0700, Brian Core wrote: >Was the Forks of Cheat Baptist Church one of the early ones started by >Rev. Corbly? It seems like I saw a charter and some cemetery information >on one of the W.P.A. Historical Records Survey microfilms, available from >the LDS. Hi, Brian, and Paul, Yes, Brian, it was Rev. Corbly. He was the minister for this church long before he also became the minister of Goshen Baptist in Greene County, which was started by Rev. James Sutton in 1776. However, it was Corbly who lost his family to an Indian massacre while serving at Goshen. Samuel Wiley, in his History of Mon. Co. writes on p. 440 that Rev. John Corbly organized this church on November 5, 1775. Quoting from Wiley: "The church consisted of twelve members, and was organized near Stearttown. It was the first church in the county, and the first one organized west of the Alleghany Mountains in Virginia. Mr. Corbly and others were dismissed by letter in September, 1775, from the Great Bethel Church at Uniontown, Penn., to form the Forks of Cheat Church." On p.685. Wiley writes that the record of the church's establishment was in possession of Lancelot John circa 1883. Wiley reports that the names of the 12 were: Sam. Lewellen John McFarland Thos. Mills Thos. Evans Joseph Botinghouse Hannah Lewellen Susannah McFarland Martha Mills Catharine Evans Elizabeth Jackson Wm. John and ________ _________ Further, on p. 686, Wiley writes: "In 1778, Rachel Pindall, Dawson and Mrs. Dawson, Massie Kazad, David Scott and Stephen Hardin became members; 1781, Owen Davis, William John, William Stewart, Philip Rogers, Sarah Bowen, Letitia Davis, Jacob Jacobs, Ann Teabaugh and Hannah Jacobs joined; 1782, Charles Bennet, Richard Cain, Jane Cain, James John, Mary John, Elizabeth Stewart and Elizabeth Scott were added to the church." Later on that same page: "In 1803, William John, Samuel Bowen, Richard Cain and John McFarland agreed to hew the logs for a new church . . . . " Then in a footnote on that page, Wiley writes circa 1883 that the records of the church were in the possession of D. M. Hertzog, at Uniontown. In these records he has found that in October 1772, Hannah Lewellen, Martha Mills, Thomas Mills, Richard Cain and Jane Cain were received by baptism into this church. This D.M. Hertzog may have been David Morgan Hertzog; a W.G. Hertzog was the minister there in 1859-1861, after having served at Mt. Moriah in Fayette Co. Sorry, Paul, but I've no idea where these records are now. Regards, Jane [email protected]