I thought I'd pass on the following from an article published 1874 that mentions the Blue Run Baptist Church and Baptists during the Revolutionary War in the Orange/Culpeper area. This is from a biography about Baptist minister William Davis. He was born 1765 in Orange Co, VA, but in his boyhood his family moved to Culpeper Co. Rev. Davis, his parents Jonathan and Lucy Gibbs Davis, his wife Nancy Eastin and their families moved about 1790 to Wilkes/Elbert Co, GA. A number of Culpeper Co. families moved to Elbert Co, GA, about the same time, and it appears quite a few were Baptists. Rev. Davis' wife Nancy was a Quaker, his brother John married Nancy's sister, a Quaker, and other Culpeper-to-Wilkes/Elbert GA Baptists seem to have prior Quaker connections. I'd be interested in hearing if anyone has information on other Baptists or Quakers in Culpeper in this time period. --jh "This excellent man and useful minister was a native of Orange county, Virginia, where he was born January 7th, 1765. His parents were poor, but honest and respectable, and were members of the Episcopal church. He became concerned about his soul at the early age of nine years. Two sermons which he heard about this time, (one by an Episcopalian, the other by a Presbyterian,) made a deep impression upon his mind. The Baptists, then called "New-Lights," commenced preaching in his native county about the same time. Much was said against them, as those who were "turning the world upside down," which raised much anxiety in the mind of young Davis to hear them. The first opportunity of the kind he enjoyed was to hear an exhortation and prayer from one John Bledsoe. This served to deepen his religious impressions, and frequently at that tender age he was known to go forward voluntarily and ask the ministers to pray for him. He continued serious, by turns, until in his fourteenth year, a conversation he had with a pious negro in his father's employment, (a Baptist,) fully awakened him to a sense of his lost condition as a sinner. For some six months, his mind was in great distress. "During those days of darkness, he went far and near, by day and by night, as far as lay in his power, to hear the gospel from the Baptist preachers, who were itinerating through the country. One night he went some four miles from his father's residence to attend a meeting held by Elijah Craig. During the services, his feelings became such as to unnerve him; he swooned away, and remained in a helpless state for some time. In this condition, the Lord brought deliverance to his soul. He rose rejoicing, and began at once to exhort his fellow-mortals to flee from the wrath to come. At this time his parents resided in Culpeper county, and were opposers and persecutors of the Baptists. William left the parental roof, rather unceremoniously perhaps, walked some fourteen or fifteen miles to a Baptist church in Orange county, called Blue Run, where he was immersed in his fifteenth year." [article continues] Source: "Georgia Baptists HIstorical and Biographical" by J. H. Campbell, Perry, GA: E. Merton Coulter, Macon, GA: J. W. Burke & Co. 1874 Found on the web at: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/county/taylor/churches/gabaptists.htm