Patrick, This is not what you want, but it is a jumping off point: Marriage Record of Elder John Alderson from 1776-1798 from John W. Wayland's "Virginia Valley Records", published in Strasburg, VA in 1930. The marriage records, I believe, start on p. 155. Interesting note: On 5 July, 1780, Alderson, a Baptist married James CHRISTY, a Methodist (and first preacher of the Rehoboth Church, oldest extant church west of the Alleghenies, to Sarah SCARBOROUGH, a birthright Quaker. Ecuminism at its best! Bill Hobbs Patrick Kenney wrote: > MARKER AT ALDERSON > > Old Greenbrier Baptist Church, founded by elder John ALDERSON, November 24, > 1781 with 12 charter members. The first church to be founded west of the > Allegheny mountains. > > I am curious if any one has run across any communicant lists pre-1800 for > Old Greenbrier Baptist Church? additionally, if anyone has run across the > list of whom these original 12 members were by name? > > thanks in advance, > Patrick