This sounds like an interesting book. Is it in reprint and where? -----Original Message----- From: bill hobbs <hobbs@usit.net> To: WVMONROE-L@rootsweb.com <WVMONROE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, September 01, 2000 4:57 AM Subject: Re: [WVMONROE] Old Greenbrier Church >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 >