South Carolina Baptists 1670-1805

From the founding of the first official church in 1683 the Baptist Church grew prodigiously in South Carolina. Leah Townsend's superior history of the development of the Baptist Church in South Carolina emphasizes the growth of the Church in the Low-Country the Peedee Section Charleston and the Back Country and gives a county-by-county breakdown of the various churches with statistics of members dates and names of ministers. Of greatest interest to genealogists are the membership lists of the various associations and congregations which are interspersed throughout the narrative and in footnotes many of which supply genealogical data of the first rank. In all something like 7000 individuals are identified in this book.