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for Metcalfe County, Kentucky
CHURCHES:
DRIPPING SPRING (SINKS OF BEAVER CREEK)
Dripping Spring Church was organized on February 3, 1798, at the home of William Blakey. One source says the founder was Elder Robert Stockton, who traveled four hundred miles by horseback from Virginia, through the frontier wilderness, to reach the place for this purpose. Another source credits Alexander Davidson as being the founder. The charter members were John Bybee Sr., Elizabeth Bybee, Leonard Hall, Winney Hall, and Katherine Waggoner. William Bishop, Barbara Anderson, and Thomas Shirley and wife, joined later in the same year (1798).
A meeting house was built sometime prior to June 1799. In June 1800 it was one of nine churches which joined together to organize the Green River Association. In the fall of 1802 this church reported 133 members. Elders Robert Stockton, Alexander McDougal, and Robert Smith were members here. In 1830 it entered the constitution of the Barren River Association. In 1836, Dripping Spring, with five other churches, met as the Original Barren River Association, opposing the modern mission system.
BARREN (LATER CALLED BLUE SPRING) (SEE ALSO BARREN COUNTY)
Blue Springs Church was organized in 1799, with nine members. Elijah Summers was the first pastor, followed by William Ratcliff, and Daniel Shirley.
GLOVERS CREEK
Glovers Creek Church was constituted on the first Saturday in October 1802.
LITTLE BARREN (TRAMMEL'S CREEK)
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