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for Scott County, Missouri
CHURCHES:
TYWAPPITY BOTTOM (1805)
The first Baptist Church organized in Missouri Territory, according to most accounts, was in the Tywappity Bottom, some ten or twelve miles south of Cape Girardeau. It is believed to have been organized in 1804 or 1805 with eight or ten members, by Elder David Green, who had come from Kentucky. Some accounts say it ceased to meet after a space of time, but was reorganized in 1809. It was identified in belief with what is known today as the Primitive Baptists. Remarkably, it was a member, at first, of the Red River Association of Tennessee and Kentucky (a long journey being required for the messengers to attend that meeting from their remote distant wilderness homes). The Tywappity church was one of the churches which founded the Bethel Association of Missouri in 1816, and then the Cape Girardeau Association in 1824. It hosted the Cape Girardeau Association as late as 1837.
SURNAMES OF MEMBERS:
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MT. MORIAH
Mt. Moriah Church was a member of the Cape Girardeau Association.
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