The Rise and Spread of Primitive Baptist Churches and Associations in the State of Kentucky
ELKHORN ((1785)
SALEM (1785)
SOUTH KENTUCKY (1785)
TATE'S CREEK (1793)
BRACKEN (1798)
GREEN RIVER (KENTUCKY & TENNESSEE)(1799)
The Green River Association
CUMBERLAND RIVER (1799)
SOUTH DISTRICT (1802)
NORTH DISTRICT (1802)
The North District Association
NORTH BEND (1802)
LONG RUN (1803)
RUSSELL CREEK (1804)
The Green River Association, organized in 1799, had grown to 38 churches by 1804, and it was deemed advisable to divide into three parts: Green River, Russell's Creek (the same fall), and Stockton's Valley (in 1805).
STOCKTON'S VALLEY (TENNESSEE & KENTUCKY)(1805)
The Green River Association, organized in 1799, had grown to 38 churches by 1804, and it was deemed advisable to divide into three parts: Green River, Russell's Creek (the same fall), and Stockton's Valley (in 1805). The Stockton's Valley Association was formed with 14 churches, six of which were in Tennessee, the rest in Kentucky.
RED RIVER (TENNESSEE & KENTUCKY)(1806)
The Red River Association was organized at Fort's meeting house (aka Red River Church), in Montgomery County, Tennessee, on Saturday before the second Sunday in August, 1806 (according to a circular letter by Elder John H. Gammon. Ref., Elder Achilles Coffeys History of the Regular Baptists of Southern Illinois, 1877, pp. 37-55). The churches of which it was originally composed are unknown, but some of the very earliest churches within the next two or three years, were Dry Creek, Muddy Fork, Mt. Pleasant, Muddy River, McFarlands Fork, West Fork, Grave Creek, and Dry Fork (in Kentucky); Red River, Half-Pone, and Cubb Creek (in Tennessee). Big Creek (in Illinois) joined by 1812 (probably by 1808). Bethel (in Missouri) joined in 1809.
BARREN RIVER
LICKING (1809)
GASPER RIVER (1811)
BURNING SPRING (1813)
The Burning Spring Association
LITTLE RIVER (KENTUCKY & TENNESSEE)(1813)
The churches which organized the Little River Association in November 1813, were dismissed from Red River Association for that purpose, viz., Blooming Grove, Big Creek (Ill.), Cub Creek, Cypress, Dry Creek, Dry Fork, Eddy Grove, Flat Creek, Muddy Fork, New Hope, New Bethel, Providence, Salem, Sinking Fork of Little River, Saline Creek, Tirzah, Unity, and Mt. Pleasant.
GOSHEN (1816)
POWELL'S VALLEY (TENNESSEE & KENTUCKY)(1817)
The Powell's Valley Association
HIGHLAND (1819)
CONCORD (1820)
DRAKE'S CREEK (KENTUCKY & TENNESSEE)(1820)
SOUTH CONCORD (1824)
BETHEL (TENNESSEE & KENTUCKY)(1824)
SULPHUR FORK (1826)
The Sulphur For k Association
BAPTIST (1826)
OTTER CREEK (1839)
The Otter Creek Association
MT. PLEASANT (1840)
SALEM PREDESTINARIAN (1840)
TATES CREEK PREDESTINARIAN
SOLDIER CREEK (1842)
PANTHER CREEK (1843)
MATES CREEK (1849)
The Mates Creek Association
SPENCER
RED BIRD
ROCK SPRING
The Rock Spring Association
SOUTH UNION
SAND LICK
The Sand Lick Association of Kentucky
CYPRESS CREEK
UNION (1859)
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