Ten Mile Creek Church, Hamilton County, Illinois

Quotations showing the claims of Missionary Baptist historians regarding Ten Mile Creek Church

Ten Mile Creek Church was organized on September 2, 1820, at the home of Bro. Jeremiah Moore, by a presbytery composed of Elders Wilson Henderson, John Wren, and Chester Carpenter. The charter members included Moses Shirley, Nancy Shirley, Samuel Vance, Lucy Vance, Andrew Boyd, Delila Boyd, Susanna Moore, Polly Moore, and Susannah Tarleton. It appears that Jeremiah Moore and Elder Chester Carpenter joined very shortly after the constitution. The early records are incomplete. The Muddy River Association minutes disclose that Ten Mile Church grew from 11 members in 1820, to 46 by 1824, notwithstanding that in 1822, 21 members were dismissed by letter to organize the Elk Prairie Church in Wayne County. Elder Robert Moore had joined this church by letter by 1827, as he and Milton Carpenter were ordained to the ministry here in May 1827. ***In 1841, as disclosed in Elder Coffey's History of the Regular Baptists, this church joined the Franklin Association, having defected to the cause of modern missions. Coffey says that eight or ten of the most permanent members did not go with the church in these departures. The majority, after joining the Franklin Association, adopted a new confession of faith, and adopted the mission system in full, afterward moving farther and farther from the ancient landmarks.
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