Ten Mile Creek Church, Hamilton County,
Illinois
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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