Description
This volume contains organization of the church (1814), articles of faith (1814), church meeting minutes (1815-1869), 1814, 1821, 1858, 1865 and undated membership rolls of males, female, and African Americans with notes of dates of dismission, decease, marriage, etc. (1815-1869), and church statistics (1814-1868). It is a rebound book titled "Minutes of Mt Pisgah Baptist Church, Chatham County, North Carolina, 1815-1870", made in Durham, North Carolina, 1969. Remarks on the back: "This special binding was commissioned in memory of Henderson Marion Lewter & Isham Sims Upchurch...& Belle Lewter West..." The original portion of the book is handwritten and has stains on the yellowed paper, which has remarks in the front: "Church book for the church at Yates' meeting house".
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Supported by grant funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources