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From: "Pam Belden" <>
Subject: [SMITH-L] Fw: BIO#1089 - GARRARD CO - SMITH, JAMES
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 97 09:51:42 PDT


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> Date: Monday, September 08, 1997 04:51:16
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> To: Pbelden
> Subject: BIO#1089 - GARRARD CO - SMITH, JAMES
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> Smith Whitaker
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> VA Jefferson-KY Monroe-IL PA TX Fayette-KY
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> A History of Kentucky Baptists From 1769 to 1885, Including More Than
> 800 Biographical Sketches, J. H. Spencer, Manuscript Revised and
> Corrected by Mrs. Burilla B. Spencer, In Two Volumes. Printed For the
> Author. 1886. Republished By Church History Research & Archives 1976
> Lafayette, Tennessee. Vol. 2, pp 86-87 [Garrard County]
>
> JAMES SMITH, an early minister of this old fraternity, was a native of
> Virginia, in which State he was raised up and inducted into the
> ministry, among the Separate Baptists. He emigrated at a very early
> period, to what is now Garrard county, Ky., was very active in the
> ministry, and aided in gathering some of the earliest churches in the
> new country. He assisted John Whitaker in constituting Beargrass
> church, in Jefferson county, in 1784. He was early a member of Forks of
> Dix River church, in Garrard county, and was probably in the
> constitution of that organization. He visited Illinois in the summer of
> 1787, and so far as is now known, was the first minister to preach to
> the early settlers of that now great and populous State. He visited
> that territory again, in 1790, and, as on the former occasion, preached
> with success, in what is now Monroe county. A number of persons were
> converted under his ministry. But in the midst of his labors, he was
> captured by the Indians, near the site of Waterloo, and carried to the
> Kickapoo town, on the Wabash river. But so much was he esteemed by the
> few poor settlers, among whom he had preached, that they raised $170,
> with which they ransomed him, and returned him to his friends in
> Kentucky. He subsequently visited Illinois, but with what success is not
> known.
> Mr. Smith was a prominent member of South Kentucky Association
> from its constitution till 1793. But, although among the Separate
> Baptists, he does not appear to have harmonized with them in doctrine;
> for, while they were generally Arminian in sentiment, he believed in a
> limited atonement, and was willing to adopt the Philadelphia Confession
> of Faith. In 1793, he, with four other ministers and four churches,
> seceded from South Kentucky, and entered into the consisitution of Tates
> Creek Association, of which he remained a member until his death. Among
> his numerous and highly respectable descendants, one of his sons was
> Governor of the State of Texas, and the well known Elder John L. Smith,
> of Fayette county, Ky., is his grandson.
>
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