Re: The Welsh Tract - Robert M Butler
Subject: Re: The Welsh Tract
From: Robert M Butler
Date: December 16, 1998

Walter...The old Cape Fear Baptist Church in Gray's Creek Twp, Cumberland
County, NC, was affiliated with the Welsh Neck Church. I will add my text
file of the history to this email. Robert McLemore (Bob) Butler..Fuquay
Varina, NC.

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                     HIGHLIGHTS

It is believed that some type of religious services were being held in this
area by the year 1735.

The Mother Church of Cape Fear was Welsh Neck Baptist Church of Society
Hill, S.C.. constituted in 1738. Welsh Neck reported that immediately
springing from that church was "Cape Fear in N.C." Cape Fear was constituted
in January, 1756.  The founding pastor was Rev.  Stephen Hollingsworth, a
Baptist from Pennsylvania, a member of the Welsh Track Meeting House and the
Philadelphia Meeting
House. Records indicate he was in Bladen County, N.C. by 1737. The second
pastor was Rev.  William Cooper who at a later date moved to the Mississippi
Territory. Rev.William Thames was Cape Fear's third pastor.

The church site became within the boundaries of Cumberland County in 1789
when the dividing line was moved southward. Cape Fear recorded its largest
membership in 1835 with 448 members. In that same year, 95 were baptized;
that being
the greatest number recorded. In that year Cape Fear reported the largest
membership of any church in the Cape Fear Baptist Association.

From its beginning, this church has grown and formed other houses of
worship.  In time it became the "Mother Church" of Beaver Dam, Cedar Creek,
Fayetteville's First Baptist, Green
Springs, Bladen Union and Gray's Creek.

Cape Fear's present building was erected 1858-59. It was entered on National
Register of Historic Places and dedicated on April 8, 1984.  The annex was
built in 1967. The Maybelle Breece Graham Building was dedicated May 28,
1989.

Cape Fear Baptist Church cemetery is now established according to a plan of
perpetual care.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Walter Hall 
To: [email protected] 
Date: Wednesday, December 16, 1998 9:47 PM
Subject: The Welsh Tract


I would like to find sources of information about The Welsh Tract in
>eastern South Carolina during the 1700's.  I may have haad an ancestor
>who lived there briefly enroute from Maryland to Newberry District, SC.
>Any help is appreciated.
>Walter Hall
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