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 115-116 [Lincoln County]

PETER BAINBRIDGE was a preacher in the Green River Association as early as
1813. He was a man of superior gifts and attainments, but for his
fickleness and thoughtless manner of living, might have been eminently
useful. He was born in Frederick county, Md., June, 1761. He finished his
education at Charleston, S.C., where he was baptized by Joseph Reese, Dec.
11, 1784. He was ordained at Charleston, by Edmond Botsford, Joshua Palmer,
Charles Cook, Joshua Lewis, and Henry Easterling, April 4, 1790, and was
settled over the church on Muddy creek, in Orange district, the same year.
He soon afterwards moved to Petersburg, Va., and established himself in the
practice of medicine, to which profession he had been bred. From
Petersburg, he moved to Maryland, and thence, in 1793, to western New York.
He remained here, preaching and practicing medicine, till 1797. He then
moved to Kentucky, settling first at Stanford, but moving, the next year,
to Lancaster, in Garrard county. Touching his ministerial character,
Elkhorn Association saw fit to enter on her minutes of 1798, the following
item: "Agreed to caution the churches of a certain John Duncan, who has
sustained the character of a Baptist preacher, but is not in union with us
or any of our churches; and that he is a man not of a fair religious
character. Also, there is a certain Peter Bainbridge in the same
situation." In 1800, Tates Creek Association rebuked Peter Bainbridge, who
had been excluded from another church. Mr. Bainbridge appears not to have
attained a good standing, as a preacher, while he remained in the northern
part of the State. In 1813, he moved to the Green river country, and
settled in Glasgow. Here he was well received, and was popular, both as a
preacher and a physician. He remained here about twelve years. In 1825, he
moved to Franklin county, Mississippi, where he preached and practiced
medicine one year. He died, after a brief illness, Sept. 1, 1826. Dr.
Bainbridge appers to have been a man of large generosity, true benevolence,
and purity of morals. His faults were, a want of firmness, negilgence in
business, and a fondness for worldly amusements.

BAINBRIDGE Reese Botsford Palmer Cook Lewis Easterling