Baptist
on Eagle Creek
Many
early records of Scott County were totally or partially destroyed by fire.
For this reason exact dates are not always available for events known
to have
occurred
in the early days of the county. The Baptist Church on Eagle Creek is below.
As the death of one of the trustees occurred in 1822, both trustees
are
first
listed on Scott County Tax lists in 1800 and Carey Clarke came to Georgetown
from New York in 1802. The date is assumed to be between 1802 and
1822.
In
Scott County, Kentucky A History it is stated that this church
was established in 1799 and the Elk Lick Church was formed in pre-Civil War
days. The result
of a
split in the Baptist church as a whole. Elk Lick became a Particular
Baptist, one more rigidly conforming to the Calvinistic tenets of the frontier
churches.
It
is written to Record by Carey L. Clark
Indenture made this the first day of year One Thousand Eight Hundred and
___ John Hawkins of the County of ____
Kentucky of the one part ____ unto Jacob Mulberry Trustees of the Baptist
Church on Eagle Creek in the County
of ___ of the other part witnesseth that for and in consideration of
the current money to him in hand paid. Whereof
is hereby acknowledged and ____ Consideration of forwarding _ the interest
and __ said Society has given granted
bargained by these presents doth give grant to the said Jacob and John aforesaid
and then success for a place
of divine worship this Society in certain tract and being in the County __
four acres and bounded __ Herein
conveyed to remain ____ members who remain in fellowship __ aforesaid
on the principles founded and the
said ___ Self and Heirs the promisor ___ Singular the appurtenances __ unto
the said trustees and the Warrant
and by these presents, witness whereof the said Johnson __ unto set his hand
and affixed ____ John
Scott
County Set:
December
This indenture from John ____ Mulberry and John Mulberry __ day in
the a acknowledged ____
Hawkins to be his act and
____ and of an act of assembly _____ provide it
us
This
Baptist Church originally established on Eagle Creek by the brothers, Jacob
and John Mulberry. This may have been the forerunner of the Elklick
Baptist Church,
whose
membership is included below and which was located in the same general
area.
Copy
of original Elk Lick Baptist Church Roll
Members
by Baptism, by letter
Eliza
Davis - February 1862
William
G. Eads
Lucinda
Pack
Ann
Mulberry
William
Connell - August 1865
Caty.
Hamilton
Mary
Ann Malory
Nancy
Hamilton
Nancy
B. Hall - September 1865
J. M.
Theobald - August 1881
Elisa
Theobald
S. P.
Smith - August 1881
Evelyn
Smith
Benson
Pluckett
Nep
Mussellman - September 1881
Baptized
by: William Beebe
Mrs.
Sallie Theobald - February 1883
J. P.
Fields - July 1883
Mary
J. Fields
Elder
Spencer Jones (called Paston T. D. Neal) - December
1883
W. V.
Mulberry - August 1884
W. V.
Mulberry - December 1886
Mary
Francis Mulberry
John L .Mulberry
Susan
M. Mulberry
Mary
F. Jones - May 1886
Elder
Geo. S. Weaver (called Paston, died February 22,
1838)
Susan
Mary Wilson - June 1887
J. H.
Jones - August 1895 (excluded)
W. V. Mulberry - August 1895 (appointed Clerk)
William
Mclona - October 1898
Lucy Lancaster (excluded February 1901)
Mary D. Middletown - July 1905
Susan
Neal - August 1906 (never baptized)
The
original document that one researcher found in the courthouse and copied
above, is incomplete. However, in 1979 the Scott County Historical
Society published in
Scott
County Church Histories: A Collection on page 16, the following wording
(with the source not given)
" On
the first day of the year in the year of one thousand and eight hundred,
John Hawkins, part of the first part and Jacob Mulberry, trustee of the Baptist
Church on Eagle
Creek
in the county of Scott, party of the second part; witnesseth that for and
in consideration of the current money to him in hand paid, whereof is hereby
acknowledged in
consideration
of promoting the interest in said society, has given grants bargained by
these presents, doth give and grant to this said Jacob and John Mulberry
aforesaid
and
their successors for a place of divine worship, a certain tract and being
in the county containing four acres. Bounded by the lands of John Bows
on two sides and
Abram
Fields and Charles Malery on the other two sides."
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