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On the corner of Church and School streets stands a concrete replica of the cider press that produced the gigantic cheese that John Leland gave to President Thomas Jefferson. In Cheshire Cemetery, Leland’s obelisk grave-marker displays a commemorative plaque, See “The Big Cheshire Cheese,” in Chapter 16. copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History in England and America: Read more...
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The grave of notable Baptist, John Weatherford, lies in a wooded area near Shockoe Baptist Church, at 16 Spring Garden Road. His tomb inscription reads Elder John Weatherford A devoted Baptist Minister Born in 1740, began to preach in 1764. He lay in Chesterfield jail in 1773 5 months for preaching. He moved to Halifax in 1813 and died Jan. 23, Read more...
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The Chesterfield County Museum, at 6813 Mimms Loop, is a replica of the 1749 courthouse where magistrates, during 1770-74, sentenced seven Baptist preachers to jail for preaching Christ without state-church approval. Where the jail once stood, there now stands the Religious Freedom Monument, a grantie memorial with a bronze tablet inscribed to the memory of those Baptist preachers. See the section, “Virginia Read more...
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Founded by John Myles from Wales, the First Baptist Church of Swansea, at 21 Baptist Street, was the first Baptist church in Massachusetts. Its present building dates to 1848, and its adjacent cemetery dates to 1731. (See Chapter 13). copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History in England and America: Personalities, Positions, and Practices Founded in 1663 Read more...
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First Baptist Church was founded by Thomas Gould, in 1665. In 1872, Brattle Square Unitarian Church erected a brick building, at 110 Commonwealth Avenue. By 1876, the church was extinct, and First Baptist purchased the building. (See Chapter 13). copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History in England and America: Personalities, Positions, and Practices Photo BySwampyank (Transfered Read more...
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The grave of Henry Dunster, first president of Harvard College, is in the Old Burying Ground (adjacent to First Church, Unitarian) on Church Street. Harvard forced Dunster out of the presidency for his defense of believer’s baptism by immersion. Harvard never had a greater president. (See Chapter 13.). copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History in England and America: Read more...
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On the back campus of Phillips Academy, one can walk down “Judson Road” and visit the secluded area by the “Rabbit Pond,” where Adoniram Judson, Luther Rice, and other believers kneeled each morning by a huge boulder, prayer for missions, and dedicated their lives to God. On that boulder (affectionately called “Missionary Rock“), citizens of Andover, in 1910, affixed a memorial Read more...
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Organized in London, in 1616, and now situated in a seaside village, in the northwest part of Barnstable, [John] Lathrop’s church is West Barnstable Parish Church, at 2049 Meetinghouse Way. It is the only existing remnant of the J-L-J Church – from whom the earliest Particular Baptists in England departed, during 1633-38, to gather their own churches. Erected in 1717 and Read more...
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John Lathrop, the second pastor of London’s J-L-J Church, immigrated to Barnstable, where his house, built in 1644, still stands as part of the Sturgis Library, at 3090 Main Street. Here, one can stand in the room that once served as Lathrop’s meetinghouse. On display is Lathrop’s copy of the Scriptures – a 1605 Bishops’ Bible. See the section, “John Read more...
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Before you leave Plymouth, head on up to Burial Hill. It’s a steep climb, but there are steps. Inside a white fence is not a grave, but a cenotaph, “a monument to someone buried elsewhere.” Adoniram Judson was the son of a Congregational minister in Plymouth, but he fell in with the wrong friends. While at Brown University, he was Read more...
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In the church cemetery at Bethabara Baptist Church, at 635 Bethabara Church Road, there stands a memorial monument, with detailed script honoring its founder, the celebrated church planter and evangelist, John Waller, who suffered persecution for preaching the gospel without state approval. copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History in England and America: Personalities, Positions, and Practices Bethabara Read more...
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John Clarke’s tombstone stands in the John Clarke Family Cemetery, on the west side of Dr. Marcus Wheatland Boulevard. The key to the cemetery’s padlock is available at the United Baptist Church office. Adjoining the cemetery, a small park has two Memorials to John Clarke: A plaque on a small rock, and a monument, erected by the Baptist History Preservation Society. Read more...