First Baptist Church, Charleston

First Baptist Church finds its roots in 1696, when William Screven and his twenty-eight member church (est. 1682) moved from Kittery, Maine, and settled near Charleston, as the earliest Baptist church in the south. In 1698, they moved into Charleston, as First Baptist Church, still located on Church Street. Other early Baptist pastors here include Oliver Hart and Richard Furman.

copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History in England and America: Personalities, Positions, and Practices

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