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From: Merle C Rummel <>
Subject: Re: [BRE] Baptist Church on Duck Creek, Columbia Station
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 16:33:34 -0500
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OK - I'm going to have to get a copy of the records of this Baptist
Church. any advice or help?

Jacob Auckerman - first Brethren in the area (c1790) -came to Columbia
- it is also mentioned in connection to a couple other Brethren
families. Are they sure it was Baptist - or could it have been one of
our lost Baptist Brethren churches? I'm finding in Kentucky -that this
occurred in a number of cases - Brethren church communities -that were
lost in the early 1800s action of Annual Meeting -ended up being "the
first Baptist Church" in those areas. Similarly with Squire Boone -by
tradition a minister in the Baptist Brethren Church - is "the first
Baptist preacher" in a number of Kentucky histories.

a William Smith is the minister who was with Elder Jacob Miller in
Franklin and Floyd Cos VA -before 1800 (preached in English -while Elder
Jacob preached in German). I've found no trace of him later -but we
have Smith families in several of the Brethren communities out here - a
connection?

Merle C Rummel
Church Historian

>Hamilton County. The records of the old Baptist Church
>at Duck Creek, Columbia Station, near Cincinnati, show that the Rev. Peter
>Smith and his wife Catherine united with that church by letter in 1795, and
>that the husband was ordained minister in 1801. In an account of the
>Centennial Celebration held June 21, 1890, of this the first Baptist Church
>in the Northwest Territory,
>
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