Daily Baptist Encyclopedia Biggs, Rev. David, was born in Camden Co., N. C., in 1763.

Baptist Church History by Jim Curran

2h  · Daily Baptist Encyclopedia Biggs, Rev. David, was born in Camden Co., N. C., in 1763. He commenced preaching when thirty years of age. He removed to Virginia in 1792, and was pastor eighteen years of the Baptist church at Portsmouth. In 1810 he removed to Kentucky, and took charge of Georgetown, Bethle- hem, and Silas churches, in Bourbon County. In 1820 he came to Missouri, and settled in Pike County, and preached to Mount Pleasant, Ramsey Creek, and Bethlehem churches, and organized the Noix Creek church. He labored with marked suc- cess for fifty years, and the prosperity of the de- nomination in Northeast Missouri is largely due to his ministry, He died Aug. 1, 1845, in his eighty- third year. From the Baptist encyclopedia by William Cathcart