Baptist History, Heritage and Distinctives – Shiloh Baptist Church, Shiloh, NC – PART THREE of FIVE

Thomas E Kresal Admin · 6 hrs March 25, 2020

Baptist History, Heritage and Distinctives – Shiloh Baptist Church, Shiloh, NC – PART THREE of FIVE

When these 12 left for the Particular Baptists, they erected a separate meeting house, described by Edwards as being fifty feet by twenty-five feet on the ground owned by the pastor, John Burges, son of William Burges. The meeting house was located on Portahonk Creek, a distance of about three miles from the 1736 meeting house, and across the road from the present building. The new location near the present location was now about halfway between Raymons Creek and Indiantown. A marker was placed on this site in 1974. In 1723, the Yeopim Indians had gained permission to sell their reservation land and began to sell their land in multiple parcels over time.

By this time the Yeopim leaders had taken on English names such as John Durant, John Barber, John Hawkins, Henry Gibbs, and George Durant so it becomes difficult to determine from any surviving primary documents the degree of interaction between the church and the Yeopim people from the reservation. Evan Forbes served the church as pastor 1829-1842, 1845-1848, 1851-1853, and 1853-1857. James Forbes and his family, originally from Scotland, were admitted to North Carolina on October 20, 1701. James Forbes was granted 532 acres on the east side of the Pasquotank River on October 21, 1715. This land was adjacent to the Yeopim Reservation so it is reasonable to think that there was at least some interaction between the Forbes family and the Yeopim. Wesley Episcopal Methodist Church in Old Trap began meeting around 1834.

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