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The Island Ford Baptist Church Historic Documents, Buford, Georgia Collection

Documents written between 1833 and 1917 that are part of the Suwanee Creek Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) Historic Preservation Project: Partnership with Island Ford Baptist Church, and offer a glimpse of the early community of Island Ford settlers, references to enslaved individuals that were part of the church and community of Island Ford, and personal histories of early settlers of Gwinnett County who lived and raised their families in close proximity to the Island Ford Baptist Church.

More About This Collection

Contributor to Resource
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. Suwanee Creek Chapter (Suwanee, Ga.)

Date of Original
1800/1917

Subject
Island Ford Baptist Church (Buford, Ga.)
Buford (Ga.)--History
Baptist churches
Baptists--Georgia--Gwinnett County
Baptists--Georgia--Buford
Gwinnett County (Ga.)--History
Church polity
Church records and registers--Georgia--Gwinnett County
Church records and registers--Georgia--Buford
Enslaved persons--Social conditions
African Americans--Social conditions--To 1964
Baptist church buildings--Georgia--Buford
Baptist church buildings--Georgia--Gwinnett County
Slave records--Georgia--Gwinnett County
Slavery--Georgia--Gwinnett County
Slavery--Georgia--Buford
Slavery--Georgia--History--19th century
Slave records--Georgia--Buford
African Americans--Statistics, Vital
Religious communities
Genealogy
Clergy
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

Location
United States, Georgia, Gwinnett County, Buford, 34.12066, -84.00435

Medium
church records

Type
Text

Metadata URL
https://dlg.usg.edu/collections/ifbc_ifbc-nsdar

Language
eng

Holding Institution
Island Ford Baptist Church (Buford, Ga.)
Gwinnett Historical Society

Rights

Additional Resources

1. Full Text Document A

Creator:: Island Ford Baptist Church (Buford, Ga.)
Date of Original:: 2023-09
Collection:: The Island Ford Baptist Church Historic Documents, Buford, Georgia Collection
Holding Institution:: Island Ford Baptist Church (Buford, Ga.)
Gwinnett Historical Society

2. Full Text Document C

Creator:: Island Ford Baptist Church (Buford, Ga.)
Date of Original:: 2023-09
Collection:: The Island Ford Baptist Church Historic Documents, Buford, Georgia Collection
Holding Institution:: Island Ford Baptist Church (Buford, Ga.)
Gwinnett Historical Society

3. Full Text Document D

Creator:: Island Ford Baptist Church (Buford, Ga.)
Date of Original:: 2023-09
Collection:: The Island Ford Baptist Church Historic Documents, Buford, Georgia Collection
Holding Institution:: Island Ford Baptist Church (Buford, Ga.)
Gwinnett Historical Society

4. Full Text The Ford: The History of Island Ford Baptist Church, Gwinnett County, Georgia.

Creator:: Pugh, Randall
King, Jimmy
Island Ford Baptist Church (Buford, Ga.)
Date of Original:: 2023-09
Collection:: The Island Ford Baptist Church Historic Documents, Buford, Georgia Collection
Holding Institution:: Island Ford Baptist Church (Buford, Ga.)
Gwinnett Historical Society

5. Full Text Document B

Creator:: Island Ford Baptist Church (Buford, Ga.)
Date of Original:: 1836-06-21/1836-11-24
Collection:: The Island Ford Baptist Church Historic Documents, Buford, Georgia Collection
Holding Institution:: Island Ford Baptist Church (Buford, Ga.)
Gwinnett Historical Society

6. Full Text Bound book of historic documents

Creator:: Island Ford Baptist Church (Buford, Ga.)
Date of Original:: 1833/1976-09-29
Collection:: The Island Ford Baptist Church Historic Documents, Buford, Georgia Collection
Holding Institution:: Island Ford Baptist Church (Buford, Ga.)
Gwinnett Historical Society