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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
Language
eng
Holding Institution
Island Ford Baptist Church (Buford, Ga.)
Gwinnett Historical Society
Rights
Additional Resources
- Island Ford Baptist Church Historic Documents 1833-1916 Table of Contents
- Island Ford Cemetery Project News (newsletters)
- Sugar Hill History article from North Gwinnett Voice
- Cemetery maps and ground penetrating radar report
- Island Ford Baptist Church Families 1933-1917 Additional Research (focus on slave holders [enslavers]) table
- Island Ford Baptist Church Families 1933-1917 Additional Research (focus on women) table
- Excerpt from Gwinnett Heritage Magazine, 2023 Spring Vol. 52 No. 1
- Cemetery directory
- Daughters of the American Revolution Newsletter May/June 2023 Vol. 23 No. 3
- Island Ford Baptist Church Cemetery Historic Preservation Dedication Ceremony
- Island Ford Baptist Church Historic Documents 1833-1916 Index
