- Collection:
- The Island Ford Baptist Church Historic Documents, Buford, Georgia Collection
- Title:
- Document D
- Creator:
- Island Ford Baptist Church (Buford, Ga.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. Suwanee Creek Chapter (Suwanee, Ga.)
Swarts, Suelle - Date of Original:
- 2023-09
- 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
Slave records--Georgia--Buford
African Americans--Statistics, Vital
Genealogy
Religious communities - People:
- Holbrook, A. D.
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Gwinnett County, Buford, 34.12066, -84.00435
- Medium:
- church records
transcriptions (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Proceedings of the Baptist Church of Christ at Island Ford in 1916 and 1917. It highlights meetings to discuss church matters, including the granting of letters of dismission, the election of a clerk, and the selection of a pastor for the upcoming year. Reverend A. D. Holbrook serves as moderator and various clerks assist in recording the minutes of the meetings.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ifbc_ifbc-nsdar_if04
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ifbc_ifbc-nsdar_if04#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ifbc_ifbc-nsdar_if04/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 2 pages
- Holding Institution:
- Island Ford Baptist Church (Buford, Ga.)
Gwinnett Historical Society - Rights:
-
Island Ford Baptist Church Historic Document D
Transcribed by Suelle Swarts, Suwanee Creek Chapter, NSDAR
2022
Document D Front
13
Buford Ga November 4 1916
We the Baptist church of Christ
at Island Ford met in conference
and after servs by Rev A D Holbrook
on motion suspended the regular order
of Business and took up General
Business on motion Granted
Brother Thomas Bagby a letter
of dismission
Rev A. D. Holbrook moderator
R A Pugh church clerk protem
Buford Ga May 5 1917
We the Baptist church of Christ at
Island Ford met in conference after
serves by Rev A D Holbrook
on motion suspended regular
order of business and took up
General Business on motion Granted
Sister Ollie Cash letter of
Dismission from this church
Rev A. D Holbrook moderator
C E W Scales church clerk protem
Buford Ga June 2 1917
We the Baptist church of Christ
at Island Ford met in conference
after serves By Rev A. D. Holbrook
on motion suspended the regular order of
Business and took up General Business
on motion elected a clerk for the
remainder of this year elected R. A. Pugh
Rev A D Holbrook moderator
R A Pugh church clerk protem
Document D Back
140
Buford Ga June 30 1917
We the Baptist church of Christ
at Island Ford met and held
serves but had no conference as
there was no Business to attend two
R. A. Pugh cc
Buford Ga August 4 1917
We the Baptist church of Christ at
island ford met and held serves
But had no conference as there was no
Business to attend two R A Pugh cc
Buford Ga September 7 1917
We the Baptist church of Christ at
Island ford met in conference after serves
by Rev A. D. Holbrook
1 invited visitor members to seats with us
2 called for reference nun
3 called for acknowledgments nun
4 called for peace and fellowship of the
church nothing presented
5 opened the door of the church and
received J A Pugh by Restoration and
Tiney Brown by Restoration
6 General Buisness on motion went in ______
the chois of a Paister for the insuing year
when Brother Holbrook was put in
nomination and was unanimously elected
by aclamasion elected a clerk for the
insuing year elected R A Pugh
appointed a commity to transfer
the old Bro to the new one commity
C. E. W. Scales, E. R. Garner, and R. A. Pugh,
rev A D Holbrook mod R A Pugh cc