- Collection:
- Old Suwanee Baptist Church Historic Documents, Buford, Georgia Collection, 1828-2008
- Title:
- Miscellaneous documents from the Old Suwanee Baptist Church (Suwanee, Ga.), dated 1818-2008
- Creator:
- Old Suwanee Baptist Church (Suwanee, Ga.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Daughters of the American Revolution. Suwanee Creek Chapter (Suwanee, Ga.)
- Date of Original:
- 1928/1950
- Subject:
- Suwanee (Ga.)--History--20th century
Suwanee (Ga.)--History--19th century
Gwinnett County (Ga.)--History--20th century
Gwinnett County (Ga.)--History--19th century
Anniversaries
Anonymous persons
Automobile insurance
Baptism
Baptists
Charitable bequests
Church buildings
Church membership
Clergy
Clergy--Certification
Crosses
Deeds
Enslaved persons
Enslaved persons--Social conditions
Insurance policies
Portraits, Group
Preaching
Programs
Real property
Real property--Maps
Signatures (Writing)
Taxation - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Georgia, Gwinnett County, 33.96173, -84.02363
United States, Georgia, Gwinnett County, Suwanee, 34.05149, -84.0713 - Medium:
- church records
attendance records
agreements to pay
anniversaries
Anonymous persons
articles
attendance records
black-and-white-photographs
certificates
charters
clippings (information artifacts)
color photographs
deeds
donations (legal property)
enslaved people
gifts (object genre)
information forms (objects)
insurance cards
Insurance policies
insurance records
licenses
lists
lists (document genres)
maps
membership lists
newspaper clippings
parochial schools (buildings)
photographs
plats (maps)
programs (documents)
promissory notes
real property
surveys (documents)
tax bills
tax records
warranties - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Miscellaneous pages from the Old Suwanee Baptist Church (Suwanee, Ga.), dated 1818-2008; table of contents listed below.
Page 1: A list of the members of the Old Suwanee Baptist Church from 1928-1950, excerpted from the volume "History of Gwinnett County Volume II, 1818-1960." Date range: 1818/1960.
Pages 4-6: Original charter for the Old Suwanee Baptist Church, dated 1828. Date: 1905-01-01.
Page 7: History of Old Suwanee Baptist Church excerpted from the 1911 volume "History of Gwinnett Churches" that offers a one-page synopsis of the church, its membership, and a photograph of the old church building. Date: 1905-03-25.
Pages 8-9: A black-and-white photograph of the 1914 church school class of the Old Suwanee Baptist Church, where students and teachers are gathered by the side of a wooden building. Date: 1905-03-28.
Page 10: A black-and-white printed image of the 1915 church school class of the Old Suwanee Baptist Church, where students and teachers are gathered by the side of a wooden building. Below the photograph is a description of the group that includes a list of people in the photograph who have been identified. Date:1905-03-29.
Pages 11-12: A black-and-white photograph of the 1930 church school class of the Old Suwanee Baptist Church, where students and teachers are gathered by the side of a wooden building. Date: 1905-04-13.
Pages 13-15: Photograph of a group of members of the Old Suwanee Baptist Church who are gathered together for a baptism. Date range: 1940/1949.
Page 16: A full-page spread of The Associational News (Lawrenceville, Ga.) dated October 1950, issue no. 11 that features a front-page photograph of the "building committee" of the new church building for the Old Suwanee Baptist Church. Members of the committee are identified beneath the photo. Date: 1950-10.
Page 17: A black-and-white photograph of the Old Suwanee Baptist Church's cemetery that shows numerous headstones maintained beneath beds of sand and brick.The photo includes a timestamp of "NOV [19]58." Date: 1958-11.
Page 18: Warranty deed dated October 6, 1958, transferring Gwinnett County property to the Old Suwanee Baptist Church. Date: 1958-10-06.
Page 19: Preaching license granted to James Hay Westbrooks on November 23, 1963, signed by Hoyt Moon, pastor. Date: 1963-11-03.
Pages 20-21: Color photograph of the Old Suwanee Baptist Church School, comprised of dozens of people gathered alongside the church, a brick building with a large brick cross in the center. Date: 1972-03-27.
Pages 22-23: Warranty deed from Randall Stephens to Old Suwanee Baptist Church, dated March 27, 1972. Date: 1972-03-27.
Pages 24-25: Gwinnett County warranty deed between Randall Stephens and Old Suwanee Baptist Church, dated February 13, 1973 Date: 1973-02-13.
Pages 26-29: Printed program with historic facts about the Old Suwanee Baptist Church facts, and lists members of the church dating back to its founding on September 13, 1828. Date: 1828-09-13.
Pages 30-31: Survey for Old Suwanee Baptist Church, dated November 14, 1980, with a detailed plat map that includes the church building and property. Date: 1980-11-14.
Page 32: Plat map for the Old Suwanee Baptist Church, dated November 14, 1980. Date: 1980-11-14.
Pages 33-34: Deed of gift between Randall Stephens and Old Suwanee Baptist Church, dated November 22, 1980. Date: 1980-11-22.
Page 35: Agreement, dated October 1984, written to the Trustees of Old Suwanee Baptist Church to pay Randall Stephens the principal sum of $40,000.00 in 80 monthly installments of $500.00 from November 1, 1984 until June 1, 1991. Date: 1984-10.
Pages 36-37: Land survey and plat map for the Old Suwanee Baptist Church, dated October 19, 1984. Date: 1984-10-19.
Pages 38-39: Security deed between the Trustees of Old Suwanee Baptist Church and Randall Stephens. A tax payment of $120.00 from November 19, 1984, is recorded on the second page, as are the terms for monthly payment installments on the property. The image also includes an envelope that includes the Old Suwanee Baptist Church's logo and styling from the time period. Date: 1984-11-19.
Page 40: Fact sheet that includes the list of Old Suwanee Baptist Church's pastors from 1950 until 1985, and facts about the church. The document mentions records of enslaved persons, and where they were buried, marked by old field stones without any names. Date: 1905-06-07.
Page 41: Proof of insurance for a 1969 Ford owned by Old Suwanee Baptist Church. An insurance card is included with the auto policy, furnished by the Church Mutual Insurance Company. The policy's coverage date was from April 26, 1986, to April 27, 1987. Date range: 1986-04-26/1987-04-27.
Pages 42-46: Printed program titled "Old Suwanee Baptist Church Celebrates 180 Years of Faithful Service to the Lord, September 13, 1828-2008" that includes a copy of the church's 1828 charter and list of original church members. There are photographs of the church from 1950, and of a group baptism (the photo is undated). Date range: 1828/2008.
Pages 47-49: A signed church members list, dated September 14, 2008. Date: 2008-09-14.
Page 50: An undated, hand-written list of ministers who served the Old Suwanee Baptist Church, and tallies of the number of new members each minister brought to the organization. Date range: 1828/2008.
Page 51: Undated envelope marked "To Old Suwanee Baptist Church," which included an anonymous donation of ten 100-dollar bills ($1,000.00). The church body voted to use the anonymous gift to start a building fund; the money was used for the church's new educational building. Date range: 1828/2008.
Page 052: Survey and plat map dated October 14, 1958, of the Old Suwanee Church property positioned along the Old Suwanee Road. Date: 1958-10-14. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/osbc_histdocs_osb05
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/osbc_histdocs_osb05#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/osbc_histdocs_osb05/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 52 pages
- Holding Institution:
- Old Suwanee Baptist Church (Suwanee, Ga.)
- Rights:
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