Ian McGiver wrote: > Is anyone familiar with Baptist Church records dating to the late > eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries Just in case Ian McGiver has not consulted the following books, I strongly recommend them not just for their content but also their lists of sources (and each makes a good read): SOBEL, Mechal: Trabelin' On, The slave journey to an Afro-Baptist faith. 1st edn. 1979, Westport, CT; Greenwood Press: contains appendices giving details of Baptist churches. 2nd edn. 1988, Princeton NJ, Princeton UP: omits the appendices of the 1st edition. FREY, Sylvia R: Water from the rock, Black resistance in a revolutionary age. 1991, Oxford, Princeton UP. John Weiss <[log in to unmask]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Researching the four thousand Black Americans who took their freedom in the War of 1812