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Mates Creek Association - Minutes

This is our collection of minutes, if you have a year that isn't posted, please contact me, so that I can share it to the website. Also a portion of our history and arms of other associations.

1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858
1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868
1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878
1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888
1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898
1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908
1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918
1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928
1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938
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1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958
1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968
1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978
1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988
1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
2019 N/A 2021

Origins of the Old Regular Baptist

The origins of the Old Regular Baptist can be traced back both directly and indirectly to the original Philadelphia Baptist Association.

Philadelphia Association of Baptist organized September 27, 1707 Originally consisted of 5 Churches with origins in England Charleston Baptist Association organized in 1755 in South Carolinia from the Philadelphia Ketoctin Baptist Association organized August 19, 1766. Located in the north eastern part of Virginia Four churches that were originally in the Philadelphia Association but due to the long distance from Virginia wanted an association established there. (The Philadelphia Association) The accepted view of the time line of Baptist in Kentucky according to Spencer's History of Kentucky Baptists and Miniutes of the Burning Springs Association 1813-1825 is as follows:

THE ARMS GIVEN OFF FORMING ASSOCIATIONS

THROUGH WHICH THE NEW SALEM ASSOCIATION CAME

1. Philadelphia Association, organized 1707.

2. The Philadelphia Association organized the Katockon Association1766.

3. The Katockon Association organized the Holsten Association 1783.

4. The Holsten Association organized the South Elkhorn Association1784.

5. The South Elkhorn Association organized the South Kentucky Association 1787, which became the South District and North District in 1801.

6. The North District Association organized Burning Springs Association 1813.

7. The Burning Springs Association organized the New Salem Association 1825.

The Philadelphia Association, organized in 1707 is the mother of all Baptist Associations of the United States.

The New Salem Association is the mother of the following Associations:

Mates Creek Association, organized 1849. Union Association, organized 1859. Sandlick Association, organized 1876. Now Primitive baptist Kyova Association, organized 1924. No longer in existance Philadelphia Association, organized 1925. Northern New Salem Association, organized 1957. Three churches withdrew from the Mates Creek Association over the Doctrine of Election, those 3 churches met and organized the Sardis Association, August 5, 1893.

The Indian Bottom Association originated from a division in the Sandlick Association in the year 1896, the churches that later became Indian Bottom Association held annual union meetings until September 1907, the name was then changed from union meetings to Association.

From 1896 to 1907 they had no correspondence with any other Associations at this time (Dixon and Akers)

The Old Friendship Association was organized in 1917 from churches that left the Pineville District of Primitive Baptist.

Associations from the above which retain correspondence New Salem Union Sardis Indian Bottom Old Friendship Philadelphia Northern New Salem There have been splits in associations over the years because of differing views on various points of doctrine. That I did not go into The origins of the Baptists movement into Kentucky is an area that I am currently researching for a book. I have found original documents that contradict the accepted view of Old Regular Baptist origins. Since my findings have not yet been published I am not quite ready to release my research.

The New Salem Association gave an arm in 1859 consisting of the following churches: Thornton, Bethel, Elkhorn, Sulphur Spring, Pound Fork, Holly Creek, Union, Cloe, and Raccoon to meet at the Union Church the Friday before the second Saturday in November 1859. A presbytery to constitute the new association was chosen consisting of Jordan Ashley, B.E. Caudill, J. A. Caudill and Elders M.T. Lipps and L. Edwards. The new association took the name Union after the oldest church in the arm.
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