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Strawberry
VA
1776
Southern
Baptist
Associations in VA became United Baptist in 1787.
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Middle District
VA
1784
Southern Baptist
Associations in VA became United Baptist in 1787.
Corresponded with South KY and convinced them to become UB (1795).
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Elkhorn
Woodford Co, KY
9/3/1785
Southern
Baptist
This is the first association formed in the state of Kentucky.
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Holston (District?)
Washington Co, TN
10/30/1786
Southern Baptist
Started off as Separate Baptist, then Regular; changed to
United Baptist before becoming Southern Baptist.
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Tate's Creek
KY
1793
Southern Baptist
This is the first association formed as a United Baptist
association in Kentucky.
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Tennessee
TN
12/5/1802
Southern Baptist?
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Cumberland River
KY
1809?
?????
Affiliated with the American Baptist Association. http://www.crabaptist.org/Home.htm
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Gasper River
Ohio Co, KY
9/26/1812
Southern Baptist
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Little River
Christian
Co, KY
1813
Southern Baptist
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Burning Spring
KY
1813
Regular Primitive
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Union #2
Harrison Co, KY
1813
Southern Baptist
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Franklin
Franklin Co, KY
1815
Southern Baptist
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Goshen
Breckenridge Co, KY
1816
Southern Baptist
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Tugalo River
Franklin
Co, GA/Pendleton, SC
9/12/1818
Southern Baptist
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Mt.
Pleasant
Boone's Lick, MO
1818
Southern Baptist
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Powell Valley
Claiborne Co, TN
1818
Primitive Baptist
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Drake's Creek
Allen Co, KY
10/6/1820
Southern Baptist
Became Bay's Fork Assoc, now called,
"Allen Baptist Association".
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Boone's Creek
Estill and Fayette Co,
KY
5/28/1823
Southern Baptist
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Hiwassee
TN
May 1823
Primitive Baptist
Hiwassee split into two associations: Primitive and Missionary, which
became Southern Baptist.
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Cape
Girardeau
Cape Girardeau Co, MO
1824
Southern Baptist
At one time the Association was United Baptist then split over
missions, one side became Regular Baptist (defunct?), and the other
went into
missionary work. Bethel church (est.1806) was the leader in making the
association anti-missionary.
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Little Wabash
IL
1825
Primitive Baptist
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New Salem
KY
1825
Old Regular Baptist
In 1854, they changed to "Regular United", then to "Regular
Primitive", then in 1870 to "Old Regular Baptist".
Mother of the Old Regular Baptist associations.
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Forked Deer
TN
< 1828
Primitive
Baptist?
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Nolachucky
Northeast TN
11/8/1828
Southern Baptist
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Barren River #1
Barren Co, KY
9/15/1830
Missionary Baptist
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Laurel River
Laurel Co, KY
1831?
Southern Baptist
There was a split in the 1880s which formed two associations; one UB
and the other SBC.
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Sweetwater
McMinn, Meigs, and Polk Co, TN
1831
Southern Baptist
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Franklin
MO
1834
Southern Baptist
Now called Franklin Co Assoc
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Saline
Saline
Co, AR
10/1/1836
Southern Baptist
Oldest continuous association in the state of Arkansas.
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Big Sandy
Benton Co, TN
5/13/1837
Primitive Baptist?
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Northern
Union Co, TN
11/30/1838
Southern Baptist
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Little Bonne Femme
Callaway and Boone Co,
MO
1839
Southern Baptist
This association supported one of their members, Dr. William Jewell, in
forming of the William Jewell College in Liberty, MO.
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Franklin (Union)
Franklin Co, IL
1841
Missionary Baptist
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South Cumberland River
Russell Co, KY
1841
Missionary Baptist
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Osage River
Camden, Maries, Miller, and Morgan Co, MO
1844
Southern Baptist?
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Trinity River
Robertson, Brazos, Leon Co, TX
July 1848
Missionary - SBC?
Called the "Baptist Missionary Association of Texas".
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Eastern Texas
Nacogdoches, TX
Nov. 1849
Missionary Baptist
Changed name to Central Baptist Association (1852). This body is
an unaffiliated Missionary Baptist group.
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Mates Creek
Pike Co, KY
1849
Regular Primitive
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St. Francois
Madison, Bollinger, and
Wayne Co, MO
Oct. 1850
Southern Baptist
The actual name of this association was "St. Francois Association of
United Baptists, Devoted to Benevolent Purposes"
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Clinton
Knox Co, TN?
1853?
Southern Baptist?
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Freedom
Polk, Webster, Dallas, and Laclede Co, MO
1858
Missionary Baptist
Became Polk County Assoc (1889)
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Union
Pike Co,
KY
1859
Old
Regular Baptist
Union was
formally called "Union Regular United Baptist Association" before
changing their name to Old Regular.
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Antioch
MO
1866
Missionary Baptist
Renamed from Cedar Association (1848)**
** - According to Douglass, Cedar was reorganized as
Antioch, but was also renamed as Cedar County???
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Blood
River
KY
1870
Southern Baptist
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RockCastle
Mt. Vernon, Rockcastle Co, KY
1871
Southern Baptist
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2nd North Concord
Russell and Pulaski Co, KY
1876
Old Time Missionary Baptist
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Total (to date):
47 associations