The North Carolina Baptist handbook for .[serial] . ee was. appointed, who reported at the sessionof 1S10. This committee stated that the plan first undereonsidereration was too partial and contracted, and warmlyrecommended that the meeting be so formed and consti-tuted, as to admit freely, and upon equal ground, all theBaptist Associations of the State. The report of this committee was adopted, and a meeting-was called to be held on Friday before the first Lords dayin June, 1811, at the Falls of Tar River, now RockyMount. The North Carolina Baptist General Meeting of Confer-ence was organized
The North Carolina Baptist handbook for .[serial] . ee was. appointed, who reported at the sessionof 1S10. This committee stated that the plan first undereonsidereration was too partial and contracted, and warmlyrecommended that the meeting be so formed and consti-tuted, as to admit freely, and upon equal ground, all theBaptist Associations of the State. The report of this committee was adopted, and a meeting-was called to be held on Friday before the first Lords dayin June, 1811, at the Falls of Tar River, now RockyMount. The North Carolina Baptist General Meeting of Confer-ence was organized and met annually. Martin Ross wasthe leading spirit. There is no record of this general meet-ing at hand, but from reference to it in the Minutes of theChowan Association, we gather that its object was to securemore perfect co-operation, and to promote the interests ofmissions. There were missionary societies in most of thechurches, and the delegates to the General Meeting of Con-ference were sent from these societies and not from thechurches. 24. MARTIN ROSS,Father of the Baptist State Convention. NORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST HAND-BOOK. i0 The name was changed to The North Carolina BaptistBenevolent Society. The Chowan Association, at its session in 182 6, appointeda committee composed of Ross, Meredith, Newborn, Jordan,and Hall, to correspond with the Associations of the Statewith a view to forming a State Convention. At the nextmeeting (1827) the committee reported that nothing hadbeen done, and, on motion, they were discharged. Theagitation, however, soon bore fruit. On March 2 6, 1830, there was held in the town of Green-ville a meeting of the North Carolina Benevolent this meeting the following resolution was adopted: Resolved, That this Society be transformed into aState Convention. We have been accustomed to say that the Baptist StateConvention was organized at Greenville in ]S30, but therecord seems to be against that view. The first meeting ofthe General Confere
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