A history of the Baptists in Missouri : embracing an account of the organization and growth of Baptist churches and associations : biographical sketches of ministers of the gospel and other prominent members of the denomination : the founding of Baptist institutions, periodicals, etc. . Madrid, including all the territory between the south-ern boundary of the State and Tywappity Bottom. 2d. Cape Girardeau, including all the territory between Ty-wappity Bottom and Apple Creek. 3d. Ste. Genevieve, including the territory between Apple Cr^ekand the Meramec River, PRELIMINARY. 33 4th. St. Louis, i
A history of the Baptists in Missouri : embracing an account of the organization and growth of Baptist churches and associations : biographical sketches of ministers of the gospel and other prominent members of the denomination : the founding of Baptist institutions, periodicals, etc. . Madrid, including all the territory between the south-ern boundary of the State and Tywappity Bottom. 2d. Cape Girardeau, including all the territory between Ty-wappity Bottom and Apple Creek. 3d. Ste. Genevieve, including the territory between Apple Cr^ekand the Meramec River, PRELIMINARY. 33 4th. St. Louis, including the territory between the Meramecand the Missouri Rivers. 5th. St. Charles, including the territory between the Missouriand the Mississippi Elvers—that is, all north of the MissouriEiver. The population of Upj^er Louisiana, or the Missouri Territory,as afterwards called, in 1799, three years after the beginning ofBaptist History, was 6,028. Ste. Genevieve was then the mostpopulous district, and St. Louis next; while St. Charles wasvery little behind either. The following was the comparative pop-ulation of the above named places at the date aforesaid: , 949; St. Louis, 925; St. Charles, 875. We have now a birds-eye view of what Missouri originallywas. ^m^. KEY. JOItN M. P£CK. HISTOET OF THE Baptists in Missouri PERIOD FIRST. 1796-1810. CHAPTER I. EAELY BAPTISTS OF MISSOUEI. First Baptist Families—The Lower Countrj—Formation of the First Church,Tywappity—Thomas Johnson, the First Eegular Baptist Minister to Come West ofthe Great Kiver—David Green—The Second Church Fonned, Bethel—Flat-hoat Traveling; the Setting Pole—Mr. John Baldwin—Dr. J. C. Maples Me-morial Address—The Old Log House —The Gavel—William Murphy. • MANY years before Missouri became a state, and while herterritory was controlled by foreign kings, a few Baptistscame and settled in her borders. At that time Romanism wasthe established religion, and hence there was no fr
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