Transcriber / contributor unidentified; date not given.

This transcription was created from the Tennessee Historical Records Survey Division of the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) in 1941 entitled

County-Line – White Plains Baptist Church Minutes
[Independent United Baptist Church]
Bradley and Meigs Counties 1843 – 1864

Transcriber’s note:  No attempt was made to correct or standardize spellings. Names appear just as they did in the W.P.A. typescript.  An individual’s name may appear under more than one spelling. For example, the name Fitzgerald appears as F.Garald, Fitzjerrell, Fgarald.

The transcription provided to Bradley County TNGenWeb is lengthy.  We have divided it into smaller sections for each of on-line reading and study.

W.P.A. transcribers placed the minute book’s original page numbers in brackets. 

The location of the original minute book is unknown.

[P-69]
2 Saturday in April 1862 church met & set in conferance and on Sabbath received by experience and Baptism into our fellowship Simeon and Minda an Geren & Caroline Geren then adjourned Asa Fitzgerald Mod John Branham Clk.

2d Saturday in September 1862 church met and after Prayr set in conferance received no members 2 appointed Bro’r Asa Fitzgerald, Andrew Hooper, & S.C. Geren Delegates to meet with the association at shepard Hill Friday before the 1st Saturday in October next then adjourned Asa Fitzgerald Mod John Branham Clk.

2d Saturday in October 1862 church met and after worship set in conferance received the following members to wit Sarah Murphy, Mary Elizabeth Brown, Nancy Fitzgerald, Sarah Isabella Branham, Margarett Fitzgerald, Emily Angeline Branham, Henry Fitzgerald, John Pritchett & Archibald Fitzgerald the church then agreed that the clerk buy a church Book for which they agree to pay for then adjourned until Sabbath morning 9 oclock Asa Fitzgerald Mod John Branham Clk.

Sabbath morning 9 oclock met when the above named members were Baptized & received into fellowship with the church & the meeting being protracted on Monday received by letter Margarett Hooper Asa Fitzgerald Mod John Branham Clk.

[NOTE:  There are no minutes for 1863.]

[P-70] 2d Saturday in July 1864 the church met at White Plains and after preaching proceeded to business first Invited visiting Brethren to seats with us 2d appointed Bro A. Fitzgerald John Branham and S.C. Geren a committee to make out a Report of the cause of the church in meeting from 2d Saturday in 1862 up to the present time and make such report as the[y] may deem necessary in the premises 3d agree to have a sacramental meeting in September next then adjourned until the 2d saturday in August 1864 Asa Fitzgerald Mod Protem S.C. Geren Clerk protem