Old Regular Baptists.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of minutes from several Baptist denominations meetings as collected by Elder Walter L. Akers. Included in the collection are the minutes of Old Regular Baptist associations, Primitive Baptist associations, United Baptist associations, Predestinarian Baptist, Old School Baptist, and additional unspecified Baptist denominations. The collection also contains serials and publications of Baptist denominations and organizations as well as the research papers of Elder W.L....

Abstract The New Salem Baptist Church in Harold (Co. Floyd), Kentucky, was one of the original churches to enter into the New Salem Association of Baptists (constituted in 1825 in eastern Kentucky, armed from Burning Springs).  Built about the same time as the Association’s founding, the New Salem Baptist Church was built in an area originally called Harold Gap (now referred to as Old Harold Road).  Association records show that Simeon Justice, William Salisbury, and Alexander Lackey were messengers...