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A Concise History of the Ketocton Baptist Association (1808)
The Bounds of the Association
The Association in her The Bounds of this Association, and the number of Churches belonging to her before any were dismissed.
HER length, from King George County, in the northern neck of Virginia, to Redstone Settlement, back of the Alleghany Mountain, we may compute at three hundred miles; and in width, from Orange County, south of the Rapadan, to Fredericktown in Maryland, we suppose to be one hundred miles, or more.
The number of churches contained within these limits, were, as well as we can ascertain, 40; and the number of persons baptized within this association, to the present time is about four thousand. A number of the above-cited churches have been dismissed in order to join elsewhere, viz. -Birch Creek and Maho Churches joined some association to the south; Linvilles Creek Church, Mount Poney and Battle Run Churches joined Culpeper association; Great Bethel, Laurel Hill, Ten Mile Creek, Patterson Creek, and Goshen Churches were dismissed to join the Monongahela association; Frederick and Seneca Churches joined the Baltimore association. Several churches have become extinct by deaths and removals to the western country and elsewhere, and some that still exist, have by the same means become very few in number. Some of our ministers have likewise removed, and others are dead, and instances are latterly very rare of young ones being raised up among us; so that the number of our preachers are very few, and generally far advanced in years. When we attend our annual meetings, we behold so many of us (out of the few) with hoary heads, looking through our glasses, which ought to excite us to cry to the great Shepherd to send forth laborers into His harvest. At this time the bounds of this association are much lessened, and the number of members much decreased.
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