[37] Benedict's History (edition 1848), p. 723.
[38] Benedict's History of the Baptists (edition 1813), Vol. II, p. 193.
[39] Article on Augusta, Georgia, First Baptist Church of, Cathcart's Baptist Encyclopedia, Vol. I, p. 49.
[40] James M. Simm's First Colored Baptist Church in North America, p. 57.
[41] Ibid., pp. 58-59.
[42] Benedict's History of the Baptists, edition 1813, Vol. II, p. 193, quoted from Rippon's Annual Baptist Register.
[43] Rippon's Annual Baptist Register, 1791, p. 336.
[44] White's Historical Collections of Georgia, p. 316; Benedict's History of the Baptists (edition 1848), p. 740. Compare with Rippon's Annual Baptist Register, 1793, p. 545. Benedict's History of the Baptists, edition 1848, p. 727, note 5, shows no white minister was present except Abraham Marshall, and he says here he "assisted in the constitution of the church, and the ordination of the minister."
[45] Benedict's History of the Baptists (edition 1813), Vol. II, p. 193.
[46] Rippon's Annual Baptist Register, 1791, p. 332.