American Baptists

Abstract

"The earliest Baptist churches in America were to be found in three distinct areas: New England, Pennsylvania and Jersey, :and Southern Carolina. Organised connectional or denominationallife developed slowly, though local Associations were formed in the eighteenth century according to the English pattern. The earliest of these was the Philadelphia Association, formally constituted in 1707. During the closing decades of the century the Associations undertook home missionary activity within and beyond their own borders"