| Scope and content |
Record volumes (1877-1987, undated) including Great Swamp Primitive Baptist Church Record, 1884-1980; Record of Primitive Baptist Church at Great Swamp, 1877-1915; [Great Swamp Church] Members / Conferences, 1916-1930; and loose material removed from Garner Family Bible including letters, clippings, emphemera, and Garner family genealogical information, ca. 1878-1987, undated. |
| Access restriction | No access restrictions. |
| Cite as |
Great Swamp Primitive Baptist Church Records (#857), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. |
| Terms of use | Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- Gift of Ms. Grace T. Garner. |
| Biographical note | The Great Swamp Primitive Baptist Church began about 1776 as the Tar River branch of the Flat Swamp Primitive Baptist Church of Pitt County, North Carolina. In 1795, they petitioned to be dismissed from the Flat Swamp church and constituted as the Great Swamp Church. The original church was located four miles north of Greenville, North Carolina. In 1922, the church sold their original church and built a new church on property they already owned on Cotanche and East 10th Street in Greenville. Two blocks of Cotanche was renamed Forbes Street , and the church still stands at 913 Forbes Street. By 1980, the fellowship of the Great Swamp Church had dwindled, and the church dissolved that year. |
