Chester County Baptist Churches

• First Baptist Church in PA was established at Cold Spring in 1684

• Great Valley 1702

• Brandywine c1715

• Hephzibah in Vincent & Newlin Twp 1707

• Goshen in West Goshen 1827

• Bethesda extreme northwestern part of Warwick Twp 1827

• Glen Run at West Chester 1831

• Vincent branch of Great Valley church 1737

• Beulah recongnized as a  Baptist church 1823

• Windsor 1832

• First Baptist Church, West Chester 1834

• Phoenixville 1820

• East Nantmeal 1841

• East Brandywine 1843

• Plughtown 1855

• Coatesville 1867

• Willistown 1875

• West Caln 1842

• Lawrenceville 1858

• Berean Baptist Church of West Chester 1874

• London Tract 1780

• Green Valley 1834

• Oxford 1881

• Seventh-Day Baptists of Newtown, Nottingham and French Creek 1697

• Dunkers (Tunkers), or German Baptists 1724

• Prior to 1724, the few brethren (Dunkers) who lived in Coventry were not joined as a congregation, but in 1724 they organized themselves into a church.  On Nov. 7th they celebrated the "love feast" for the first time, with 8 communicants.  Their names were Daniel Eiker and his wife, Henry Landis and wife, Peter Herffley, Martin Urner Sr, Owen Longacre and Andrew Sell.  Martin Urner was their first minister, and in 1729 was formally ordained.  He served the church till his death in 1755, at which time he was succeeded by his nephew, another Martin Urner.  At this time they had no public place of worship, but met in rotation at private homes.  There were 22 families, of whom 40 had been baptized: Urner and wife, Peter Reinhard, Owen Reinhart, Henry Dasker and wife, Nicholas Hardwick and wife, Abraham Grub and wife, Christian Monsieur, Barbara Miller, Barbara Welty, Frederick Reinhart and wife, Barbara Urner, Elizabeth Ingles, Catharine Grumbacker, Catharine Boch, John Eiker, Jacob Pfauts and wife, Abraham Boch, Andrew Woolf, Esther Switzer, Wendle Danfelser, Henry Bear and wife, Jacob Sweitser and wife, Maud Reinhart, Jacob Light and wife, Philip Waggoner and wife, Eliz. Holderman, Anthony Bernhard and daughter, John Light and wife.

• Marriage Record of the FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, at Philadelphia, 1761-1803.
  Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volume 8
  http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/philadelphia/church/pass8-20.txt

This page updated on February 9, 2009