Read Part One HERE
In this post I wil focus on a woman named Martha Stearns Marshall. She lived from 1726-1793. Martha and her husband Daniel Marshall converted to Christianity during the First Great Awakening. The couple migrated from New England to Virginia, where they were introduced to Baptist beliefs. Concluding that Scripture taught believers' baptism, Martha and her husband were soon baptised and joined a Baptist Church, and Daniel was licensed to preach. But both Martha and her husband were preachers and Martha's zeal apparently equalled that of her husband. In 1755, Martha and her husband, together with her brother Shubal Stearns and his small congregation in Virgina, moved to North Carolina. The group settled at Sandy Creek and established a Baptist Church, which became the most influential Seperate Baptist Church in the South, and Martha often stood alongside her brother Shubal to preach at church meetings. Around 1760 Martha and her husband moved to nearby Abbott's Creek and founded a new church, and in 1771 they moved to Columbia County, Georgia, where they establised in Kiokwee Creek, Richmond County, the first missionary Baptist Church. In all these churches Martha provided excellent leadership.
Martha died in 1793.
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