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There was a Jonathan Polk who came from VA with Rev. Shubel Stearns in 1751 and settled on the present border of Chatham and Randolph...actually in Randolph. They started a baptist church, Sandy Creek. This mother church would spread arms growing thousands of churches across the southeast. A marker at the church names Jonathan...see http://www.sandycreekbaptistchurch.org/HisStory . This church was a "Separate" Baptist, they believed that less indoctrination was required of its believers. About twenty miles to the east, on the border of now Wake and Chatham was three creeks or Middle Creek Baptist. This was a "Particular" baptist growing though missionary from Philly. This church believed that education and knowing of christ was crucial to being saved.
So...these two churches did not get along. They were in competition to grow, but both observed the rule of having two ordained ministers present in order to ordain a new minister. Sandy Creek was first to make this happen, so it was soon able to grow at a fast rate. It spread new arms or churches up and down the Rocky River in anson and mecklenburg nc.
Though all history is written to the winner of this race to grow, a little cemetery in Midland NC is surrounded by land owners in the 1770's who lived in around Three Creeks. Names like Osborn, Barker, Green, Kent...etc. Known as Haynes Meeting House, on a creek identifying it as neigh the baptist meeting house, I believe the old cemetery in now Cabarrus County was a futile attempt by the regular Baptists to spread into territory claimed by the separates.
Anyhow, I do not see online any information on this Jonhathan Polk or his descendants.
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