"A General History of the
Baptist Denomination in American and Other Parts of the World"
By David Benedict, New York: Lewis Colby and Company, 122 Nassua Street, 1848
Extract, Page 754
In 1808, a few baptists were found in the southern part of the State, in Clarke
and Washington counties. William Cochran, a licensed preacher from Georgia, is said to have been the first in Clarke
county, and a Mr. Gorham in Washington. A baptist church was organized by Rev. J. Courtney in the county of Clarke,
in the year 1810. There was, however, very little increase of baptists in this part of the State for the next six
years. From the year 1816, a continual flood of emigrants was pouring into this Indian country (as it was then called) from almost every State in the
Union :—Churches were rapidly formed, and a number of laborious and indefatigable ministers settled among them.
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