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Around 1638 Roger Williams founded the First Baptist Church in America in nearby Providence, after being exiled from Massachusetts in 1636. In 1638 John Clarke, a minister, from Great Britain, started leading worship in nearby Portsmouth, Rhode Island (Newport County) after he and his congregation were exiled from Massachusetts after disagreements with the Puritan leadership.
Newport becomes part of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Name changed from Aquidneck; United Baptist Church founded. [3] 1647 - Friends' Burial Ground established. 1654 - Thames Street laid out. 1656 - Second Baptist Church established. [2] 1663 - Easton's windmill built. [4] 1673 - White Horse Tavern enlarged into a tavern.
The year after this punishment, Holmes became the pastor of the Baptist church in Newport, and continuously held that position for 30 years, until his death in 1682. Holmes and his wife Katharine had nine known children, eight of whom survived to adulthood. He was an ancestor of the sixteenth United States President, Abraham Lincoln. [1]
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One of the first Baptist churches in the United States was founded in Green's End in 1644. It is now known as United Baptist Church. Green End Fort was long thought to have been built during the American Revolution in 1777 by British troops occupying Newport, as the eastern terminus of their defensive works in the area.
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The Shiloh Church was an African American Baptist congregation founded on May 10, 1864, by Edmund Kelly in a house at 73 Levin Street owned by Esther Brinley. William James Barnett was installed as the first pastor, followed shortly by Theodore Valentine.
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