The following information was provided by Deb Lowe, on October 30, 2016. She may be reached at [email protected]
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Son of George Chilton and Ann Bayne Owsley Chilton
A History of Kentucky Baptists From 1769 to 1885, Including More Than 800 Biographical Sketches, J. H. Spencer, Manuscript Revised and Corrected by Mrs. Burilla B. Spencer, In Two Volumes. Printed For the Author. 1886. Republished By Church History Research & Archives 1976 Lafayette, Tennessee. Vol. 2, pp 87-88 [Garrard County]
THOMAS JOHN CHILTON was a prominent leader among the Separate Baptists, in Kentucky, about forty years. He is believed to have been a native of Virginia, and was born about the year 1769. He was brought to what is now Garrard county, Ky., at the age of ten years. He received a better education than most boys, in the new Country, at that time. He professed religion and united with Gilbert's Creek church of Separate Baptists, during a great revival which prevailed in that region, under the ministry of Joseph and William Bledsoe, in 1789. He began to exercise in public, soon after he joined the church, and was ordained to
the minstry by Joseph Bledsoe, Moses Bledsoe and John Rice, in 1791. He was one of the committee that signed the articles, commonly known as the "Terms of General Union," upon which the Regular and Separate Baptists united, in 1801, and claims to be the author of that document. When South District Association split, in 1803, Mr. Chilton was one of the leaders of the party which formed the present South Kentucky Association of Separate Baptists. He continued to preach in Garrard and the surrounding counties, till about the year 1822, when, having lost his
property, in an abortive attempt to establish salt works, he moved to what is now LaRue county, and settled on Middle creek. Here he took charge of a church, which he and William Summers had constituted, under the style of the Separate Baptist church on Middle creek, in 1816. The name of this church was afterwards changed to Republican, and is now called Big Spring. To this church he ministered till 1836, when he resigned on account of declining age. In 1835, he published a small volume which he titled 'A History of the Baptists." It bears the marks
of having been written carelessly, and in haste, and is of little value. Mr. Chilton was a strong preacher; but appears to have been a plausible, rather than a logical controversialist. He died from the effects of a fall from his buggy, into a stream of water which he was crossing, about 1839. His son, Thomas Chilton, was a lawyer, preacher and politician of considerable prominence."
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Son of George Chilton and Ann Bayne Owsley Chilton
A History of Kentucky Baptists From 1769 to 1885, Including More Than 800 Biographical Sketches, J. H. Spencer, Manuscript Revised and Corrected by Mrs. Burilla B. Spencer, In Two Volumes. Printed For the Author. 1886. Republished By Church History Research & Archives 1976 Lafayette, Tennessee. Vol. 2, pp 87-88 [Garrard County]
THOMAS JOHN CHILTON was a prominent leader among the Separate Baptists, in Kentucky, about forty years. He is believed to have been a native of Virginia, and was born about the year 1769. He was brought to what is now Garrard county, Ky., at the age of ten years. He received a better education than most boys, in the new Country, at that time. He professed religion and united with Gilbert's Creek church of Separate Baptists, during a great revival which prevailed in that region, under the ministry of Joseph and William Bledsoe, in 1789. He began to exercise in public, soon after he joined the church, and was ordained to
the minstry by Joseph Bledsoe, Moses Bledsoe and John Rice, in 1791. He was one of the committee that signed the articles, commonly known as the "Terms of General Union," upon which the Regular and Separate Baptists united, in 1801, and claims to be the author of that document. When South District Association split, in 1803, Mr. Chilton was one of the leaders of the party which formed the present South Kentucky Association of Separate Baptists. He continued to preach in Garrard and the surrounding counties, till about the year 1822, when, having lost his
property, in an abortive attempt to establish salt works, he moved to what is now LaRue county, and settled on Middle creek. Here he took charge of a church, which he and William Summers had constituted, under the style of the Separate Baptist church on Middle creek, in 1816. The name of this church was afterwards changed to Republican, and is now called Big Spring. To this church he ministered till 1836, when he resigned on account of declining age. In 1835, he published a small volume which he titled 'A History of the Baptists." It bears the marks
of having been written carelessly, and in haste, and is of little value. Mr. Chilton was a strong preacher; but appears to have been a plausible, rather than a logical controversialist. He died from the effects of a fall from his buggy, into a stream of water which he was crossing, about 1839. His son, Thomas Chilton, was a lawyer, preacher and politician of considerable prominence."
The following information was provided by Deb Lowe, on October 30, 2016. She may be reached at [email protected]
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Son of George Chilton and Ann Bayne Owsley Chilton
A History of Kentucky Baptists From 1769 to 1885, Including More Than 800 Biographical Sketches, J. H. Spencer, Manuscript Revised and Corrected by Mrs. Burilla B. Spencer, In Two Volumes. Printed For the Author. 1886. Republished By Church History Research & Archives 1976 Lafayette, Tennessee. Vol. 2, pp 87-88 [Garrard County]
THOMAS JOHN CHILTON was a prominent leader among the Separate Baptists, in Kentucky, about forty years. He is believed to have been a native of Virginia, and was born about the year 1769. He was brought to what is now Garrard county, Ky., at the age of ten years. He received a better education than most boys, in the new Country, at that time. He professed religion and united with Gilbert's Creek church of Separate Baptists, during a great revival which prevailed in that region, under the ministry of Joseph and William Bledsoe, in 1789. He began to exercise in public, soon after he joined the church, and was ordained to
the minstry by Joseph Bledsoe, Moses Bledsoe and John Rice, in 1791. He was one of the committee that signed the articles, commonly known as the "Terms of General Union," upon which the Regular and Separate Baptists united, in 1801, and claims to be the author of that document. When South District Association split, in 1803, Mr. Chilton was one of the leaders of the party which formed the present South Kentucky Association of Separate Baptists. He continued to preach in Garrard and the surrounding counties, till about the year 1822, when, having lost his
property, in an abortive attempt to establish salt works, he moved to what is now LaRue county, and settled on Middle creek. Here he took charge of a church, which he and William Summers had constituted, under the style of the Separate Baptist church on Middle creek, in 1816. The name of this church was afterwards changed to Republican, and is now called Big Spring. To this church he ministered till 1836, when he resigned on account of declining age. In 1835, he published a small volume which he titled 'A History of the Baptists." It bears the marks
of having been written carelessly, and in haste, and is of little value. Mr. Chilton was a strong preacher; but appears to have been a plausible, rather than a logical controversialist. He died from the effects of a fall from his buggy, into a stream of water which he was crossing, about 1839. His son, Thomas Chilton, was a lawyer, preacher and politician of considerable prominence."
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Son of George Chilton and Ann Bayne Owsley Chilton
A History of Kentucky Baptists From 1769 to 1885, Including More Than 800 Biographical Sketches, J. H. Spencer, Manuscript Revised and Corrected by Mrs. Burilla B. Spencer, In Two Volumes. Printed For the Author. 1886. Republished By Church History Research & Archives 1976 Lafayette, Tennessee. Vol. 2, pp 87-88 [Garrard County]
THOMAS JOHN CHILTON was a prominent leader among the Separate Baptists, in Kentucky, about forty years. He is believed to have been a native of Virginia, and was born about the year 1769. He was brought to what is now Garrard county, Ky., at the age of ten years. He received a better education than most boys, in the new Country, at that time. He professed religion and united with Gilbert's Creek church of Separate Baptists, during a great revival which prevailed in that region, under the ministry of Joseph and William Bledsoe, in 1789. He began to exercise in public, soon after he joined the church, and was ordained to
the minstry by Joseph Bledsoe, Moses Bledsoe and John Rice, in 1791. He was one of the committee that signed the articles, commonly known as the "Terms of General Union," upon which the Regular and Separate Baptists united, in 1801, and claims to be the author of that document. When South District Association split, in 1803, Mr. Chilton was one of the leaders of the party which formed the present South Kentucky Association of Separate Baptists. He continued to preach in Garrard and the surrounding counties, till about the year 1822, when, having lost his
property, in an abortive attempt to establish salt works, he moved to what is now LaRue county, and settled on Middle creek. Here he took charge of a church, which he and William Summers had constituted, under the style of the Separate Baptist church on Middle creek, in 1816. The name of this church was afterwards changed to Republican, and is now called Big Spring. To this church he ministered till 1836, when he resigned on account of declining age. In 1835, he published a small volume which he titled 'A History of the Baptists." It bears the marks
of having been written carelessly, and in haste, and is of little value. Mr. Chilton was a strong preacher; but appears to have been a plausible, rather than a logical controversialist. He died from the effects of a fall from his buggy, into a stream of water which he was crossing, about 1839. His son, Thomas Chilton, was a lawyer, preacher and politician of considerable prominence."
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