New Hope Primitive Baptist Church

NEW HOPE PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH. New Hope Primitive Baptist Church was constituted in July, 1830. The Presbytery officiating were: Wilson Conner, David Wood and Jordan Baker. Minutes of the church for the first 12 years were lost, and there is no record of charter members, but the church roll of March 5, 1842, lists 53, many of them pioneers of this section.

It was in New Hope Church that the division in the Primitive Baptist denomination occurred, when some withdrew and formed a Missionary Baptist Church. The Rev. Richard M. Tucker was the first recorded pastor, in 1842. George R. Reid as clerk in 1842. 156-4 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1958