New PB Research

It takes a lot of effort to do historical research. It also costs money as well as time. Over the past year I was able to spend a day at Duke University doing research on the writings of Zion's Advocate for the 1850s -1870s. It produced much good documentary research.

I have ordered from Southern Baptist historical library in Nashville copies of several old periodicals that are on microfilm. Like issues of Zion's Advocate, these periodicals are hard to find in libraries. None are available on the Internet (as old issues of "The Primitive Baptist" of NC are now). So, I have to either drive long distances to these libraries or order them as I am now doing.

I am getting issues of these periodicals

The Old Baptist Banner (Jan. 20, 1838-April 1839) Murfreesboro/Nashville, TN
The Correspondent (May 1839-April 1840) Murfreesboro, TN
The Baptist Watchman (1871,1873-1875, 1879) Murfreesboro/Nashville, TN

Elder John Watson was one of the supporters and backers, and writer and editor, of the Old Baptist Banner and The Correspondent. Elder R.W. Fain, a medical doctor like Watson, and one who wrote the Preface for "The Old Baptist Test," edited The Baptist Watchman. The time period for these issues should reveal the battle with the "ultraists" brothers. More to come, the Lord willing.