Martinsville Primitive Baptist Church was founded on October 28, 1899, and located in Martinsville, Virginia. Several names are used throughout the records books including Primitive Baptist Church at Martinsville, Martinsville Primitive Baptist Church, the Church Street Primitive Baptist Church Martinsville, Virginia, and Chatham Heights Primitive Baptist Church. Reference is made to the church meeting at a new location in Chatham Heights in 1963 which may explain some name variation. The church typically met monthly during which time minutes were recorded in the church record books.
Martinsville Primitive Baptist Church was founded on October 28, 1899, and located in Martinsville, Virginia. Several names are used throughout the records books including Primitive Baptist Church at Martinsville, Martinsville Primitive Baptist Church, the Church Street Primitive Baptist Church Martinsville, Virginia, and Chatham Heights Primitive Baptist Church. Reference is made to the church meeting at a new location in Chatham Heights in 1963 which may explain some name variation. The church typically met monthly during which time minutes were recorded in the church record books. The first entry in this record book is July 1986 and the final entry is December 1990. Two letters are included, one from July 1985 and the other from March 1995.
This item is dated March 1995 due to the content of the record reflecting information from that date. The record mentions faculty appointments during the month of March, which suggests the document was written the same month or shortly after.
These items likely date to May 1995. Both items provide information showing events which possibly took place in May, suggesting they were written during that month or shortly after.
SEBTS_NI_1995_05a: Patterson Issues Father-Like Charge To Southeastern Graduates; SEBTS_NI_1995_05b: Mission Field Changing For Career Home Missionary
These items are dated July 1995 due to the mention of July in both items, which suggests they were written during or shortly after the month of July, and records indicating that these faculty members were appointed in 1995.
SEBTS_NI_1995_07a: Start of new degree program brings psychologist to Southeastern faculty; SEBTS_NI_1995_07b: Evangelistic musician named to Southeastern faculty
This item is dated October 1995 because it was most likely created shortly after October 9-10, dates given within the document, and during the year 1995 when events such as the election of specific faculty occurred.
SEBTS_NI_1995_12_04a: Affliction brings God glory; SEBTS_NI_1995_12_04b: Rigorous scholarship and feminine viewpoint packaged in new Woman's Study Bible
The Signs of the Times collection contains digitized copies of the Signs of the Times newspaper, a monthly Primitive Baptist publication that dates back to 1832. This collection is arranged according to the date of publication. All twelve editions of that year’s papers are in a single .pdf file and cover every year from 1832 to 2014.
This collection consists of materials loaned to the Archives and Special Collections at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary by the Primitive Baptist Library and Archives for digitization. Materials in this collection include record books of individual Primitive Baptist churches, programs from services at various churches, records books of Primitive Baptist associations, maps, letters and correspondence, newsletters of historical societies, books on the histories of Primitive Baptist associations, and membership directories of assorted Primitive Baptist churches. These materials span the years 1778 to 2013.
After digitization by SEBTS staff, all material in this collection was returned to the Primitive Baptist Library and Archives in Elon, NC where they are physically housed.
This collection contains SEBTS student directories, commencement programs, and inauguration programs from around the time of the seminary's founding to the present. These materials were produced by the institution for institutional use.