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James M. Simms (James Meriles)
The First Colored Baptist Church in North America. Constituted at Savannah, Georgia, January 20, A.D. 1788. With Biographical Sketches of the Pastors.
Philadelphia: Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company, 1888.

PRESENT DEACONS OF THE CHURCH
O. Foster. Edw. Wicks. Wm. Rivers. A. Denslow. G.B. Lewis. H.R. Rahn.
M. White. W. H. Royal. L. Holmes. J. W. Black. D. B. Gadsden. B. H. Renier. H. Green.

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Subjects:
  • Green, H.
  • Renier, B. H.
  • Gadsden, D. B.
  • Black, J. W.
  • Holmes, L.
  • Royal, W. H.
  • White, M.
  • Rahn, H. R.
  • Lewis, G. B.
  • Denslow, A.
  • Rivers, William.
  • Wicks, Edward.
  • Foster, O.
  • African American Baptists--Georgia--Savannah.