Daniel Marshall

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Daniel Marshall (* 1706 in Windsor (Connecticut) ; † 1784 ) was an American clergyman and pioneer of Baptism in the southern United States.

Life

Marshall had a conversion experience at the age of 20. For 20 years he worked as a deacon in a congregational church , then he had doubts about the baptism of children. Around 1751 he and his brother-in-law Shubal Stearns turned away from Congregationalism, the dominant form of belief in New England at the time . Marshall moved south with his family, where he eventually began missionary work among Indians in Pennsylvania. The looming war between the colonial powers Great Britain and France caused Marshall to move to Virginia , where in 1754 he planted a congregation affiliated with a church in Philadelphia . Marshall was baptized and was allowed to preach. He then moved to North Carolina , where he joined Stearns and the Sandy Creek Association , and then went to Georgia , where he founded the first Baptist Church in 1772.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Randall Herbert Balmer: Marshall, Daniel (1706–1784) . In: Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism . Baylor University Press, Waco 2004, ISBN 1-932792-04-X , pp. 427 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Marshall, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH 1706
PLACE OF BIRTH Windsor (Connecticut)
DATE OF DEATH 1784