Person:John Taylor (564)

Research Notes

• first pastor of Clear Creek Baptist Church, Woodford County, Kentucky ¹
• preacher at Bullittsburg Baptist Church (1795–1802), the first church in northern Kentucky (Boone County)
• More research needed. Note difference in death years between Source 1 and 2.

Publications

• 1820 - pamphlet "Thoughts on Missions", criticizing mission societies. He would later regret writing this.
• 1823 - A History of Ten Churches
• 1830 - History of Clear Creek Church
• 1830 - Campbellism Exposed

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} John Taylor (Baptist preacher), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
2. ↑ Family Recorded, in Genealogies of Virginia Families from Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, c1981)
   1:215.

   ... "John Taylor lived in Frankfort, Kentucky, was a Baptist minister, had nine children." Rev. John Taylor, as we learn from the Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart, D.D., p. 1136, was born in Fauquier in 1752 and came to Kentucky in 1779. He died near Frankfort in the winter of 1836. He published "The History of Ten Churches," "Thoughts on Missions" and several brief biographies. Early in his career he was in the settlement called "Dunkard's Bottom" on Cheat River, which is a branch of the Monogahela River. ...