Pastor John Corbly

John Corbally, a fourteen-year-old Irish lad, emigrated to America in 1747 as the fledgling Baptist religion was being introduced into the Province of Virginia in opposition to the King’s Church of England. He became a Baptist lay minister, but persecution in Virginia drove him to the extreme southwestern Pennsylvania “uncivilized" frontier. Ordained, he ministered through the years leading to the Revolutionary War and beyond, establishing many Baptist churches in "Pittsylvania Country." He suffered severe indignities and imprisonments for following his faith; he lost his family in the Corbly Massacre, and was imprisoned during the Whiskey Insurrection of the late 1790s. Described in detail in this book, his efforts in the development of the Baptist ministry in colonial America and the new nation is intertwined with significant events that led to the War for Independence and the early years of the new nation. He was known as "the ablest Baptist minister of his time in the Pennsylvania frontier.” Get your copy now!
*Baptized in 1761 and imprisoned for preaching the Baptist religion in Virginia in 1768. *Revolutionary War soldier, Chaplain, Militiaman, Judge, Patriot, and Indian fighter. *Delegate to the General Assembly in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1777-1778.
*Founder or co-founder of 30 Baptist churches in southwestern Pennsylvania.
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