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Pastor John Corbly


John Corbally immigrated to America in 1747 as the Baptist religion was introduced in opposition to the King’s Anglicanism. He became a lay minister, but persecution drove him to the Pennsylvania frontier. Ordained, he ministered until his death, established many Baptist churches, and was known as "The ablest Baptist minister of his time in the Pennsylvania frontier.” This is not a retelling of previously printed material; it represents over thirty years of meticulous research. Previously unknown information is disclosed here including: the bogus picture of him, his birthplace, his true first wife, exact locations where he lived in Virginia and Pennsylvania, his long-lost treatise on The Believer’s Defense of Baptism, his involvement in the Ketoctin and Redstone Baptist Associations, his involvement in the Whiskey Insurrection from the government’s point of view, the Corbly Massacre as described in his and his daughter’s letters, and many other previously unknown facts. A detailed index is provided.

Pastor John Corbly
336 pages. Copyright © 2008 by genealogy expert and Oklahoma historian Don Corbly.
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The historical novel Mesquite Roots describes the last great land giveaway, the 1893 Land Run into the Cherokee Strip, Indian Territory. The Cherokee Indians, forcibly removed from their ancestral land, walked the shameful Trail Where They Cried from Georgia to Indian Territory. That land, later opened for homesteading pioneer settlers, forced them to move to Tahlequah where they established the Cherokee Indian Nation Headquarters. Live with the Darbys and the McCanns as they endured hardships and tragedies on the open prairies along the Cimarron River by Glass Mountain, near present-day Orienta, Oklahoma. Learn how to build a soddy, a cat-and-claw chimney, and an over-jet. Follow the extraordinary life of a small Cherokee Indian boy abandoned during the Land Run, but found and adopted by the McCanns. Read about age-old Indian rituals of birth, marriage, and death. Mesquite Roots is informative, intriguing, and will remain in your memory long after you display it on your bookshelf.

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