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First Bryan Baptist Church (Savannah, Ga.) (Corporate Name)

Preferred form: First Bryan Baptist Church (Savannah, Ga.)

The first Colored Baptist church in North America, 2000: p. 20 (organized on Jan. 20, 1788 with Andrew Bryan as pastor) p. 143 (in 1865 members formally established its name as the First Bryan Baptist Church)

Wagner, C.M. Profiles of Black Georgia Baptists, 1980: p. 6-23 (church formed Jan. 20, 1788 with Andrew Bryan as pastor; by early 1800's Bryan's church, established on "Lot no. 7, Middle of Oglethorpe Ward," was known as the First Colored Baptist Church; in 1832 pastor Andrew Marshall and a majority of the members were driven from the church over doctrinal issues and formed the First African Baptist Church; remaining members of Bryan's original church now designated Third African Baptist Church; in 1865, this church, still located on Bryan's original site, took the name First Bryan Baptist Church)

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