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Excerpt from An Account of the Churches in Rhode-Island: Presented at an Adjourned Session of the Twenty-Eight Annual Meeting The following pages contain the Report presented by Rev. Henry Jackson, Vice President of the Rhode-Island Baptist State Convention, at an adjourned meeting of the Twenty-eighth Annual Session, held in the Meeting House of the High Street Baptist Church, Providence, Nov. 8th, 1853. The following Resolution was adopted at the Annual Meeting, June 23d, viz: "Resolved, That the Rev. Henry Jackson, Vice President of the Convention, be requested to make a tour through the entire State, visiting all the Churches connected with the Baptist Denomination, and collecting such information as may in his judgment be deemed advisable, to report at an adjourned meeting of the Convention in the ensuing Autumn." The Report, after having been read, was by the Convention referred to a Committee of six, to make such disposition of it as they in their judgment should deem proper. The Committee at their meeting on the 21 st of November, after due deliberation, directed that it should be published for the use of the churches, and requested the author to furnish them a copy for the press. In this Report the author has been obliged to rely very much upon the returns of the United States Census of 1850, as found in the office of the Secretary of Rhode Island. On this account, and also because he was unable to make himself acquainted with the statistics of the various Denominations from personal interviews, some inaccuracies may exist, especially as since that time changes have occurred - still he has endeavored as far as his opportunities have allowed him, to present the number of the churches and the places of public worship in Rhode-Island, as they existed in January, 1854. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.