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river to Smiths River Road thence along the said road to Leatherwood Creek thence down the said creek to Smiths River thence down Smiths River to the Cuntry line thence down the line to Dan River thence down Dan to the beginning and that they begin the said work by the last day of December and return to the Vestry on or before the last day of March ensuing an account of every persons land they shall procession and the persons present at the same and what lands in the said bounds they failed to procession and the reasons of such failure.26
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| | 15 August 1764, Nicholas Perkins, patented 90 acres in Halifax County on both sides of Mobarley’s Creek, adjoining Hardiman and Benn [Bean].27
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| | 15 August 1764, Peter Perkins, patented 820 acres in Halifax County on the branches of Dan River, along the country line [east], adjoining Hardiman and Russell.28
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| | John Hardyman was a poll in Halifax County, Virginia, 17 July 1765, in a list taken by John Donilson.29
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| | In Pittsylvania County, Virginia, on the Dan River a Separatist Baptist church was started. There were five branches of the Baptist church; one was near the Dan River.
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| | The meeting house was built in 1767 on land given by Nicholas Perkins. There were 300 families in all; 182 persons were baptized. These churches had ruling elders and laying on of hands was admitted. In 1758 or 1759 Dutton Lane preached as did Daniel Marshall. On the 4th Friday of August 1760, 74 persons were baptized. The same year the church joined the Sandy Creek Association. Dutton Lane became a Baptist in Guilford County, North Carolina.30
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| | The Dan River church was the first Separatist Baptist church in Virginia. They were called “new lights.” They had great opposition.
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| 26 Chiarito, Vestry Book of Antrim Parish, Halifax County, Virginia, 1752-1817, p. 64.
| | 27 Dennis Ray Hudgins, Cavaliers and Pioneers, Volume Seven, 1762-1776 (Richmond: Virginia Genealogical Society, 1999), p. 63. Patent Book 36, p. 648.
| | 28 Hudgins, Cavaliers and Pioneers, Volume Seven, p. 63. Patent Book 36, p. 651.
| | 29 Warren, Halifax County, Virginia, Colonial Poll and Tithables Lists, p. 12.
| | 30 Mary Bondurant Warren, Materials Towards A History of the Baptists, Volume 2 (Danielsville, Georgia: Heritage Papers, 1984), p. 44. Original by Morgan Edwards, A.M. and fellow of Rhode Island College, 1770-1792.
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