March 28, 1665 – The First Baptist Church of Boston was founded which was the 4th Baptist church established in America. The first was by Roger Williams in 1639 in Providence, R.I., the 2nd by Dr. John Clarke in Newport, R.I. in 1639, the 3rd was the First Baptist Church of Swansea, Mass. est.1663. Two [...]

March 27, 1808 – Reuben Coleman Hill, a medical doctor, was born of Baptist parents in Cumberland, now Russell County, Kentucky. He was married to Margaret C. Lair in 1833. That same year he professed faith in Jesus Christ and was baptized into the Knob Creek Baptist Church in Maury County, Tenn., where he was [...]

March 26, 1803 – Littleburg W. Allen was born in Henrico County, Virginia, and was raised in County of Caroline. He was a seasoned ‘soldier of the cross’ when he became an officer in the Confederate army. Even though he was daring in battle he was also zealous to recruit souls for the glory of [...]

March 23, 1894 – Ramon A. Tolosa was born to a Roman Catholic family in El Salvador. However he was plagued with a fear concerning eternity and would often cry out to God in his distress. The Lord answered Ramon’s cries through the witness of a friend, questions were answered from the Bible until early [...]

March 22, 1720 – John Gill, one of the long line of pastors of the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London, was ordained to the gospel ministry. He was born in Nov. 1897 and died on Oct. 14, 1697, sixty-three years before Charles Haddon Spurgeon’s birth. Spurgeon was a very young man when he became pastor of [...]

March 21, 1820 – Adiel Sherwood was ordained to the gospel ministry, by the Bethesda Baptist Church, in Greene County, Georgia, Jesse Mercer, pastor. Adiel was born in Ft. Edward, N.Y., on Oct. 3, 1791, to Col. and Mrs. Adiel Sherwood. His father served under Gen. Geo. Washington in the Rev. War and had amassed [...]

March 20, 1824 – Was the date on the letter from James Thomson stating that he expected that the entire New Testament would be translated into the Peruvian language within the course of a week. On March 1, he had written to the British and Foreign Bible Society that had sent him to Latin America, [...]

March 19, 1809 – The Buck Mountain Church; sent this greeting to Thomas Jefferson when his presidency was over. “Dear Sir, We congratulate you in your return home from your labours and painful service of eight years, now to take some hours of retirement and rest, enjoying at pleasure the company of your loving friends [...]

March 18, 2011 – The Laodicean church – a composite. It was a sad day, but few seemed to care. There would have been many tears if the deceased had suffered as a martyr, but she had died gradually from a multitude of maladies. Primarily the diseases were atrophy, apathy, and unconcern. Few were there [...]

March 17, 1813 – Rev. Elisha Andrews was dismissed from his pastorate with the Templeton Baptist Church in Massachusetts because he took the side of the Federalists in the War of 1812. For the next two years, because the church had no pastor, he was still called on from time to time to preach for [...]

March 16, 1849 – Was the postmark on the letter that was published in the July 25, 1849 issue of the New York Recorder, describing the reaction of Rev. and Mrs. Osgood C. Wheeler, to their first sight of San Francisco harbor. “…never did a more beautiful morning smile upon the close of a pioneer [...]

March 15, 1768 – Pastor Samuel Heaton’s family gave the land on which the Roxbury Baptist Church in Schooly, N.J. was erected, to the congregation. This was the third church that Pastor Heaton had pastored since his ordination in 1751, the other two being the Baptist church in Konoloway, Penn. which he established and stayed [...]

March 14, 1773 – Theodore Seth Harding, who became the “Baptist orator of the Maritime Provinces,” was born in Barrington, Nova Scotia, Canada. In T.S. Harding’s youth, his father died, and he was reared by his Presbyterian mother, and being a godly lady, she reared her son in the fear and love of God. When [...]

March 13, 1835 – Rev. and Mrs. William C. Monroe were appointed by the Triennial Convention as Baptist missionaries to the field of Haiti. Monroe, a black man, had completed his training and was ordained in the city of N.Y. on April 2, 1835. The Monroe’s boarded a ship on April 6, 1835, and on [...]

March 12, 1826 – Robert Lowry was born in Philadelphia. Even though his parents were faithful Presbyterians and at 17 Robert came under conviction and was converted to Christ, his study of God’s Word caused him to be convinced of believer’s immersion. Thus, he was baptized on April 23, 1843, by Dr. George B. Ide, [...]

March 11, 1670 – The following public protestation was lodged by Thomas Grantham, the leader of the General Baptists in England, against Mr. Robert Wright, a former Baptist who had turned against them, started leading a profligate life, and had become an Anglican priest. “Forasmuch as you have heard, that one Robert Wright, once a [...]

March 09, 1811 – The Bethel Baptist Church, near Cape Girardeau, Missouri, the first  Baptist church of permanence in the state of Mo. met in conference. The following is taken from the church records. “Brother Matthews and C. Thompson to talk with Sisters McDaniel and Watkins for their neglect of church meetings.” The entry on [...]

March 08, 1848 – Joseph Islands, the “Apostle to the Creeks”, after experiencing, “For to me to live is Christ,” could then finish Paul’s statement as he stood in the presence of the Lord, “And to die is gain.” The first witness of the Baptists among the Indians of America was Roger Williams in 1635 [...]

March 07, 1833 – James Francis Smith Married Mary A Dingle, and the couple moved to Missouri from Kentucky. In 1835, under the ministry of Elder Jeremiah Taylor, James and Mary were converted to Christ. Six years later at the 1841 Bethel Association meeting, he delivered his first exhortation. He continued to exercise his spiritual [...]

March 06, 1799 – Hezekiah Johnson was born into a Baptist preacher’s family in Maryland. Hezekiah professed faith in Christ in 1825. He married Miss Eliza Harris, with whom he lived for forty years. In April of 1827 he was ordained to the gospel ministry, and he preached in various places in Ohio until he [...]