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Description: Sixteen years before slavery was abolished in the United States of America,four members of the Manhattan-based Abyssinian Baptist Church gathered on the evening of May 18, 1847, to establish the Concord Baptist Church of Christ. The Rev. Sampson White (then pastor of Abyssinian Church) and four of his members who had grown weary of crossing the river from Brooklyn to Manhattan to worship. The four founding members were: Mrs. Sara Dudley, Mrs. Maria Hampton, Mrs. Hagar Washington and Mr. John J. Washington. They called Rev. White to be their first pastor.
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Creator: Concord Baptist Church (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Language: English
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Brooklyn
Religious subtradition: Protestant (Progressive Baptist)
Religious tradition: Christianity
Street address: 833 Gardner C. Taylor Boulevard
Neighborhood: Bedford Stuyvesant - Crown Heights
Collector: Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University Libraries
Zip code: 11216
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