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Excerpt from Gwinnett Churches: A Complete History of Every Church in Gwinnett County, Georgia, With Short Biographical Sketches of Its Ministers There are eighty-nine churches in Gwinnett County, Georgia. The number of churches belonging to each denomination, together with the total membership of the same, follows: Missionary Baptist, 11; 5,211 members. Methodist Episcopal, South, 22; 3,026 members. Primitive Baptist, 6; 204 members. Presbyterian, 5; 241 members. Methodist Episcopal, 4; 263 members. Christian, 4; 263 members. Congregational, 2; 234 members. Protestant Methodist, 1; 150 members. Undenominational, 1; members, none. The history of these churches is given in the following pages. The data, the number and the names of the members of each church, together with all other items of interest, were secured from the pastors and the members of the several churches. Records were carefully investigated. In addition to the history of the eighty-nine churches located in Gwinnett County, this work contains the history of Shiloh Primitive Baptist church. Walton County; Winder Baptist and Winder Christian churches, Jackson County, many of whose members live in Gwinnett County. 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.