Pennepack Baptist Church

Philadelphia County · dedicated 2013 · 8732 Krewstown Rd., Philadelphia

It was founded in 1688 by Welsh and English Baptists led by Rev. Elias Keach who sought the religious freedom of William Penn's colony. It was the first permanent Baptist church in Pa. and mother church of Baptist congregations in the mid-Atlantic region. The nearby Pennypack Creek was utilized for baptisms. The cemetery's first recorded burial was in 1692. The existing 1805 church is built on the original 1707 meetinghouse foundation.

9.7 miles from where Henry Allen lived in the 1700s

what this marker records spans 1688 to 1805, overlapping Henry Allen's years here

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Pennepack Baptist Church

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