Jersey Baptist Church

After taking wife Mary and adult family members to Frederick Co., Virginia Colony in 1735, Thomas SMITH settled down and lived there until his death in 1753. His son John took wife Rebecca and family first to Virginia with his father in the July of 1735, and then, perhaps a dozen-or-so years later, to the piedmont of North Carolina, resettling on Swearing Creek, Jersey Settlement, Anson (later Rowan) Co., where he died in 1762-63 in nearby Jersey Settlement. Rebecca died there 12 Aug 1785. They were both buried in Eaton's Baptist Cemetery in Cana, Davie Co. NC.

The local church, shown here, was inter-denominational, ending up as Baptist in the 1800s, and thriving today.
Jersey Settlement Land escaped ravage by the British in the American Revolution because of heavy rain and a swollen Yadkin River. They camped there and viewed Jersey Farms with spyglasses but finally gave up and went elsewhere.