Peter, Lucy, and Peter received into fellowship of Penfield Baptist Church

This post is part of an ongoing project to record names of enslaved people of Greene County, Georgia I find in historical records.

Extract from Penfield Baptist Church Minutes, Penfield, Greene County, Georgia:

Penfield, May 14, 1848.

The Church met in conference at the new building in Penfield for the purpose of organizing a branch of the church for the benefit of the colored people; bro. B. M. Sanders presiding as Moderator. The following members presented letters, and were received into the fellowship of the church: Peter, a male servant belonging to Rev. S. G. Hillyer, dismissed from the Church in Milledgeville; Lucy, a female servant, belonging to Thomas West, dismissed from the Church at Bethesda, Peter, a male servant, belonging to J. E. Jackson, also dismissed from Bethesda. The conference after communion, adjourned. 

Samuel Green, Clk. pro. tem. 

Reference

• Penfield Baptist Church Minutes, 1839-1892, Mercer University Libraries.