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William Screven (c. 1629 – 1713) was a 17th-century Reformed Baptist church planter and preacher from England who founded the first Baptist church in the South. William Augustine Screven was born in the town of Somerton in Somerset, England in 1629, and emigrated to New England in the 1640s.〔''The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine'' p.93, (South Carolina Historical Society, 1915); (Google Books digitized version )〕 In the 1670s, Screven was baptized at the First Baptist Church in Boston by John Myles, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Swansea, who was also serving as pastor of the nearby Boston church during King Philip's War. Screven was ordained in January 1682 by the First Baptist Church of Boston, so that he might establish a church in Kittery, Maine, which he did on September 25 of that year.〔First Baptist Church of Charleston, South Carolina Website - (Church History )〕 In 1696, the new church moved to Charleston, South Carolina at least partly because of disagreements between the Rev. Mr. Screven and the New England Baptist authorities.〔Tom Nettles 'The Rise & Demise of Calvinism Among Southern Baptists' in ''Founders Journal'', ed. Thomas K. Ascol, PhD ()〕 According to family tradition, however, Screven and his band of ten followers were escorted to the edge of town by the local Puritans and told to leave and never return, on pain of hanging. The relocated congregation became the First Baptist Church of Charleston, South Carolina, the oldest Baptist church in the South and one of the oldest in the United States. The Rev. Mr. Screven recommended that any future pastor be "orthodox in faith, and of blameless life, and does own the confession of faith put forth by our brethren in London in 1689" declaring the church to be firmly Calvinist (Reformed Baptist).〔Tom Nettles, THE RISE & DEMISE OF CALVINISM AMONG SOUTHERN BAPTISTS http://www.founders.org/journal/fj19/article1.html〕 The Rev. Mr. Screven died in 1713 and was buried on his personal property. The inscription on his grave reads as follows:
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