Andrew Bryan (Baptist)

[5] Andrew Bryan was born in 1737 in Goose Creek, South Carolina, to slave parents.

After Liele left Savannah for a mission to Jamaica, Bryan began to preach.

[7] Andrew Bryan was born in 1737 in the small town of Goose Creek, South Carolina.

was an organization that cared for British colonists in religious matters and supported the spiritual needs of Indians and enslaved people.

While growing up on the Brampton plantation, Bryan came across a man named George Liele.

Davis encouraged Bryan to build a religious place in the village of Yamacraw.

The gatherings at the village of Yamacraw got so big that the white community thought it was a plot of rebellion.

Andrew Bryan became so good at preaching that many people attended his services in the village of Yamacraw.

The enslaved people were punished with whipping, shackling, hanging, beating, burning, and imprisonment.

The Justice of the Inferior Court of Chatham County analyzed the case, resulting in Bryan and Samson being found innocent and released.

On June 1, 1790, with 27 pounds of sterling, he bought property from Thomas Gibbons that became a place for a new church.