North Newington Baptist Church was constituted at Newington Plantation in Chatham County in 1793 in the home of Thomas Polhill. Meetings alternated between the Polhill home near Goshen settlement and the Fox family home near King's Bridge on the Ogeechee River until 1797, when the first meeting house, called Bethel, was built at King's Bridge. In 1802 it was removed to Newington Plantation. From 1803 to 1806, members met in conference at Rooty Branch Church in Screven County, an arm of Black Swamp Baptist Church of South Carolina, where they resolved to meet in the future at this house. The name was changed in 1826 to Newington, Screven County, and in 1852 to North Newington. In 1879 the church was moved to the present site. It was first affiliated with the Carolina Association, then with the Savannah River Association in 1802, the Sunbury Association in 1830, and it has been a member of the Baptist Middle Association since 1841. Early officers were pastors John L. Southwell, Isaac Nichols, Wm. Spiers, and Wm. W. Lee; deacons Thos. Polhill, Wm. Mathers, Benj. Fox, Josiah Fox, James Goldwire, Daniel Dampers, and Paul B. Colson; and clerks David Fox, Thos. Fox, and Henry W. Williams.