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Elijah Baker landed at Hunt's Point, Old Plantation Creek, on Easter Sunday 1776 and that same day preached the first Baptist sermon, “At the End of a Horsing Tree.” Opposition from the established church caused him to be deported, but he returned and was later imprisoned for 56 days in the Old Debtors' Jail at Accomac for the crime of preaching the Gospel.
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