Historic Sites: 18th Century: Middle Sackville Baptist Church

	1763 Middle Sackville Baptist Church The first Baptist congregation in Canada was ìplantedî in Middle Sackville in 1763 upon the arrival of 13 Baptist settlers from Swansea, Massachusetts. Although most of these settlers returned to Massachusetts in 1771, and the congregation struggled for several years, the church was reconstituted by Joseph Crandall in 1798. Records indicate that a Meeting House was being used by 1809. In 1839, a division occurred in the congregation, and Bethel Meeting House opened in 1842 near the site of the present church. Beulah Meeting House was built at Four Corners in 1844. After many congregational reorganizations, the Middle Sackville Baptist congregation was formed in 1902 for Baptists living north of Ogden Mill Road. The present building was built in1905, and expanded in 1995.
Marker placed by Tantramar Historic Sites and Middle Sackville United Baptist Church, and unveiled on Saturday 11 June 2005 by a group of descendants of the 1905 Building Committee
On the history of Middle Sackville Baptist Church see "Middle Sackville Baptist Church marks 100 years", Sackville Tribune-Post , 8 June 2005, p.15. On the importance of the Baptist allegiance of many of the New England Planters who came to Sackville, see Snowdon, James D., Footprints in the Marsh Mud: Politics and Land Settlement in the Township of Sackville 1760-1800 (M.A. thesis, University of New Brunswick, 1974; reprinted, Tantramar Heritage Trust, 2000), pp. 28-30.