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In answer to your post 1755, the Youngers were Primitive Baptist in NC. The following two excerpts from Baptist records will confirm this for James and Anna Younger.
History of North Carolina Baptists, by George Washing Pascal, Vol, 1, pp 290-292, states: "In the Abbotts, Creek community, even before the coming of the Separate Baptists, there was a Welsh Baptist preacher who had come by way of the Welsh Neck settlement in South Carolina. His name was James Younger. For us he is little more than a name. But he left a family, among them a daughter Anna, who married James Evans, and died in 1843 at the extreme old age of ninety-seven years, having long served her community as midwife. Younger seems to have been a man of humble native endowments and little education, and yet able by his pious life and earnest exhortations to make his neighbors realize the claims of God and religion in their lives. That he was not an ordained minister is shown by the fact that his aid was not sought in the origination of Daniel Marshall as pastor of Abbott's Creek church a few years later. Though he was not able to preach himself, like Andrew he sought and found one who was abler than he. The fame of the Separates of Sandy Creek had reached his ears, and thither he went. On his return he brought with him that indefatigable missionary pioneer, Daniel Marshall. As a result of the labors of this earnest and fervent evangelist, in which he doubtless had the assistance of his saintly and gifted wife, Mrs. Martha Stearns Marshall, great numbers turned to the Lord." Silas D. McCaslin, p 15.
Elder Geo. W. Purefoy, A History of the Sandy Creek Baptist Association from its Organization in A.D. 1758 to A.D. 1858 (New York: Sheldon & Co. Publishers: 1859) pp 274-276: "Bear Creek. This church is located on Bear Creek, in Chatham county, N.C. From 1785 to 1787 they held meetings as an arm of some other church, and met for worship at Powel's M. H., Bear Creek, Lick Creek, and occasionally at private houses. They were constituted into a church in 1787. Elder Sherwood White was their first pastor. In 1790, James Younges, a licentiate, was received by letter from Abbott's Creek church. White and Younges were both excluded for drunkenness in 1801. White was restored, but excluded again in 1803, after have served the church as pastor for about sixteen years. A Brother Tilman was the first deacon.
"In 1789, the church refused to receive a Mrs. White who had been baptized by Pitman Amercon, who was an excommunicated minister, saying, "We will neither receive him nor his works." John Andrews was appointed clerk in 1795.
"In 1796, this church decided it was wrong for a church member to retail spirits at a public company.
"John Record was ordained a deacon in 1797. In 1803 he resigned his deaconship and became "a mouth for the church." About the same time Brother Hart, Brother Thomas, James Beck and John Hunter, were licenses to preach.
"In 1804, the church agreed that each male member would pay $1.06 a year fro church expenses. Brethren William Brantly and John Bray were appointed deacons in 1805. Ebenezer Elliott was appointed a deacon. In 1807, Samuel Elliott was chosen clerk. The church was served as pastor from 1803 to 1808 or 1810 by Elders John Record, John Hunter, and Sion Record.
" In 1809, John Bray was appointed deacon, and served until 1820. In 1818 Zacheus Boroughs was appointed clerk. From 1819 to 1832, Elder Hezekiah Harman was their paster. In 1819, this church, at the request of Thomas D. Mason, a member, organized an arm of the church at Tick Creek. During the ministry of elder Harman he preached alternately at Bear Creek and at Tick Creek. His labors were blessed at both places. In 1824, at the request of the pastor, Elder Harman, a committee was appointed to attend a convention held at Sand Creek M. H., on the fourth Lord's Day in March, for consulting about the missionary cause. In 1820, Zacheus Boroughs was appointed deacon. Shadrack Weaver was a deacon of the church at the same time. In 1820, Stephen White was appointed clerk. In 1825, Samuel Dowd and Nathan McManus were appointed deacons. John Watson was appointed deacon in 1832. In 1828, Nathaniel G. Smith was appointed clerk. In 1831, Peter P. Smith was appointed clerk.
Elder William Merritt was pastor from 1833 to 1836. Under his ministry the church was very much revived, and quite a number were added by baptism. About this time they built a large meeting-house, through Elder Merritt's influence, he being a large subscriber. During Elder Merritt's pastorate, A. J. Gilbert, Willis Coggin, and Aaron Womble, were licensed to preach, and were ordained in 1839, by Elders Eli Phillips and Artemas Shattuck. John Dowd and John Nall were appointed deacons in 1833..." End Purefoy quote.
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