Thomas Tinsley
Early KY Baptist Preacher

      Little is known about Tinsley, but Reverend Thomas Tinsley had become a fixture on the Baptists scene in Harrodsburg by 1776. In the spring of that year, he asked William Hickman, a Virginia native and recent Baptist convert, to preach a short sermon. Their preaching spawned a series of revivals that established Baptists as a dominant force on early Kentucky’s religious landscape. . . . two years later, we find Rev. Thomas Tinsley "preaching regularly every Sabbath day."

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[From Lois Wickliff Masters, The Gospel Trail In Kentucky, n.d. Scanned and formatted by Jim Duvall.]

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