Talk:Peter Durrett

Wife's participation

Bishop's 1824 history gave Durrett's wife full credit for being an active part of founding this congregation. It was only in later histories that Peter Durrett was given sole attribution, an erasing of the woman's historic and recognized role. This shows the bias of histories and story-telling toward identifying one person (traditionally a man) as founder, in both the white and black historic traditions.Parkwells (talk) 17:03, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Date of immigration to Kentucky

I see this in the Career section re "The Travelling Church" with whom Peter immigrated: "(Some accounts say the group traveled in 1785.)" I am currently writing a Wiki article for The Travelling Church, and this post-1781 date has no support and is untrue as far as my extensive research in numerous written sources, personal interviews, and physical retracing of the route has discerned (in fact, just last night I was driving along the Wilderness Road to Gilbert's Creek envisioning Peter's habitual leading of the body in spiritual song while they walked--a detail I will document before adding to this page, as well as Peter's earlier coming to Kentucky with Captain Ellis and Manoah Singleton to scout a location).

There are a great number of reasons why the 1781-1782 date is correct for the immigration. The Travelling Church was en-route in SW Virginia when the Siege of Yorktown was won in October 1781 and, after arriving in Kentucky, founded Baptist churches at Gilbert's Creek, Forks of Dix River, etc., in 1782, and many of them were at the siege of Bryan Station, occurring in August 1782.

So I request that whoever put the unsupported parenthetical statement re a later date of 1785 to provide some documentary support. If support for this unique statement in my research is not provided, then I suggest the line be removed from this article as contradictory to everything I have encountered (it even contradicts the internal evidence within this article saying that Peter was in Lexington in 1784 and earlier with Joseph Craig.)

In fact, I'm just going to go ahead and excise the sentence within the next several days, and someone can respond before that with any good reason why it should be left in or after that with reasons to be put back in, OK? In my determination, it is clearly untrue that the immigration came in 1785, and even if some unreliable source alleges it, then it is so inaccurate that it contributes nothing but useless and confusing clutter to this article. Olorin3k (talk) 02:56, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Update: There is a 1940 article from a book by H. E. Nutter (online: http://baptisthistoryhomepage.com/ky.fayette.fbc.black.lex.html) that, apparently claiming to report information from "the history of Bro. Captain's life written in 1824" (p. 10), incorrectly identifies Durrett's master: "Bro. Captain with his Master, Col. Duerett made the journey from Virginia to Kentucky" (p. 11); his master was in fact Rev. Joseph Craig. This flawed article goes on to state: "About the year of 1785 Bro. Captain came to Kentucky." The author clearly was unfamiliar with the several salient sources and could only estimate the date, which, with a margin of error of 3 years, allows for the correct date of 1781-1782. --Olorin3k (talk) 02:56, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Notice: If nobody objects, I will soon finally excise the erroneous and confusing line, "(Some accounts say the group traveled in 1785.)" Olorin3k (talk) 17:12, 2 January 2016 (UTC)