Continent." Winchester remained a member of the Bellingham church until March 1776, when the church released him from their membership roll so he could join the Welch Neck Pee Dee River Baptist Church in South Carolina. Grafton – Hull – Elsewhere (1772 – 1774) Most likely, at the urging of Elder Alden, Winchester moved to the nearby town of Grafton. Elder Noah Alden had been involved in organizing the Grafton church in 1767. Winchester preached at Grafton but did not serve as its minister. He spent the next two years preaching in the neighboring towns of Northridge and Upton. He even spent some time preaching in Hull, located on a peninsular point in Boston Harbor. Welch Neck (1775 – 1779) In the fall of 1774, Winchester traveled to Charleston, South Carolina. It is not known what arrangements Winchester made before traveling to South Carolina. It is a reasonable assumption that upon his arrival in South Carolina, Rev. Oliver Hart, the minister of the Charleston Baptist Church since 1750, greeted Winchester. Hart had also been instrumental in organizing the Charleston Baptist Association in 1751. The founding churches of that Association included Ashley River, Euhaw, and Welch Neck. It is assumed that Hart brokered Winchester's settlement at Welch Neck. Nearly 40 years earlier, in 1737, Baptists from the Welch Tract in Delaware moved to South Carolina and settled near the Pee Dee River. They named their new home Welch Neck in remembrance of their former residence. The Welch Neck elders affirmed to Winchester the church's devotion to Calvinism in a March 12, 1775 letter. This Particular Baptist society aligned with Winchester's Calvinist beliefs that he adopted in Bellingham. He remained their minister until 1779. His Welch Neck ministry had many successes, including baptizing many new members, both white and black. By the time Winchester departed in September 1779, the church rolls reflected over 220 white members. A year earlier, Winchester had also opened baptism to "servants" (i.e., slaves) of church members. No total of the considerable number of black members, constituted in a separate church district, appears in the church records. Shortly after the death of his third wife in the fall of 1779, Winchester departed Welch Neck for an extended trip to New England. The church elders then scrutinized Winchester's newly added members and declared many of them deficient. "A great many of those baptized by Mr. Winchester have been excommunicated,