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William Augustine Screven was born in the town of Somerton in Somerset, England in 1629, and emigrated to New England in the 1640s.
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In the 1670s, Screven was baptized at the First Baptist Church in Boston by John Myles, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Swansea, who was also serving as pastor of the nearby Boston church during King Philip"s War. Screven was ordained in January 1682 by the First Baptist Church of Boston, so that he might establish a church in Kittery, Maine, which he did on September 25 of that year. The relocated congregation became the First Baptist Church of Charleston, South Carolina, the oldest Baptist church in the South and one of the oldest in the United States.
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Screven died in 1713 and was buried on his personal property. The inscription on his grave reads as follows: Died in 1713 and buried in private yard at Georgetown, South Carolina (U.S.) A servant of Christ, Pure in Morals, Sound in Doctrine, Abundant in Labors.".
