2IO History of the 



assembled members, John Nuttall having been chosen as their 

 minister. After having been in existence at Lumb for some time, 

 the congregation, for reasons not explicitly known, but probably to 

 extend their influence and usefulness, moved in the year 1760 to 

 the more populous neighbourhood of Goodshaw, where they had 

 •prepared a chapel, The meeting-house at Lumb was denuded of 

 its furniture, and the pulpit and seats were carried on the backs of 

 the congregation over the intervening hills to the newly erected 

 domicile. Here Mr. Nuttall settled and continued to minister 

 until his death on March 30th, 1792, aged 76, having successfully 

 laboured among the people for the space of forty-five years. 



The other Baptist Chapels in the district are of much more 

 recent origin than those of Bacup, Cloughfold, and Goodshaw, 

 and in the table given below the respective dates of their founda- 

 tion are stated. From the early Baptist Churches in Rossendale 

 have sprung a numerous progeny of kindred societies. The 

 Baptist Churches at Rawden, near Leeds ; Heatton, near Bradford ; 

 Gildersome and Hartwith, in Nidderdale; Rodhillend, near 

 Todmorden ; Stoneslack, near Heptonstall ; Salendine Nook, and 

 Cowling Hill, all confess their Rossendale parentage. 



The following Table (/) gives some particulars of the present 

 position of this denomination in Rossendale. The names of the 

 Churches are placed in the order of the date of their foundation. 



(f) Compiled chiefly from returns given n the Baptist Hand Book for 1893. 



