July 6, 1849: the first Baptist church in California was organized in San Francisco by Osgood Church Wheeler.
July 13, 1813: Adoniram and Ann Judson arrived in Rangoon, Burma, to begin missionary work. Adoniram worked for 37 years in the mission field. Ann died in 1826, and Adoniram married Sarah Boardman (1803-1845) and then Emily Chubbuck (1817-1854).
July 19, 1651: John Clarke, Obadiah Holmes and John Crandall arrived in Lynn MA, and began preaching illegally.
July 27, 1707: The Philadelphia Baptist Association was founded as the first Baptist association in what became the United States.
July 31, 1861: Helen Barrett Montgomery (pictured above), the first woman president of the Northern Baptist Convention, was born in Kingsville, OH. She was president in 1921-22.
