1893_private laws_255_2
CHAPTER 254 An act incorporating the First Colored Baptist Church of Rocky Mount, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That Lawrence Sharrel, C. E. Spicer, W. H. Harris, Simon Hicks, John Joyner, H. M. Parker, Lee Thorpe, of the First Colored Baptist Church in Rocky Mount township, Nash county, North Carolipa, and their successors in office, be and are hereby incorporated under the name and style of the  First Colored Baptist Church of Rcky Mount, North Carolina, and by their [this] name may sue and be sued, may contract and be contracted with, and do all acts necessary to advance its material interest conformable with the general laws giving corporations.