Nevertheless, countless reports of Baptist growth came from the New England frontier and elsewhere in the 1790s. The overwhelming majority of Baptist churches in this decade remained Calvinist—one estimate counted 956 out of 1,024 white-led Baptist churches as “Particular” in theology, meaning those who believed that Christ died only for the elect. But new Freewill Baptist churches were growing, too, from eighteen congregations to fifty-one over the course of the decade.
