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The Baptist Church in Exeter, also known as Chestnut Hill Baptist Church, is a historic building located in
Exeter, Rhode Island Exeter is a town in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. Exeter extends east from the Connecticut border to the town of North Kingstown. It is bordered to the north by West Greenwich and East Greenwich, and to the south by Hopkinton, ...
. The church building was constructed in 1838 in a
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style. The church was added to the
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on November 21, 1978. Mercy Brown, an alleged
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, was buried in the Chestnut Hill Baptist Church cemetery in 1892 and later exhumed.Mercy Brown Grave History on Quahog.org (accessed September 12, 2008)
/ref> MercyBrownGravestone.jpg, Mercy Brown gravestone in Chestnut Hill Baptist Church Cemetery Grange in Exeter Rhode Island.jpg,
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Hall adjacent to the church


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Chestnut Hill Baptist Church home page
Baptist churches in Rhode Island Churches in Washington County, Rhode Island Cemeteries in Rhode Island Exeter, Rhode Island Churches completed in 1838 19th-century Methodist church buildings in the United States Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island Greek Revival church buildings in Rhode Island National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Rhode Island {{RhodeIsland-church-stub