that members were not allowed to marry unconverted partners, on the pain of exclusion from the church. Another example of the public attitude is an exerpt from Rev. Sinnott 's Island Baptist History , noted during the two year period that Alexander Crawford was preaching at the Cross Roads church, across the Hillsborough River from Charlotte Town . In Sinnott's history, a Deacon Kennedy of Cross Roads gave his own account of the work of Crawford's first baptising in Montague: ...It was the first scriptural baptising that ever took place on Prince Edward Island . But what was the consequence? The inhabitants of the Island in general lifted up their voice against the Baptist preacher, and against those he baptized. A few days after the baptising took place there was a heavy storm, which laid acres of standing wood flat on the ground all over the Island. Many cattle were killed by the falling trees, and houses, which was said by many to be an immediate judgment from the Almighty on account of Mr. Crawford plunging people in water. John Crawford died in 1828 at 42 years of age, and it is interesting to note that many of his followers in Island communities then became followers of one Alexander Campbell , and with him continued to be called 'Disciples of Christ'. The History of Baptists is an excellent summary of how churches in various communities were established. Many groups went on for years, content with simple weekly meetings, assembling in school houses or private dwellings; while others organized and built the early small meeting houses. From records it appears that the first actual structure built as a Baptist meeting house on the Island was a log building at North River ; although the St. Peter 's Road ( Marshfield ) Baptist Church was established in 1830 and shortly thereafter built their own unique log church. The book, '-A Legacy ', describes their first log church as being; "...Made of logs and open to the rafters. It had a high pulpit, and also high seats with doors at the end. People could not see others walking down the aisle, unless they stood up." The first meetings of what would become the Charlottetown Baptist Church were almost a decade behind organized meetings in other Island communities. Early missionaries found farmers and fishermen in communities along the by-roads much more receptive to hearing about salvation, than those in the higher class atmosphere of the towns.