Thus was formed the church which would later give rise to the first Particular Baptists. After several years as pastor, during which time “much trouble attended that State & People, within & without,” Jacob removed to Virginia about 1622, where he ended his “Dayes” in 1624, probably near the present Jamestown.57 John Lathrop assumed the pastorate of the Southwark church in 1624. Lathrop, who had been a preacher in Kent, served about nine years “to their great Comfort,” he being known as “a Man of