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In 1838 Elizabeth Dobyns Warder sent Elisha Green to Maysville to work for her son, John Porter Dobyns. a grain merchant. During his work Green learned arithmetic, weights, and measures. In his spare hours, he learned to read by studying the Bible. His wife, and now his growing family, lived thirteen miles away, and he visited them on weekends, a 26-mile round trip mostly covered on foot. Green began to hold prayer meetings in Maysville's black community. The group grew into a church, which leased a building next to the white Baptist church. Green began serving as sexton to the white church in 1839. In 1845, the white Baptists, impressed with his preaching, gave him a formal license to do so. This chapter recounts the social and economic history of Maysville, narrates the increasing tensions in the churches over slavery.