Biggs, David

Biggs, David a Baptist minister, was born in Camden County, N. C., in 1763, and began to preach in 1793. .For eighteen years he was pastor of the church in Portsmouth, Va. He moved to Kentucky in 1810: and for ten years had charge of several churches in that state. He went to Missouri in 1820, and took up him residence in Pike County. Besides supplying several churches he organized one, the Noix Creek Church, For fifty years he labored in that state, and to him the churches in north-east Missouri are greatly indebted. He died Aug. 1, 1845. See Cathcart, Baptist Encyclop. p. 99. (J. C.S.)