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Cambridge, Mass. First Church records, 1784-1968.

 Collection
Identifier: RG4935
Abstract Cambridge, Massachusetts, was fist settled in 1630 and the first meeting house was erected in 1632. Public worship began in 1633 with Thomas Hooker and the First Church of Cambridge was formally established in 1636 with Thomas Shepard as the first minister. In 1650, 1706, and 1757 the second, third, and fourth meeting houses were constructed. The Parish split in 1829 between Unitarians and traditional Congregationalists after the parish severed its contract with Abiel Holmes over his refusal...
Dates: 1784-1968

Cambridge, Mass. Pilgrim Congregational Church of Cambridgeport records, 1863-1992.

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Identifier: RG2350
Abstract Stearns Chapel was erected in 1863 and was located on Harvard Street, near Windsor; it was designed primarily as a Mission Sabbath School and operated for a number of years by the First and Second Congregational, Baptist and Methodist churches. The name was changed to Pilgrim Congregational Church of Cambridgeport in 1871. The collection includes church records, financial records, ministers’ records, membership records, auxiliary group records, historical information, orders of service and...
Dates: 1863-1992

Cambridge, Mass. Second Church covenant, 1739.

 Collection
Identifier: RG0833
Abstract

In 1725, citing the long distance required to attend worship services, a group of parishioners from the First Church of Christ in Cambridge requested that a precinct be formed in Menotomy village, now Arlington. This request was granted in 1732 and the Second Church of Cambridge was formaly gathered in 1739. This collection contains the original covenant of the Second Church in Cambridge. which was created during the formation of the church.

Dates: 1739

Campbell Family papers, 1912-1993.

 Collection
Identifier: MS0043
Abstract Iain C. G. Campbell was born in St. Albans, England on June 15, 1912. He graduated from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland in 1935. He was ordained as a Congregationalist in Omaha, NE in June 1952. He served as pastor in Albion, NE from 1950-1970, Fairmont, NE from 1957-1958, Weeping Water in NE, 1958-1974 and was a pastor emeritus from 1974-1997. He died in Lincoln, NE on December 22, 1997. Iain, an archaeologist and teacher, met missionary Gladys Perry Campbell in Turkey. Gladys...
Dates: 1912-1993

Charlestown, Boston, Mass. First Church records, 1632-1927.

 Collection
Identifier: RG0049
Abstract Charlestown proper was founded in 1628 and formally settled on July 4, 1629. The First Church of Charlestown was gathered in 1632. The church’s third meeting house was destroyed during the Battle of Bunker Hill and the fourth meeting house was not constructed until 1783 after the American Revolutionary War had ended. In 1913, the Winthrop Church merged with the First Church. In 1957, the interior of the church was destroyed by a fire; financial hardship delayed the restoration of the church...
Dates: Record Keeping: 1632-1927

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Church membership. 100
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Church discipline. 29
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Installation (clergy). 26
Women -- Societies and clubs. 24
Sunday schools. 22
Church societies. 18
Covenants (Church polity). 15
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Church newsletters. 7
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Temperance -- Societies, etc. 2
Account books. 1
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African American churches. 1
African Americans -- Segregation. 1
Algonquin Indians. 1
American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976. 1
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Chicago (Ill.) 13
Ecclesiastical Council. 7
Brockton (Mass.) 4
Old South Church (Boston, Mass.) 4
Bethany Congregational Church (Montpelier, Vt.) 3
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Cambridge (Mass.) 3
General Conference of the German Evangelical Congregational Churches of North America. 3
North Bridgewater (Mass.) 3
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions 2
Arlington (Mass.) 2
Barnstable (Mass.) 2
Beecher, Edward 2
Berkeley Temple Congregational Church (Boston, Mass.) 2
Bethany Church (Montpelier, Vt.) 2
Chicago Theological Seminary 2
Christian Church (Denomination) 2
Church in Brattle Square (Boston, Mass.) 2
Clarendon Congregational Church (Hyde Park, Boston, Mass.) 2
Congregational Church (Sturbridge, Mass.) 2
Conrad, Arcturus Z. (Arcturus Zodiac) 2
First Church (Ipswich, Mass.) 2
First Congregational Church (Newton, Mass.) 2
First Congregational Church (Rockport, Mass.) 2
First Congregational Church of Monee (Monee, Ill.) 2
German Congregational Church. 2
German Evangelical Synod of North America. 2
Hanover Street Church (Boston, Mass.) 2
Haverhill (Mass.) 2
Ipswich (Mass.) 2
Marblehead (Mass.) 2
Millard Avenue Congregational Church (Chicago, Ill.) 2
Mt. Desert Congregational Church (Southwest Harbor, Me.) 2
Mystic Congregational Church (Medford, Mass.) 2
Newbury (Mass.) 2
Ockenga, Harold John 2
Old North Church (Marblehead, Mass.) 2
Park Street Church (Boston, Mass.) 2
Pilgrim Memorial Church (Pittsfield, Mass.) 2
Separatist Congregational Church (Sturbridge, Mass.) 2
South Church (Salem, Mass.) 2
Sturbridge (Mass.) 2
Tabernacle Church (Salem, Mass.) 2
Third Church (Boston, Mass.) 2
Third Church (Salem, Mass.) 2
Waldo Congregational Church (Brockton, Mass.) 2
Waveland Avenue Congregational Church (Chicago, Ill.) 2
38th Street Open Door Congregational Church (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1
Abington (Mass.) 1
Adams Square Congregational Church (Worcester, Mass.) 1
Adams, Nehemiah, 1806-1878 1
Aiken, Silas 1
Albro, John A. (John Adams), 1799-1866 1
All Souls Congregational Church (Bangor, Me.) 1
Allen, Thomas, 1743-1810 1
American Congregational Deaconess Association 1
American Home Missionary Society 1
American Red Cross. 1
Amesbury (Mass.) 1
Andros, Thomas, 1759-1845 1
Appleton Street Church (Lowell, Mass.) 1
Appleton, Nathaniel, 1693-1784 1
Arlington Street Church (Boston, Mass.) 1
Ashby Congregational Church (Ashby, Mass.) 1
Atkinson, Henry. 1
Atlanta University 1
Auburndale Baptist Church (Auburndale, Mass.) 1
Avalon Park Community Church (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Babcock, Elkanah 1
Badger, Stephen, 1726-1803 1
Baldwin, Mary. 1
Baptist Church (Fiskdale, Mass.) 1
Barnard, Edward, 1720-1774 1
Barnes, Estle C., 1893-1964 1
Barnstable Unitarian Church (Barnstable, Mass.) 1
Barnum, Caleb, -1776 1
Baxter, Joseph, 1676-1745 1
Beckwith, Kenneth D., 1896- 1
Beebe's Grove Congregational Church (Crete, Ill.) 1
Beecher, Henry Ward 1
Beecher, Lyman 1
Belknap, Jeremy, 1744-1798 1
Belvidere Congregational Church (Belvidere, Ill.) 1
Berkeley (Calif.) 1
Berkeley Street Church (Boston, Mass.) 1
Berkeley Temple (Boston, Mass.) 1
Berkley (Mass.) 1
Bethany Congregational Church (Worcester, Mass.) 1
Bethany Congregational Church. Montpelier Auxiliary Tract Society (Montpelier, Vt.) 1
Bethlehem Congregational Church (Cleveland, Ohio) 1
Bible Chapel United Church of Christ (Hamersville, Ohio) 1
Bohlert, Steve 1
Boles, Richard J. 1
Boston (Mass.) 1
Boston Congregational Churches (Organization) 1
Bowdoin Street Church (Boston, Mass.) 1
Bradford (Haverhill, Mass.) 1
Braintree (Mass.) 1
Braman, Isaac, 1770-1858 1
Branch Church (Salem, Mass.) 1
Brattle, William, 1662-1717 1
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