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Arlington, Mass. Pleasant Street Congregational Church records, 1842-2010.
Collection
Identifier: RG4962
Abstract
Pleasant Street Congregational Church was organized in December 1842, as the Orthodox Congregational Church of West Cambridge. Many of the original members of the Orthodox Congregational Church had been members of the First Congregational Church in Arlington but left when the church turned Unitarian in 1828. Between 1940 and 1953, Orthodox Congregational Church was renamed Pleasant Street Congregational Church. The church would officially close its doors in early 2011. This collection...
Dates:
1842-2010
Found in:
Congregational Library & Archives
Brockton, Mass. First Parish Congregational Church records, 1738-1980.
Collection
Identifier: RG0037
Abstract
The First Parish Congregational Church in Brockton was originally founded as the Fourth Parish Church in Bridgewater in 1737 and formally gathered as such in 1740. The name of the church changed, in 1823, to First Parish Congregational Church to reflect the incorporation of the town of North Bridgewater. In 1827 a portion of the church's membership left to form the South Congregational Church and in 1850 another portion left to form the Porter Evangelical Congregational Church. In 1874 the...
Dates:
1738-1980
Found in:
Congregational Library & Archives
Brockton, Mass. Porter Congregational Church, 1800-1979.
Collection
Identifier: RG5395
Abstract
The Porter Evangelical Church in North Bridgewater, later the Porter Congregational Church in Brockton, was established in 1850 by members who left the First Parish Congregational Church over ecclesiastical differences. The church purchased a building just north of the First Parish Congregational Church in 1851 and the building was further renovated in 1883, 1925, and 1950. The Wendell Avenue Church and Waldo Congregational Church were both formed out of area missions administered by the...
Dates:
1800-1979
Found in:
Congregational Library & Archives
Cambridge, Mass. Pilgrim Congregational Church of Cambridgeport records, 1863-1992.
Collection
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
Found in:
Congregational Library & Archives
Comstock Park, MI. Comstock Park Congregational Church records, 1888-2021.
Collection
Identifier: RG5418
Abstract
On March 22, 1910, nineteen people gathered for a meeting called by Charles G. Marshall to discuss forming a church in order to fulfill the community's religious needs. As a result of the discussion, the Comstock Park Congregational Church officially formed with thirty-nine members on July 7, 1910. The church moved online once the Covid-19 pandemic started in 2020 and while they saw increased engagement online, it would not be enough to keep the church going. A final service was held in...
Dates:
1910-2021
Found in:
Congregational Library & Archives
Grand Rapids, MI. South Congregational Church records, 1850-2001.
Collection
Identifier: RG4657
Abstract
The origins of South Congregational Church start in 1874 when women from the Park Avenue Congregational Church organized a Sunday School. This would eventually lead to a "Mr. Gilbert" donating land for construction of a chapel. The new chapel was located between Sheldon and Jefferson on Delaware Street and finished in 1876. The South Congregational Church was officially organized on December 12, 1878 with 43 charter members. The church would see steady growth until the end of the 1900s, when...
Dates:
1850-2001
Found in:
Congregational Library & Archives
Weymouth, Mass. Old South Church records, 1723-1905.
Collection
Identifier: RG5273
Abstract
The Second Church in Weymouth, also known as the South Church, was gathered in 1723 with James Bayley ordained as the first minister. The first meeting house was constructed in 1722 and the second in 1785. The ordination of a Universalist minister in 1834 resulted in a rift in the church membership with the orthodox members eventually forming the Union Church in 1842. The third meeting house was constructed in 1854. In 1892 the Second Church was incorporated as the Old South Church in...
Dates:
1723-1905
Found in:
Congregational Library & Archives
Winthrop, Mass. Union Congregational Church records, 1896-2011.
Collection
Identifier: RG5048
Abstract
Union Congregational Church was formally organized in 1896 in the Point Shirley neighborhood of Winthrop, Massachusetts. On February 22, 1896, a meeting led by Arthur Truslow met to discuss the creation of a "Christian Church at the Beach". The neighborhood consisted of roughly 200 families during the winter, the population increasing to 2,500 during the summer months. At that present time, families had to travel to Congregational Churches in Revere or Chelsea for service Winthrop had only...
Dates:
1896-2011
Found in:
Congregational Library & Archives
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