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Adonijah Bidwell sermons, circa 1754-1781.

 Collection
Identifier: MS5153
Abstract

Adonijah Bidwell (1716-1784) was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1716 to Thomas and Prudence Bidwell. He attended Yale, graduating in 1740. In 1750 he settled in Tyringham (now Monterey), Massachusetts, as the first pastor. Adonijah Bidwell died in 1784. The collection contains sermon notes and scriptural references for sermons preached by Bidwell at Tyringham.

Dates: circa 1754-1781

Berkley, Mass. Congregational Church records, 1737-1949.

 Collection
Identifier: RG1061
Abstract The First Church of Christ was first gathered in 1737 in the newly incorporated town of Berkley, Massachusetts. In 1737, the town agreed to settle Samuel Tobey, a young graduate of Cambridge. In 1788, Thomas Andros, a self-taught veteran of the American Revolutionary War, was settled in Berkley. The Berkley, Mass. Congregational Church records document the early history, administration, and life of the church and its members. The collection includes financial records, church and parish...
Dates: 1737-1949

Boston Massacre sermon, circa 1770.

 Collection
Identifier: MS0818
Abstract The author of the manuscript sermon in this collection is unknown and there is no provenance information associated with the collection. The instigating incident behind the writing of the sermon was the Boston Massacre, also known as the Incident on King Street, which occurred on March 5, 1770. The event was widely reported on and further increased tensions between the Thirteen Colonies and Great Britain. This collection consists of a single manuscript sermon written and includes a...
Dates: 1770

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

Dorchester, Boston, Mass. First Church records, 1727-1784.

 Collection
Identifier: RG0861
Abstract In 1631, a log cabin was built to serve as the first meeting house of the recently settled Dorchester Plantation. For its first five years of existence, the parish had two ministers, John Warham and John Maverick. They were followed by Rev. Richard Mather, who served from 1636-1669. The church evolved from a Trinitarian Congregational church, during the pastorate of Thaddeus Mason Harris (1793-1836), to the Unitarian denomination. The First Parish Dorchester Church, now a member of the...
Dates: 1727-1784

Georgetown, Mass. First Congregational Church records, 1731-1866.

 Collection
Identifier: RG4967
Abstract

The First Congregational Church in Georgetown was originally established in 1731 as Rowley West Parish. When the town of Georgetown was incorporated in 1838, the Rowley West Parish was renamed to the First Congregational Church of Georgetown. The collection includes meeting minutes, financial records and valuable vital records.

Dates: 1731-1866

John Davenport sermon book, 1649-1652.

 Collection
Identifier: MS5374
Abstract

John Davenport was born on April 9, 1597 to a wealthy family in England. After becoming an associate of John Preston, Davenport joined the Puritan movement. In 1637 he acquired a patent for a colony in Massachusetts and in 1638 he co-founded the colony of New Haven. In 1668 Davenport became the minister at the First Church in Boston. He died on March 15, 1670. This collection contains a single bound volume of manuscript sermons.

Dates: 1649-1652

John Marsh sermons, 1774-1776.

 Collection
Identifier: MS5370
Abstract

John Marsh was born on November 2, 1742 in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard in 1761. On January 12, 1774 John Marsh was ordained as the minister of the First Church of Christ in Wethersfield, Connecticut, a position he kept until his death on September 13, 1821. This collection includes two manuscript sermons.

Dates: 1774-1776

John Rogers papers, 1689-1714, undated.

 Collection
Identifier: MS0153
Abstract

John Rogers was born on July 7, 1666. He graduated from Harvard College in 1684. In October of 1692, he was ordained as the junior minister of the First Church in Ipswich; he officially became minister of the church in 1704. He served as minister until his death in 1745. This collection includes manuscript sermons written by John Rogers, a courtship proposal written by John Wise, and John Rogers' final Will and Testament.

Dates: 1693-1714, undated

Marlborough, Mass. First Church records, 1704-2002.

 Collection
Identifier: RG1358
Abstract The First Parish Church was organized in 1666. Shortly after the formation of the First Congregational Evangelical Society in 1833, members of the First Church voted to worship with this society, and in 1835 the First Parish and the First Evangelical Congregational Society were incorporated as the Union Society. The church was renamed the Union Church in Marlborough to reflect this new merger, and was most recently renamed in 1913 as First Church. The First Congregational Church in...
Dates: 1704-2002

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Andros, Thomas, 1759-1845 1
Badger, Stephen, 1726-1803 1
Baxter, Joseph, 1676-1745 1
Berkley (Mass.) 1
Bidwell, Adonijah, 1716-1784 1
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Braman, Isaac, 1770-1858 1
Breck, Robert, 1682-1731 1
Bridgewater (Mass.) 1
Brockton (Mass.) 1
Bucklin, Sylvester F. (Sylvester Fuller), 1784-1860 1
Christ Congregational Church (Brockton, Mass.) 1
Clap, Thomas, 1705-1774 1
Cleaveland, John, 1749-1815 1
Conant, Sylvanus, 1720-1777 1
Congregational Church (Berkley, Mass.) 1
Danforth, John, 1660-1730 1
Davenport, John, 1597-1670 1
Dorchester (Boston, Mass.) 1
Field, Levi A. (Levi Alpheus), 1821-1859 1
First Church (Berkley, Mass.) 1
First Church (Dorchester, Boston, Mass.) 1
First Church (Ipswich, Mass.) 1
First Church in Marlborough (Congregational) (Marlborough, Mass.) 1
First Church of Christ (Wethersfield, Conn.) 1
First Congregational Church (Georgetown, Mass.) 1
First Congregational Church (Marlborough, Mass.) 1
First Congregational Church (Medfield, Mass.) 1
First Congregational Church (Middleboro, Mass.) 1
First Congregational Church (Natick, Mass.) 1
First Congregational Church (Stoneham, Mass.) 1
First Evangelical Congregational Society (Marlborough, Mass.) 1
First Parish Congregational Church (Brockton, Mass.) 1
First Parish Unitarian Church (Medfield, Mass.) 1
Fourth Parish Church (Bridgewater, Mass.) 1
Free Church (Berkley, Mass.) 1
Georgetown (Mass.) 1
Goodhue, John N. (John Northend), 1810-1839 1
Great Britain. Stamp Act (1765) 1
Marlborough (Mass.) 1
Marsh, John, 1742-1821 1
Medfield (Mass.) 1
Middleboro (Mass.) 1
Natick (Mass.) 1
North Bridgewater (Mass.) 1
Ogden, David L. (David Longworth), 1792-1863 1
Osgood, James, 1705-1745 1
Packard, Asa, 1758-1843 1
Peabody, Oliver, 1698-1752 1
Prentiss, Thomas, 1747-1814 1
Rogers, John, 1666-1745 1
Sears, Freeman, 1779-1811 1
Second Parish (Rowley, Mass.) 1
South Congregational Church in Natick (Natick, Mass.) 1
Stoneham (Mass.) 1
Thatcher, Peter, Jr., 1688-1744 1
Tobey, Samuel, 1715-1781 1
Trinitarian Congregational Church (Berkley, Mass.) 1
Union Congregational Church (Marlborough, Mass.) 1
Union Society of Marlborough (Marlborough, Mass.) 1
Wise, John, 1652-1725 1
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