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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
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
Found in:
Congregational Library & Archives
Middleboro, Mass. First Church of Middleboro records, 1702-1925.
Collection
Identifier: RG4970
Abstract
The First Congregational Church of Middleboro was first organized on December 26, 1694 and Samuel Fuller was ordained as the first minister. The First meeting house had been constructed previously in 1680 and the second was constructed in 1701. Ecclesiastical differences between competing factions resulted in the congregation splitting and the third meeting house being constructed in 1745. The congregation remerged in 1754. The fourth and present meeting house was built in 1828. The...
Dates:
1702-1925
Found in:
Congregational Library & Archives
Stoneham, Mass. First Congregational Church records, 1728-1889.
Collection
Identifier: RG5190
Abstract
The town of Stoneham was incorporated in 1725. A vote in 1726 provided for the building of a meetinghouse and the First Congregational Church was organized in 1729. The first pastor was Rev. James Osgood who was ordained in September 1729. Rev. John Cleaveland was pastor from 1785 until an ecclesiastical council dissolved his relationship with the town in 1894. The second meeting house was constructed in 1803 and the third in 1840. This collection contains the early records the Church....
Dates:
1728-1889
Found in:
Congregational Library & Archives
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- Names
- 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
- Cleaveland, John, 1749-1815 1
- Conant, Sylvanus, 1720-1777 1
- Field, Levi A. (Levi Alpheus), 1821-1859 1
- First Church in Marlborough (Congregational) (Marlborough, Mass.) 1
- First Congregational Church (Marlborough, Mass.) 1
- First Congregational Church (Middleboro, Mass.) 1
- First Congregational Church (Stoneham, Mass.) 1
- First Evangelical Congregational Society (Marlborough, Mass.) 1
- First Parish Congregational Church (Brockton, Mass.) 1
- Fourth Parish Church (Bridgewater, Mass.) 1
- Goodhue, John N. (John Northend), 1810-1839 1
- Marlborough (Mass.) 1
- Middleboro (Mass.) 1
- North Bridgewater (Mass.) 1
- Ogden, David L. (David Longworth), 1792-1863 1
- Osgood, James, 1705-1745 1
- Packard, Asa, 1758-1843 1
- Stoneham (Mass.) 1
- Thatcher, Peter, Jr., 1688-1744 1
- Union Congregational Church (Marlborough, Mass.) 1
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