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Contains 6 Results:

Church and parish records, 1728-1782

 Item — Box: 1, Volume: 1
Scope and Contents

This volume largely consists of church meeting minutes concerning the selection of new ministers – Jedidiah Jewett in 1728 and Jonathan Allin in 1780 – and records regarding their salaries.

Dates: 1728-1782

Church records, 1782-1835

 Item — Box: 1, Volume: 6
Scope and Contents

These records are primarily vital statistics and membership records, including admissions, dismissions, baptisms, marriages, and deaths. They also contain a number of disciplinary cases, mostly for intemperance or poor attendance on the Sabbath.

Dates: 1782-1835

Parish records, 1733-1782

 Item — Box: 1, Volume: 3
Scope and Contents

This volume contains financial and administrative records, including church meeting minutes and financial information pertaining to officers' salaries and other expenditures.

Dates: 1733-1782

Parish records, 1781-1822

 Item — Box: 1, Volume: 5
Scope and Contents

This volume contains financial and administrative records, including church meeting minutes and financial information pertaining to officers' salaries and other expenditures. It also includes the results of an ecclesiastical council convened to resolve a dispute within the church.

Dates: 1781-1822

Financial records, 1743-1832

 Item — Box: 1, Volume: 4
Scope and Contents

This bound volume of records was kept by the church treasurers, and includes salary records for ministers and other church officers, pew rents, taxes, and other incomes and expenses relating to the running of the church.

Dates: 1743-1832

Jedidiah Jewett extract and marriage book, 1730-1783

 Item — Box: 1, Volume: 2
Scope and Contents

This bound book contains two volumes, each starting at opposite covers and using the righthand pages in its respective orientation. The "extract" portion contains Rev. Jedidiah Jewett's transcribed excerpts from philosophical and historical texts and local newspapers. The "marriage book" records marriages performed in the church.

Dates: 1730-1783