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Box 1

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Contains 23 Results:

Church records, 1721-1794

 Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents This volume contains the earliest extant records for the town of Natick and of the First Church. They begin in 1721, the year in which a second meetinghouse was built and in which Rev. Oliver Peabody began his 30 year tenure. It includes lists of members, baptisms, deaths, church meetings minutes, and a copy of the church covenant. This volume of records includes a list of “those Indians that have Dyed from among us,” which can be used as an index to track the activities of Native Americans...
Dates: 1721-1794

Letter to bereaved parent, 1755

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

This single piece of correspondence is both unsigned and unaddressed. Its writer expresses sympathy with a bereaved parent whose son was killed in the disastrous defeat of General Edward Braddock's forces near Fort Duquesne, in the "Battle of the Monongahela" during the French and Indian War. The letter was sent from Boston and dated August 4, 1755.

Dates: 1755

Benjamin Caryl sermons, 1762-1803

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains early administrative and financial records for the First Congregational Church in Natick. The collection contains administrative records and meeting minutes, financial records and ledgers, church membership records, baptismal records, marriage records, records of deaths, sermons produced by Benjamin Caryl, church correspondence, a list of prohibition supporters, and a history of the Sabbath school in Natick.

Dates: 1762-1803

"A sermon at the execution of Moses Paul", circa 1772

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains early administrative and financial records for the First Congregational Church in Natick. The collection contains administrative records and meeting minutes, financial records and ledgers, church membership records, baptismal records, marriage records, records of deaths, sermons produced by Benjamin Caryl, church correspondence, a list of prohibition supporters, and a history of the Sabbath school in Natick.

Dates: circa 1772

A plan of Concert of Prayer circular letter, 1794-1795

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains early administrative and financial records for the First Congregational Church in Natick. The collection contains administrative records and meeting minutes, financial records and ledgers, church membership records, baptismal records, marriage records, records of deaths, sermons produced by Benjamin Caryl, church correspondence, a list of prohibition supporters, and a history of the Sabbath school in Natick.

Dates: 1794-1795

"A sermon, delivered at Natick, January 5, 1817, containing a history of said town", 1817

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

This sermon was authored by Martin Moore, but it includes an end note which was authored by Freeman Sears, minister at the First Congregational Church of Natick between 1806 and 1811.

Dates: 1817

Daniel Wight papers, 1837-1919

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains early administrative and financial records for the First Congregational Church in Natick. The collection contains administrative records and meeting minutes, financial records and ledgers, church membership records, baptismal records, marriage records, records of deaths, sermons produced by Benjamin Caryl, church correspondence, a list of prohibition supporters, and a history of the Sabbath school in Natick.

Dates: 1837-1919

Financial records, 1861-1866

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains early administrative and financial records for the First Congregational Church in Natick. The collection contains administrative records and meeting minutes, financial records and ledgers, church membership records, baptismal records, marriage records, records of deaths, sermons produced by Benjamin Caryl, church correspondence, a list of prohibition supporters, and a history of the Sabbath school in Natick.

Dates: 1861-1866

Typewritten excerpt from "The old Indian chronicle", 1867

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

This typewritten excerpt contains the text of pages 88 through 96 from "The old Indian chronicle", a work by Samuel G. Grace.

Dates: 1867

Prohibition supporters, 1892

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains early administrative and financial records for the First Congregational Church in Natick. The collection contains administrative records and meeting minutes, financial records and ledgers, church membership records, baptismal records, marriage records, records of deaths, sermons produced by Benjamin Caryl, church correspondence, a list of prohibition supporters, and a history of the Sabbath school in Natick.

Dates: 1892