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This volume includes meeting minutes, notes of hand in the treasury, warrants issued to Parish collectors, responses of Parish collectors, prudential committee meeting minutes and reports, and reports to the auditors of the treasury. On page 39, there is a report of Joseph Williams Junior selling a pew to Samuel How.

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This volume includes meeting minutes, accounts for the sale of meeting house pews, committee orders to treasurers, committee warrants to collectors, and Union Society meeting minutes.

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This folder contains loose leaf records including handwritten copies of First Parish records, a handwritten copy of the petition to incorporate First Parish and the First Evangelical Congregational Society as the Union Society, warrants for Parish meetings, a list of Parish officers, a copy of the act of incorporation, records related to the division of church property between East and West Parishes, copies of Parish committee reports, and collectors’ and treasurers’ bonds.

Scope and Contents This folder contains five handwritten sermon pamphlets. The first sermon was preached by the Rev. Prentice on the occasion of the "indisposition" of the Rev. Robert Breck, who was the minister at Marlsborough in 1730, and draws upon a portion of Matthew 4:24. The second sermon was preached about 1 John 3:9 and also includes a list of dates and locations for where the sermon was preached. The third sermon does not appear to cite a bible verse. The fourth sermon was based on Joshua 24:15 and...

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This folder contains two versions of the Marlborough Church Covenant and a copy of the Baptismal Covenant. Also included is a record of votes held at a church meeting regarding the pay of Abraham Williams.

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This folder contains the minutes of an Ecclesiastical Council convened following the death of Rev. Aaron Smith, photographs of his grave and a transcription of the inscription on the tombstone, and two newspaper clippings: the first about Smith's house and the second about the Old Wayland Cemetery.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains 5 volumes of records for the First Church including meeting minutes and membership records. This series also 8 folders of records including sermon pamphlets, weekly sermon records, early church covenants, building, repair, expansion records for the meeting house, written histories of the church, financial records, and pew sale records.

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This folder contains the records of several council meetings which were called by Rev. Asa Packard in 1805 and 1806 in response to a split in the First Church which resulted in the building of two meeting houses. Also included in the folder are photographs of his and his wife's graves as well as transcriptions of the inscriptions. There is also a newspaper clipping from 1972 about Packard and his home.

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This folder of church records includes a communication with Peter Wood, the clerk, a record of a vote to form a committee regarding the choice of Timothy Davis for "Gospel Minister", a note regarding the collection of church taxes, and a letter from the "Easterly part, or branch, of the Church of Christ in Marlborough" calling for a town meeting to settle Timothy Davis.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains 5 volumes of records for the First Church including meeting minutes and membership records. This series also 8 folders of records including sermon pamphlets, weekly sermon records, early church covenants, building, repair, expansion records for the meeting house, written histories of the church, financial records, and pew sale records.