Skip to main content

Reel 1

 Container

Contains 2 Results:

Account book, 1672-1735

 Item — Reel: 1
Scope and Contents

This volume contains a combination of church meeting minutes, primarily relating to financial matters, as well as records of members annual rates (taxes in support of the church), expenses for maintaining the church building, and ministerial salaries.

Dates: 1672-1735

Church records, 1689-1845

 Item — Reel: 1
Scope and Contents

The records in this volume include meeting minutes, confessions, covenants, correspondence, and membership records. Also found in this collection are records of births, deaths, marriages, and baptisms. Of particular note are records pertaining to the witchcraft hysteria, including records of Martha Kory's [sic] excommunication from the church for witchcraft, and the confession and apology of witchcraft accuser Anne Putnam, made 10 years after the controversy.

Dates: 1689-1845