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Medfield, Mass. First Parish Unitarian Church records, 1697-1970.

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Identifier: RG5309
Abstract The First Parish Church was founded in 1751 shortly after the incorporation of the town of Medfield. Rev. John Wilson was the first pastor. A second meeting house was constructed in 1706. The third and current meetinghouse was built in 1789. In 1813 the town and the parish were legally separated with members of the church incorporated as The First Parish. In 1827 a group of members of the First Parish petitioned for permission to withdraw from the First Parish, which was becoming...
Dates: 1697-1970

Medway, Mass. First Church of Christ records, 1730-1876.

 Collection
Identifier: RG0927
Abstract Originally named Boggastow in Nipmuck Territory, then part of Medfield, Medway was settled in 1657 when an increasing number of colonists settled the land west of the Charles River. Medway was incorporated on October 25, 1713 and the decision to immediately build its own church was made at town meeting on November 23, 1713. The Church of Christ, later known as First Church of Christ, was organized on October 7, 1714. The section known as East Medway separated in 1885 to form the town of...
Dates: 1730-1876

Middleboro, Mass. First Church of Middleboro records, 1702-1925.

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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

Nathanael Emmons papers, 1809. : [manuscript]

 Collection
Identifier: MS0863.b
Dates: 1809

Nathaniel Hancock papers, 1720-1727. : [manuscript]

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Identifier: MS0088
Dates: 1720-1727

Natick, Mass. First Congregational Church records, 1721-1920.

 Collection
Identifier: RG4839
Abstract First Congregational Church of Natick, Massachusetts, was established in 1651 by a group of English settlers and missionaries under the leadership of Rev. John Elliot. The church became home to many local Native Americans, also known as “Praying Indians,” and was the location of the writing of the “Eliot Bible:” a bible translated into phonetic Algonquian. This collection contains records of church covenants, meeting minutes, baptismal records, lists of deaths, disciplinary records,...
Dates: 1721-1920

Ned Burr McKenny papers, 1966. : [manuscript]

 Collection
Identifier: MS4668
Dates: 1966

Newell Dwight Hillis papers, undated. : [manuscript]

 Collection
Identifier: MS2355
Dates: undated

North Andover, Mass. North Parish sermon notes, 1746-circa 1758. : [manuscript]

 Collection
Identifier: RG0144
Dates: 1746-1747, 1751-1755, circa 1758.

Pittsfield, Mass. First Church of Christ records, 1764-1864.

 Collection
Identifier: RG5411
Abstract The First Church of Christ in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, was first organized in February 1764. Thomas Allen was called to be the first minister of the church and he was ordained as pastor on April 18, 1764. Construction on the first meeting house was completed in 1770 and construction on the second meeting house was completed in 1793. Thomas Allen’s political beliefs resulted in a schism in 1809 which resulted in the formation of the Second Union Church. The churches reunited in 1818 under...
Dates: 1764-1864

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Old South Church (Boston, Mass.) 4
Andover Newton Theological School 2
Adams, Nehemiah, 1806-1878 1
Albro, John A. (John Adams), 1799-1866 1
Allen, Thomas, 1743-1810 1
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Andros, Thomas, 1759-1845 1
Appleton, Nathaniel, 1693-1784 1
Badger, Stephen, 1726-1803 1
Barnard, Edward, 1720-1774 1
Barnard, John 1
Baxter, Joseph, 1676-1745 1
Beloit College 1
Berkley (Mass.) 1
Bidwell, Adonijah, 1716-1784 1
Boles, Richard J. 1
Boynton, Henry. 1
Braman, Isaac, 1770-1858 1
Brattle, William, 1662-1717 1
Breck, Robert, 1682-1731 1
Bridgewater (Mass.) 1
Brockton (Mass.) 1
Bucklin, Sylvester F. (Sylvester Fuller), 1784-1860 1
Butler, Willis H. (Willis Howard), 1864-1943 1
Buttrick, Agnes Gardner, 1893-1990 1
Buttrick, George Arthur, 1892-1980 1
Cambridge (Mass.) 1
Centre Congregational Church (Haverhill, Mass.) 1
Chambers Street Church (Boston, Mass.) 1
Child, Virginia H. 1
Christ Congregational Church (Brockton, Mass.) 1
Clap, Thomas, 1705-1774 1
Clarke, Dorus 1
Cleaveland, John, 1749-1815 1
Collins, Earl 1
Conant, Sylvanus, 1720-1777 1
Congregational Church (Berkley, Mass.) 1
Congregational Church (Wendell, Mass.) 1
Congregational Church and Society of South Hadley Falls (South Hadley, Mass.) 1
Congregational Church in South Hadley Falls (South Hadley, Mass.) 1
Congregational Library (Boston, Mass.) 1
Conn, Howard (Howard James), 1911-2000 1
Conrad, Arcturus Z. (Arcturus Zodiac) 1
Cordley, Richard 1
Cotton, William 1
Crawford, James W. 1
Danforth, John, 1660-1730 1
Davenport, John, 1597-1670 1
Diener, Gloria, 1902-1970 1
Dorchester (Boston, Mass.) 1
Eckley, Joseph, 1750-1811 1
Eliot, John 1
Emmons, Nathanael 1
Farrar, Mary B. 1
Field, Levi A. (Levi Alpheus), 1821-1859 1
First Church (Berkley, Mass.) 1
First Church (Cambridge, Mass.) 1
First Church (Dorchester, Boston, Mass.) 1
First Church (Ipswich, Mass.) 1
First Church in Marlborough (Congregational) (Marlborough, Mass.) 1
First Church of Christ (Medway, Mass.) 1
First Church of Christ (Pittsfield, Mass.) 1
First Church of Christ (Wethersfield, Conn.) 1
First Congregational Church (Brimfield, Mass.) 1
First Congregational Church (Georgetown, Mass.) 1
First Congregational Church (Haverhill, Mass.) 1
First Congregational Church (Marlborough, Mass.) 1
First Congregational Church (Medfield, Mass.) 1
First Congregational Church (Middleboro, Mass.) 1
First Congregational Church (Natick, Mass.) 1
First Congregational Church (Southington, Conn.) 1
First Congregational Church (Stoneham, Mass.) 1
First Congregational Church (West Tisbury, Mass.) 1
First Congregational Church in South Hadley Falls (South Hadley, Mass.) 1
First Evangelical Congregational Society (Marlborough, Mass.) 1
First Parish Church (Haverhill, Mass.) 1
First Parish Congregational Church (Brockton, Mass.) 1
First Parish Unitarian Church (Medfield, Mass.) 1
Fourth Parish Church (Bridgewater, Mass.) 1
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 1
Free Church (Berkley, Mass.) 1
Fuller, Edward Crocker 1
Gardner, Agnes Annie, 1866-1957 1
Gardner, Dorothy Luther, 1904-1999 1
Gardner, Evelyn, 1897-1990 1
Gardner, John Ashworth, Rev., 1904-1990 1
Gardner, John, Rev., 1868-1954 1
Gardner-Remley, Anne 1
Georgetown (Mass.) 1
Glover, Annie Gardner, 1895-1934 1
Glover, Carl A., Rev., 1891-1958 1
Goodhue, John N. (John Northend), 1810-1839 1
Gordon, George A. (George Angier), 1853-1929 1
Great Britain. Stamp Act (1765) 1
Hancock, Nathaniel 1
Harrer, John A. 1
Haverhill (Mass.) 1
Herrick, Samuel E. (Samuel Edward), 1841-1904 1
Hilliard, Timothy, 1747-1790 1
Hillis, Newell Dwight 1
Holmes, Abiel, 1763-1837 1
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