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Church records and registers.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 399 Collections and/or Records:

Howard Conn papers, 1944-1986.

 Collection
Identifier: MS0058
Abstract Howard James Conn was born June 19, 1911 in Fresno California. He attended Fresno High School, followed by Fresno State College and Stanford University where he received is B.A. He studied philosophy at Harvard as a graduate student and then completed his B.D. at Yale University. He served as minister to a number of churches, with the majority of his time devoted to Plymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis, where he served as Senior Minister from 1944-1976. During his career he held...
Dates: 1944-1986

Hyde Park, Boston, Mass. Clarendon Congregational Church records, 1878-1960.

 Collection
Identifier: RG0102
Abstract

Clarendon Congregational Church was located in Hyde Park Boston, Massachusetts. The church was organized in 1880 and dissolved circa 1964. This collection houses administrative records including church records, meeting minutes, and scrapbooks from Clarendon Congregational Church.

Dates: 1878-1960

Hyde Park, Boston, Mass. First Congregational Church of Hyde Park records, 1860-2003.

 Collection
Identifier: RG4923
Abstract

The First Church of Hyde Park was established in 1860, incorporated in 1895, and closed in 2009. The original church building was constructed in 1865. Rev. George Owen gave the first sermon in the new church building in 1911 and new stained glass windows were added in 1917. This collection contains administrative records, membership information, photographs and scrapbooks, and church group records from 1860-2003 with the bulk of the records created between 1860-1930.

Dates: 1860-2003

Ipswich, Mass. First Church records, 1724-1898.

 Collection
Identifier: RG5288
Abstract Ipswich, Massachusetts, first known as Agawam, was settled by John Winthrop in 1633 and was incorporated the following year. The First Church in Ipswich was gathered on August 5, 1634, and the first meeting house was constructed the same year. Construction on the second meeting house was completed in 1647. In 1699 the third meeting house of the First Church was built on the north green. Members left to form new churches in 1681, 1714, 1747, and 1749. In 1749...
Dates: 1724-1898

Ipswich, Mass. South Church records, 1747-1868.

 Collection
Identifier: RG5298
Abstract The South Church in Ipswich, Massachusetts, was formally gathered in 1747 following ministerial angst between Ipswich's two ministers and a petition by parishioners in southern Ipswich who felt traveling to the First Church was too difficult. The first meeting house was completed in 1748 and construction on the second meeting house was completed in 1838. In 1922 the South Church rejoined the First Church to become the First and South Congregational Church. The South Church records document...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1747-1868

Isaac Watts and Mrs. Sewall correspondence, 1728.

 Collection
Identifier: MS0995
Abstract

Isaac Watts was born on July 17, 1674. Watts attended the Dissenting Academy in Stoke Newington due to his nonconformist beliefs. Watts was called to be a pastor at the independent chapel, Mark Lane Congregational Chapel, in London. Watts wrote many hundreds of hymns during his life, as well as works on theology and logic. He died on November 25, 1748. This collection contains a single letter written by Isaac Watts to a Mrs. Sewell on the occasion of the death of her infant.

Dates: 1728