Records of the First Society in the Town of Windham [Volume 1B], 1808-10-10 - 1851-10-21
Item — Box: LOB 2
Identifier: MV 487
Scope and Contents
This volume, Labeled Volume 1B of the Records of the First Congregational Church in Windham, is what would appear to be a subscription book of a secular nature supplemental to the sacred records of the Old Meeting House at Pleasant Valley described as Volume 1A [MV 486].
The volume, which contains a title on its opening leaves given as "Records of the First Society in the Town of Windham, etc." opens in 1808 with a subscription of those willing to pay annually to the society treasurer so that the gospel may be preached "half of the time at the Meeting House near Medad Hunt's and the other half of the time at the Meeting House on the Mountain" [The latter possibly in reference to Jewett Heights].
The subscribers so named following are known to have been founding families in the vicinity modern of Ashland, Jewett, and Windham, and testifies to the still-unified nature of the congregation prior to their division into separate Presbyterian Churches.
Following the initial subscription appears the minutes of the officers of the church as organized beginning in 1808 at "the Meeting House in Batavia" and these minutes are consistently recorded through October 1851, after which the remaining pages are blank.
The volume, which contains a title on its opening leaves given as "Records of the First Society in the Town of Windham, etc." opens in 1808 with a subscription of those willing to pay annually to the society treasurer so that the gospel may be preached "half of the time at the Meeting House near Medad Hunt's and the other half of the time at the Meeting House on the Mountain" [The latter possibly in reference to Jewett Heights].
The subscribers so named following are known to have been founding families in the vicinity modern of Ashland, Jewett, and Windham, and testifies to the still-unified nature of the congregation prior to their division into separate Presbyterian Churches.
Following the initial subscription appears the minutes of the officers of the church as organized beginning in 1808 at "the Meeting House in Batavia" and these minutes are consistently recorded through October 1851, after which the remaining pages are blank.
Dates
- 1808-10-10 - 1851-10-21
Extent
From the Collection: 3 Volumes (An oversize archival box containing three minutes books of various size.) : Handwritten pages in bound ledgers.
Repository Details
Part of the Vedder Research Library Repository