Box LOB 2
Container
Contains 4 Collections and/or Records:
Records of the First Congregational Church and Daughter Churches of Windham
Collection — Box: LOB 2
Identifier: MSS 2020.0013
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises three books containing primarily minutes of the meetings of Trustees of what was initially a single Congregational Meeting located along the Batavia Kill in the vicinity of Pleasant Valley. This Meeting, which drew congregants from the modern Townships of Windham, Ashland, and Jewett, persisited from roughly 1803 for about a decade when the old Meeting began to fracture into individual Presbyterian Churches. It is from this original Congregational Meeting that the...
Records of the First Congregational Church Of Windham [Volume 1A], 1803-03-21 - 1826-04-03
Item — Box: LOB 2
Identifier: MV 486
Scope and Contents
This book, labeled as Volume 1A of the Congregational Church of Windham's Records, commences with the Articles of Faith adopted by the congregants upon their formal organization in 1803. It is followed by a roster of the names of those congregants who assented to the adoption of those articles of faith - being listed in two columns as Male and Female members rather than by family groups. This was witnessed by Pastor Beriah Hotchkin of the "Church at Greenfield" and Pastor Samuel Fuller of the...
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...
Records of the First Presbyterian Church Of Windham, Subsequently of Ashland [Volume 2], 1826-12-19 - 1896-04-10
Item — Box: LOB 2
Identifier: MV 516
Scope and Contents
This volume, identified as "Volume II" of the Records of the First Congregational Church in Windham" is more accurately the second volume of sacred records of the Presbyterian Church in Windham which at the commencement of the volume was still gathering at the old Meeting House in Pleasant Valley. The volume begins with a copy of the text of the Articles of Faith outlined originally in Volume 1A [MV 486] and includes a transcription of the names of those congregants who first adopted the...