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...

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...