Title: Records R.D.C. (applied label: 1853-1881 ), 1853-1881

Item — Box: 1

Identifier: Item 4

Scope and Contents

Description: Leather bound record book, 9" x 13", handwritten in ink.

Contents: Chronological record of meetings of Consistory; Board of Elders; Minister, Elders and Deacons; Male Members of Church; Members of Church; Trustees (after 1873); Church Council. Included are annual reports, treasurer's reports, membership statistics, lists of pewholders, letters of dismission, members received, baptisms, etc. Also included are copies of important letters, reports of installation of pastors, Resolution of Withdrawal from Reformed Dutch Church (Dec. 23, 1872), establishment of Board of Trustees (Feb. 19, 1873), Articles of Faith, adopted Oct. 1, 1874, Constitution of First Church of Christ - Congregational of Ithaca, N.Y. adopted Mar. 1880. (First meeting Dec. 30, 1853, last meeting Oct. 25, 1893.) [Baptisms appear in minutes.]

Notes:

There is a time gap between meeting reports of Mar. 7, 1870 and Dec. 23, 1872.

Several pages cut out in Church Council report of Dec. 18, 1874, continuity of report is continued in darker ink. Two pages cut out between June 28, 1881 and June 29, 1881, no apparent lack of continuity.