First Baptist Church of Seneca Falls records
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Articles of faith, church covenant and minutes of regular and special church meetings, dealing with church finances, abolition, temperance, and religious discipline. Also three unrelated items: a sermon entitled "The hard-shell Baptists" (n.d.) satirizing that type of group; "The Baptist church manual" (1853); and "The Sunday School receiving book" (1838-1850) which lists pupils, dates of entry, parents' names, occupations and characters, residences, classes and remarks.
Dates
- 1827-1883.
Creator
- First Baptist Church of Seneca Falls (Seneca Falls, N.Y.) (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY
Records of the First Baptist Society predating the church organization have not been located. Gaps exist in the church records from March to October 1844, thus omitting references to the schism which tore the church apart when the minister began to preach second adventism, and between volume I and volume II (February 24, 1850-July 31, 1853). Issues of central importance to this congregation were church finances, slavery, temperance, and church discipline. Members who enrolled during meetings are listed, but little else is mentioned about the revivals.
Extent
2 microfilm reels. (2 microfilm reels.)
Abstract
Articles of faith, church covenant and minutes of regular and special church meetings, dealing with church finances, abolition, temperance, and religious discipline. Also three unrelated items: a sermon entitled "The hard-shell Baptists" (n.d.) satirizing that type of group; "The Baptist church manual" (1853); and "The Sunday School receiving book" (1838-1850) which lists pupils, dates of entry, parents' names, occupations and characters, residences, classes and remarks.
Physical Description
Microfilm.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- S.L.
- Date completed:
- Mar. 1979
- EAD encoding:
- Andrea Hektor, June 2004
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, February 2015
- Antislavery movements.
- Baptists -- Creeds.
- Baptists -- Education.
- Baptists -- New York (State) -- Seneca Falls.
- Baptists -- Sermons.
- Church discipline.
- Church records and registers -- New York (State) -- Seneca Falls.
- Churches, Baptist.
- Minutes.
- Seneca County (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
- Seneca Falls (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
- Sermons.
- Sunday schools -- New York (State) -- Seneca Falls.
- Sunday schools -- Records.
- Temperance and religion -- New York (State) -- Seneca Falls.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by S.L.
- Date
- June 2004
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu