First Union Baptist Church of Christ at Farmerville records

Collection — microfilm reel: 1

Identifier: 6068

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

The collection contains one volume of Covenant meeting minutes (1819-1894), which contains membership lists for 1819 and 1830, one volume of trustee's records (1825-1899) which contains an account of the church's incorporation in 1824 and annual meeting minutes, The American Baptist Magazine, Vol. Ill no. 4 (July 1821) and Vol. IV no. 5, (Sept. 1823), and "Minutes of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Seneca Baptist Association" in 1848.

Dates

1819-1899.

Creator

First Union Baptist Church of Christ at Farmerville (Interlaken, N.Y.) (Organization)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

This church was organized as the Baptist Church of Farmer Village on November 22, 1819 with Elder John Lewis as the pastor. A house of worship costing $3,000 was built in 1823. In 1828 a disagreement among members caused some to leave and join the Dutch Reformed Church at Farmerville. This rift was repaired in 1830 and the church called itself the Union Baptist Church thereafter, to signify the union of the two groups. Revivals led to rapid growth in the church's membership prior to the Civil War, and a new church, costing $8,000 was built in 1861. An unauthenticated source says that Captain Winfield Scott recruited 130 men from the church's Sunday School to serve in the Civil War and that their band played at Harper's Ferry and at Appomatox. The church was a member of the Seneca Association.

Extent

2 microfilm reels. (2 microfilm reels.)

Additional Description

Abstract

One volume of covenant meeting minutes (1819-1894); one volume of annual meeting to elect trustees minutes (1825-1899); issues of the American Baptist Magazine and Missionary Intelligencer (Volume IV, no. 5; Volume III, no. 4); and minutes of the twentieth-seventh annual meeting of the Seneca Baptist Association (1848). Covenant meeting minutes document a split in 1828, accounts of revivals, church discipline and doctrine.

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:: Aug. 1979
EAD encoding:: Andrea Hektor, Aug. 2004
Date modified:: Marcie Farwell, February 2015