Baptist Church of Meads Creek records
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
This collection contains two covenant meeting minute books (1837-1843, and item 1850-1857). Both include erratic (and often undated) entries that appear to be from the 1860's through 1890's. The first book is paginated through page 113, and the second has few page numbers.
Dates
- 1837-1857.
Creator
- Baptist Church of Mead\'s Creek (Monterey, N.Y.) (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY
The Mead's Creek Baptist Church formed in Monterey village, Orange township, on July 15, 1837, as an off-shoot of the Baptist Church of Hornby(see Record #6074), at a conference of local Baptist churches including those of Hornby, Catlin, Campbell, Jersey, Bath, Dix, Orange and Reading. The Mead Creek's church adopted the Articles of Faith of the Hornby Baptist Church, and at a Council of Baptist churches (including those above plus others) convened on August 26, 1840, it was declared an independent church. A Covenant and Declaration of Faith were adopted, and the church's goverance structure was altered slightly. Funds for preaching services were raised by a Home Missionary Society (established June 19, 1841) subscriptions by "Equality," and grants from the Steuben Baptist Association. Membership fluctuated between 100 to 60 members during the 13 years covered in this collection.
Extent
1 microfilm reels. (1 microfilm reels.)
Abstract
Two volumes conference, covenant, and special meeting minutes which record church membership, discipline, elections, appointments and finances.
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:
- P.W.
- Date completed:
- July 1979
- EAD encoding:
- Andrea Hektor, Aug. 2004
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, February 2015
- Baptists -- New York (State) -- Monterey.
- Church discipline.
- Church records and registers -- New York (State) -- Monterey.
- Home Missionary Society of Mead\'s Creek (Monterey, N.Y.)
- Minutes (administrative records)
- Monterey (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
- Schuyler County (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
- Steuben Baptist Association (N.Y.)
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by P.W.
- Date
- August 10, 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