Methodist Episcopal Church of Corning records
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Item 1 contains records of the Painted Post Circuit Quarterly Conference Meeting (1832-1839, Parts A,D) and the Painted Post Church (Part C, 1832-33); records of the leader's minutes for the Coming Circuit (Part B, 1841-44); Quarterly Conference minutes for the Corning Circuit (Part E, 1839-1846) and Quarterly Conference meeting minutes for the Methodist Episcopal Church of Corning (Part F, December 1847-1867). The collection also includes Class No. 1's class leader's records (1839-1844); Trustee's annual meeting minutes (1857-1897); and a register listing the history of, statistics about and a subscription list for the church built in 1861; marriage, probationer's records, and class and membership lists. Subjects discussed include slavery, temperance, a missionary society, revivals and church discipline.
(Note: Sections of this book were in different parts of the volume -right-side up, upside-down, back to front and vice versa.)
Dates
- 1832-1897.
Creator
- Methodist Episcopal Church of Corning (Corning, N.Y.) (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY
In 1832 Painted Post was set off as a separate circuit containing (as of 1837) Little Flatts, Painted Post, "Addison Village", West Addison, Erwin Centre, Campbell and Tioga. In 1833 a class formed at Caton, which was set off with Corning in November 1839. Another division occurred in 1843 when Erwin, Painted Post and Campbell formed a circuit named after the latter two towns. In 1861-62, the Methodist Episcopal Church of Corning built a church which seated 700.
Extent
1 microfilm reels. (1 microfilm reels.)
Abstract
Records of the Painted Post Circuit quarterly conference meeting (1832-1839) and the Painted Post Church (1832-1833); records of the leader's minutes for the Corning circuit, and quarterly conference meeting minutes for the Methodist Episcopal Church of Corning. Also Class Number One's class leader's records (1839-1844), Trustee's annual meeting minutes (1857-1897) and a register listing the history of, statistics about and a subscription list for the church built in 1861; marriage, probationer's, membership and class lists. Subjects discussed include slavery, temperance, a missionary society, revivals and church discipline.
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:
- Sept. 1979
- EAD encoding:
- Andrea Hektor, Aug. 2004
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, February 2015
- Antislavery movements.
- Church discipline.
- Church records and registers -- New York (State) -- Corning.
- Church records and registers -- New York (State) -- Painted Post.
- Corning (N.Y. -- Religious life and customs.
- Methodist Episcopal Church -- New York (State) -- Corning.
- Methodist Episcopal Church -- New York (State) -- Painted Post.
- Minutes.
- Painted Post (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
- Steuben County (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
- Temperance and religion -- New York (State) -- Corning.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by S.L.
- 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