Records, 1668-1705.

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Records, 1668-1705.

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Typed transcript of deacons' records, 1688-1705. Contains records of offerings of cash and goods to the church, disbursements for the sacrament and other church expenses, and contributions to the poor. Includes lists of people taken into the church, and some notes on baptisms and deaths of members. Ministers during this period were Nathaniel Gookin and William Brattle.

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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First Church (Cambridge, Mass.)

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The First Church was formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1633, but in 1636 the minister and most of the members removed to Hartford, Conn. In 1829 the First Parish or First Church (Congregational) in Cambridge split into factions of Unitarian and Trinitarian persuasion. The latter, with the pastor Abiel Holmes, separated to form the Shepard Congregational Society, and continued subsequently under the name of the First Church. The Unitarians continued to be known as the First Parish, though cla...

Brattle, William, 1662-1717

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Standard text at Harvard until the 1770s. From the description of Compendium logicae secundum principia D. Renati Des:cartes catechisticeĢ propositum / per Dom. Brattle, in usum pupillorum ; A compendium of logick according to the modern phylosophers extracted from Le-grand and others their systems / by Mr. Brattle, in usum pupillorum : manuscript, 1707. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612843242 Brattle (A. B. 1680) was a Boston minister. From the descr...

Gookin, Nathaniel, d. 1692.

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