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Records, 1724-1920.

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The records of the First Church span the period 1724 to 1920, but concentrate on the ministries of Rev. Austin and Rev. Goodrich, 1790 to 1820. The records include warrants of meetings; minutes of meetings (church, committee, ecclesiastical council); reports (committee, officers, assessors); baptisms, marriages, and deaths; lists of church admissions, members, and members who have transferred from other churches; letters of recommendations for people seeking membership; complaints and confessions; pew deeds and valuations, tax assessments, a seating chart, and oaths of parish tax collectors; and business records (receipts, bills, accounts). There are also records of the Church Singers. The collection also contains correspondence, including record books of communication between First Church and the First Church of Christ in Millbury, Mass., as well as letters of members requesting dismissal. There is correspondence to the Ecclesiastical Council concerning the dismissals of Rev. Burr, Rev. Austin, and Rev. Goodrich. There is much in the collection regarding the controversy of the dismissal of Daniel Waldo (1763-1845) and other church members. There are legal notes, c. 1886, of Franklin Pierce Rice (1852-1919) regarding the trial for damages in removal of the church building from the Worcester Common. There are notes and drafts for a history, c. 1821, of the events leading to the dismissal of Rev. Goodrich. The collection also contains records of the Old South Church Ladies' Foreign Missionary Association, the Old South Band of Hope, and the Tabernacle Congregational Church.

66 v. ; octavo.15 v. ; folio.3 boxes.1 box ; oversize.

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First Church (Worcester, Mass.)

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The First Church of Worcester, Mass., was organized in 1716. The first meetinghouse was erected in 1719, and the Rev. Andrew Gardner (1691-1773) was installed as the first minister. After 1854, it was more commonly referred to as the Old South Church, though never incorporated with that name. The church was incorporated as the First Church, Old South in 1908 and was called that until 1965 when it merged with the Tatnuck Congregational Church to form the First Congregational Church i...

Ladies Foreign Missionary Association.

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Tabernacle Congregational Church (Worcester, Mass.)

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Stratton, Royal B., -1875

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First Congregational Church (Millbury, Mass.)

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Austin, Samuel, 1760-1830

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Samuel Austin (1760-1830), Congregational minister, was graduated from Yale College in 1783 and was a New-Light disciple of Jonathan Edwards. He first preached at the Fair Haven Church in New Haven, Conn., from 1786 to 1790; from 1790 until his dissociation in 1818, Austin served as minister at the First Congregational Church in Worcester, Mass. From 1815 to 1821, he was president of the University of Vermont, following which he assumed the pulpit of the First Congregational Church in Newport, R...

Burr, Isaac, 1697-1751.

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Miller, Rodney A. (Rodney Augustus), 1798-1876

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First Church, Old South (Worcester, Mass.)

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First Congregational Church (Worcester, Mass.)

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Rice, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce), 1852-1919

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U.S. representative from Massachusetts, editor, and educator. From the description of The life of Eli Thayer : typescript, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71132235 Franklin Pierce Rice (1852-1919), an historian and author of Worcester, Mass., was a founder of the Worcester Society of Antiquity. From the description of Drafts and notes, 1854-1912. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612372694 ...

James, Horace, 1818-1875

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Horace James (1818-1875) was born in Medford, Mass. He graduated from Yale in 1840, and was installed as pastor of the Old South Church in Worcester, Mass., in 1853. From 1861 to 1864, he was chaplain of the 25th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers. In 1864, he was appointed a superintendent of freedmen in North Carolina. James returned to Massachusetts as pastor of a church in Lowell and as an associate editor of the _Congregationalist_. From the description of Correspondence, 1852...

Waldo, Daniel, 1763-1845

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Daniel Waldo (1763-1845). From the description of Account books, 1815-1841. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 191276976 ...

Smith, George Phillips, 1814-1852

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Old South Band of Hope

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Hull, Araetius B. (Araetius Bevil), 1788-1826

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Goodrich, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1790-1862

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American clergyman. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Hartford and New York, to Harper & Brothers, 1854 July 13-18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269589341 ...

Maccarty, Thaddeus, 1721-1784

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