First Parish in Concord records, 1695-1985.

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First Parish in Concord records, 1695-1985.

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Transcribed records, 1739-1857 (acts, votes, admissions, membership, baptisms, deaths, councils, excommunications, funds, ordinations, pastors, persons owning covenant); annual meeting warrants, 1892-1901; annual reports, 1856-1985; marriage records, 1778-1894; death records, 1778-1857; Sunday school. (Cont.) records, 1827-1901 (minutes, reports, catalog of books, financial records, notes & questions by Sunday school teacher Ellen Tucker Emerson); membership lists, correspondence relating to membership (e.g. Thoreau 1841 sign-off & Emerson 1865 letter reaffirming membership); profession of faith, covenants; records of ministry (reports on councils. (Cont.) sermon on death of Daniel Bliss, minutes & correspondence relating to selection of pastors, subscription lists); 1855 records of separation of church from town government; records of Society Auxiliary to the American Unitarian Association (1832-1841; constitution, minutes, membership lists, treasurer's reports) & Women's Parish Association (1881-1910, with annotations to 1941; constitution, membership list, reports & minutes, lists of officers & committees). (Cont.) 1791-1937 records of church property (deeds, leases, building specifications), to use of church facilities, to sale of pews; financial records, 1695-1938 (1695 order by Town Clerk for payment to Rev. Edward Bulkley of half-year's salary, funds, valuations of estates for determination of Parish Tax, invoices, receipts, etc.).

8.75 linear ft.

Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Emerson, Ellen Tucker, 1839-1909

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Second child and elder daughter of philosopher, essayist, poet, and lecturer Ralph Waldo Emerson and his wife Lidian (Lydia Jackson) Emerson, Ellen Tucker Emerson (1839-1909) was a resident of Concord, Massachusetts. She was born at Bush (the Emerson home on the Cambridge Turnpike) and named for her father’s first wife. She attended Elizabeth Sedgwick’s school for girls in Lenox, Massachusetts, the Agassiz School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Frank Sanborn’s school in Concord. Never marri...

First Parish in Concord (Concord, Mass.)

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The Church of Christ at Concord was organized in 1635 and after the American Revolution reorganized as First Parish in Concord. This church was originally Congregregational but became a Unitarian-Universalist church in 1996. From the description of Church records : manuscript, 1738-1857. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612750661 Church of Christ at Concord organized in 1635; after the American Revolution reorganized as First Parish in Concord; originally Congregreg...