Records, 1643-1806.

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Records, 1643-1806.

Extracts from early town records related to the church (some gaps); together with church records (1805-1813), including vital statistics, articles of faith, and covenant (adopted 1806 Feb. 28).

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SNAC Resource ID: 8050180

Morris Brown College

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Fiske, John, 1601-1677

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Congregational Church (Wenham, Mass.)

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Town founded in 1643; church gathered 1644; the minister, John Fiske, went to Chelmsford with seven church members to form a church there, leaving an undetermined number of church members in Wenham; there is evidence of a reorganization in 1663. In 1833 the Congregational Parish and Society in Wenham was organized; this dissolved on the incorporation of the church in 1925; extant as First Church in Wenham Congregational (UCC) in 1996. From the description of Records, 1643-1806. (Amer...