Collection Name: Amherst Congregational Church Records
Title: Records of the Congregational Church, Amherst, New Hampshire. Volume III, 1852-1896
Creator: Amherst Congregational Church
Accession / Call Number: 102696
Object ID: 09.005.001.017
Date: 1852-1896
Type of Material: textual record
Physical Description: 1 volume
Language: English
Scope and Content: The Records of the Congregational Church, Amherst, New Hampshire contains church records for the years 1852 to 1896. The majority of the pages cover meeting decisions and meeting votes. This includes minutes for the annual meeting as well as some copies of letters. Meeting decisions and minutes are annotated in the margins. There are also some newspaper clippings, most of which are abstracts of treasurer's reports. The volume also holds the Ecclesiastical Rules, marriage records, baptism records, church member lists, death records, and dismissals. The death records include the date of death, name of the deceased, the cause of death, and the deceased's age. The back of the volume includes a list of contributors of the organ repairs in 1873 and the meeting house repairs in 1880.
Subjects:
Church history,
Church history New Hampshire,
Church records and registers,
Genealogy,
Baptism and church membership,
Marraige records
Locations: Amherst, NH
Terms of Use: For permission to reproduce or publish material from this collection, please contact the New Hampshire Historical Society. Researchers are responsible for following all copyright and intellectual property laws.
Credit Line: Gift of the Amherst Congregational Church in 2003.
Digitization supported by William P. and Tracy W. Veillette.
Restrictions: Available for research.
Level Description: Item