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First Congregational Church of Amherst Collection, 1735-2012
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circa 1900.
First Congregational Church of Amherst Collection
Abstract
This collection documents over 250 years in the life of the First Congregational Church of Amherst. Materials include church records, meeting records, financial materials, hymnbooks, newspaper clippings and photographs, and convey the relationship and importance the church has had in the lives of its members and the history of Amherst.Historical Note
The First Congregational Church of Amherst was founded in 1739 as the Church of Christ in Hadley Third Precinct as an extension of the town of Hadley, MA when citizens began to move further east in pursuit of more land. These citizens wanted to build a meetinghouse that was closer to their homes. The first meetinghouse for the church was built in 1743. The meetinghouse was constructed where the Amherst College Octagon now stands. David Parsons was appointed the first minister.Eventually the citizens wanted the church and their homes to be recognized as a separate town from Hadley, MA. By 1759, Amherst, MA was considered separate from Hadley, but did not receive representation in the Massachusetts legislature. The full status of being a town was achieved in 1770. In 1783, the church changed its name and was incorporated as the First Parish in Amherst, and a new meetinghouse was built in the same location as the original, located where the Amherst College Octagon is currently located. It was at this time of incorporation that some members of the church began to split from the original church. They formed the Second Church in Amherst. Due to this split, many people referred to the First Parish, as the First Church in relation to the Second Church. In 1829 a third meetinghouse was built, this time where College Hall of Amherst College is now located. In 1868, the First Parish built another new meetinghouse, this time located on Main Street, where the current church building is located.
The First Parish did eventually change names and became incorporated as the First Congregational Church of Amherst in 1904.
Scope and Contents
This collection documents 250 years in the life of the First Congregational Church of Amherst. The records held in the collection start from when the church was called the Church of Christ in Hadley Third Precinct, through the incorporation as the First Parish in Amherst, and past the incorporation as the First Congregational Church of Amherst. Materials include church records, meeting records, financial materials, hymnbooks, newspaper clippings and photographs.The collection conveys the relationship and importance the church had in the lives of its members and the citizens of Amherst, MA, the church’s role in the establishing of Amherst in the 1730’s, and in the full recognition of Amherst as a town in the 1770’s.
Provenance
The materials in the First Congregational Church of Amherst Collection were donated to the Jones Library by several sources. Miss Katherine Cowles and the Amherst Town Hall donated a significant amount of the materials, while other materials were donated with the Boltwood Collection. This is an active collection, and new material may be added at any time.Related Materials
For material relating to the ministers of First Congregational held in the Manuscript Collection (especially Rev. David Parsons, Jr.), please check the card catalog in the Reading Room.A copy of 250 Years at First Church in Amherst, 1739-1989 is located in the Amherst section in the Special Collections Reading Room.
Published works by Rev. Oliver Huckel are located in the Amherst Authors section and are searchable through the library's online catalog.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into nine series:Series 1: Church Records (1735-1941)
This series includes articles of faith, church bylaws, church record books, and legal cases between the church and its members.
Series 2: Financial Records (1784-1956)
This series makes up the bulk of the collection. It contains account books, annual reports, budgets, debt lists, bills and receipts, tax valuations, tax abatements, tax collections, credit bills, refunds, and record books kept by the treasurer and collector.
Series 3: Memberships and Vital Records (1787-1938)
Contains membership lists (loose and bound), membership certificates, statements of withdrawals, and meeting records.
Series 4: Meetinghouse (1785-2012)
Contains records pertaining to church meetings and the construction of the meetinghouses, including pew deeds.
Series 5: Ministers (1737-1984)
Contains materials on specific ministers and materials collected on the ministers in general.
Series 6: Church Clubs and Organizations (1826-1961)
This series contains information from a variety of First Church clubs and organizations.
Series 7: Church Publications (1834-1996)
This series contains church newsletters, directories, calendars and other materials published by the First Church.
Series 8: Subject Files (1791-1989)
Contains news clippings, church histories, celebrations, music and hymns, and some correspondence.
Series 9: Photographs and Drawings (circa 1740-1900)
Contains photographs of the First Congregational Church’s exterior and interior, members of the church, and portraits of ministers.
Collection Inventory
Series 1: Church Records (1735-1941)
Box | Title/Description | Date |
---|---|---|
1 | Admission of Members |
Undated |
1 | Articles of Faith, bound The articles of faith and government of the First Church in Amherst adopted on February 13, 1834. |
1834-1923 |
1 | Bylaws Amendments and explanations of church bylaws. |
1856 |
1 | Bylaws | 1904, 1941 |
1 | Covenant | Undated |
1 | Document Wrappers Scraps of labeled paper (mostly folded; some with sealing wax) that were used to organize the First Church documents (bills and receipts etc.). |
1800-1860 |
1 | First Church – Second Church Relationship |
1788, 1819 |
1 | Legal Cases – Boltwood, Samuel – Legal Case |
1790 |
1 | Legal Cases – Church, Giles |
1796 |
1 | Meeting Minutes and Votes |
1783-1895 |
1 | Memoranda of Votes, bound |
1786-1789 |
1 | Memoranda of Votes |
1790-1799 |
1 | Memoranda of Votes |
1800-1809 |
1 | Memoranda of Votes |
1810-1819 |
1 | Memoranda of Votes |
1820-1833 |
1 | Parsonage – Meetings and Deeds |
1826-1862 |
1 | Parsonage – Proprietor’s Records |
1854-1861 |
2 | Pew Deeds Includes mortgage deeds and records of the selling of personal property. |
1834-1846 |
2 | Prudential Committee Reports |
1871-1882 |
2 | Prudential Committee Reports, bound Bound book and photocopied duplicates. |
1903-1906, 1907-1924 |
2 | Record Book, bound Book of church records including births and communions. |
1735-1819 |
2 | Record Book, bound Book including records of members, minutes, meetinghouse, and the ministers. |
1783-1840 |
3 | Record Book, bound Book including records of members, baptisms, marriages, deaths, Articles of Faith, and ministers. |
1820-1855 |
3 | Record Book, bound Bound book including records of officers, members, meetinghouse, and ministers. |
1840-1881 |
3 | Record Book, bound Bound book including records of ministers, minutes, and meetinghouse. |
1854-1890 |
4 | Record Book, bound Bound book including records of Prudential Committee meetings, members, and ministers. |
1891-1938 |
4 | Records of Baptism, bound |
1739-1843 |
4 | Record of Members Bound book listing church members, pastors, and deacons. |
1739-1920 |
5 | Taxes – Officials – Oaths |
1792-1861 |
5 | Taxes – Officials – Summons Summons to specific men to “qualify for office” as assessors and collectors of the First Parish. |
1791-1807 |
5 | Votes The unanimous decision to authorize George Cutler, Jr., C. R. Elder, C. L. Nims, and H. T. Cowles to convey all real and personal estate of the parish. |
1905 |
5 | Votes – Church Union |
1819 |
5 | Warrants Notice of meetings and listing of articles to be voted on. |
1868-1891 |
5 | Warrants for Meetings |
1784-1799 |
5 | Warrants for Meetings |
1787-1788 |
5 | Warrants for Meetings |
1789-1792 |
5 | Warrants for Meetings |
1800-1810 |
5 | Warrants for Meetings |
1811-1850 |
5 | Warrants for Meetings | 1816-1819 |
5 | Warrants for Meetings |
1820-1829 |
5 | Warrants for Meetings |
1829-1833 |
5 | Warrants for Meetings |
1834-1837 |
5 | Warrants for Meetings |
1851-1905 |
5 | Warrants for Meetings |
1905 |
Series 2: Financial Records (1784-1956)
Box | Title/Description | Date |
---|---|---|
6 | Account Book, bound | 1833-1852 |
6 | Annual Budget Comparisons | 1906-1939 |
6 | Annual Reports | 1826-1947 |
6 | Assessor’s Book | 1864-1867 |
6 | Assessor’s Correspondence | 1864-1867 |
6 | Assessors Reports | 1883-1893 |
6 | Bank Loan Receipts | 1869-1874 |
6 | Bills and Receipts | Circa 1780s |
6 | Bills and Receipts | Circa 1790s |
6 | Bills and Receipts | 1791-1799 |
6 | Bills and Receipts (fragments) | 1793-1820 |
6 | Bills and Receipts | 1802-1809 |
6 | Bills and Receipts | 1811-1819 |
6 | Bills and Receipts | Circa 1820s |
6 | Bills and Receipts | 1828-1829 |
6 | Bills and Receipts | 1830-1831 |
6 | Bills and Receipts | 1832-1833 |
6 | Bills and Receipts | 1834-1835 |
6 | Bills and Receipts | 1834-1838 |
7 | Bills and Receipts | 1836-1837 |
7 | Bills and Receipts | 1838-1839 |
7 | Bills and Receipts | 1840-1841 |
7 | Bills and Receipts | 1842-1843 |
7 | Bills and Receipts | 1844-1849 |
7 | Bills and Receipts | Circa 1850s |
7 | Bills and Receipts | 1860s-1870s |
7 | Bills and Receipts | 1871 |
7 | Bills and Receipts | 1872 |
7 | Bills and Receipts | 1873 |
7 | Bills and Receipts | 1874 |
7 | Bills and Receipts | 1875 |
7 | Bills and Receipts | 1889 |
7 | Bills and Receipts | 1910 |
7 | Bills and Receipts | Undated |
7 | Bills and Receipts – Councils For providing food, drink (including alcohol) and other material goods to councils convened to dismiss or call ministers. | 1819-1840 |
7 | Budget | 1892-1950 |
7 | Checks and Vouchers | 1856-1878 |
7 | Checks and Vouchers | 1877-1881 |
7 | Checks and Vouchers | 1879-1880 |
7 | Checks and Vouchers | 1882-1883 |
7 | Clerk’s Office Bills | 1795-1814 |
7 | Collectors Annual Reports | 1877-1893 |
7 | Credit Bills | 1786-1789 |
7 | Orders for Payment | 1873-1875 |
7 | Parish Committee | 1850-1882 |
7 | Parish Committee, bound | 1870-1878 |
7 | Reports | 1892-1956 |
7 | Sinking Fund Reports about the fund created in 1869 to liquidate the church debt. | 1870, 1874 |
8 | Subscription Lists | 1832, 1834 |
8 | Subscription Lists | 1834-1870 |
8 | Subscription Lists – Meetinghouse Subscription lists to pay off debt incurred by the church creation of Sinking Fund to pay off debt incurred by construction of fourth meetinghouse (on Main Street). | 1869-1889 |
8 | Tax Abatements | 1785-1812 |
8 | Tax Abatements | 1813-1829 |
8 | Tax Abatements | 1830-1859 |
8 | Tax Lists | 1787 |
8 | Tax Lists | 1805 |
8 | Tax Warrants | 1801 |
8 | Taxes – Assessors and Collectors – Bills Bills for collecting taxes and “making rates”. | 1785-1814 |
8 | Taxes – Assessors and Collectors – Bills Bills for collecting taxes and “making rates”. | 1815-1861 |
8 | Taxes – Credit Bills Notes listing parish members and the amount they owe in assessed taxes. | 1784-1812, undated |
8 | Taxes – Miscellaneous Notes of accounts paid, owed, and other miscellaneous information related to Parish taxes. | 1784-1861, undated |
8 | Taxes – Refunds | 1787-1822 |
9 | Taxes – Valuations | 1786-1787, undated |
9 | Taxes – Valuations Assessor’s statements of total amount of Parish taxes. | 1787-1861 |
9 | Taxes – Valuations | 1788-1789 |
9 | Taxes – Valuations | 1790-1791 |
9 | Taxes – Valuations | 1792 |
9 | Taxes – Valuations | 1793-1795 |
9 | Taxes – Valuations | 1796-1799 |
9 | Taxes – Valuations | 1800-1802 |
9 | Taxes – Valuations | 1803-1804 |
9 | Taxes – Valuations | 1805-1806 |
10 | Taxes – Valuations | 1807-1808 |
10 | Taxes – Valuations | 1809 |
10 | Taxes – Valuations | 1810-1811 |
10 | Taxes – Valuations | 1812-1814 |
10 | Taxes – Valuations | 1815-1817 |
10 | Taxes – Valuations | 1818-1819 |
11 | Taxes – Valuations | 1820-1822 |
11 | Taxes – Valuations | 1821-1823 |
11 | Taxes – Valuations | 1823-1830 |
11 | Taxes – Valuations | 1829-1837 |
11 | Taxes – Valuations | 1838-1841 |
11 | Taxes – Valuations | 1842-1845 |
11 | Taxes – Valuations | 1848-1853 |
11 | Taxes – Valuations | 1856, 1858, 1861 |
12 | Treasurer – Record Book | 1839-1862 |
12 | Treasurer – Record Book | 1864-1896 |
12 | Treasurer – Reports | 1830-1893, undated |
Series 3: Memberships and Vital Records (1787-1938)
Box | Title/Description | Date |
---|---|---|
13 | Admissions and Dismissals, bound book | 1834-1855 |
13 | Amherst College Students A subscription from John Leland of Amherst College for the students to attend the church. Signed by Leland and witnesses Samuel Fowler Dickinson and Elijah North. | 1826 January 03 |
13 | Marriage Certificates | 1855-1856 |
13 | Membership – Abby, Amos | 1920 |
13 | Membership – District Lists | 1928 |
13 | Membership Certificates – Second Congregational Church | 1787-1824 |
13 | Membership Certificates – South Congregational Church | 1824-1829 |
14 | Membership List | 1891-1903 |
14 | Membership Requests | 1790-1861 |
14 | Membership Requests | 1951 |
14 | Membership Withdrawals | 1824-1891 |
14 | Membership Withdrawals | 1922-1938 |
14 | Membership Withdrawals to Baptist Society | 1832 |
14 | Membership Withdrawals to Non-Amherst Churches | 1828-1833 |
14 | Membership Withdrawals to North Congregational | 1824-1831 |
14 | Membership Withdrawals to Second Parish | 1788-1832 |
14 | Membership Withdrawals to South Congregational | 1828-1832 |
14 | Mode of Admissions and Dismissals, bound book | 1832-1869 |
14 | Record Book Book of vital records compiled from records of the First and Second Churches. | 1740s-1850s |
15 | Register of Communicants, bound book Includes list of the church Ministers (1739-1883). | 1813-1881 |
15 | Register of Communicants, bound book Includes list of Ministers (1729-1914), register of Deacons (1879-1926), register of Prudential Committee members (1879-1926), register of Sunday School Superintendents (1879-1926), and register of baptisms (1882-1925). | 1831-1920 |
15 | Register of Communicants, bound book | 1901-1922 |
15 | Register of Families, bound book | 1830-1880 |
Series 4: Meetinghouse (1785-2012)
Box | Title/Description | Date |
---|---|---|
16 | Agricultural Hall | 1859, 1861 |
16 | Alterations | 1850, c.1861 |
16 | Basement | c. 1860s |
16 | Belfry | 1790 |
16 | Bell – Correspondence | 1829 |
16 | Bell – Ringing – Subscriptions | 1786-1842 |
16 | Bell – Subscriptions | 1790-1857 |
16 | Bell – Subscription Lists | 1868 |
16 | Bell – Tax Receipts | 1793-1794 |
16 | Bell – Tax Valuation | 1793 |
16 | Bills and Receipts | 1789-1815 |
16 | Bills and Receipts | 1816-1835 |
16 | Bills and Receipts | 1836- c.1880 |
16 | Blowing of the Conch – Subscriptions | 1785-1786 |
16 | Board of Property – Minutes Minutes detailing work done on church property. | 2001-2012 |
16 | Clock – Subscription List | 1847 |
16 | Construction – Contract with Samuel Abbey | 1789-1794 |
16 | Construction – Legal Case against Samuel Abbey | 1792-1794 |
16 | Construction – Subscriptions | 1789-1796 |
16 | Debt Cancelled | 1867-1872 |
16 | Ephemera A brochure on the construction of the meetinghouse. | c.1950 |
16 | Heating | 1798-1861 |
16 | Horseblock Five subscriptions for the building of the horseblock. | 1796, 1805 |
16 | Horse shed Plans for the construction of the horse shed. | c.1868 |
16 | Lecture Proposals | 1838 |
16 | Lecture Room | 1855 |
16 | Lightning Rod Subscriptions | 1790-1838 |
16 | Painting – Subscriptions List | 1804, 1888 |
16 | Pews Deeds | 1830-1845 |
16 | Pews – Financing | 1854-1914 |
16 | Pews Meetings | 1828-1830 |
OS | Pews Owners | 1826 |
16 | Pews Owners, bound book | 1861-1867 |
16 | Pews Surrendered to Church | 1861-1867 |
16 | Plan Subscriptions | 1785 |
16 | Pledge Drive | 1956 |
OS | Property Deeds | 1829-1889 |
16 | Pulpit | 1883-1932 |
16 | Pulpit Subscriptions | 1795-1842 |
16 | Reports | 1828-1879 |
16 | Rugs and Roof | c. 1921 |
16 | Steeple and Cupola Subscriptions | 1816-1818 |
16 | Subscription List | 1867 |
16 | Sweeping Subscriptions | 1792-1829 |
16 | Taxes | 1788 |
16 | Taxes | 1789-1791 |
16 | Vestry Subscriptions | 1835-1860 |
Series 5: Ministers (1737-1984)
Box | Title/Description | Date |
---|---|---|
17 | Adam, Rev. Matthew T. | 1833-1835 |
17 | Anderson, Rev. Wilbert L. | 1907 |
17 | Bent, Rev. Josiah | 1837-1839 |
17 | Bills for Payment | 1793-1861 |
17 | Blodgett, Rev. Barbara Jane | 1988 |
17 | Brown, Rev. Robert McAfee | 1984 |
17 | Clark, Rev. Daniel A. | 1819-1825 |
17 | Coe, Rev. Chalmers | 1948-1984 |
17 | Colton, Rev. Aaron | 1840-1853 |
17 | Councils Invitations from North Congregational, Amherst College Church, and Hatfield Congregational to First Church to participate in an ecclesiastical council convened for the purpose of dismissing or calling ministers. | 1857 |
17 | Dickerman, Rev. George S. | 1883 |
17 | Dwight, Rev. E. S. | 1853-1860 |
17 | Emerson, Rev. Forrest F. | 1879 |
17 | Farrell, Rev. Charles R. | 1978-1979 |
17 | Good, Rev. Jeannette A. | 1984 |
17 | Goodspeed, Rev. F. L. | 1892 |
17 | Hawley, Rev. John A. | 1914-1939 |
17 | Hubbell, Rev. Henry | 1860-1861 |
17 | Huckel, Rev. Oliver | 1895-1897 |
17 | Jenkins, Rev. J. L. | 1868 |
17 | Kingsbury, Rev. Howard | 1877-1878 |
17 | McCartney, Rev. Henry R. | 1898-1900 |
17 | Merrick, Rev. T. W. | 1897 |
17 | News clippings | 1936-1954 |
17 | Parsons, Rev. David, Jr. | 1737-1819 |
17 | Parsons, Rev. David, Jr. – Correspondence about portrait | 1948-1954 |
17 | Parsons, Rev. David, Jr. – Family History | 1948 |
17 | Pearson, Rev. Roy M. | 1944 |
17 | Retirement Funding | 1938 |
17 | Schapner, Rev. Donna | 1980 |
17 | Strong, Rev. William E. | 1901 |
17 | Waser, Rev. Raymond A. | 1937 |
17 | Washburn, Rev. Royal | 1826-1833 |
Series 6: Church Clubs and Organizations (1826-1961)
Box | Title/Description | Date |
---|---|---|
18 | Christian Endeavor Society | 1912-1926 |
18 | Hampshire County Alliance of Auxiliaries of Women’s Home Missionary | 1920-1927 |
18 | Hampshire County Alliance of Auxiliaries of Women’s Home Missionary – Correspondence | 1909-1914 |
18 | Hampshire County Branch of the Women’s Board of Missions – Miscellaneous | 1876-1928 |
18 | Hampshire County Branch of the Women’s Board of Missions – Minutes | 1878-1921 |
18 | Interfaith Service Council – Programs | 1983 |
18 | Junior Christian Endeavor Society | Circa 1895 |
18 | Ladies Benevolent Society | 1863-1931 |
19 | Ladies Benevolent Society | 1863-1931 |
19 | Ladies Benevolent Society, bound records | 1863-1884 |
19 | Ladies Benevolent Society, bound records | 1884-1921 |
19 | Ladies Benevolent Society, bound records | 1925-1937 |
19 | Ladies Benevolent Society, Treasurer's Books | 1871-1918 |
20 | Lookout Committee Records Bound | 1893-1905 |
20 | Men’s Class | 1919-1960 |
20 | Missionaries Names of beneficiaries and correspondence about missionaries | 1868-1936 |
20 | Music Committee | 1870-1893 |
20 | Prudential Committee – Letters | 1924-1936 |
20 | Prudential Committee – Visioning Report | 1961 |
20 | Rouseaunnian Society – Miscellaneous | 1835-1836 |
20 | Rouseaunnian Society – Records | 1835-1836 |
20 | Sunday School – Miscellaneous | 1848, 1897-1925 |
20 | Sunday School Records | 1826-1852 |
20 | Trustees – Record Book | 1904-1924 |
21 | Women’s Foreign Missionary – Records | 1905-1936 |
21 | Women’s Home Missionary – Records | 1880-1915 |
21 | Women’s Home Missionary – Records | 1880-1927 |
21 | Women’s Missionary Society – Miscellaneous | 1906-1936 |
21 | Women’s Missionary Society – Reports | 1934-1937 |
21 | Women’s Union – Miscellaneous | 1944-1961 |
21 | Women’s Union – Yearbooks | 1937-1967 |
21 | Youth Program | 1878-1880, 1889 |
Series 7: Church Publications (1834-1991)
Box | Title/Description | Date |
---|---|---|
22 | Annual Reports | 1947, 1949 |
22 | Calendars Loose church calendars, marking church events, meetings, and services. | 1892-1944 |
22 | Calendars Loose church calendars, marking church events, meetings, and services. | 1945-1951 |
22 | Calendars Loose church calendars, marking church events, meetings, and services. | 1952-1964 |
22 | Calendars Loose church calendars, marking church events, meetings, and services. | 1965-1989 |
23 | Calendars, bound book | 1914-1918 |
23 | Calendars, bound book | 1919-1923 |
23 | Calendars, bound book | 1924-1928 |
23 | Calendars, bound book | 1929-1933 |
23 | Calendars, bound book | 1934-1936 |
24 | Membership Directories and Manuals | 1834 |
24 | Membership Directories and Manuals | 1850 |
24 | Membership Directories and Manuals | 1859 |
24 | Membership Directories and Manuals | 1869 |
24 | Membership Directories and Manuals | 1870 |
24 | Membership Directories and Manuals | 1875 |
24 | Membership Directories and Manuals | 1880 |
24 | Membership Directories and Manuals | 1885 |
24 | Membership Directories and Manuals | 1890 |
24 | Membership Directories and Manuals | Circa 1895 |
24 | Membership Directories and Manuals | 1910 |
24 | Membership Directories and Manuals | 1923 |
24 | Membership Directories and Manuals | 1950 |
24 | Membership Directories and Manuals | 1951 |
24 | Membership Directories and Manuals | 1952 |
24 | Membership Directories and Manuals | 1955 |
24 | Membership Directories and Manuals | 1956 |
24 | Membership Directories and Manuals | 1957 |
24 | Membership Directories and Manuals | 1958 |
24 | Membership Directories and Manuals | 1963 |
24 | Membership Directories and Manuals | 1992 |
24 | Newsletters, bound | 1940-1942 |
25 | Newsletters | 1945-1947 |
25 | Newsletters | 1948-1949 |
25 | Newsletters | 1950-1951 |
25 | Newsletters | 1952-1953 |
25 | Newsletters | 1954-1955 |
25 | Newsletters | 1956-1957 |
25 | Newsletters | 1958-1959 |
26 | Newsletters | 1960-1961 |
26 | Newsletters | 1962-1966 |
26 | Newsletters | 1980-circa 1991 |
26 | Program of Activities | 1981 |
26 | Programs – Events | 1889-1996 |
26 | Programs – Services Includes undated chapbook of Advent and Christmas family services, edited by Gene Kohler with woodcuts by Lorie Leininger. | 1892-1991 |
26 | Programs – Services – Sesquicentennial | 1889 |
Series 8: Subject Files (1791-1989)
Box | Title/Description | Date |
---|---|---|
27 | Celebrations – Christmas | 1872-1940 |
27 | Celebrations – Dedication The 1868 dedications to the new meetinghouse. | 1868 |
27 | Charles Green Correspondence | 1923 |
27 | Election – Ballots | 1920-1948 |
27 | Ephemera Church pamphlets. | Circa 1900 |
27 | History – Essays Short essays on the history of the First Congregational Church of Amherst from the 19th and 20th centuries. | Undated |
27 | History – First Church of Christ, Amherst, Mass Two copies of the published history of The First Church, titled, “An Historical Review: The First Church in Amherst”. | 1889 November 07 |
27 | History – Hawley, John A. and Frank Prentice Rand Two copies of “Two Hundred Years of View and Review”. | 1939 November 04-05 |
27 | History – McClung, Robert M. Photocopies of the illustrations used in the 250th anniversary book. | 1989 |
27 | History – Miscellaneous | Undated |
27 | History – Putney, Clifford W. A history titled, “A Twentieth-Century Intellectual History of First Church, Amherst”. | 1985 |
27 | History – Tyler, William S. | 1897 |
27 | Humor | 1921 |
27 | Manuscript Fragments | Circa 1800s |
27 | Memorial Gifts – Anderson | 1916 |
27 | Mission Statement | 1932-1987 |
27 | Music – Base Viol Subscriptions | 1800-1850 |
27 | Music – Hymnals | 1833-1910 |
27 | Music – Organ | 1855-1937 |
28 | Music – Organ Recitals | 1909-1938 |
28 | Music – Organ Subscription List | 1862 |
28 | Music – Singing | 1805 |
28 | Music – Singing Bills and Receipts | 1791-1860 |
28 | News clippings | 1914-1984 |
28 | Open and Affirming Sharing the journey: reflections on one church’s path towards becoming open and affirming: with covenant of openness and affirmation. | 1995 |
28 | Poetry – Koehler, Stanley | 1974-1975 |
28 | Services – Hours Letter from E. S. Dwight to First Society of Amherst about a change of hours for services. | 1835 |
28 | 200th Anniversary – Miscellaneous | 1939 |
28 | 200th Anniversary – Programs | 1939 |
OS | 200th Anniversary Scrapbook | 1939 |
28 | 250th Anniversary | 1989 |
28 | World War II – Correspondence | 1944-1946 |
Series 9: Photographs and Drawings (circa 1740-1900s)
Box | Title/Description | Date |
---|---|---|
29 | Church Building Photographs and illustrations of the various meetinghouses belonging to the First Congregational Church. | 1788-1900s |
29 | Church Members Photographs and news clippings of group portraits of members of the church. | Circa 1906 |
29 | Ministers Photographs and drawings of ministers of the First Church. | Circa 1740-1890 |
OS | W. E. Strong portrait | 1901-1906 |