{"title":"Church Records: Congregational","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"101-g1586","title":"First Congregational Church of Preston [New London County], Connecticut 1698-1898 Together With Statistics of the Church Taken from the Church Records","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The history of a New England church two hundred years old involves, especially in its early life, more or less of the history of the town where it has had a place... The founding of this church takes us back within reach of the landing of the Pilgrims.\" The two-hundredth anniversary of the First Congregational Church of Preston was commemorated November 16, 1898. These pages detail the exercises of the day, and preserve church records that will be of great interest to genealogists. This book includes the address of welcome by Prof. John H. Hewitt, an historical survey of the first church in Preston, the Preston Separate Church and the Separatist movement, brief biographical sketches of the pastors of the church, brief biographical sketches of the original members, greetings from the First Church of Norwich, the Baptist church and the Conference of Churches, addresses by former pastors, and statistics. Statistics of the church are grouped by ministry, 1698-1898. Entries are arranged chronologically and include names of church members, admissions, demissions, baptisms, marriages, deaths, and miscellaneous entries.A copy of the original program of the Centennial Exercises is included at the end of the volume, following the new surname index.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRev. R. H. Gidman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1900, 2000), 2011, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, index, 240 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788415869\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-G1586\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39321296175222,"sku":"101-G1586","price":24.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-g1586-1500px.png?v=1777213591"},{"product_id":"101-u0045","title":"Naugatuck [New Haven County], Connecticut Congregational Church Records, 1781-1901","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book contains abstracts of \"the records of 'The Church of Christ in Salem' in Waterbury, Connecticut, now known as 'The Congregational Church of Naugatuck,'\" which were taken from microfilm of the original. Established as the Salem Society in 1773, the church was not organized until 22 February 1781. Naugatuck was a part of the town of Waterbury until May 1844. \"It is important to realize that the several compiled membership lists contain annotations after the original entry. Deaths, dismissals, husbands, excommunications were all added information and are extremely valuable for determining, for example, whether a death date refers to one Sally Smith or another….Cross referencing has been done only when alternate spellings of the same surname are not adjacent to each other in these abstracts.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHelen Schatvet Ullmann\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1987), 2012, 8.5\" x 11\", paper, alphabetical, 150 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781556130458\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-U0045\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39329277345910,"sku":"101-U0045","price":24.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-u0045-1500px.png?v=1777305950"},{"product_id":"101-x4267","title":"The Historical Address ... Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the Organization of the First Congregational Church, New Milford, Connecticut","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis slender volume contains the \"account of the Bi-Centennial exercises commemorating the two hundredth anniversary of the founding of The First Congregational Church of New Milford, Connecticut…reproduced from \u003cem\u003eThe New Milford Times\u003c\/em\u003e of October 19, 1916.\" A historical address was given by the church's pastor, The Reverend Mr. Johnson \"in which he reviewed the church's two hundred years of history, outstanding events of significance in the growth of church and town, and visioned the church's future and what it should come to mean in the years to come.\" This address is preserved on these pages along with accounts of addresses given by other speakers: Rev. T. J. Lee, Rev. F. A. Johnson, Rev. Dr. Rockwell H. Potter, and Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis. The coverage of this four-day event is liberally peppered with names.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFirst Congregational Church of New Milford, Connecticut\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1916), 2006, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, 48 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788442674\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-X4267\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":693747646480,"sku":"101-X4267","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-x4267-1500px.png?v=1777309547"}],"url":"https:\/\/heritagebooks.com\/collections\/church-records-congregational\/connecticut+church-records.oembed","provider":"Heritage Books, Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}