Guide to the First Presbyterian Church (Cazenovia, N.Y.) Records,
1799-1952

Collection Number: 2060

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
N. Dean
Date completed:
April 1986
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, December 2003

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
First Presbyterian Church (Cazenovia, N.Y.) records, 1799-1952.
Collection Number:
2060
Creator:
First Presbyterian Church (Cazenovia, N.Y.)
Quantity:
1 cubic ft., 1 reel pos., 1 reel neg. microfilm.
Forms of Material:
Minutes, accounts, correspondence, lists, historical data, guestbook, receipts, checkbooks, treasurer's reports, and other records.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Session records; minutes; lists of marriages, baptisms, and members; minutes, accounts, and correspondence of women's organizations, including the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and the Torrey Circle of Kings Daughters; historical data; guestbook; correspondence pertaining to early pastors, especially Joshua Leonard; receipts, checkbooks, and treasurer's reports; and other records of the Cazenovia First Presbyterian Church.
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Session records; minutes; lists of marriages, baptisms, and members; minutes, accounts, and correspondence of women's organizations, including the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and the Torrey Circle of Kings Daughters; historical data; guestbook; correspondence pertaining to early pastors, especially Joshua Leonard; receipts, checkbooks, and treasurer's reports; and other records of the Cazenovia First Presbyterian Church.
SUBJECTS

Names:
First Presbyterian Church (Cazenovia, N.Y.)
Leonard, Joshua, 1769-1843.

Subjects:
Presbyterians.
Religion.
Women in the Presbyterian Church.

Places:
Cazenovia (N.Y.)

Form and Genre Terms:
Registers.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
First Presbyterian Church (Cazenovia, N.Y.) records, #2060. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
1887-1925
Minutes of the Session
 Box 1 Volume
1850-1886
Membership list, including deaths, dismissals, excommunications, suspensions, marriages
 Box 1 Volume
1813
"An Address Presented to the Presbytery of Onondaga," Joshua Leonard (pamphlet)
 Box 1 Volume
1943-1949
Guest register
 Box 1 Volume
1846-1902
Minute book and financial record
 Box 1 Volume
1905-1944
Account book
 Box 1 Volume
1925-1929
Church Treasurer's Record
 Box 1 Volume
1929-1932
Church Treasurer's Record
 Box 1 Volume
1933-1938
Church Treasurer's Record
 Box 1 Volume
1881-1889
Secretary Reports of the Torrey Mission Band, including minutes and constitution
 Box 1 Volume
1897-1906
Accounts of the Torrey Circle of Kings' Daughters
 Box 1 Volume
1906-1908
Torrey Circle Book, cash book
 Box 1 Volume
1910-1921
Torrey Circle, minutes
 Box 1 Volume
1919-1951
Torrey Circle of Kings' Daughters, bank book
 Box 1 Volume
1945-1950
Torrey Circle, checkbook
 Box 1 Volume
1949-1951
Torrey Circle, cancelled checks (envelope)
 Box 1
1952
Torrey Circle of Kings' Daughters, bank book
 Box 1 Volume
1900-1912
Ladies Christian Association, treasurer's report
 Box 1 Volume
1915-1917
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, Secretary's book
 Box 1 Volume
1948-1951
Cabinet of the Women's Circle, minutes
 Box 1 Volume
1897-1898
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder
1938
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder
1890-1897
Torrey League, correspondence
 Box 1 Folder
1947-1952
Miscellaneous correspondence, reports, and receipts
 Box 1 Folder
1799-1846
"A Book of Church Records of the Presbyterian Church in the Town of Cazenovia, gathered and established May 19, Anno Domini 1799 by Joshua Leonard A.M., first Pastor of sd. Church" (microfilm; original volume returned to the church along with several other volumes in 1974)
Box 1
Admission of members listed from beginning in 1799 in text.
Lists of members: 1799-1813, begins on p. 170-176; 1813-1846, begins on p. 40-67. Names not in alphabetical order. The year or complete date of death of member is often given under Remarks.
Lists of Baptisms: 1799-1813, pp. 160-163; 1814-1846, pp. 88-101.
Lists of Marriages: 1799-1813, pp. 164-167.