First Baptist Church of Seneca Falls records, 1827-1883.
Collection Number: 6006
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
First Baptist Church of Seneca Falls records, 1827-1883.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
6006
Abstract:
Articles of faith, church covenant and minutes of regular and special church meetings,
dealing with church finances, abolition, temperance, and religious discipline. Also
three unrelated items: a sermon entitled "The hard-shell Baptists" (n.d.) satirizing
that type of group; "The Baptist church manual" (1853); and "The Sunday School receiving
book" (1838-1850) which lists pupils, dates of entry, parents' names, occupations
and characters, residences, classes and remarks.
Creator:
First Baptist Church of Seneca Falls (Seneca Falls, N.Y.)
Quanitities:
2 microfilm reels.
Language:
Collection material in English
Records of the First Baptist Society predating the church organization have not been
located. Gaps exist in the church records from March to October 1844, thus omitting
references to the schism which tore the church apart when the minister began to preach
second adventism, and between volume I and volume II (February 24, 1850-July 31, 1853).
Issues of central importance to this congregation were church finances, slavery, temperance,
and church discipline. Members who enrolled during meetings are listed, but little
else is mentioned about the revivals.
Articles of faith, church covenant and minutes of regular and special church meetings,
dealing with church finances, abolition, temperance, and religious discipline. Also
three unrelated items: a sermon entitled "The hard-shell Baptists" (n.d.) satirizing
that type of group; "The Baptist church manual" (1853); and "The Sunday School receiving
book" (1838-1850) which lists pupils, dates of entry, parents' names, occupations
and characters, residences, classes and remarks.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
First Baptist Church of Seneca Falls records, #6006. Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library.
Places:
Seneca Falls (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
Seneca County (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
Subjects:
Church records and registers -- New York (State) -- Seneca Falls.
Churches, Baptist.
Baptists -- Education.
Antislavery movements.
Church discipline.
Baptists -- Creeds.
Temperance and religion -- New York (State) -- Seneca Falls.
Sunday schools -- New York (State) -- Seneca Falls.
Sunday schools -- Records.
Baptists -- Sermons.
Baptists -- New York (State) -- Seneca Falls.
Form and Genre Terms:
Minutes.
Sermons.
CONTAINER LIST
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Description
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Part I
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Records of the First Baptist Church at Seneca Falls New York, 1828.
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Scope and Contents
This volume contains the Articles of Faith, Covenant, minutes of covenant and regular
church meetings of the church and of the Baptist Conference which predated it from
Sept. 15, 1827 to Feb. 24, 1850, and "A List of names of members of the Baptist Church
.. Constituted the 5th June, 1828," containing the name, date of baptism, admission
by letter, dismission, exclusion, restoration, date of death, and a list for March
10, 1846 (p. 323) with names of members for visiting.
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First Baptist Church of Seneca Falls, N.Y. Record no. 2.
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Scope and Contents
This volume contains the Articles of Faith, Church Covenant, and minutes of regular
and covenant meetings (July 3, 1853 - July 10, 1853) with a list of members with the
same information as that listed above in 9 double-faced pages.
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Volume I page 3
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Articles of Faith
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Volume I page 7
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Covenant
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Volume I page 9,
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Sept. 15, 1827 | ||
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church organization
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Volume I page ,
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Oct. 8, 1828 | ||
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council meets to form church
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Volume I page 15,
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Oct. 25, 1828 | ||
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minutes of the church commence
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Volume I page ,
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Aug. 30, 1834 | ||
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1st letter to the Ontario Baptist Council's annual meeting, which contains year-end
reports of temporal affairs and spiritual progress, including membership statistics,
additional letters are as follows:
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Volume I page 65,
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Sept. 23, 1835 | ||
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Volume I page 73,
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Sept. 29, 1836 | ||
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Volume I page 80-81,
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Sept. 23, 1837 | ||
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Volume I page 96,
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Sept. 27, 1838 | ||
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Volume I page 121,
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Sept. 1839 | ||
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Volume I page 160,
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Sept. 21, 1840 | ||
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Volume I page 196,
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Sept. 1841 | ||
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Volume I page 247,
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Sept. 1842 | ||
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Volume I page 331,
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March 10, 1846 | ||
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Volume I page 149,
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Sept. 1848 | ||
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Volume I page 76,
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Jan. 28, 1858 | ||
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founding of Waterloo Conference Tyre church
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Volume I page 99,
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Jan. 8, 1839 | ||
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Doctrine of Universal Salvation
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Volume I page 103-104
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Doctrine of Universal Salvation
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Volume I page 138, 141,
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March 5, 1840 | ||
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bro. is licensed to preach to the Sailors in Oswego
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Volume I page 140, 145,
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April 11, 1840 | ||
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Bro. Sheardon visits and quickens many souls
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Volume I page 176,
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Feb. 23, 1841 | ||
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campellites
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Volume I page 179-185,
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Feb. 27, 1841 | ||
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Mr. Bachus leads a revival
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Volume I page 214,
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Oct. 1841 | ||
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problems with the subscription system
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Volume I page 239-24 2,
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Aug. 9, 1842 | ||
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resolution on the evils of slavery
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Volume I page 236-237,
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Aug. 2, 1842 | ||
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Baptist Conference in Fayette
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Volume I page 252,
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letter for l84l | ||
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discussion of a revival
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Volume I page 255,
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Nov. 8, 1842 | ||
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unitarianism
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Volume I page 258,
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Jan. 17, 1843 | ||
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revival
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Volume I page 292,
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Nov. 23, 1843 | ||
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temperance
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Volume I page 308,
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March 23, 1844 | ||
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Bro. Pinney, the minister, resigns
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Volume I page 318
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wife beating
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Volume I page 375
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"a List of the names of members..."
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Volume II
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Scope and Contents
Articles of Faith
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Volume II
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Covenant of the Church
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Volume II
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Minutes - begin July 3, 1853
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Volume II, pages 33-49
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Names of members
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Part II
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"The Hard Shell Baptists" sermon,
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Scope and Contents
The term, "Hard-Shell Baptists" was used during the 19th century to refer to primitive,
fundamentalist, uneducated Baptists. This sermon may not have originated vith the
First Baptist Church of Seneca Falls, but has been filed with other Baptist material
because of the title.
This is a comical, satirical sermon, possibly pretend, referring to an uneducated
preacher. It also satirizes other religious groups including Methodists, United Brethren,
Catholics and Universalists, and their ways of attaining salvation, c. 1860
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"The Baptist Church Manual", 1853.
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1853 | |
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Published by the American Baptist Publication Society, Philadelphia.
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"The Sunday School Receiving Book," Nov. 1838-1850.
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Nov. 1838-1850 | |
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Scope and Contents
Contains lists of pupils with date of entry, register number, parent's name, parent's
occupation and character, residence, class, and remarks. There is one list for 1838-46,
one for Oct. 22, 1848-1850. A list of Sunday School officers is also included.
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