First Presbyterian Church of Romulus records, 1802-1824.
Collection Number: 6008
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
First Presbyterian Church of Romulus records, 1802-1824.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
6008
Abstract:
Photocopy of the first record book of the church which contains membership information,
session meeting minutes, the church covenant, and Articles of Faith.
Creator:
First Presbyterian Church of Romulus, (Romulus, N.Y.)
Quanitities:
1 folders.
Language:
Collection material in English
Organized in 1802 by Jedediah Chapman, a famous itinerant minister, and incorporated
in 1807, the church came under the Geneva Presbytery on September 17, 1805. A church
was built in 1808-1809 with a new building in 1838.
This volume is a photocopy of the first record book of the church, which contains
membership information, session meeting minutes, the church covenant, and Articles
of Faith (1808-1824).
INFORMATION FOR USERS
First Presbyterian Church of Romulus records, #6008. Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library.
Places:
Romulus (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
Seneca County (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
Subjects:
Presbyterian Church -- New York (State) -- Membership.
Presbyterian Church -- New York (State) -- Romulus.
Form and Genre Terms:
Minutes.
CONTAINER LIST
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Description
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Records of the First Presbyterian Church
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Scope and Contents
Of the Town of Romulus, in the County of Seneca, & State of New York, Constituted
April 4th 1802.
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Front inside cover lists marriages from 1815-1817.
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titlepage
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list of founding members
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marriages,
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1808-l8l3 | ||
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names of children who can recite the shorter catechism.
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| January 23, l808-June 25, 1824 | |||
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Scope and Contents
Minutes of the session meetings which were attended by the pastor and the church elders.
Minutes deal with church discipline, examination of prospective members, acceptance
of new members, suspension of members, call to a member to become a minister, baptism,
and the election of deacons and sextons. The minutes report that there were no records
from November 23, 1804 to January 23, l806.
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p. 6, Confession of faith
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p. 10, the Church Covenant
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8 page list of members and their baptized children
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back cover: marriages from
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18l3-l8l4 | ||