Tompkins County Church, and Related Area Records

This list contains many original Tompkins County church and related area records which are held by the Division and not on microfilm. These collections must be used in the Division, which is open 9:00-5:00 Monday through Friday. Call for information regarding Saturday hours during the academic school year. Not all of the collections are housed in the building and at least 24 hours advance notice is required for retrieval. It is advised to telephone the Division before visiting. Photocopies can be made by the staff if there will not be any physical damage done to the documents and there are no restrictions; there is a charge for this service. Whole collections will not be copied. Users must comply with restrictions which apply to designated collections and observe literary rights.

For additional Church related materials, please see the following lists:

Study Center for Early Religious Life in Western New York

listing from the Reports of the Curator and Archivist, 1942-1966. (in process)

BROOME COUNTY

#4437 First Congregational Church of Maine, NY. Records, 1819-1916. 1 reel pos. microfilm. Broome County.

CAYUGA COUNTY

(see also: Study Center for Early Religious Life in Western New York List)

#1273 Cayuga County Cemetery Inscriptions (426 pp. typescript carbon copies). Also on 1 reel pos. microfilm. Compiled by Frank A. and Clara G. Skilton, 1920's. Alphabetized lists of gravestones in more than eighty cemeteries and filed by townships.

#2947 First Methodist Episcopal Church, Auburn, NY. Miscellany, 1870-1904. 9 items. Cayuga County.

CORTLAND COUNTY

(see also: Study Center for Early Religious Life in Western New York List)

#507 First Baptist Church of Cortland. Records, 1801-1900. 0.1 cu. ft. (Book of minutes, 1801-1813; two histories, c.1899, n.d.; printed list of members, 1878; manual, 1880; minutes of the Baptist Missionary Society, 1884-1891). [1807 minutes more complete than set on #6239 microfilm.] Cortland County.

JEFFERSON COUNTY

#1094 Zion Episcopal Church, Pierrepont Manor, NY. Records, 1833-1960. 1 reel of 7 pos. microfilm. (Bapt, Bur, Com, Con, D, M). [reels 1-6, diaries of William C. Pierrepont, 1822-1885]. Jefferson County.

MADISON COUNTY

#2060 Cazenovia Presbyterian Church. Records, [1798-1846-1953]. 0.8 cu. ft. and I reel pos. microfilm. Described in the 1958-1962 Report, p. 34. (Bapt., 1799-1842,1857-1885; M, 1799-1813; Mb, 1799-1844,1850-1886; Dis, 1857-1886). Madison County.

OTSEGO COUNTY

#32 Town of New Lisbon, Otsego County. Record of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, Jan. 1847-Dec. 1850. 1vol. Listed in 1942-1945 Report, p. 28.

SCHUYLER COUNTY

(see also: Study Center for Early Religious Life in Western New York List)

#3055 Second Baptist Church of Reading, NY. Records, 1809-1851. 1 reel microfilm. (typescript copy of item in Montour Falls, NY Public Library). Schuyler County.

#3175 Jessie Howell Finch, 1889-1968. "Vital Records from the Ovid Bee, 1822-23,1838-1869," reproduced 1971. 1vol., typescript photocopy. Some Cemeteries of the Between the Lakes Country (Portions of Seneca, Schuyler, and Tompkins Counties, N.Y., collected by J. H. Finch and others, compiled and edited by Carl W. Fischer and Harriet J. Swick, printed by The Interlaken Review, 1974. 3 vols.

SENECA COUNTY

(see also: Study Center for Early Religious Life in Western New York List)

#652 Reformed German Churches of Fayette Township, Seneca County., NY. Register of Baptisms, Confirmations, Communicants, 1833. Diedrich Willers Papers. I vol. [Partially written in German.]

#3175 Jessie Howell Finch, 1889-1968. "Vital Records from the Ovid Bee, 1822-23,1838-1869," reproduced 1971. 1vol., typescript photocopy. Some Cemeteries of the Between the Lakes Country (Portions of Seneca, Schuyler, and Tompkins Counties, N.Y., collected by J. H. Finch and others, compiled and edited by Carl W. Fischer and Harriet J. Swick, printed by The Interlaken Review, 1974. 3 vols.

#3780 Reformed [Dutch] Church of Interlaken, NY. Records, 1830-1977. 1.1 cu. ft. (Photocopies; pos. microfilm, 1925-77 only). RLIN description 84A945. (incls. Bapt, M, Mb). Seneca County.

TIOGA COUNTY

#4016 Candor [NY] Church, Class Attendance Book, 1831-1832. 1 item. Tioga County.

TOMPKINS COUNTY

(see also: Study Center for Early Religious Life in Western New York List)

#39K Town of Caroline, Tompkins County. Court Records, 1832-1872 (not inclusive). 2 vols. Resumés of civil suits brought before Peter Lounsbery, Justice of the Peace. Also record of marriages performed by Lounsbery in the Towns of Caroline and Dryden, 1842-1843. Listed in 1942-1945 Report, p. 18.

#2004 First Baptist Church of Ithaca, NY. Records, 1811-[1827-1959]. 15.5 cu. feet. Restricted in part. Described in the 1958-1962 Report of the Curator and Arch1vol.ist, pages 46-47. (Bapt, D, Dis, 1827-1947; Mb, 1893). Tompkins County.

#2167 Lockwood, Elmer L., 1889-1979, Compiler. Town of Caroline Cemetery Inscriptions, 17181959. 1 reel pos. (+) microfilm. Tompkins County.

#2283 Tompkins County Marriage and Death Notices, c. 1820's-1870's. 1 cu. ft. Extracted from area newspapers. Alphabetically indexed on 3 x 5 cards (approx. 3500). One box of deaths, one box of marriage notices by husband's name and one box cross indexed under wife's maiden name.

#2368 Ithaca Methodist Church. Records, 1821-1963. 13.4 cu. feet. Restricted in part. Described in the 1962-1966 Report, pp. 53-54. (Bapt, 1821-1876; M, 1821-1881; Mb and Pr, 1825-1881). Tompkins County.

#2575 West Dryden Methodist Episcopal Church. Records, 1828-1870. 1vol., 7 items. Described in the 1962-1966 Report, pp. 25-26. Subscription lists involving amounts paid by members for building construction, 1833-1834. Tompkins County.

#3175 Jessie Howell Finch, 1889-1968. "Vital Records from the Ovid Bee, 1822-23,1838-1869," reproduced 1971. 1vol., typescript photocopy. Some Cemeteries of the Between the Lakes Country (Portions of Seneca, Schuyler, and Tompkins Counties, N.Y., collected by J. H. Finch and others, compiled and edited by Carl W. Fischer and Harriet J. Swick, printed by The Interlaken Review, 1974. 3 vols.

#3301 Protestant Reformed Dutch Church of Ithaca. Minutes of the Sunday School Society, 1831-1843. 1vol. Tompkins County.

#3631 First Baptist Church of Trumansburg, NY. Records, 1819-1938. 0.8 cu. ft. (photocopies). Described in Documentation Newsletter (Spring 1977), Vol. 111, No. 1, p. 11. (Ad, Bapt, Mb). Tompkins County.

#3777 Smith, Helen F., 1899-1977. Genealogical research material, [ca. 1788]-1974. 7 cu. ft. Information on families from Tompkins and contiguous counties.

#3910 First Congregational Church of Ithaca, NY. Records, 1830-1946. 2.0 cu. ft. Restricted in part. (Note: organized in 1830 as the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church and continued as such until c. 1872). (Bapt, D, M, Mb). Tompkins County.

#4045 First Presbyterian Church of Ithaca, NY. Records, 1801-1980. 30.0 cu. ft. Restricted in part. (Bapt, D, M, Mb). Tompkins County.

#4045 First Presbyterian Church of Cayuta (Newfield). Records, 1817-1879. #4045, Box 15, 2 vols. (Bapt & Mb; M, 1859-1863,1878 only). Tompkins County.

#4558 Francisco Dusenberry. Pastor's Handbook, 1844-1887. 44 pp. typescript and index. (M). Primarily Dryden and Lansing, Tompkins County. [Original volumes at DeWitt Historical Society, Ithaca.]

#4590 Unitarian Church of Ithaca, NY. Records, 1861-1986. 13 cu. ft. Restricted in part. Constitutions, minutes, correspondence.

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