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New York (State) -- Religious life and customs.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Hermon L. Brockway letters

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065226353]
Identifier: 3928
Scope and content

Letters to Rev. and Mrs. Hermon L. Brockway.

Dates: [1909?]-1921.

Lyman Stuart collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1997
Abstract

Correspondence and other papers of several New York State families, discussing everyday events and problems, agriculture, religion, and prices; also, Civil War letters of the Carver brothers of Savannah, New York.

Dates: 1803-1895.

New York State Church and Religious Organization publications and ephemera

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924131860961]
Identifier: 699
Scope and content Cards, booklets, and programs concerning the activities of churches in various towns in New York, including Prattsburgh, Bath, Pulteney, and Ingleside, with a few from other places such as Boston, Massachusetts. Most of the items are from the Methodist, Baptist, and Presbyterian churches. Included are lists of prayer meeting topics, programs for meetings of youth groups such as the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor (Presbyterian), the Baptist Young People's Union, and the King's...
Dates: 1891-1908.

William Colbert journal

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1: [Barcode: 31924094428285]
Identifier: 6088
Abstract The journal records the travels and work of William Colbert as a Methodist circuit rider with lengthy and detailed descriptions of towns and settlements visited, texts delivered in sermons, travel and weather conditions, Colbert's health, opinions regarding the progress of Methodism in New York, conferences and general meetings attended, and reflections on his own spiritual progress as a Methodist minister, size and spiritual condition of classes and congregations visited and baptisms,...
Dates: 1792-1804.

William Pierrepont White and family collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 399
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries, deeds, accounts, maps, surveys, pamphlets, statements, registers, bills, land contracts, inventories, cashbooks, indentures, minutes, and other records and papers reflecting the westward and southward movement of members of the White and related families.

Dates: 1728-1939.