Abstract

The collection pertains chiefly to investments in lands in New York State, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Nebraska, to interests in mining, railway, mercantile, banking, and other business ventures, and to the settlement of family estates.

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A complete series of session minutes for both the Old Style Church (1808-1835, 1835-1850, 1850-1883) and the Presbyterian Church of Bath-Constitutional which was separated from 1838-1871 and membership lists, registers of baptisms, marriages and deaths. Session records document the split in the congregation and church discipline.

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Biographical study of Niles religious activities, by Sarah W. Parker.

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One volume of preprinted register containing lists of baptisms, marriages, probationers, members and classes.

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One volume of session meeting minutes (1831-1864, 1874) with a membership list in the back and one volume of minutes of the annual meeting to elect trustees (1833-1845).

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Two volumes vestry meeting minutes, a register of burials, confirmations, baptisms, marriages and communicants, and alphabetical indexes to baptisms, marriages, confirmations and burials.

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Account books and subscribers' list for a bible study society, Bath and Prattsburg New York.

Scope and content Cards, booklets, and programs concerning the activities of churches in various towns in upstate 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 in Prattsburgh. 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...