Three record books (1825-1839, 1839-1858, 1853-1874) which record regular covenant, special and annual meeting minutes and lists of members, male and female. The church had several revivals and passed resolutions against secret societies and for open seating.

Covenant meeting minutes, church covenant and articles on doctrine; membership lists (1830-1851); a church history (1842-1852); and reports to the association (1852-1859).

Church covenant, articles of faith, minutes of the council called upon to constitute the church, covenant, and annual meeting minutes (1842-1896) and membership lists.

Original records includes minutes, a manuscript history of the church by Asa Starr, a membership list, an agreement as to a bequest by James Duane Squiers, and an indenture. Also a "Manual of the First Baptist Church" (1880), the minutes of the sixty-fourth anniversary of the Cortland Baptist Association (1891) and manuscript minutes of the Baptist missionary society (1884-1891).

Includes one volume of records containing church membership and trustees' meeting minutes (1834-1889) and a copy of the church covenant.

Minutes of monthly covenant meetings, yearly election of trustees, and quarterly financial meetings (1835-1865), discussing church discipline, revival seasons, and church finances, including the construction of a new church.

Trustee special and annual meeting minutes (1828-1836, 1838-1845) and the church covenant and articles of faith.

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.

One volume of covenant meeting minutes (1819-1894); one volume of annual meeting to elect trustees minutes (1825-1899); issues of the American Baptist Magazine and Missionary Intelligencer (Volume IV, no. 5; Volume III, no. 4); and minutes of the twentieth-seventh annual meeting of the Seneca Baptist Association (1848). Covenant meeting minutes document a split in 1828, accounts of revivals, church discipline and doctrine.

Minutes of monthly church meetings, later called conferences (1858-1895); annual church meetings (1867-1895); and covenant meetings; various membership lists (1859-1894); and a subscription list.