Scope and content

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).

Scope and content Photocopies of seven volumes and six unbound items including covenant meetings and regular and special church meetings; lists of baptisms, admissions, financial assessments and subscriptions; tabulations of votes cast in the election of church elders and pastors; and records of the appointment of special committees. Each volume also contains the church covenant, the articles of faith and practice as last revised, and a current membership list with details of the nature of each member's...