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Prattsburg (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.

 Subject
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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Baptist Church of Prattsburg records

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 6135
Scope and content

Covenant meeting minutes (1842-1890); membership lists (1842-1934); and annual and special trustee meeting minutes (1843-1892).

Dates: 1842-1919.

Benjamin Russell papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2181
Scope and content Contains one volume of autobiographical material and diary entries and correspondence. Volume contains an autobiographical sketch of Russell's youth, dealing mainly with his earnest desire to become a minister despite poor health and poverty and his efforts to educated himself, and diary entries (1833-1842) concerning his theological studies, work as the Chautauqua County agent of the American Bible Society,lectures on temperance, preaching in Western New York both before and after his...
Dates: 1833-1891.

Congregational Church of Prattsburg records

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 6111
Scope and content

A complete series of standing committee session meeting minutes to 1872 in 5 volumes, annual meeting minutes (1856-1877) and a register of baptisms and members (1804-1877). Standing committee (session after 1868) minutes contain particularly detailed disciplinary cases, a high number of resolutions on social issues and accounts of numerous revivals.

Dates: 1804-1876.

First Baptist Church of Prattsburg records

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 6134
Scope and content

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

Dates: 1828-1845.

Prattsburg and Italy Hill Circuit quarterly conference meeting minutes

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 6117
Scope and content

Minutes of the board of the Prattsburg and Italy Hill circuit which at various times also included classes at Wixom Hill, Harmonyville and Bardeen.

Dates: 1851-1894.

Steuben County Bible Society records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938347]
Identifier: 99
Scope and content

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

Dates: 1818-1877.