Skip to main content

Archives at Cornell

Ontario County (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings DO NOT USE

Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:

Thayer Gauss diary

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6144
Scope and content

Records farming activities according to season; social meetings attended, including anti-slavery and temperance lectures, town meetings, library meetings and railroad meetings; church services attended at the First Congregational Church of East Bloomfield (of which he and his family were members and he a trustee); revival meetings; and family events.

Dates: 1826-1858.

Trinity Episcopal Church of Geneva records

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1: [Barcode: 31924098998499]
Identifier: 6013
Abstract

Two volumes (1805-1836 and 1836-1855) listing marriages, baptisms, confirmations, burials, communicants, individual parishioners and some financial records. Two volumes of vestry minutes (1806-1836 and 1836-1874) contain detailed entries concerning official church functions and brief notes on elections for various officers, pew allocation, construction of the church building, acquisition or sale of vaious accroutrements, and various functionary resolutions.

Dates: 1805-1874.

Young Men's Association (West Bloomfield, N.Y.) meeting minutes

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 6268
Scope and content

1 volume labeleld "The Property of the West Bloomfield Young Mens Assn."

Dates: 1836-1844.