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East Bloomfield (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.

 Subject
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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

First Congregational Church of East Bloomfield records

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1: [Barcode: 31924124585427]
Identifier: 6150
Scope and content Three volumes of church and church committee meeting minutes (1796-1805, 1807, 1811-1822 and 1841-1895) which also contain lists of members, baptisms, deaths, and marriages, copies of the church covenant and articles of faith, a list of resolutions passed and an account of revivals in the church; and one volume of trustee records which contain minutes (1811-1874) and miscellaneous accounts. In addition there is a copy of a "historical discourse" published in 1852; five volumes of Sunday...
Dates: 1796-1895.

First Methodist Episcopal Church of East Bloomfield records

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 6162
Scope and content

Trustee meeting minutes (1861-1900), two membership registers (1866-1884, 1864-1913), and annual meeting minutes of the Sunday school board (1871-1884).

Dates: 1860-1911.

Henry Kendall papers

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 6163
Scope and content

Journal from trip to Boston as delegate from the Western Education Society (May 23-June 14, 1854); a diary (April 9, 1855-September 19, 1881); an academic notebook called an "index rerun"; his 1851 New Year's sermon; his 1855 Thanksgiving sermon; an historical sketch of the First Congregational Church of East Bloomfield, New York.

Dates: 1851-1881.

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.