Seeking meaning of 1700's CT Church records abbreviations?

Question

In reading early church records from Preston, CT (1700's) I have come across some abbreviations and terms I do not know the meaning of.  Any help would be appreciated.  They are:

a) o.c.  used as example, "Name, o.c., date, volume, page" - I can only guess it means obtained conversion, but would like to know for sure.  Seems to occur before name shows up as "adm. ch." which I assume means admitted, or "ch. mem." which I assume means given rights of full membership.

b) on his wife's right - this occurs in a baptism listing as follows:  "Name, s. Name2, date, on his wife's right, vol, page"  Elsewhere I have seen similar expression "on his wife's account."  I have never seen on husband's right or account.  I keep feeling there is a clue as to relationships here, but do not know what it is.

See examples in this Space - http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Preston%2C_CT_-_Ayer_Vital_Records

Comments

OC - owing the covenant.  There is (or used to be) a Wikipedia article on the "Half-way Covenant" The other expression seems to be "Admitted Full Communion".

Answer 1

O. C owned the covenant - means you accept the tenets of the church

Wife's right means she's the member of the church, bringing the child to be baptized.

Comments

Typically these kinds of abbreviations are defined in an introductory section of the document in which the records are published. Unfortunately, when you access the records in an online "database" source, sometimes it it is difficult to find the beginning of the document...

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If "on his wife's right" means it is the mother bringing the child to be baptized, does it say anything about whether the husband is a member? or is it simply, he was not present and does not mean anything more than that?

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Unfortunately, in the case in which this arose, the data was on a photocopy of the page on which the relevant entries were contained, and I have no access to the originals from which it was copied.

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In this case, David is clearly a member of the church he & Jerusha owned the covenant on the same day that Charity was baptized, although I've always thought that it could mean the husband was not a member.

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Thank you all.