Notes on The Records of the First Church of Boston

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Contents 1 WikiTree Pages of Interest 2 Bibliographic Notes 3 Research Notes 4 Sources

WikiTree Pages of Interest

• Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts

Bibliographic Notes

• The Records of the First Church of Boston, Richard D. Pierce, ed., in Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, vol. 39 (Boston : Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1961); digital images, InternetArchive (borrow).
• Pulled from NEHGR 176,

• 176 (2022):12, [Twenty-Fourth] Report of the Record Commissioners Containing Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630–1699 (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1883), 72: [1659] First Church, “Benjamin of John Swett of Ch. of Newberry 29 day 11 mo.” The same appears in Robert J. Dunkle and Ann S. Lainhart, The Records of the Churches of Boston, CD-ROM (Boston: NEHGS, 2001; online at americanancestors.org), 204: “[First Church] Beniman the sone of John Swett a member of the Church of Newberry the 29th day of the 11th moneth 1659.”
• 176 (2022):83, Robert J. Dunkle and Ann S. Lainhart, The Records of the Churches of Boston, CD-ROM (Boston: NEHGS, 2002); also online at AmericanAncestors.org as Boston, MA: Church Records, 1630–1895.

Research Notes

• These records appear published in different forms, but see Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts (continuing); Index, for

• Volume 39: The Records of the First Church in Boston, 1630–1868, begins here, with outline,

Preface

Illustrations

Historical Introduction

Lists

Pastors and Teachers

Ruling Elders

Deacons

Meeting Houses

Church Records

Volume One

Admissions to Membership, 1630–1778; Church Discipline, Dismissals; Occasional Church ::::Votes, 1630–1738

Church Votes, 1719–1785

Baptisms, 1630–1847

• Volume 40: 'The Records of the First Church in Boston, 1630–1868, begins here, with outline,

Volume One (continued)

Baptisms, 1666–1847

Legacies

Volume Two

Admissions to Membership, 1786–1824

Church Votes, 1828–1841

Admissions to Membership, 1927–1956

Baptisms, 1794

Admissions to Membership, 1829–1955

Volume Three

Church Votes, 1841–1842

(Marriages, 1778–1786)

Legacies, 1671–1815

Church Votes, 1843–1868

Baptisms, 1848–1868

Volume Four

Meetings of Church and Congregation, 1786–1815

Volume Five

Records of Proprietors of Pews, 1808–1837

• Volume 41: The Records of the First Church in Boston, 1630–1868, begins here, with outlne.

Volume Five (continued)

Volume Six

General Index

Index of Names

Corrigenda

Sources