Manuscript Group 3
CHURCH AND CEMETERY RECORDS COLLECTION
1764-1882
2.0 cu. ft.
A collection of church records from across Pennsylvania. These may include business
records; congregational records; and listings of baptisms, confirmations and
burials.
ADAMS COUNTY, 1798-1864
- Old Hill Church, Freedom Township (4 folders)
- Contingent Fund and Receipt Book, Nov. 10, 1822-June 26, 1847. {#3m.1}
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- Congregational Record, 1814-1855. {#3m.2} [Holdings]
- Financial Accounts, 1829-1853, undated {#3m.3} [Holdings]
- Stipends or Financial Account, 1798-1864. {#3m.4} [Holdings]
BERKS COUNTY, 1764-1848
- Tulpehocken Church, Stouchsburg (2 folders)
- Christening Register, (in German), 1764-1848. {#3m.5} [Holdings]
- Treasurer's Account Book, (in German), 1764-1845. {#3m.6} [Holdings]
CUMBERLAND COUNTY, 1806-1959
- Peace Church (9 folders)
- Articles of Agreement & Receipts, 1833-1859. (copies) {#3m.7}
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- By Laws for Regulation of Peace Church Premices and Graveyard, June
19, 1837. {#3m.8} [Holdings]
- Record Books (Including Minutes of Trustees, Resolutions, Reports, Correspondence,
Subscription Lists, Accounts and Programs) , May 28, 1838-August 1, 1927,
May 1, 1929-June 14, 1959. (2 folders) {#3m.9} [Holdings]
- Legal Papers, 1858-1892. {#3m.10} [Holdings]
- Subscription Lists, 1810-1866. {#3m.11) [Holdings]
- Receipts, 1806-1913. (2 folders) {#3m.12} [Holdings]
- Photograph, Reformed Synod on a Visit to St. John's Church (Peace Church),
1902. (Clara K. Coover) {#3m.13} [Holdings]
DAUPHIN COUNTY, 1803-1983
- Harrisburg Church
- Lottery, 1803. (manuscript original) {#3m.14} [Holdings]
- Shoop's Church, Lutheran and Reformed Congregation
- Records of Communicants, Confirmations, Baptisms and Burials, 1830-1872.
(original in good condition) {#3m.15} [Holdings]
- Lutheran Hill Church
- Sand Hill Lutheran Church Records, 1752-1835. (Returned, 1973 to St.
Paul's Lutheran Church, Hummelstown, PA)
- Lutheran Hill Church Charter, 1817. (Returned as above)
- Chisuk Emuna Congregation, Harrisburg
- Constitution, 1883-1884. {#3m.16} [Holdings]
- Business Records, 1859, 1894, 1905-1926. {#3m.17} [Holdings]
- Congregational Records, 1890-1945, 1959. {#3m.18} [Holdings]
- Correspondence, 1957-1958, 1971. {#3m.19} [Holdings]
- Minutes, Congregational Meetings, 1893-1897, 1903, 1929-1934, 1946-1954,
1956. (8 folders) {#3m.20} [Holdings]
- Histories, 1957-1958, 1983, undated {#3m.21} [Holdings]
- News Clippings, 1894-1957. {#3m.22} [Holdings]
- Oral History Project for Congregation, 1982, undated {#3m.23} [Holdings]
- Slides, undated {#3m.24} [Holdings]
- Church of the United Brethren in Christ, Harrisburg
- Machsikey Hadas Congregation
- Program for the 40th Anniversary Banquet, 1946. {#3m.25} [Holdings]
- Miscellaneous Congregational Records, 1927-1929, undated. {#3m.26}
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- Tiperath Israel Congregation
FAYETTE COUNTY
- Tyrone United Presbyterian Church, Lower Tyrone Township
- Church history in form of a pamphlet with list of names found in their
cemetery and reprinting some early records with names of parishoners sometimes
found, 1974. {#3m.30} [Holdings]
FRANKLIN COUNTY
- Path Valley and Falling Springs Church
- United Presbyterian Church, Mercersburg
LEBANON COUNTY
- Lebanon Conference, East Pennsylvania Synod
NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY
PHILADELPHIA COUNTY
- Third Reformed Dutch Church (Philadelphia?)
- Receipt Book, 1845. (Money received for contributions for improvement
of organ) {#3.39} [Holdings]
SOMERSET COUNTY
- Samuel's Evangelical Church, Somerset Township
- Records, 1785-1793. (originals mostly in German) {#3m.40} [Holdings]
VENANGO COUNTY
- Concord Congregation, Pleasantville (of the Pittsburgh Synod and Presbytery
of Erie)
- Session Book, 1843-1882. (containing minutes of sessions; and records
of collections, membership, baptisms and marriages) {#3m.41} [Holdings]
MISCELLANEOUS
- Lyst der Noodly dende Kerken en Persoonen... [List of Needy Churches and
Persons dealt with by Christian Synod of Overijsel by Theodorus Van der
Bell, Clergyman], 1769. (Includes reports on needy churches and persons
in Netherlands, Poland, France, Pennsylvania. The sections on Pennsylvania
p. 32-34 cites publications on conditions of churches in Pennsylvania; mentions
Michael Schlatter, clergyman, Philadelphia, as the writer of one of the
publications.) {#3m.42} [Holdings]