Congregational churches -- Connecticut
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Bartram family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 63
Overview:
The principal figures in the papers are Captain Thomas Bartram, a shipmaster of Black Rock, Connecticut, and his two sons, Joseph and Thomas Burr Bartram. The papers consist chiefly of records connected with the operation of their schooner, Live Oak (1823-1851) and financial and legal papers relating to land transactions in Fairfield, Connecticut (1800-1846). Also included are a small amount of family correspondence, genealogical materials, financial records of the First Congregational Society...
Dates:
1795-1928
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Bartram family papers
Samuel Clarke Bushnell papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1292
Overview:
Reminiscences, diaries and scrapbooks, relating to Samuel C. Bushnell's personal life, travels and student days at Yale University (1870-1877), and religious career as a Congregational minister in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Dates:
1852-1930
Samuel Clarke Bushnell Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 77
Overview:
The papers consist primarily of manuscript sermons dating from 1877 to 1928. Samuel Clarke Bushnell (1852-1928), a Yale Divinity School graduate, was a Congregational minister in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Dates:
1877-1928
Amos Sheffield Chesebrough papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 888
Overview:
Sermons, speeches, diaries, and commonplace books of Amos Sheffield Chesebrough and four letters from Joseph Hopkins Twichell. The diaries were kept during a trip to Europe in 1857 in which Cheesebrough visited London, Heidelberg and other German cities. The sermons, which make up the major portion of the papers, span the period when he was pastor in churches in Chester, Glastonbury, Vernon and Durham, Connecticut.
Dates:
1839-1904
Elisha Lord Cleaveland papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 139
Overview:
The papers deal chiefly with his ministry in the Third Congregational Church of New Haven and include diaries, account books, clippings, lecture notes, and sermons. The 1,300 sermons make up three-fourths of the papers. His diaries (1850-1864) are largely a record of his ministerial duties, but also contain an account of his brother's death (December 1863) and of his visits to a criminal condemned to be executed (July 1846). The lecture notes were apparently intended for use at the Andover...
Dates:
1834-1866
James Wesley Cooper papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 791
Overview:
Chiefly correspondence and diaries of James Wesley Cooper documenting his career as a Congregational minister, and his service as a Fellow of Yale University (1886-1916). The only personal correspondence are forty-four letters from Cooper to his fiancée in 1865 and fourteen additional letters (1877-1905). The diaries (1869-1914) provide a daily record of his work as a minister and of his visits to churches and schools in the South supported by the American Missionary Association. He was an...
Dates:
1787-1925, bulk 1787-1916
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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James Wesley Cooper papers
Pierpont Edwards papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1357
Overview:
These papers contain legal and financial documents relating to Edwards's business activities and his legal career, most of which was carried on in New Haven. Also included are drafts of his political writings and speeches on the Federalist Party, Connecticut's charter government, and other topics. Most of Edwards's correspondence concerns his land speculation in Vermont, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and especially Connecticut's Western Reserve in Ohio. Major correspondents are William Neilson,...
Dates:
1764-1826
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Pierpont Edwards papers
Goodrich Family Papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 242
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, business and legal documents, sermons, lectures, and other writings of the Goodrich family, descendants of Elizur Goodrich (1734-1797), and members of related Webster, Coe, Ellsworth, and Fowler families. The bulk of the correspondence concerns Chauncey Allen Goodrich's publication and copyright of an abridgement and revision of Webster's dictionary and the resulting disagreements among the heirs of Noah Webster. The papers also highlight Elizur Goodrich's...
Dates:
1732-1905
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Goodrich Family Papers
Robbins family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1169
Overview:
Correspondence, notes, sermons, poems, diaries, and miscellanea of the Robbins family of Branford and Enfield, Connecticut. Philemon Robbins, 1709-1781, a minister, and Ammi Ruhamah Robbins, 1740-1813, are central family members.
Dates:
1719-1850
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Robbins family papers
David Smith Papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1399
Overview:
The papers consist of a selection of David Smith's personal papers and a library of his autograph sermons dating from 1796 to 1859. The personal papers are autograph manuscripts including ten volumes of his journals, his school notes, speeches, and keys to the abbreviations he used in his writings. Also present is Smith's manuscript song book containing compositions on themes such as Bunker Hill and the death of General James Wolfe, an autograph sermon by Rev. Alexander Gillet (1749-1826), and...
Dates:
1790-1859
Edward Comfort Starr papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1166
Overview:
Correspondence of family members and associates sent to Edward C. Starr from Connecticut and China, including items relating to the Congregational Church.
Dates:
1854-1916, bulk 1868-1916
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Edward Comfort Starr papers
Waterman family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 793
Overview:
The papers represent four generations of the Nehemiah Waterman family of Norwich, Connecticut. The principal figures are Elijah Waterman and his son Thomas Tileston Waterman, both Congregational ministers. The papers of Elijah Waterman consist of correspondence with other ministers, approximately 125 sermons, and histories of Woodstock, Pomfret, Lebanon and Hampton, Connecticut. The papers of Thomas Tileston Waterman also contain professional correspondence, sermons and religious publications....
Dates:
1757-1954, bulk 1757-1911
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Waterman family papers