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Parkman and early Westborough church records (including Church Records, Vol. 1) and records and documents relating to the history of the Evangelical Congregational Church.
Official collection name: Historical Records of the Evangelical Congregational Church, 1717-2004
Location: Shelving
Local identifier: LH.082
Creator: Evangelical Congregational Church
Date: 1717-2004
Extent: 4.5 linear feet (6 boxes plus oversize box)
Subject: First Congregational Church–Westborough (Mass.); Evangelical Congregational Church (Westborough, Mass.)
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LH082 – Evangelical Congregational Church – 2021-02-08
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The records in this collection document the administrative, financial, and regular activities of the Evangelical Congregational Church, which was formed after the first Congregational Church split into two separate churches in 1834. Genealogists will especially be interested in the financial records (Series 2), which include property assessments of church members, and membership records (Series 5), which provide valuable information about the movement of church members into and out of Westborough. Note: Needs to be reprocessed. See also 2016.01 First Congregational Church Records.
Official collection name: Historical Records of the Evangelical Congregational Church, Westborough, MA, 1784-1914
Location: Shelving and Oversize
Local identifier: OD.009
Creator: Evangelical Congregational Church, Westborough, MA
Date: 1784-1914
Extent: 5.5 linear feet (7 boxes + one oversize box)
Subject: Evangelical Congregational Church (Westborough, Mass.)
Finding aid: OD009 – Evangelical Congregational Church – 2020-11-23
Microfilm, atlas. Copies of the papers of Ebenezer Parkman and his family, plus an atlas that appears to have been used, and possibly created, by Ebenzer Parkman while he was at Harvard University.
Official collection name: Parkman Family Papers, 1707-1800
Location: Shelving
Local identifier: LH.017
Creator: Ebenezer Parkman and Family
Date: 1707-1800
Extent: 2 linear feet (7 microfilm rolls + atlas)
Subject: Parkman, Ebenezer, 1703-1782; Parkman family
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Most of the records in this collection fall between the late eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century. They document the administrative activities of the Town of Westborough, including town meetings, selectman activities, indenture servant contracts, church records, military records, and the layout of the town boundary, roads, and bridges. Genealogists will find valuable information in the Vital Records, Indentures, Military, and Church Records series.
Official collection name: Historical Records of the Town of Westborough: Administrative Documents
Location: Shelving and Oversize
Local identifier: OD.001
Creator: Town of Westborough
Date: 1724-1929
Extent: 3 linear feet (1 banker box + one oversize box)
Subject: Westborough (Mass.)–Politics and government
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Finding aid: Westborough Administrative Docs 18-01-10
Three scrapbooks, financial account books, correspondence, annual reports. Current holdings are the first installment of historical records that the Unitarian Universalist Congregational Society of Westborough will deposit in the Westborough Public Library.
Official collection name: Unitarian Universalist Congregational Society of Westborough Records
Location: Overflow (4 boxes) and under map case (2 boxes)
Local identifier: LH.063
Creator: Unitarian Universalist Congregational Society of Westborough
Date: 1825 – present
Extent: 3.5 linear feet (6 boxes)
Subject: Unitarian Universalist Congregational Society of Westborough (Mass.)
Records and documents relation to the Westborough Baptist Church, including newsletters and baptismal records.
Official collection name: Westborough Baptist Church Records
Location: Under map case.
Local identifier: LH.065
Creator: First Baptist Church of Westborough
Date: Undetermined (mostly ca. 19th century)
Extent: One unprocessed box.
Subject: First Baptist Church of Westborough (Mass.)
Websites for religious institutions in Westborough.
Official collection name: Westborough Religious Institutions Websites Collection
Local identifier: LH.076
Creator: Westborough Public Library
Date: 2018 – present
Subject: Society & Culture; Religious institutions–Westborough (Mass.)
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