New Haven · Membership and death references
Center Church historical catalogue, 1639–1914 · scan page 11
Uncorrected OCR. Name spellings, dates, symbols and column order may be wrong. Verify against the original scan. Membership catalogue with death dates and family notes. Entries before 1685 are partly reconstructed; admission dates are not death dates. It does not establish cemetery of burial.
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Public worship was set up in New Haven in 1638, and the First Church of Christ was organized in 1639. The earhest extant record of admissions begins in 1685. Dis- missions are first recorded in 1812, though for many years after that date with much irregularity. From the record of baptisms, the town records, and other sources, a partial list of members before 1685 has been made, though necessarily incomplete ; in this list names are assigned, conjecturally, to the dates of the earliest known intimations of membership. -*- _lt- l-> «-^J ^.' *_*! O The prefix c indicates that a person was received by certificate from another church ; in cases of the admission of a husband and wife at the same date, details are given in full under the husband's name only. Italics indicate a woman's family name before marriage, her husband's Christian name following in parenthesis; zv. before the husband's name signifies undozv. The names of ordained ministers are in Capitals.
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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P001-0011. Center Church historical catalogue, 1639–1914, printed page not verified, PDF page 11. Dexter, Franklin Bowditch, 1842-1920. cn; digitized copy contributed by Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center https://archive.org/details/historicalcatalo00dext/page/n11/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.
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