Of particular note are the personal conversion narratives, called "relations", found in several of the collections. In this series you will find records of: church meetings and votes births, deaths, baptisms, and marriages church discipline, including admonitions, confessions, censures, and excommunications ecclesiastical council minutes. They speak to the lives of their ministers, the events and concerns of their communities, the civil affairs of the town, and the lives of the people who sat in the pews. These collections describe the founding and operating of these churches, their concerns, difficulties, and triumphs. This series contains collections of church records documenting early Puritan, Congregational, and Christian (denomination) history in New England.
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