METHODIST CHURCH RECORDS. MASSACHUSETTS.
Boston. Hanover
Street Methodist Episcopal Church. [CH-MA B6 H3]
The first Boston Congregation moved from Bennett
Street in 1849 to a former Congregational Church on Hanover Street. It merged
with Grace Methodist Episcopal Church in 1873 to form the First
Methodist Episcopal Church (Temple Street), variously called First, Grace
or Temple Street. After the move, a small congregation kept meeting on Hanover
Street but ceased around 1879.
- 2 v. 1851-1873.
Trustee's and leader's records: 1851-1873 (damaged by water and mold)
Bible class members: 1866-1867.
Sunday School missionary collections: 1863-1871.
Sunday School officers: 1864-1867.
Sunday School teachers and members: 1864.
Envelope:Quarterly tickets for Wm. C. Child (Feb 29, 1856 and Sept
5, 1856); Receipt to Wm. C. Child for sixty dollars in support of public worship
in the Hanover Street Methodist Episcopal Church (1857); Subscriptions and
Apportionments of the Hanover Street M.E. Church (1858); List of Subscriptions
and Apportionments for the Support of Public Worship in the Hanover Street
M.E. Church (1859); Stereopticon slide of interior of Hanover Street church
showing the 1866 John Wesley marble plaque in its original location; List
of subscribers (1870) to construct new church on Hanover Street; Order of
Exercises at the Dedication of the (new house of the) First Methodist Episcopal
Church, Hanover Street (June 14, 1871); Newspaper article on Cockerell weathervane
from the old Hanover Street church, sold 1873; Engraving on light-weight illustration
paper, possibly detached from a book, once folded in thirds, of First Methodist
Episcopal Church, Hanover Street, Boston; photograph mounted of First M.E.
Church, Hanover St, Boston 1870, showing new facade with groundplans in corners;
Order of exercises at the Anniversary Celebration of the Hanover Street M.E.
Sabbath School (April 8, 1852); Hymns to be sung at the Third Anniversary
of the Mission School connected with the Hanover St.M.E. Church (1855); Constitution
of the Hanover Street M.E. Sabbath School (1856); Order of exercises at the
42d Anniversary Celebration of the Hanover Street M.E. Sabbath School (April
24, 1861); manuscript (6 p.) report of committee "to consider the question
of the legality of the late transfer of the Hanover St. Church property in
Boston to the Grace Church of Boston."
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