Cambridgeport Parish (Cambridge, Mass.). Records, 1808-1885
Overview
Records of the parish, 1808-1885.
Dates
- Creation: 1808-1885
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on access to this collection.
Extent
0.7 cubic feet (2 boxes)This collection consists of the records of the Cambridgeport Parish, 1808-1885. For church records (including births, marriages and deaths) see the Third Congregational Society records. For a record of births, marriages, and deaths during Thomas Brattle Gannett's ministry see the collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Biographical / Historical
The Cambridgeport Meeting-house Corporation was established June 15, 1805, and the meeting house on the common bounded by Broadway, Harvard, Columbia, and Boardman Streets was dedicated January 1, 1807. The parish itself was organized in March 1808 and the church in July 1809. Their second meeting house, on Austin Street, was built in 1834. In 1885, the Cambridgeport Parish merged with the Third Congregational Society and took on the name and endowment of the Third Congregational Society. The Cambridgeport Parish was also known as the Harvard Street Church after 1911 when it moved to a new building on Harvard Street. It merged with the First Parish in 1939.
- 1814-1833 Thomas Brattle Gannett
- 1834-1846 Artemas Bowers Muzzey
- 1846-1864 John Fothergill Waterhouse Ware
- 1865 Henry Clapp Badger
- 1867-1895 George Ware Briggs
Ministers
- 1814-1833
- Thomas Brattle Gannett
- 1834-1846
- Artemas Bowers Muzzey
- 1846-1864
- John Fothergill Waterhouse Ware
- 1865
- Henry Clapp Badger
- 1867-1895
- George Ware Briggs
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of the First Parish in Cambridge and secured by Dr. Conrad Wright, 1974.
Processed by:
Alan Seaburg, 1981.
- Title
- Cambridgeport Parish (Cambridge, Mass.) Records (bMS 455): A Finding Aid
- Author
- Andover-Harvard Theological Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- div00455
Repository Details
Part of the Harvard Divinity School Library, Harvard University Repository
Special Collections at Harvard Divinity School Library preserves and makes accessible primary source materials documenting the history of religion and theology, with particular historical emphasis on American liberal religious traditions. Though the historical strengths of the collections have been in the field of Christianity, other religious traditions are increasingly reflected, in step with Harvard Divinity School's evolving focus on global religious studies. Known as Andover-Harvard Theological Library since 1911, it was renamed the Harvard Divinity School Library in 2021.
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