Second Congregational Church Record Inventory
VOLUMES ON DEPOSIT
Assessor's Records, vol. 1, 1735-1786
Blank record book, no date
Cash Book, 1795-1866
Cash Book, 1911-1944
Cash Book, 1938-1955
Church Council notebook, 1969-1972
Church Incorporation Records, 1973-1974
Church Records, vol. 1, 1736-1851
Church Records, vol. 2, 1848-1906
Church Records, vol. 3, 1915-1963
Church Records, vol. 3A, 1963
Church Records, vol. 5, 1976-1984
Church's bible, 1871
Clerk's Record of Members, 1928-1973
Clerk's Records, 1906-1953
Clerk's Records, 1952-1954
Membership List, 1895-1972
Ministerial Fund Cash and Expense Book, 1831-1961 (gaps)
Parish record book transcriptions, 1735-1775
Parish Records, vol. 1, 1735-1776
Parish Records, vol. 2, 1776-1845
Parish Records, vol. 3, 1845-1905
Parish Records, vol. 4, 1905-1973
Parsonage building committee notebook, 1941-1942
Poll Tax Records, 1792-1865
Record of Pew Sales, 1843-1854
Records of the "Gleaner's Society", 1884-1897
Sunday School Records, 1908-1910
Treasurer's Records, 1847-1920
Treasurer's Records, 1920-1938
Trustees of Parish Funds, 1873-1923
Trustees of Parish Funds, 1873-1962
Trustees of Parish Funds, 1962-1973
Box 1 - Ministers
Ordinations
Walt, Leanne Sterio
Rev. Clayton C. Adkins
Rev. Kenneth A. Boyle
Rev. Homer Nelson Clark
Rev. J. Kenneth Clinton
Rev. Norman B. Crook
Rev. John Cushing
Rev. Harold C. Cutbill
Rev. Robert Galen Dana
Rev. Edward D. Disbrow
Rev. Peter Eaton
Rev. Laura Abernethy Gronberg
Rev. William O. Hoover, Jr.
Rev. Elizabeth Horne (interim)
Rev. Charles L. Hubbard
Rev. Owen James
Rev. Elizabeth Ann King (interim)
Rev. Douglas M. MacIntosh
Rev. Jeanne Wynne Marechal
Rev. Marvin E. Maris
Rev. James McLean
Rev. Donna Lee Muise
Rev. J. Everett Neese
Rev. Calvin Emmons Park
Rev. Frederick Powell
Rev. Edwin G. Remaly
Rev. Donald A. Rosenberger
Rev. Samuel Rowe
Rev. John Rufus Simudzewako Rugayo
Rev. William Sahak Sahakian
Rev. F. Arthur Sanborn
Rev. John D. Staffeld
Rev. Milton F. Sweet
Rev. William Taylor
Rev. Eugene C. Webster (1906 rejection)
Pastoral candidates, 1873-1878; 1915-1916
Rev. Hilary Bygrave
Rev. H.D. Sargent
Rev. Theodore L. Day
Rev. E.S. Huntress
Rev. Granville Yager
Rev. J.S. Batchelder
Rev. Waldo Johnson
Box 2 - Church history and anniversaries
Second Church - Historian
Second Church – History (includes Parish also)
Second Church - Historical anniversaries, 1843
Second Church - Historical anniversaries, 1885 (Boxford)
Second Church - Historical anniversaries, 1886
Second Church - Historical anniversaries, 1935 (Boxford)
Second Church - Historical anniversaries, 1936
Second Church - Historical anniversaries, 1936
Second Church - Historical anniversaries, 1943
Second Church - Historical anniversaries, 1986
Second Church - Historical anniversaries, 2011
Second Church - Historical records, general
Second Church - Historical records, church bell
Second Church - Historical records, baptisms
Second Church - Historical records, marriages
Second Church - Historical records, deaths
Second Church - "Honoring the Elders", 1997
Second Church - Items relating to the history of Boxford
Box 3 - Parish records
Second Parish - Parish by-laws
Second Parish - Parish meetings - Reports and votes
Second Parish - Parish meetings - Warrants
Second Parish - Parish Committee - Annual reports
Second Parish - Parish Committee - Records
Second Parish - Parish Nominating Committee
Second Parish - Parish Treasurer - annual reports
Second Parish - Parish Trustees of Invested Funds - annual reports
Second Parish - Parsonage Building Committee, 1942
Second Parish - Building Fund Committee, 1964
Second Parish - Building Committee, 1966
Second Parish - Building Restoration Fund Committee, 1970
Box 4 - Parish records
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1836 (double bass viol)
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1843
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1844
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1851
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1860
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1861
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1862
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1865
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1866
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1867
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1874
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1875
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1876
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1877
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1878
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1879
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1880
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1881
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1882
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1883
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1884
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1885
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1886
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1887
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1888
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1889
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1890
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1891
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1892
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1893
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1894
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1895
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1904
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1906
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1907
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1908
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1909
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1910
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1911
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1912
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1913
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1914
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1915
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1916
Second Parish - Bills and receipts, 1919
Second Parish – Deeds/plans
Second Parish - Financial records, 1845-1847
Second Parish - Insurance policies, 1889-1900
Second Parish - Pews, receipts and deeds
Second Parish - Sarah Chadwick school fund
Second Parish - Ephraim Foster school fund
Box 5 - Parish and Church records
Second Church – Parish-Church merger
Second Church – Church/Parish annual budgets
Second Church – Annual meeting ballots
Second Church - Annual /Special meeting records (general)
Second Church - Annual /Special meeting warrants (general)
Second Church – Annual meeting Warrants (general)
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 1972
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 1976
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 1977
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 1978
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 1979
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 1980
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 1981
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 1982
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 1983
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 1984
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 1985
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 1986
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 1987
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 1988
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 1989
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 1990
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 1993
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 1994
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 1996
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 1997
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 1998
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 2000
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 2001
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 2006
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 2007
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 2008
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 2010
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 2011
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 2012
Second Church – Annual meeting records – 2013
Second Church - Financial records, invested funds
Second Church - Financial records, mortgage, 1965
Second Church - Financial records, mortgages, 1989-1991
Second Church - Financial records, mortgages, 2012 burning
Second Church – Financial records, Village School
Second Church - Memorial gifts
Second Church - Memorial tablet
Box 6 - By-Laws
1958-2017
Box 7 - Annual Reports
1956 - 1982/83 (missing 1958)
Box 8 - Annual Reports
1983/84 – 1999
Box 9 - Annual Reports
2000-2018
Box 10 - Second Church records
Second Church – Brochures/pew cards
Second Church – Calendars
Second Church – Christmas cards/schedules
Second Church – Community services and information directory, 1979
Second Church – Core Beliefs
Second Church – "The Sacraments"
Second Church – "Preparing for Death"
Second Church – Lenten Booklets
Second Church – Liturgical colors
Second Church – Events, anti-violence program, 1994
Second Church – Events, auctions
Second Church – Events, Blue Christmas services
Second Church – Events, Chicken Barbecue
Second Church – Events, Church Fellowship Night, ca 1938
Second Church – Events, Dominican Republic exchange, 2001
Second Church – Events, Easter sunrise service
Second Church – Events, Field Day
Second Church – Events, Fundraisers
Second Church – Events, Harvest Supper
Second Church – Events, Holiday fair/boutique
Second Church – Events, Islam discussion, 2001
Second Church – Events, Laity Sunday, 2011
Second Church – Events, Laymen's Sunday, 1963
Second Church – Events, Maundy Thursday/Tenebrae Service, 2011
Second Church – Events, Speakers
Dr. John Thomas, “Faith Engaging Science and Religion”, 2008
Second Church – Events, Welcome Sunday
Second Church – Newsclippings (general)
Second Church – People
Dorothy McGregor Chadwick
Judith Chadwick
Marion McGregor Colby
Helen Monell
Anna Maria Edwards Park
Elizabeth and Simeon Pearl
Second Church – Policies and procedures – communications guidelines, 2010
Second Church – Policies and procedures – communications guidelines, 2012
Second Church – Policies and procedures – endowment, 2009 and 2010 proposal
Second Church – Policies and procedures – safe church, 2010 proposal
Second Church – Policies and procedures – website development, 2002
Box 11 - Repairs and Renovations
Organ
Washington Street sign, no date
Interior painting, 1930
Interior painting, 1948
Addition, 1963-1965
News clippings re addition, 1963
"Rebuilding the steeple", 1970-1977
Steeple removal, 1969-1971 record of expenses
Steeple removal, 1969 structural report
Steeple removal, 1969 steeple work
Steeple removal, 1970 gifts and minor repairs
Steeple removal, 1971 (also interior painting)
News clippings, steeple removal, 1970
Steeple reconstruction, 1976-1977
News clippings, steeple reconstruction, 1977
Staircase lift, 1984
Doors and entrances, 1984; 1987
Colby property consideration, 1989
Capital improvements, 1989
Repairs and renovations, 1989-1990
Removable pew, 1990
Furnace, 1991
Vestry renovations, 1993
Expansion proposal, 1996
Park House purchase, 1997 (2 folders)
Capital fund drive, 1999
Capital fund drive, 2013
Bathroom renovations, 2014
Box 12 - Membership lists and Manuals
Roll of members, 1736-1922
Members' birthdays
Membership mailing lists
Church directories, 1966-1970
Church directories, 1972-1976
Church directories, 1977
Church directories, 1983, 2002
Covenant and confession of faith, 1850
Church manual, 1890
Church manual, 1922 (2 folders)
Church manual, 1939
Box 13 - Directories
1994 Directory working files
2007 Directory working files
Box 14 - Officers
Staff – Church secretary
Auditor
Clerk - annual meeting reports
Clerk - correspondence
Clerk - letters of dismissal
Clerk - dismissals from other churches
Clerk - dissolution of relations
Clerk - records of baptisms
Clerk - record of membership
Clerk - meeting minutes
Clerk – statistics
Box 15 – Committees
Committee membership
Committee responsibilities
Flower/Decorating Committee
Music Committee
Music Committee minutes, 1973-1980
Music Committee – choir, concerts and programs
Nominating Committee
Boxes 16-23 – Committees – Church Council
Minutes - 1961-2019 (incomplete)
Box 24 – Committees – Benevolence/Christian Concern/Outreach
General, 1901-1989
General, 1998-
Minutes – 1953-1970
Minutes – 1989
Minutes – 1990
Minutes – 1991
Minutes – 1996
Minutes – 1997
Minutes – 2002-2004
Box 25 – Committees – Christian Education
Christian Education – Kathie Clark
Christian Education – Christianne Humphrey
Christian Education – Betsy Guest-Natale
Christian Education – Carl McDonald
Adult Education
Heifer Project
Mission Trips
Mission trips – newsclippings
Pilgrim Fellowship
Youth Programs
Sunday School (pre-1960)
Sunday School (1960 – present
Sunday School teachers
Sunday School teacher questionnaire, 1993-1994
Sunday School teacher questionnaire, 1994-1995
Sunday School teacher questionnaire, 1995-1996
Sunday School teacher training
Sunday School – workshop rotation
Sunday School attendance, 1996-1997
Sunday School attendance, 1996-1997
Sunday School attendance, 1996-1997
Sunday School attendance, 1996-1997
Sunday School attendance, 1996-1997
Box 26 – Committees – Christian Education
Minutes – 1964-1969
Minutes – 1986
Handbook – 1987
Minutes – Jan.- May 1987
Minutes – June – Dec.1987
Minutes – 1988
Minutes – 1989
Minutes – 1990
Minutes – 1991
Minutes – 1993
Minutes – 1994
Minutes – 1995
Report – 2000
Committee members – 2003
Also 12 mission trip scrapbooks housed separately
Box 27 - EMPTY
Box 28 - Books and artifacts
The Conversion of the World or the Claims of Six Hundred Millions
Andover: Flagg and Gould for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1818
Belonged to John Foster and then the Female Charitable Society
Memoirs of Mrs. Susan Huntington
Boston: Crocker and Brewster
Donated to the Sabbath School by the Female Charitable Society, 1834
The Bay State Collection of Church Music
A.N. Johnson, Josiah Osgood, and Sumner Hall; Boston: Wilkins, Carter & Company, 1849
Belonged to Nathan Gage
The Holy Bible
London: G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, 1856
A Christian Catechism of one hundred questions for young people and children
Albert W. Hitchcock; Boston: The Pilgrim Press
Belonged to C.L. Hubbard
Ingalls Memorial Public Library Bulletin
West Boxford, Mass.: September 1931
Edward MacHugh's Treasury of Gospel Hymns and Poems
Compiled by Edward MacHugh; Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1938
Small diamond-shaped pane of glass from the first meeting house in West Boxford
Pitch-pipe owned by Capt. John Tyler and probably used at Second Church
Piece of wood from the steeple of Second Church, taken when steeple was removed
Box 29A - Special Committees
Committee to formulate a manual
Pulpit committee, 1976
Self-evaluation steering committee, 1978
Church study committee, 1984
Covenant survey committee, 1984
Handicap access study committee, 1985
Five-year committee, 1986
Committee on the needs of the elderly, 1988
Ministry committee, 1989
Church planning committee, 1990
Pastoral search committee, 1991
Vision committee, 1996 (3 folders)
"Imagine for the love of God" Capital campaign, 1999 (2 folders)
Capital fund campaign, 2000-2001
Box 29B - Special Committees
2007-2013
Box 30A-D - Monthly Messengers
1954 - present
Box 31A-K - Weekly Bulletins
Undated
1920-2018
Box 32 - E-News
2009 – 2014
Box 33A-B - Trustees
1989 – 2019
Box 34 - Stewardship
Box 35 - Deacons
Box 36 - Associated organizations
Christian Endeavor, 1925-1926
Couples Club, 1963 - 1988
Koinonia, 1975 - 1976
Essex North Association - meetings
Essex North Association - calls for ecclesiastical councils
Essex North Association - publications
Essex North Association - reports
Essex North Association - Cezar Chavez
Essex North District - Congregational Christian Women
Greater Haverhill Council of Churches
United Church of Christ
Box 37 - Essex North Association
Box 38 - Financial Records
1970s – 1980s
Box 39A-B - Pledge Receipts
1976 – 1988
Box 40 - Self-Evaluation Steering Committee
1978
LADIES CHARITABLE SOCIETY
Also includes MISSIONARY SOCIETY and KOININIA
Second Church - Ladies Charitable Society
Box 1
LCS records and documents deposited in BHDC
LCS Happenings/e-mail
Annual reports
By-laws
Correspondence, 1914-2008
Financial records – Cancelled checks/deposit slips
Financial records – bank book
Financial records – bank statements
Membership
Officers
Officers/committees – Charity Circle
Officers/committees – Directoresses
Officers/committees – Finance Committee
Officers/committees – Flower committee
Officers/committees – Missionary committee
Officers/committees – Nominating committee
Officers/committees – President
Officers/committees – Secretary (files in Box 2)
Officers/committees – Treasurer (2 folders)
Officers/committees – Welcoming committee
Ladies Charitable Society
Box 2
Officers/committees – Secretary, 1972-1992
Officers/committees – Secretary/Treasurer, 1992-1999
Ladies Charitable Society
Box 3
Awards
News clippings
News clippings (notebook: 1961-1973)
Repairs and renovations
Repairs and renovations – Vestry tea kitchen, 1977-78
Repairs and renovations – Church parlor, 1994
Ladies Charitable Society
Box 4
“Sewing Circle,” 1840-1841
History, written by Rebecca T. Wood
“Memorabilia, 1865-1965”
Anniversaries - 50th (1865)
Anniversaries - 60th (1875)
Anniversaries - 100th (1915)
Anniversaries - 125th (1940)
Anniversaries - 150th (1965)
3 folders
Anniversaries - 195th (2010)
Anniversaries - 200th (2015)
Memorials to members, 1969-1992
Devotional materials
Ladies Charitable Society
Box 5
Cookbook, 1943
Cookbook, 1961
LCS meetings
Fair
Harvest Supper
Apple Festival
Quilts
Fundraisers
Fundraising/meetings ideas
Menus for special occasions
Mother-daughter banquets, 1941-1970
Mother-daughter banquets, 1971-1981
Mother-daughter banquets, 1982-1997
Pageants and plays
Pageants - "Pageant of Brides," 1953
Photographs
Photographs – Pearl’s 70th anniversary celebration, 1984
Photographs – cake decorating class
Ladies Charitable Society
Box 6
Annual programs, 1938 – 1945/46
Annual programs, 1946/47-1955/56
Annual programs, 1956/57-1961/62
Annual programs, 1962/63-1966/67
Annual programs, 1967/68-1970/71
Annual programs, 1971/72-1974/75
Annual programs, 1975/76-1978/79
Annual programs, 1979/80-1982/83
Annual programs, 1983/84-1987/88
Annual programs, 1988/89-1998-99
Annual programs, 1999/2000-
Ladies Charitable Society - Record books
Box 7
Missionary Society – record book, 1875-1929
Ladies Charitable Society - record book, 1892-1928
Ladies Charitable Society - record book, 1930-1942
Ladies Charitable Society - record book, 1942-1948
Ladies Charitable Society - record book, 1948-1954
Ladies Charitable Society - record book, 1954-1960
Ladies Charitable Society - record book, 1960-1964
Ladies Charitable Society - Record books/Treasurer’s books
Box 8
Ladies Charitable Society - record book, 1964-1969
Ladies Charitable Society - record book, 1969-1972
Ladies Charitable Society - Treasurer's book, 1881-1926
Ladies Charitable Society - Treasurer's book, 1927-1954
Ladies Charitable Society - Treasurer's book, 1955-1965
Ladies Charitable Society - Treasurer's book, 1971-1985
Ladies Charitable Society – E.S. Pearl manuscripts
Box 9
Church and LCS history
Church plays
Grange plays
“The Sanborn Family, 1965”
Travel Journal, 1953, 1963
Travel Journal, 1965
Travel Journal, 1967
Journal, 1960-1969
Journal, 1970-1979
Koininia
Box 10
Bylaws
Correspondence
Officers – President’s annual reports
Officers – Secretary, 1964-1965
Officers – Secretary, 1969-1974
Officers – Secretary, 1975-1979
Officers – Secretary, 1980-1986
Membership
Annual programs
Notebooks, 1974-5, 1975-6, 1977-1982, undated
Newspaper clippings
Dinner menus
Mother-Daughter Banquet
Cookbook/recipes
Programs and ideas
Monthly coffee hours
Events, 1974/5
“Shades of Spring” fashion show
Meals on Wheels Project
Church nursery project
Church Fair luncheon
Apple Festival
Inspirational writings
BHDC COLLECTION
Material from the Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, MA relating to Second Church
Boxford Biography - Rev. John Cushing
John Cushing - Continental Army muster information
John Cushing - Justice of the Peace
John Cushing - Miscellaneous
Boxford Second Church - Confession of sins
Ecclesiastical Council, 1773
Ecclesiastical Councils, 1757, 1759
Letters concerning Tyler and Dodge families, 1745-1747
Letters concerning John Wooster, 1745-1747
Marriage intention certificates, Boxford (2 folders)
Marriage intention certificates, Andover
Marriage intention certificates, other towns
Sermons, 18th century
Statements of faith; "Relations"
Transfers, 1740
Boxford Second Parish
Meeting warrants, 1772-1775
Warrant for tax collection, 1773
Rolled Storage
Plan for Second Congregational Church addition and alterations, 1982
Other
Bound together: Psalms (missing title page), and Hymns and Spiritual Songs in three books by Isaac Watts, 1769 (Record Books and Ledgers)