Guide to the Methodist Episcopal Church Records - New York Public ...

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Note: revised 10/79
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Arrangement within the group is as follows: Those registers which
contains name-lists only, or thoae volumes largely made up of
such lists, precede other material rminutes[ etc.1 & have their
own alphabet.
~,,=d ninutes frequently include attendance records of board members.
Burial8 of dependent members are noted in the Poor Fund Accounts.
Church Bistary has not been attempted & information concerning the
formation, pastors & history of NYC churches will be found
in the following:
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Classbook & Classes sheuld not be confused. Cl~sbook is an attendance
reBord of one or two classes. Claeses is a list of nares of those
comprising the saveral classes of a church.
Claw Records, usually wanting dates, are dated from external evidenca
only & auch dating is not assumed to be exact.
Euly Registers vill ale.* be found under the heading:
Hew York City, General Records
Methodist Episcopal Church of New Yark
In the early days, records were also kept for the entire church in
the city. lowever, in agreement with paragraph X1. these specific
records preceded the General Records.
Obituaries rill occasionally be found in those volumes containing
an historical or pastorical record.
Officials, being appointed by tha proper Quarterly Conference,
may ba found in the Minutes of the body, if no separate list ia
available.
~dlpp~wrdrrerfc4,iwing to the popularity of starting a
new volume with a new pastor or a new recorder, and thus the resulting
necessity of copying the old records into the new.
We Circuits were created in 1832, hmfwhkch before there were no
record. for either Eaet or West Circuit. Later separate records
appeared, although some of the bodies (see # 9B p. 9) continued
meeting jointly for some years after the division.