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Finding aid created by: MRC
Date: 8 Sep 2010
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| 8 Sep 2010 | converted to EAD (MRC) |
| 13 Dec 2016 | rehoused, inventory expanded and updated (MS) |
Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Good Will Congregational Church (Syracuse, N.Y.) |
| Title: | Good Will Congregational Church (Syracuse, N.Y.) Collection |
| Dates: | 1885-1947 |
| Quantity: | 4 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Church records (baptismal records, financial documents, correspondence) and memorabilia (church history, photographs, scrapbooks) |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center |
The Good Will Congregational Church was located on the west side of Syracuse, N.Y. In 1948 it merged with Plymouth Congregational Church which still exists today (2010).
The Good Will Congregational Church (Syracuse, N.Y.) Collection contains a selection of the church's business records (baptismal records, financial documents, treasury records, and other items) and memorabilia relating to general church history, including guest registers, photographs and scrapbooks
Material is arranged alphabetically by type or title.
Access Restrictions:
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Use Restrictions:
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Special Collections Research Center has the records of a number of local churches. Please search our collections to locate this material.
Corporate Bodies
Good Will Congregational Church (Syracuse, N.Y.)
Subjects
Congregational churches -- New York (State) -- History.
Places
New York (State) -- Religious life and customs.
Syracuse (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
Genres and Forms
Baptismal registers.
Church records.
Correspondence.
Financial records.
Minutes (administrative records)
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Good Will Congregational Church (Syracuse, N.Y.) Collection,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Gift of Mary Henderson, 1969.
Business records
History, general
Published material
| Business records | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Benevolences 1919-1922, 1931-1947 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Board of Trustees reports 1901-1926, 1939-1949 (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Bond receipts 1937-1938 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Checkbooks 1943-1944 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Checkbooks 1944-1946 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Checkbooks, Benevolent Fund 1939-1947 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Financial records 1944-1948, undated (4 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Insurance 1938-1943 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Mortgages 1912, 1925 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Sunday contributions 1928-1930 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Treasurer's records 1906-1918 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Treasurer's reports 1920-1922, 1926-1929, 1931-1932, 1936-1938 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Weekly collections 1927 | ||||||||||
| History, general | |||||||||||
| Box 4 | Baptisms records 1940s | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Church Committee Meeting ledger 1913-1929, 1942 - includes looseleaf pages and some correspondence | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Church publications 1885-1940, undated (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Good Will, vol. 1 no.s 1-12 (Nov 1885 through Dec 1886) Weekly Bulletin, Dec 1938-Nov 1939 Various weekly church bulletins, a manual, a directory, banquet cards, etc., dating from between 1899 and 1940 |
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| Box 4 | Church register 1885-1893 - includes baptisms, members, ministers, marriages, deaths | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Church register 1892-1898 - includes baptisms, members, ministers, marriages, deaths | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Comments journal undated | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Correspondence 1919-1935 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Good Will Christian Service Society's Secretary's Book 1884-1901 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Guest register undated | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Historical records and scrapbook 1902-1944, undated | ||||||||||
| Originally looseleaf, transferred to folder | |||||||||||
| Box 5 | Legal material 1947 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Letters of dismission 1920-1922, 1943-1944, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | List of members undated (1 volume) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Member cards 1915-1947 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Men's Noon Bible Class 1922-1929 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Photograph album and scrapbook 1943 - includes photos of members of the congregation serving in World War II, clippings, and a 1944 church bulletin with mailing list for servicemen | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Proxy cards 1948 - signed and returned | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Record of Good Will Sunday School 1893-1900 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Records of the Good Will Congregational Church of Syracuse, NY 1885-1912 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Reports of various church groups 1920-1925 - looseleaf, includes correspondence | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Reports of various church groups 1926-1929 - looseleaf, includes correspondence (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Sunday School, Children's Division Sep 1940 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Sunday School teachers and children taught 1898-1907 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Sunday School record books 1917-1919 (3 volumes) | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Trustees' meeting notes 1926-1938 | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Women's Association membership book undated | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Women's Missionary Society of Good Will Congregational Church 1887-1938 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Published material | |||||||||||
| Box 8 | Minutes of the Fifty-second Annual Meeting of the General Association of New York held at Pulaski, Oswego County October, 1885 | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Minutes of the One Hundred Tenth Annual Meeting of the New York Congregational Christian Conference, Inc. held in the Community Church at the Circle, Mount Vernon, New York and the Sixteenth Annual Report of the Society of Congregational Christian Women of the State of New York 1943 | ||||||||||