New York Baptist Church Records at the Samuel Colgate Historical Library

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More than 500 volumes of original records of churches, associations, and state bodies have been placed in the American Baptist – Samuel Colgate Historical Library. These records were placed there voluntarily. Baptist polity does not have any mechanism to require a local congregation to deposit its records at this site or at any site. As a result, the records of many Baptist churches over the years have been lost. The original records deposited there are arranged alphabetically by state. Records of state bodies are placed first, then associational records. Local church records are placed next, alphabetically by city or town and name of church. The few international records which they hold are found at the end of this inventory. Their holdings include microfilmed and photo duplicated copies as well. This list is current as of 2015.

These records are not available online. In order to access them you must visit the Samuel Colgate Historical Library!

Legend:

  • (O) – Original Records
  • (MF) – Microfilmed Records
  • (PC) – Photocopied Records

State/Associational Bodies:

  • Adirondack Baptist Association- (O); 1924-1976
  • American Baptist Churches of New York State- (O); 1980-1992
  • American Baptist Women of Wayne Association- (PC); 1968-1972
  • Baptist Church Extension Society of Brooklyn & Queens- (O); 1886-1972
  • Baptist City Mission Board of Utica- (O); 1912-1962
  • Baptist Ministers Conference of Monroe Association (O) 1834-1867
  • Baptist Ministers Conference of New York & Vicinity- (O); 1833-1926
  • Baptist Missionary Convention of NY State- (O); 1851-1928
  • Baptist Missionary Training School- (O); 1910-1939
  • Baptist Pastors’ Conference- (O); 1902-1935
  • Baptist Pastors Conference of Buffalo & Vicinity- (O); 1896-1929
  • Baptist Social Union of Manhattan (O) 1869-1884
  • Bethlehem Mission Sabbath School (O) ns
  • Brooklyn Baptist Social Union- (O); n.d.
  • Brooklyn New York Baptist Social Union (O) nd
  • Brooklyn Association in aid of the Grande Ligne Mission- (O); 1859-1908
  • Buffalo Baptist Association- (O); 1921-1972
  • Cayuga Baptist Association- (O); n.d.
  • Central Association of Freewill Baptists- (O); 1891-1925
  • Central Free Baptist Association- (O); 1926-1946
  • Central New York Baptist Pastors’ Conference- (O); 1898-1913
  • Christian Working Men’s Institute (O) 1909-1913
  • Church Women United- (O, MF); 1922-1982
  • Council of Churches of Buffalo & Erie County- (O, MF); 1884-1971
  • Erie County Sunday School Association- (MF); 1892-1915
  • Female Union Society- (O); 1816-1825
  • Free Will Baptists (O) 1831-1917
  • Genesee Baptist Ministers’ Conference- (O); 1905-1915
  • Genesee Ministerial Conference of Free Will Baptist Preachers- (O); 1895-1912
  • Genesee Quarterly Meeting of Free Baptists- (O); 1844-1913
  • Genesee Yearly Meeting of Freewill Baptists- (O); 1861-1915
  • Great Bend Ecclesiastical Society (O) 1842-1891
  • Hamilton Baptist Missionary Society- (O); 1807-1825
  • Homer and Cortlandville Juvenile Baptist Missionary Society- (O); 1820-1891
  • Hudson River North Baptist Association- (O); n.d.
  • Jefferson County Sunday School Association- (O); 1910-1914
  • Ladies Home Society of the Baptist Churches of NYC- (O); 1869
  • Long Island Baptist Ministers’ Union- (O); 1945-1964
  • Ministers’ Association of Buffalo- (MF); 1912-1916
  • Ministers’ Conference of New York – 1884-1924
  • Ministerial Conference of Albany & Troy- (O); 1907-1933
  • Monroe Association- (O); 1835-1867
  • Monroe Association ABC – 1915-1980
  • Monroe Association ABWomen – 1950-1993 (finding guide)
  • Monroe Association Women’s Baptist Mission Society-1880-1963 (finding guide)
  • Monroe Quarterly Meeting of Freewill Baptists- (TS); 1831-1944
  • New York Baptist Ministers Conference- (O); 1869-1924
  • NY State Sunday Schools at Work- (O); 1862-1955
  • Onandaga Baptist Association- (O); 1928-1942
  • Onandaga Baptist Ministerial Con. – 1871
  • Ontario Baptist Association- (O); 1828-1853
  • Ontario Missionary Society- (O); 1820-1853
  • Rochester Quarterly Meeting- (O); 1874-1883
  • St. Lawrence Baptist Association- (O); 1846-1915
  • Southern New York Baptist Association- (O); 1871-1907
  • Steuben Baptist Association- (O); 1839-1852
  • Utica Baptist Foreign Mission Society- (O); 1814
  • Washington Union Baptist Association-(now Adirondack Assn.) (O); 1874-1889
  • Wheatland Baptist Cemetery Association – 1847-1945
  • Women’s Auxiliary Baptist Mission Society – 1904-1913
  • Woman’s Baptist Missionary Society of Eastern NY- (O); 1912-1917
  • Women’s Baptist Missionary Union of Long Island- (O); 1922-1946
  • Yates Association- (O); 1856

Adams:

  • Adams Center Baptist Church- (TS); 1853-1885

Albany:

  • First Baptist Church- (O); 1811-1939

Albion:

  • Gaines Larger Parish (merger of three churches) nd

Allen:

  • Allen Baptist Church- (O); 1835-1894

Almond:

  • Almond Baptist Church- (O); 1825-1868

Amenia:

  • Amenia Baptist Church- (O); 1815-1940

Bangall:

  • Stafford BC/First Bengall (O, MF); 1790-1929

Barrington:

  • Barrington Baptist Church- 1819-1874 (Same as Second Baptist of Wayne)

Belleville:

  • Belleville Baptist Church- 1897-1937

Benton:

  • Benton Baptist Church- (O); 1800-1939

Benton, Yates County:

  • First Baptist Church – 1800-1854

Benton Falls:

  • Benton Falls Baptist Church – 1806-1911

Berlin:

  • Little Hoosick Seventh Day Baptist Church- (MF); 1780-1855

Berne & Knox:

  • Berne & Knox Baptist Church- (O); 1847-1887

Bloomfield:

  • Bloomfield Baptist Church of Christ- (PC); 1805-1835

Boonville:

  • First Baptist Church – nd

Bridgewater:

  • Bridgewater First Baptist Church- (O); 1826-1847

Brockport:

  • First Baptist Church- (MF); 1828-1938

Brookfield:

  • Brookfield Church- (PC); 1818
  • Brookfield First Day Baptist Church- (O); 1809-1811

Brooklyn:

  • Marcy Avenue Baptist Church- (O); 1886-1934
  • Tabernacle Baptist Church- (O); 1862-1906

Buffalo:

  • Central Park Baptist Church – (O); 1891-1985
  • Parkside Baptist Church (O) 1917-1943
  • Delavan Avenue Baptist Church- (O); 1893-1969
  • Emmanuel Baptist Church- (O); 1956-1978
  • First Free Baptist Church (O) nd
  • Glenwood Ave. Baptist Church- (O); 1892-1920
  • Hudson Street Baptist Church- (O); 1873-1922
  • Maple Street Baptist Church- (O); 1904-1932
  • Masten Park Baptist Church- (O); 1928-1973

Caledonia:

  • Baptist Church of Christ- (O); 1811-1853

Campbell:

  • Campbell First Baptist Church- (O); 1870-1912

Carlton:

  • Central Baptist Church – 1894-1969
  • First Baptist Church – 1845-1920

Carmel:

  • Mount Carmel Baptist Church- (MF); 1790-1959

Cato:

  • Cato Baptist Church- (O); 1842-1916 (Meridian B.C.)

Center White Creek:

  • Center White Creek Baptist Church- (MF); 1779-1894

Champion:

  • Champion Baptist Church- (First Baptist Ecclesiastical Society) (O); 1821-1846

Charlestown:

  • Charlestown Baptist Church – 1961-62

Chatauqua:

  • See Stockton

Chehoking:

  • Chehoking Church- (PC); 1801-1838

Cherry Valley:

  • Roseboom-Cherry Valley Baptist Church- (O); 1858-1948

Chili:

  • Chili First Baptist Church- (MF); 1834-1949

Clifton Park:

  • Clifton Park Baptist Church- (MF); 1794-1981
  • First Half Moon Church- (MF); 1803-1880
  • Second Half Moon Church- (MF); 1841-1905

Clifton Springs:

  • Clifton Springs First Baptist Church- (O); 1888-1957

Clyde:

  • Clyde Baptist Church- (TS); 1881

Cohoes:

  • Cohoes Baptist Church – 1914

Coram:

  • Baptist Church of Coram, Long Island- (O); 1800-1844

Dansville:

  • Dansville Baptist Church- (O); 1908-1924

Delphi:

  • First Baptist Church of Pompey- (O); 1805-1875

Dundee:

  • Dundee Baptist Church – 1945

East Durham:

  • East Durham Baptist Church-(O); 1889-1930

Eaton:

  • Eaton Second Baptist Church- (O); 1878-1902

Elbridge:

  • Elbridge Community Baptist Church- (MF); 1813-1966
  • First Baptist Church- (O); n.d.

Fairport:

  • First Baptist Church- (O); 1871-1917

Fenner:

  • Fenner Baptist Church- (TS); 1801-1930

Franklindale:

  • Franklindale Baptist Church- (O); 1860-1863

Geneva:

  • First Baptist Church- (TS); 1825-1830

Georgetown:

  • Georgetown Baptist Church – 1980-1934

Greece:

  • Greece Baptist Church- (MF); 1834-1920

Greenfield:

  • Greenfield Baptist Church- (PC); 1791-1797

Greenwich:

  • Greenwich Bottskill Baptist Church- (MF); 1809-1876

Groton:

  • Groton First Baptist Church- (O); 1806-1896

Grouvernor:

  • First Baptist Church – 1827-1910

Hague:

  • Hague Baptist Church – 1923-1970

Hamilton:

  • First Baptist Church- (TS); 1798-1837

Harrisburg:

  • First Free Commission Church – 1842-1919

Hillsdale:

  • East Baptist Church (O) nd

Hilton:

  • Hilton Baptist Church- (O); 1838-1973

Hudson:

  • Hudson First Baptist Church- (MF); 1810-1838

Jerusalem:

  • Jerusalem Baptist Church- (O, MF); 1812-1832

Keeseville:

  • Keeseville Baptist Church- (O); 1804-1948

Kendoria:

  • Kendoria Baptist Church – 1898-1916

Kent:

  • First Baptist Church of Kent Cliffs- (O); 1818-1964
  • Kent Baptist Church – 1818-1869

Kingston:

  • Wurtz Street Baptist Church- (O); 1842-1955

Lackawack:

  • Lackawack Baptist Church- (O); 1890-1927

Lake Placid:

  • Adirondack Baptist Church- (O); 1879-1933

Leray:

  • Baptist Church of Christ in Leray- (O); 1838-1852 (MF) 1852-1875

Leroy:

  • Leroy Baptist Church- (PC); 1816-1829

Little Fallls:

  • The Baptist Church in Little Falls – 1855-1859

Little Hoosick:

  • Little Hoosick Seventh Day Baptist Church- (MF); 1780-1855

Livonia:

  • First Baptist Church- (O); 1845-1864
  • Second Baptist Church- (O); 1816-1828
  • Lavonia Baptist Church – 1916-1895

Long Island:

  • Williamsburgh Long Island Baptist Church- 1848
  • Bethel Baptist Church of Sag Harbor, Long Island (O) nd

Long Island City:

  • East Avenue Baptist Church- (O); 1869-1921
  • First Baptist Church- (O); 1925

McDonough:

  • McDonough Immanuel Baptist Church- (O); 1822-1962

Macedon:

  • Macedon First Baptist Church- (O, MF); 1800-1947

Madison:

  • First Baptist Church- (O); 1798-1915

Mecklenburg:

  • Mecklenburg Baptist Church- (O); 1899-1925
  • Second Baptist Church of Hector- (O); 1899-1905

Meridian: (See Cato)

  • Meridian Baptist Church- (O)_; 1820-1900

Middletown:

  • Middletown Baptist Church- (TS); 1814-1856

Millertown:

  • Northeast Town Baptist Church- (MF); 1761-1841

Milo:

  • Second Baptist Church- (MF); 1877-1984

Minerva:

  • Minerva Baptist Church – 1807-1810

Moriah:

  • First Church (O) nd (finding guide)

Mt. Morris:

  • Mt. Morris Baptist Church- (O); 1862-1943

Murray:

  • Murray Baptist Church- (O); 1888-1984

New Rochelle:

  • Salem Baptist Church- (O); 1855-1972

New York City:

  • Alexander Avenue Baptist Church- (O); 1894-1911
  • Amity Baptist Church- (O); 1887-1910
  • Antioch Baptist Church- (O); 1859-1867
  • Baptist Church of the Epiphany- (O); 1895-1908
  • Central Baptist Church- (O); 1912-1913
  • Church of Our Savior- (O); 1923-1937
  • East Baptist Church- (O); 1860-1895
  • First Baptist Church of Harlem – 1859-79
  • Lexington Avenue Baptist Church- (O); 1904-1906
  • Madison Avenue Baptist Church- (O); 1904-1948
  • Mount Morris Baptist Church- (O); 1888-1890
  • Park Avenue Baptist Church- (O); 1925
  • Riverside Church
  • Second Baptist Church – 1903-1950
  • Second Avenue Baptist Church-(O); 1898-1924
  • Sixteenth Baptist Church- (O); 1833-1927
  • Stanton Street- (O); 1871-1887
  • Twenty Third Street Baptist Church- (O); 1888-1896
  • Washington Heights Baptist Church- (O); 1900-1942

Niagara Falls:

  • First Baptist Church- (O); 1916-1982

North Harmony:

  • North Harmony Baptist Church – 1838-1877

North New York:

  • First Baptist Church- (O); 1872-1894

North Parma

  • North Parma Free Will Baptist Church – 1831-1920

Norwich:

  • First Baptist Church – 1895-

Nunda:

  • First Baptist Church- (O); 1876-1967

Ogden:

  • Ogden Baptist Church- (MF); 1819-1980

Olean:

  • First Baptist Church- (O); 1922-1939

Oneida:

  • First Baptist Church- (O); 1850-1940

Oswego:

  • First Baptist Church- (O, MF); 1876-1967

Otselic:

  • Otselic Baptist Church- (PC); 1832-1907

Oyster Bay:

  • Oyster Bay Baptist Church- (O); 1833-1890

Park Hill:

  • Park Hill Church of the Redeemer – 1964

Petersburg:

  • Little Hoosick Seventh Day Baptist Church- (MF); 1780-1855

Philadelphia:

  • Baptist Church- (O); 1878-1955

Phoenix:

  • Baptist Church- (PC); n.d.

Piermont:

  • First Baptist Church- (O); 1839-1900

Pitcairn:

  • Pitcairn Baptist Church- (O); 1826-1843

Pittsford:

  • First Baptist Church- (O); 1826-1949
  • Triangle Baptist Church- (O); 1831-1863
  • West Baptist Church- (O); 1815-1827

Pompey:

  • First Baptist Church- (O); 1815

Poughkeepsie:

  • Hoffman Mission – 1872-1911

Preston:

  • Preston Baptist Church- (O); 1838-1843
  • Preston Hollow Baptist Church- (O); 1816-1942

Pulaski:

  • First Baptist Church- (O); 1828-1878

Reading:

  • The Baptist Church of Reading- (TS); 1809-1851

Red Creek:

  • Red Creek Baptist Church- (O); 1865-1926

Rensselaerville:

  • Rensselaerville Baptist Church- (O); 1921-1960

Rhinebeck:

  • Rhinebeck Baptist Church- (O); 1821-1931

Richville:

  • Richville Baptist Church- (O); 1834-1858

Rochester:

  • Andrew Street Baptist Church- (MF); 1851-1907
  • Atlantic Avenue Baptist Church- (O); 1925-1961
  • Baptist Temple – 2000
  • Bethlehem Missionary Sabbath School
  • Church Women United- (O, MF); 1922-1982
  • First Baptist Church- (MF); 1818-1967
  • Genesee Baptist Church (O) nd
  • Lake Avenue Baptist Church- (O); 1929-1956
  • Lyell Avenue Baptist Church- (O); 1957-1982
  • Second Baptist Church- (O); 1847-1924
  • University Ave. Baptist Church (See Atlantic Ave. B. C.)

Romulus:

  • First Baptist Church of Romulus (O) nd

Rosendale:

  • Rosendale Baptist Church- (O); 1889-1932

Rush:

  • First Baptist Church- (O); 1842-1877

Russia:

  • Baptist Church- (O); 1797-1942

Savannah:

  • South Butler & Savannah Baptist Church

Sardinia:

  • First Baptist Church of Christ in Sardinia- (TS, PC); 1820-1953

Smithville:

  • Smithville Baptist Church- (PC, TS); 1807-1921

South Bradford:

  • First Baptist Church (O) – 1936-45
  • South Butler & Savannah:
  • South Butler & Savannah Baptist Parish- (O); 1834-1899

Springfield:

  • First Baptist Church- (O); 1787-1906

Stephen Town:

  • First Day Baptist Church- (PC); n.d.
  • Little Hoosick Seventh Day Baptist Church- (MF); 1780-1855

Steuben:

  • Second Baptist Church- (PC); 1803-1852

Stillwater:

  • Stillwater Baptist Church- (O); 1780-1946

Stockton:

  • First Baptist Church in Stockton- (O); 1808-1846

Syracuse:

  • South Salina Tabernacle Baptist Church- (O); 1949-1969

Three Mile Bay:

  • Three Mile Bay Baptist Church- (PC, TS); 1815-1882

Tonawanda:

  • Broad Street Baptist Church- (O); 1927-1982

Upper Merion:

  • Upper Merion Baptist Church- (MF); 1853-1946

Utica:

  • Park Church- (O); 1894-1898

Walworth:

  • Free Will Baptist Church- (O); 1816-1868

Wappingers Falls:

  • Baptist Church in Franklindale- (O); 1907-1934

Watervliet:

  • First Baptist Church- (O); 1866-1922

Wayne:

  • Wayne Village Baptist Church- (O); 1819-1873 (Same church as Barrington B.C.)
  • Second Baptist Church- (O); 1819-1858

Webster:

  • Webster Baptist Church- (O, MF); 1830-1960
  • West Almond Baptist Church- (O); 1897-1920

West Burlington:

  • West Burlington Baptist Church- (MF); 1828-1878
  • Second Baptist Church- (MF); 1841-1895

West Henrietta:

  • West Henrietta Baptist Church- (O); 1838-1908

West Troy:

  • First Particular Baptist Church – 1861-1911

West Turin:

  • Zion Baptist Church- (O); 1832-1863

Westmoreland:

  • Bartlett Baptist Church(second B.C.) (TS); 1818-1897

Wheatland:

  • Baptist Cemetery Association- (O); 1847-1945
  • First Baptist Church- (O); 1853-1870

Whitesboro:

  • Whitesboro Baptist Church- (O); 1848-1985

Woodsville:

  • Woodsville Baptist Church- (O); 1828-1879

Yaphank:

  • Brookhaven Baptist Church 1854-1872

Yonkers:

  • Warburton Baptist Church- (O); 1870-1967

 

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  1. I am looking for informatation on Nicholas Northrup b. 1751 D 1836 and his daughter Drusillla b 1804 b 1881. Nicholas was a Patriot in the Revolutionary War and also a Baptist Preacher in Stephentown, NY. In a1925, the DAR chapter in Chautauqua County New York published a book titled the “Soldiers of the American Revolution: who at one time were residents of, or whose graves are located in Chautauqua County New York”. A supplement titled “Supplement to Soldiers of the American Revolution, Chautauqua County, New York” / Frank B. Lamb. Westfield, N.Y. : F.B. Lamb, collected between 1936 and 1946 and published as an addendum to the original 1925 document. In the supplement item 60 concerns Nicholas Northrup and lists that Drusilla was married to Perry Bentley. The information was provided in 1940 by Miss Leone B Hall of Williamstown, Mass and listes The Colgate Baptist Historical Collection of Hamilton, New York, as one of her sources. The Colgate Baptist Historical Collection was moved from Colgate to the Colgate-Rochester Divinity School in 1947-48 and was eventually integrated into the American Baptist Historical Society. I found the following historical quote concerning Nicholas – “A second Free Communion Baptist church was organized March 20, 1793, ten years after the first of that denomination, at “Little Hoosick hollow,” in the eastern part of the town. The only pastor the church ever had was an uneducated man named Nicholas Northrup, who was ordained as the “watchman” of the little flock. Soon after his death, which occurred about 1830, the church became extinct.” I am wondering is someone can review the documents in your collection associated with Stephen Town – to see if there is any information concering Nicholas’s Daughter Drusilla an her connection to Perry Bentley. I live in Texas so it will be difficult for me to travel to New York to visit your library. Thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide. The research is needed to verify an ancestoral connection for my wife Diane Bentley Rollins, associated with her DAR membership.
    John Rollins

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  2. Looking for information. Was hoping this collection was already digitized. Am looking for Perry Watson Died Feb 1832 “Greenwich,” Washington Co NY. Moved up to this place from RI after his Daughter Sally killed herself (Nailer Tom’s Diary). I am looking for Perry and his wife Mercy (Tefft) Watson’s exact burial location (and Mercy’s death info as well). After he died his son Beriah and the family removed to Allegany County. Perry was a Revolutionary war soldier…(not to be confused with his great grandson of the same name born 1836).

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