Catalog of Manuscript Collections
MSS 84: Religious Organizations Collection, 1813-1949
Creator: New Haven area religious organizations
Extent: 1.3 ft. (125 items)
Description: The collection contains ledgers, registers, minutes, printed material, and other records, of American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Foreign Mission Society of the Eastern District of New Haven County (later Auxiliary Foreign Mission Society of New Haven County East), Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, Millerites, and Literary Association of the German Baptist Society (Litterarischen Vereins der Deutschen Baptisten Gemeinde), all located in the vicinity of New Haven.
Research Topics: Religious organizations in New Haven; missionary societies; German immigrants and religion