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Local History: Church Records

In this guide users will find local history resources within the Moffat Library as well as online.

Church Histories

First Presbyterian Church : one hundreth anniversary, 1841-1941.
Publication Date: 1941
History of the First Presbyterian Church of Monroe, New York 1783-1956 by Mrs. Arthur C. Brooks
Publication Date: 1956
A tower of the Lord in the Land of Goshen : a history written in commemoration of the 225th anniversary of the First Presbyterian Church, Goshen, NY, 1720-1945 by Mildred Parker Seese
Publication Date: 1945
Old churches of Orange County, New York : First Presbyterian, Goshen ; Goodwill Presbyterian, Montgomery ; Bethlehem Presbyterian, Cornwall ; Blooming Grove Congregational, Blooming Grove ; First Presbyterian, Newburgh by Almet S. Moffat
Publication Date: 1927
History of the Congregational Church of Blooming Grove by Amos Elwood Corning
Publication Date: 1929
The centennial memorial : a record of the proceedings on the occasion of the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the A.R. Presbyterian Church, of Little Britain, N.Y. by Archibald C. Niven
Publication Date: 1859

Historic Churches

Historical Records

Orange County wills 1787-1831
Early Orange County wills : two volumes in one
Publication Date: 1997
Orange County Patriot ; newspaper published at Goshen, N.Y. Marriages and deaths from May 1828 to Dec. 1831 by Gertrude A. Barber
Publication Date: 1932
Abstracts of wills of Orange and Rockland Counties, N.Y.
Publication Date: 1937
Cemeteries of Chester, New York by Virginia Gardner (Preface by); Myrtle S. Edwards (Foreword by)
Publication Date: 1977
Blooming Grove, Orange County, New York 1865 census and related area obituaries
Publication Date: 2002
Cemeteries of the Town of Hamptonburgh, Orange County, New York by Presbyterian Church Historical Society of Campbell; Michael K. Brown (Foreword by)
Publication Date: 1980