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Reference Key to Rick Taylor's New England book

The information on this page is excerpted and condensed from Richard H. Taylor's The Churches of Christ of the Congregational Way in New England.  It is intended merely as a reference tool for use in conjunction with that text.  For fuller explanations of the information contained in each column, please see pp.30-34 of the original.

 

 

 

Table columns

  A Ecclesiastical, ethnic, or language notations (see below)
  B

Town name (alphabetical within county) & Church name (alphabetical within town)

  C Date of official organization
  D Years of listing in published Congregational church lists (yearbooks)
  E Current status (as of 1989)

 

 

 

 

Column A abbreviations

Ecclesiastical notations
  AP Associated Presbytery member at some time
  NE Not Established a some time during establishment period, but claiming to be Congregational (in addition to Strict church)
  OL Old Light church at some time
  pP possibly Presbyterian at some time
  Pr Presbyterian at some time
  pS possibly Strict or Separate Congregational at some time
  Se Strict or Separate Congregational at some time
   
Ethnic / language notations
  Ar Armenian
  bB became Black
  Bl Black
  Ch Chinese
  CV Cape Verdean
  Da Danish
  DN Danish - Norwegian mixture
  Dt Dutch
  Fi Finnish
  Fr French
  Gk Greek
  Gr German
  Hu Hungarian
  In American Indian (all tribes)
  Ir Irish
  It Italian
  Ko Korean
  mI mixed American Indian and English
  Nr Norwegian
  Sc mixed Scandinavian
  SF Swedish - Finnish mixture
  Sp Hispanic (all types)
  Sw Swedish
  We Welsh