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.
| A | Ecclesiastical, ethnic, or language notations (see below) | |
| B |
Town name (alphabetical within county) & Church name (alphabetical within town) |
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| C | Date of official organization | |
| D | Years of listing in published Congregational church lists (yearbooks) | |
| E | Current status (as of 1989) |
| 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 | |