Booklet - "The Great Light" by S. W. Steele, D.D. 2 copies. Installation of Reverend Steele program. April 17, 1911. Bifold. 3 copies. Welsch concert. November 14. 2 copies. Percy Owen's memorial window. July 8, 1917. Post Organ fund letter. May 4, 1905. Reverend Wills farewell sermon. Clipping and transcription. Original is extremely fragile and in pieces. "Doctor Wills Says Farewell". Oswego Daily Palladium. August 15. copy. "Preached The Baccalaureate". Oswego Daily Times. June 20, 1910. copy. "Rev. David Wills Jr. Resigns as Pastor of Grace Church". Oswego Daily Times, March 21, 1910. copy. Prayer Meeting topics. 1918. Trifold card. Annual report to Church to Presbytery. April 12, 1919. Pastor Steele's report, 1919. Treasurer's report. 1918 + 1919. Deacon's report. April 1, 1919. Bids for Boiler. 1917 Keefe and Bingham Oswego Sanitary Plumbing Co. Marvin E. King Leavey Heating + Ventilating Co. Letters of appointment to Finance Committee. Letters of appointment to Building Committee. Undated note.
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April 1-17, 1981, black and tan, thick and textured paper, 2 copies, 8 7/16" x 10 15/16";
Publication: "Brief History of the First Presbyterian Church of Oswego, N.Y." by John B. McLean, Oswego, 1890. Session minutes, 1897-99. Certificates of membership and admission. Sermon notes. Notice of meeting of Oswego YMCA. Lists of members of church study group and members baptized. Notice of meeting of Presbytery of Syracuse. List of names and dues? Newspaper articles and program celebrating 75th anniversary of First Presbyterian. Poem by Jessie? Gray.
Session minutes, date illegible. List of baptised? congregation members? n.d. Two unused indentures for renting pews in the "Stone Church" on Fourth St. Prayer from Jessie Gray, 1881. Prayer, 1883.
Commemorative booklet "Golden Anniversary of Dr. Tully's Work in the Ministry," pastor of first Presbyterian from 1872? -1886 (dated 1900). Letter to Rev. Tully (dated 1878) from W. Franklin of Fulton regarding the organization of Grace Church in 1872. Letter from S.W. Brewster (of Hannibal, NY) to "Cousin Virgil" refering the latter to Edwin Clarke for information on Sabbath School Scholars? 1878. Letter to Rev. Tully quoting a letters dated1815 and 1816 which shed light on the beginnings of the congregation, 1878. Letter to Rev. Tully from James Bickford? on the early years from 1817, mentions Catherine Hawley, 1878. Order of service for installation of Rev. David Tully, 1872. Postal card from J. Lathrop informing D.L. Cauch? of a meeting of the Board of Trustees, 1875. Letter to Rev. Tully? regarding Sabbath School, probably 1878, author not known. 2 letters to Rev. Tully from Mrs. Jessie Gray on early years of worship in Oswego, 1878-79, with transcription of poem. Clipping regarding 69th anniversary. List of church members "not attendants on the ordinances of the First Presbyterian Church." List of names of elders and deacons from 1816-1880. Photo of Reverend Tully.
Pewbook, 1862. Booklet: "Semi-Centennial Discourse" with the text of Rev. Condit's sermon on that ocassion which recounts the history of the congregation, 1866.
Photograph of Reverend Robert Condit. Text of addresses delivered at the 25th anniversary of Rev. Condit's ministry (1852), including speeches by Judge Allen, Alvin Bronson, and Robert Condit. Certificate for recording Sunday School dues. Copy of sale of pew by David Lake? to Bradley B. Burt (1853).
Indentures to rent pews for 1844; 1848. Handwritten transcript of the poem "The Burning Church" which appeared in the "Palladium." Certificate authorizing transfer of a pew.
Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Service Oswego County, New York June 1, 1840 Census of Pensioners Sixth Census, 1840 Transcribed by Thomas J. Ebert Two typed pages
Petition to have a second Presbyterian Church established in Oswego due to the dissatisfaction of some memebrs with the pastor James Abell (who resigned 1830). Hand written notes on church members, church property, and church suppliers. Names of persons who left to form the Second Presbyterian Church (Congregational?) in 1837. All the names and origins of those who subsequently joined the congregation from 1837-1857 (typescript from original records by "Mrs. Kellogg").