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Baptist Church, Webster

A church in Webster, Massachusetts, named in 3 atlases between 1893 and 1904.

The line reading First Baptist Church in the 1893 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1893 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1893First Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1898First Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1904First Baptist Churchthe scanned index

How the name was read

Each atlas was set in type by a different hand and scanned decades later, so the same establishment comes back spelled differently. Every reading below was produced by the recogniser from the sheets; none was corrected or invented. They are published so a search for any of them finds this page.

Baptist Church
First Baptist Church

Named in the 1889 county history

The history of Worcester County was published 4 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

The Baptist Church in Sutton called a council of elders and delegates, who met April 9, 1815, and constituted the First Baptist Church of Ward, with eleven male and seventeen female members. Elder Pearson Crosby, of Thompson, Conn., preached the sermon text (Matt. 16: 18), and Elder Thomas L. Leonard, of Sturbridge, gave the right hand of fellowship to the new church. Deacon Jonah Goulding, Samuel Warren, David Hosmer and several persons of the Jennison and Gleason families were original members. Elder Dwinel seems to have been the first pastor, afterward Elias McGregory, and Rev. John Paine was the preacher from 1830 till 1837, when the larger part of the church, which counted near one hundred members, were transferred to become the Baptist Church in North Oxford. Also in 1837 Rev.

Read the chapter on Auburn Town.

Named in the same survey

24 of 28 establishments shown

The surveyors walked Worcester County once and wrote down what they found. These are the other establishments from the same atlas, each with the line it was read from. See all 28 in Worcester County.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Box SHOP in the 1893 atlasBox SHOPshop1893
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1893 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1893
The index line reading Lincoln Hotel in the 1893 atlasLincoln Hotelhotel1893
The index line reading Union Hotel in the 1893 atlasUnion Hotelhotel1893
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1893 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1893
The index line reading Woolen Mills in the 1893 atlasWoolen Millsmill1893
The index line reading Uentral Hotel in the 1898 atlasCentral Hotelhotel1898
The index line reading City Hotel in the 1898 atlasCity Hotelhotel1898
The index line reading Gibson, E. G., Wool and Shoddy Mill in the 1898 atlasGibson, B. G Wool and shoddy millmill1898
The index line reading High School in the 1898 atlasHigh Schoolschool1898
The index line reading Hotel De Witt in the 1898 atlasHotel De Witthotel1898
The index line reading Keegan, L., Woolen Mill in the 1898 atlasKeegan, L., Woolen Millmill1898
The index line reading Episcopal Church in the 1898 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1898
The index line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1898 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1898
The index line reading Public School in the 1898 atlasPublic Schoolschool1898
The index line reading Public School in the 1898 atlasPublic Schoolschool1898
The index line reading Advent Church, at Fiskdale in the 1904 atlasAdvent Church, at Fiskdale, 10church1904
The index line reading Baptist Church in the 1904 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1904
The index line reading Chair Shop in the 1904 atlasChair Shopshop1904
The index line reading Chapel Mills Mfg Co in the 1904 atlasChapel Mills Mfg Comill1904
The index line reading First Congregational Church in the 1904 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1904
The index line reading Darling, A. W., Woolen Mill in the 1904 atlasDarling, A. W., Woolen Millmill1904
The index line reading Hill & Bosley, Foundry in the 1904 atlasHill & Bosley, Foundryfoundry1904
The index line reading Hotel Winchendon in the 1904 atlasHotel Winchendonhotel1904

Other churches in the atlases

28

Every other establishment of the same trade the surveyors named in Worcester County, with the years each one appears.

Provenance

Read by machine from the printed index of the Sanborn fire insurance atlases of Webster, Massachusetts, held by the Library of Congress. Sanborn atlases published before 1930 are in the public domain. Only names that at least three of four independent readings agreed on are published, and no spelling has been corrected: what appears here is what the recogniser returned from the ink.