Church records, 1770-1907

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Microfilm of originals at the Connecticut State Library in Hartford, Connecticut.

Enfield was first called Fresh Water Plantation and was a part of Massachusetts until 1749 when it was annexed to Connecticut. The name was changed to Enfield when the First Ecclesiastical Society and Church were organized in 1683. The first settled minister was "set apart for the work in 1699". The First Ecclesiastical Society was legally constituted in Connecticut in 1753. In 1770 the Second Society of Strict Congregationalists or Separates was established and continued as a distinct organization with the limits of the First Society until about 1843. In 1855 ninety-four members of the First Church requested to be dismissed that they might form the North or Second Church of Enfield. That organization existed for about twenty-three years.

Contents: v. 1 meetings of the society 1770-1851. -- v. 2 historical notes, confession of faith and covenant, communicants 1782-1850, baptisms 1783-1855, church votes 1815-1851, deacons 1782-1850, memoranda 1817-1845, marriages 1816-1851, deaths 1808-1851, printed order of service of commemoration of Rev. Francis Le Barron Robbins 1907. -- v. 3 confession of faith and covenant, communicants 1782- 1783, admissions 1814-1873, church meetings 1815-1823, baptisms 1783-1823, marriages 1816-1823, deaths 1816-1823. -- v. 4 records of the North Congregational Church Enfield, historical sketch, confession of faith and covenant, standing rules, original members 1855, church meetings 1855-1879, admissions and dismissions 1855- 1879, deaths 1855-1884. -- v. 5 admissions and dismissions 1801-1907, church meetings 1851-1907, principles and rules, those dismissed to form Second Church 1855, baptisms 1854-1907, members 1872, deacons 1823 and 1890 and 1892, marriages 1855-1856, legacies 1868 and 1872 and 1888 and 1902 and 1904.

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