Harrison Meeting Lutheran Congregation:Part VII 1789-1798

[Final pages from the Harrison Meeting Lutheran church records, Montgomery, Orange County, New York. Click on the images for a larger version.]

Harrison Meeting Lutheran Congregation:Part VI 1783-1789

[More pages from the Harrison Meeting Lutheran church records, Montgomery, Orange County, New York. Click on the images for a larger version.]

Harrison Meeting Lutheran Congregation:Part V 1776-1783

[More pages from the Harrison Meeting Lutheran church records, Montgomery, Orange County, New York. Click on the images for a larger version.]

Harrison Meeting Lutheran Congregation:Part IV 1770-1778

[More pages from the Harrison Meeting Lutheran church records, Montgomery, Orange County, New York. Click on the images for a larger version.]

Harrison Meeting Lutheran Congregation:Part III 1762-1770

More of the original church records from the Harrison Meeting Lutheran Congregation in Montgomery, Orange County, New York

This image shows a partial transcription of one page from the Harrison Meeting records annotated in red. These records are written in a combination of German, Latin, Dutch, and English. The page without the annotation is shown below.

Harrison Meeting Lutheran Congregation:Part I, 1750-1764

Among the first settlers in the Towns of Montgomery and Crawford, now in Orange County, New York were a group of German settlers. They organized a Lutheran church and built a log building in which this congregation met. The building burned down in the late 1700’s and the members of the congregation migrated to other nearby churches. However, a historical marker has been placed at the site of the old church and a few headstones, mostly unmarked, can still be found at the site located south of the Village of Montgomery near the junction of New York Highway 211 and Orange County Road 416. I published a translation of the records of this church in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (v. 139 & 140), but here are the original images from which the translation was made.

[Be sure to check the archives of this blog for the rest of the images of these church records]