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Zion UCC (Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.)

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Record 92/729
Collection Zion UCC (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Abstract The Zion UCC collection consists of:
Item 1 (box)
ff1 Burial Grounds (2 volumes)
Subscriptions to Burying Ground. 1858-1869
Receipt Book, 1864-1868 (German script)
ff2 Church Records.
Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths, 1854-1870
ff3 Church Records
Births, Baptisms, 1871-1923
ff4 Church Records
Communicants, 1877-1911
ff5 Church Records.
Communicants, 1913-1923
ff6 Church Records
Confirmations, 1852-1923
ff7 Confirmations, (apparently 2 record books were kept)
1852-1886
ff8 Church Records
Deaths, 1871-1924
ff9 Church Records
Marriages, 1871-1923
ff10 Marriages, 1921-1925

Item 2 (box)
ff1 Consistory Minutes, 1918-1923
ff2 Constitution
ff3 Correspondence
ff4 Financial Records.
Church Treasurer's Book, 1877-1941 (also includes:
Salem-Zion Church after 1924); Recapitulation, 1857-1876
ff5 Financial and Legal Records. 1865-1923
ff6 Mission Benevolence Funds
ff7 History
ff8 Ladies Aid.
Membership and Attendance, 1892-1911
ff9 v.1 Minutes and Constitution (in German Script) 1870-1891
ff10 v.2 Minutes (in German script) 1892-1911
ff11 v. 3 Minutes, (in German script) 1912-1930
ff12 Membership - Directory, 1914
ff13 Merger, 1923
ff14 Misc.
ff15 Programs
ff16 Reading Society (Probably forerunner of the Sunday School Library)
Constitution
Minutes, 1871-1889
ff17 Sunday School Library. 2 vol.

Item 3 (box)
ff1 Sunday School Assoc.
Minutes 1871-1893
ff2 Minutes. 1893-1916
ff3 Record of dues (Receipts) 1852-1910
ff4 Sunday School. Misc.
ff5 Sunday School Records
v. 1 1854-1856; v. 2 1856-1858
ff6 v. 3 1858-1861; v. 4 1862-1864
ff7 v. 5 1868; v. 6 1869
ff8 v. 7 1870; v. 8 1870-1874
ff9 v. 9 1871 v. 10 1872
ff10 v. 11 1874 v. 11 1871-1875
ff11 Young People's Assoc. Misc.
ff12 Young Peoples Society
Financial Records, 1883-1898
ff13 Young Peoples Society
Financial Records, 1911-1924
ff14 Young Peoples Society
Membership and Dues, 1892-1924
ff15 Young Peoples Society
Minutes, 1890-1905 (in German Script)
ff16 Minutes, 1906-1921
Object ID Church RG 096
Object Name Records - Philadelphia County
People Gerhard, Conrad
Pickeringer, James
Meyer, Henry
McCormick, Pollard
McCormick, Sarah
Lefler, John G.
Lefler, Elizabeth
Tippenhauer, George W.
Megee, George
Cochran, James
Williams, Charles B.
Williams, Charles
Goess, Conrad
Related unit of descrip See Also: Microfilm #168 (1852-1886 record of confirmations (ff5)
Locked Case 2, #18 (Deeds: 1786; Conrad Gerhard to James
Pickeringer, 1785; Conrad Gerhard to Henry Meyer)
Six Deeds (to Zion Reformed Church Property 6th St. above
Girard Ave., Philadelphia, 1852-1864)
-1852: Pollard McCormick & wife, Sarah to John G. Lefler
-1853; John George Lefler & wife, Elizabeth to German
Reformed Zions Congregation of South Penn
District Philadelphia
-1855; George W. Tippenhauer to "Economy Building
Assoc."
-1858; George Megee to James Cochran
-1863; John George Lefler & wife, Elizabeth to Charles B.
Williams
-1864; Charles Williams - Conrad Goess
Title Zion UCC (Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.)

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