Union Baptist Church Records

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2026.040.078

Scope and Content

Collection of institutional records kept by the 2nd Baptist Church of Groton and Union Baptist Church, 1844 - 1953. The Union Baptist Church was established on September 1, 1861 when the 2nd and 3rd Baptist Churches of Groton combined their church buildings and congregations into a single unified church on High Street in Mystic (at the site of the former Mariner's Free Church). The 2nd Baptist Church of Groton was established in 1765 and was originally located at the top of Fort Hill. The collection is comprised of original and photocopied records including treasurer's reports, subscription lists, accounts of money received by the Union Baptist Church building committee, allotments for pews, receipts from local businesses, correspondence, Sunday school certificates, newsletters, programs and pamphlets. Includes a program for funeral observances of Abraham Lincoln to meet at the Mystic Liberty Pole, April 1865 (before the pole was moved from Groton to the Stonington side of Mystic).

Collection

Carol Kimball Collection

Acquisition

Accession

2026.040

Source or Donor

Carol Kimball

Acquisition Method

Transfer

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Newspaper

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Receipt

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Statement, Financial

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Correspondence

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Serial

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Program

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Pamphlet

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Financial Records

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Archive Details

Creator

Union Baptist Church, 2nd Baptist Church of Groton

Date(s) of Creation

1844 - 1926

Archive Size/Extent

1 folder

Provenance

Notes

Part of a collection of records collected by Carol Kimball during her tenure as the Town of Groton Historian; given to the Groton Historical Society following her death; stored for several years at the Avery Copp Museum; donated to the Groton Public Library 2026