Research Guides: Unitarian Universalist Congregations: Massachusetts A-B

Boston - Numbered

Note that congregations in the "neighborhoods" of Boston (Brighton, Charlestown, Dorchester, East Boston, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, and West Roxbury) are listed directly by their names.

Boston - General/Ministry-at-Large Etc.

Boston Association of Ministers. Records.
Greenwood, Francis William Pitt. A Sermon Preached at the Ordination of the Rev. John T. Sargent as Minister at Large in Boston on the Evening of October 29, 1837. Boston: Weeks, Jordan, 1837.
Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the Ministry-at-Large in the City of Boston by Rev. Joseph Tuckerman, D.D., December 8, 1901. 1826-1901. Boston, G. H. Ellis, 1901.
Order of service conducted by Rev. Thomas Van Ness -- The origin of the ministry-at-large by Rev. Christopher R. Eliot -- Dr. Tuckerman and his work by Rev. S.H. Winkley -- Address by Rev. Samuel A. Eliot -- Address by Rev. Edward A. Horton -- Address by Rev. Francis G. Peabody
The Howard Sunday School during Seventy-Five Years and the Work of Rev. S.H. Winkley. Boston: Alfred Mudge and Son, 1902.
Allen, Katharine Gibbs. Sketches of Some Historic Churches of Greater Boston. Boston: Beacon Press, 1918.

First Church

First Universalist

First Universalist Church (Boston, Mass.). Records, 1792-1909
Digital content is 1792-1864.
An Act To Incorporate The Proprietors Of The First Universalist Society In Boston.
1805
Mitchell, Edward. The Installation of Reverend Edward Mitchell as Colleague with Rev. John Murray over the First Universal Society in Boston, September 12, 1810. Boston: Printed by Munroe and Francis, 1810.
Turner, Edward. A Discourse Delivered at the Universalist Meeting House in Boston: August 19, 1813, at the Re-Installation of the Rev. Paul Dean as Junior Pastor of the Church and Society, who Statedly Worship in that Place. Boston: J. Buckiingham
"To which are added the delivery of the Scriptures and charge, by the Rev. Hosea Ballou, of Portsmouth, N. H. and the Fellowship of the churches by the Rev. Richard Carrique, of Charlton, Mass"
Streeter, Russell. A Sermon Delivered at the Installation of the Rev. Sebastian Streeter, as Pastor of the First Universalist Church and Society in the City of Boston, May 13, 1824. Boston, 1824.
Silloway, Thomas W. An Historical Discourse Delivered in the First Universalist Meeting-House, Boston, Sunday, May 29, 1864, on the Occasion of Taking Final Leave of the Premises . Boston: Dakin, Davies, & Metcalf, 1864.
Appendix has information about the closing services

Second Church

Second Universalist

Fifth Universalist/Shawmut

Perin, George Landor. The Sunny Side of Life: Sermons Preached in the Everyday Church, Boston. Boston: Every-Day Church Pub. Co., 1900.

Twelfth Congregational Church

Twenty-Eighth Congregational Society

Theodore Parker Papers
Theodore Parker's manuscript journals, sermons, and letters at Harvard.
Parker, Theodore. A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of John Quincy Adams Delivered at the Melodeon in Boston, March 5, 1848. Boston: B. Marsh, 1848.
"Reprinted from the Massachusetts Quarterly Review."
Parker, Theodore. The Three Chief Safeguards of Society Considered in a Sermon at the Melodeon on Sunday, July 6, 1851. Boston: Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1851.
Parker, Theodore. Two Sermons Preached before the Twenty-Eighth Congregational Society in Boston on the 14th and 21st of November, 1852. 2nd ed. Boston: B.B. Mussey, 1853.
"On Leaving their Old and Entering a New Place of Worship" | Phonographically reported by Rufus Leighton.
Parker, Theodore. Sermons of Theism, Atheism, and the Popular Theology. 2d ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1856.
Of speculative atheism, regarded as a theory of the universe -- Of practical atheism, regarded as a priciple of ethics -- Of the popular theology of Christendom, regarded as a theory of the universe -- Of the popular theology of Christendom, regarded as a principle of ethics -- Of speculative theism, regarded as a theory of the universe -- Of practical theism, regarded as a principle of ethics -- Of the function and influence of the idea of immortal life -- Of the universal providence of God -- Of the economy of pain and misery under the universal providence of God, part I -- Of the economy of pain and misery under the universal providence of God, part II.
Furness, William Henry. Put up Thy Sword: A Discourse Delivered before Theodore Parker's Society at the Music Hall, Boston, Sunday, March 11, 1860. Boston : R.F. Wallcut, 1860.
Dedicatory Services of the Parker Memorial Meeting House, Sunday, Sept. 21, 1873. Boston: Cochrane & Sampson, 1873.
Contents: I. Dedication hymn / by Samuel Johnson -- II. Remarks of John C. Haynes -- III. Scripture reading [taken from Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Parsee, and Jewish writings] -- IV. Prayer / by Samuel Longfellow -- V. Dedication hymn / written for the occasion by W. C. Gannett -- VI. Discourse / by Samuel Longfellow -- VII. God in humanity / by John G. Whittier -- VIII. Address / by Ednah D. Cheney -- IX. Address / by John Weiss -- X. Address / by Francis E. Abbot -- XI. Address / by Charles W. Slack -- XII. God in the human soul / by Sarah F. Adams -- XIII. Benediction / by Samuel Longfellow -- Letters.
Johnson, Samuel. A Memorial of Charles Sumner: A Discourse Delivered at the Parker Memorial Meeting-House to the Twenty-Eighth Congragational Society of Boston, on Sunday, March 15, 1874. Boston: A. Williams, 1874.
Twenty-Eighth Congregational Society of Boston: Its Services, Organization, Officers, and Principles, Programme of the Society's Work for 1883-84 at Parker Memorial Meeting House, Corner of Berkeley and Appleton Streets. Boston, 1883?

Unitarian Universalist Congregations

General

Massachusetts A-B

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Acton-Ayer

Acton - South Acton Universalist Church

Arlington - First Parish

Arlington - First Universalist

Ashby

Athol - First Church

Athol - Second Unitarian

Ayer - South Groton Christian Union/First Parish

Barnstable-Bolton

Barnstable - East Church

Barre - First Parish

Beverly - First Parish

Beverly - Second Church

Beverly - Universalist Church

Billerica

Bolton

Boston - Numbered

Boston - General/Ministry-at-Large Etc.

First Church

First Universalist

Second Church

Second Universalist

Fifth Universalist/Shawmut

Twelfth Congregational Church

Twenty-Eighth Congregational Society

Boston - Named

Arlington Street

Brattle Street/Square Church

Bulfinch Street

Church of the Disciples

Harrison Square

Hollis Street

King's Chapel

New North

New South

Purchase Street

Church of the Saviour

Shawmut Avenue Universalist

South Congregational

Unity

Warren Street Chapel

West Church

Brewster-Brookline

Brewster

Bridgewater

Brighton - First Church

Brighton - Church of the Redeemer (Universalist)

Brookfield - First Congregational Society

Brookline - First Parish