First Baptist Church

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

On the 23rd of June 1836, nine men and sixteen women met in the house of Mr. Dwight Wheelock, at 117 Winnisummet Street, and with the advice of an Ecclesiastical Council, organized themselves into a Christian body to be known as the First Baptist Church in Chelsea. This was the first Church established in the territory now known as Chelsea, which was then a modest hamlet of not more than three or four hundred people. Dwight Wheelock and Southworth Bryant were chosen deacons.

New First Baptist Church 1909 - Shurtleff and
Bellingham Sts.

First Baptist Church - Old Broadway Church,
Broadway and Third St., established 1836 -
moved in 1875 to Central Ave.

For the first year of its history the Church was supplied by students from Newton Theological Seminary. Reverend Alanson Fish was the first Pastor. On the day that he was ordained the first meeting-house was dedicated. Failing health compelled Mr. Fish to relinquish his work in less than two years.

A second pastor, Reverend William Smith died in less than a year after his ordination. In November 1841, Reverend J. W. Olmstead became pastor and served until March, 1846.

Then followed in succession, Reverend J. N. Sykes, Reverend A. J. Huntington, Reverend A. P. Mason, whose pastorate continued for thirteen years, Reverend C. J. Baldwin, Reverend John Love, and Reverend P. W. Bakeman, who has held that office for nearly thirty-one years.

The Church has occupied four different places of worship in the seventy-eight years of its history. Its first place of worship was in Franklin Hall on Chelsea Square, the second was their first meeting-house built at the corner of Broadway and Third Street., the third was the noble structure at Central Avenue and Shurtleff Streets, and the last is the edifice at the corner of Shurtleff and Bellingham Streets, dedicated on December 26, 1909.

First Baptist Church 1836 - First Church in Chelsea - Broadway corr. of Third St.

Horace Memorial Free Baptist Church
Corr. Webster Ave. and Spencer Ave.

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
On the 23rd of June 1836, nine men and sixteen women met in the house of Mr. Dwight Wheelock, at 117 Winnisummet Street, and with the advice of an Ecclesiastical Council, organized themselves into a Christian body to be known as the First Baptist Church in Chelsea. This was the first Church established in the territory now known as Chelsea, which was then a modest hamlet of not more than three or four hundred people. Dwight Wheelock and Southworth Bryant were chosen deacons.
	New First Baptist Church 1909 - Shurtleff and Bellingham Sts.
First Baptist Church - Old Broadway Church, Broadway and Third St., established 1836 - moved in 1875 to Central Ave.
For the first year of its history the Church was supplied by students from Newton Theological Seminary. Reverend Alanson Fish was the first Pastor. On the day that he was ordained the first meeting-house was dedicated. Failing health compelled Mr. Fish to relinquish his work in less than two years. A second pastor, Reverend William Smith died in less than a year after his ordination. In November 1841, Reverend J. W. Olmstead became pastor and served until March, 1846. Then followed in succession, Reverend J. N. Sykes, Reverend A. J. Huntington, Reverend A. P. Mason, whose pastorate continued for thirteen years, Reverend C. J. Baldwin, Reverend John Love, and Reverend P. W. Bakeman, who has held that office for nearly thirty-one years. The Church has occupied four different places of worship in the seventy-eight years of its history. Its first place of worship was in Franklin Hall on Chelsea Square, the second was their first meeting-house built at the corner of Broadway and Third Street., the third was the noble structure at Central Avenue and Shurtleff Streets, and the last is the edifice at the corner of Shurtleff and Bellingham Streets, dedicated on December 26, 1909.

First Baptist Church 1836 - First Church in Chelsea - Broadway corr. of Third St.	Horace Memorial Free Baptist Church Corr. Webster Ave. and Spencer Ave.