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Rev. Acmon Pulaski Van Gieson was a minister of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York State. Notebook used to record his diary, 1853 May 11-1855 September 26; notes on religious subjects; and records of baptisms, marriages, and additions, 1853 -1865, performed as minister of the Reformed Dutch Church in Claverack, Catskill, and Brooklyn, New York. less

Rev. Robert R. Horwood was a Protestant Episcopal clergyman who served in New York State, Scotland, and England. Record book of Rev. Robert R. Horwood, dating 1854-1878, documents his activities as a Protestant Episcopal clergyman, from his ordination in the Western Diocese of New York to his appointment as vicar of St. Michael's at an unspecified location in England in 1878. From 1854-1865, he served parishes in the communities of Fayetteville and Jamesville in Onondaga County, Theresa and Redwood in Jefferson County, Angelica and Belvidere in Allegany County, and Warsaw in Wyoming County, New York, and visited others in western New York. Horwood traveled to Scotland in 1865, and with the exceptions of brief periods of service in western New York in early 1866 and the Spring of 1874, he served or visited parishes in Scotland (1865-1868) and England (1868-1878). The volume lists his official appointments as a clergyman 1854-1869, most frequently in the position of parish rector; church services held in New York State and Great Britain, 1854-1878; parishes served or visited in Scotland and England, 1865-1871; Holy Communion administered, 1855-1878; baptisms, 1854-1878; marriages, 1854-1877; confirmations 1854-[1877]; individuals admitted to Holy Communion, 1856-1869, 1877; and burials, 1854-1878. The entries are recorded in a blankbook entitled The Clergyman's Private Register by Rev. O. Witherspoon (Buffalo: M. Taylor, 1861). less

Rev. John Raines, Jr. (1818-1877), born in Yorkshire, England, was an itinerant Methodist Episcopal minister associated with the Genesee Conference of New York State. He was the son of Rev. John Raines (born ca. 1784) and Mary Raines, who emigrated from England to Philadelphia, eventually settling in Canandaigua, New York. John Raines, Jr. married Mary Remington in 1838. Their sons John Raines (1840-1909), author of the Raines Law, and Thomas Raines (1842-1924) were prominent New York State politicians. Commonplace book and record book of services performed 1847-1872 by Rev. John Raines, Jr. as a Methodist Episcopal minister in western New York State. Services are recorded in chronological order. Records of baptisms, 1848-1871 (p. 30-45) note individual names, place, date and age; marriages 1847-1871 (p. 148-168) note bride and grooms' names, place, date, expenses and fees; records of funerals 1844-1872 (p. 52-71) note name, place, date of death, disease and age. Localities visited in Ontario County and other western counties include Victor, Geneva, Lima, Lyons, Corning, Hodding, Rochester, Lyons, and Elmira, among others. Personal material interspersed throughout the volume include transcriptions of poetry, anecdotes, and historical and theological items; clippings; personal memoranda; a family record of John Raines Jr. and Mary Remington and their children (p. 73), with a Christmas poem signed J. Raines, Philadelphia, 1831, loosely laid in; and a manuscript architectural plan for a dwelling house (p. 108-109). Original writings include verses by John Raines signed with place and date, many written for personal albums or as epitaphs for tombstones, as well as patriotic verses written during the Civil War, 1861-1864. Also present is a pasted subscription notice (p. 143) signed by Francis Asbury at Little York, 10 July 1815, addressed to the Presiding Elder of the Genesee Conference. less