Browse the Berkshire Association of Congregational Ministers records

The Berkshire Association of Congregational Ministers was founded in 1763 with five founding ministers. As Congregational churches in Berkshire were formed, most ministers and their churches decided to join the Berkshire Association. In 1820 the Berkshire Association discussed becoming a consociation but there was not enough support among the member ministers and the topic was dropped thereafter. In 1852 the Berkshire Association was reorganized into two different organizations: the Berkshire North Association and the Berkshire South Association.

Versions of the Berkshire Association continued to exist all through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The organization still exists today as the Berkshire Association, a regional association under the Southern New England Conference of the United Church of Christ.

The digital collections below include three volumes of general Association records as well as ecclesiastical records, disciplinary records, and missionary correspondence.