Branch Church (Salem, Mass.)

found: NUCMC data from Congregational Library for Howard Street Church (Salem, Mass.). Records, 1815-1869(Congregational church gathered in 1803 as Bridge Street Church by dissidents from Tabernacle Church who separated when Rev. Joshua Spaulding was dismissed; in 1815 renamed Branch Church; from 1815-1828 became affil. with Presbyterianism; in 1824 renamed First Presbyterian Church; in 1828 returned to Congregational principles and was reincorporated as Howard Street Church; last minister left in 1864 and in 1867 church buildings and lands were auctioned off)

found: Unitarian Historical Society (Boston, Mass.). Proceedings, v. 16, 1970:p. 550 (Branch Church (extinct); gathered Dec. 29, 1803 by persons who had left Salem's Tabernacle Church when Rev. Joshua Spaulding was dismissed; incorporated as Branch Church, 1805; affiliation changed to Presbyterianism in 1815, and inc. as such in 1824; reincorporated as a Congregational church in 1828 and renamed Howard Street Church; church buildings and land auctioned off in 1867)