Mercer County, Pennsylvania Church Records

List of Churches and Church Parishes in Mercer County

 * FamilySearch Places

Databases with Several Denominations

 * 1620-1991 (*) at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images


 * 1708-1985 Pennsylvania, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985 at Historical Society of Pennsylvania – ($), free to members of the society, List of Churches Included; Also available at Ancestry ($)

Baptist
The first Baptist congregation in Mercer County was established in Sharon in 1804. in Sheakleyville another congregation formed, known as Georgetown Baptist Church, in 1831. The Greenville Baptist church was organized in 1857. Other congregations formed in Stoneboro, Sharpsville, and Jamestown.

Catholic Church
The Catholics first organized in Mercer in 1838 and called their congregation All Saints. Other early churches were St. Michael's (Greenville, 1838), Sacred Heart (Sharon, 1859), with congregations in other communities also.


 * 100 years of the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese 1843 -1943. Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society Quarterly, 17:1. FamilySearch Library book 974.8 B2wg. Contains chronology, map, county-by-county information.

Episcopal/Anglican Church
Also known as the Reformed Church, this sect was officially organized in Greenville in 1861, and known as St. Clements. Another congregation formed in Sharpsville in 1887.

A Protestant Episcopalian congregation formed in Sharon in 1866 and was called St. John's.

Lutheran Church
Many early settler of German descent worshiped in the Lutheran church. Congregations formed as early as 1826 in Greenville, and 1844 in New Lebanon.


 * 1730-1779 Records of Rev. John Casper Stoever, Baptismal and Marriage, 1730-1779. Baptisms and marriages took place in Mercer County, Pennsylvania and in Spotsylvania, Virginia. Digital version: Internet Archive and PAGenWeb.

Methodist Church
Methodist Episcopal Circuit riders for the Methodist Episcopal faith established a congregation in Sharon as early as 1797. The group passed through several different conferences through the years and built its first log chapel, then a frame chapel built in 1842. For a list of early preachers and congregants see White's history. Other congregations were in Salem (pre-1823), Clarksville (1820), Greenville (1828), Grove City (1840), and Sheakleyville (1841), among others.

Presbyterian Church
Several sects of Presbyterais existed in Mercer County including the Presbyterains, the United Presbyterians and the Reformed Presbyterians. Early circuit riders established Prebyterian congregations in Ten-Milers (1799), Neshannock (1800), and Hopewell (1899). The first building was constructed in Cool Springs in 1800 and served Cool Springs, Fairview, Jackson and Lake townships.
 * A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania : a Narrative Account of its Historical Progress, its People, and its Principal Interests. John G. White. Salt Lake City: Digitized by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 2011, Originally published: Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1909. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library-Vol. 1, FamilySearch Digital Library.
 * Other early congregations were in Sheakleyville (1799, also known as Upper Sandy or Georgetown Presbyterian church), Salem (1800), Morefield (1802, Sharon), Mercer (1804), Greenville (1824) and other congregations in later years. See White's history for some lists of members and other congregation information.

United Presbyterian Church, Springfield Township
 * 1862-1890  and  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Reformed Church
United Brethren congregations formed in New Lebanon (1862) and Sharpsville (1866).