Northampton County, Pennsylvania Church Records

List of Churches and Church Parishes in Northampton 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 – ($), free to members of the society, List of Churches Included; Also available at Ancestry ($)
 * 1733-1800 Pennsylvania Births, Northampton County, 1733-1800. By Humphrey, John T.  Baltimore, Md.: Gateway Press, 1991..
 * 1774-1840 Northampton County, Pennsylvania Church Records, 1774-1840 at Ancestry ($)
 * 1758-1806  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index
 * 1758-1806  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Catholic Church
Before 1828, those living in what was Northampton County would have attended the Blessed Sacrament Church in Goshenhoppen now Bally) in Berks County. Records thereafter would be found in St. John the Baptist Church at Hayock. St. Bernard's Church in Easton was dedicated in 1836.

Lutheran Church
Trinity Lutheran and Dryland Reformed Church, Hecktown


 * 1763-1832 Dryland Union Lutheran Church, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, 1763-1832. Online at: Ancestry.com ($)

Methodist Church

 * 1836-1885 First Methodist Church, Marriages, 1836-1885 at Northampton PAGenWeb

Moravian
Moravians established a settlement at Bethlehem in 1741. The Bethlehem Digital History Project (winner of a National Endowments for the Humanities prize) includes community records, Bethlehem diary, bills of sale and manumissions, business activity, meeting minutes, Moravian Indian diaries 1763-1765, registers of baptisms, marriages, and deaths, and church regulations.


 * Moravian Church Marriages Bethlehem, 1742-1800; Nazareth 1742-1800; Emmaus 1758-1800. Courtesy USGenWeb Archives

Presbyterian Church
Several Presbyterian churches were built in what is now Northampton County (Bucks until 1751) to accommodate Scotch-Irish settlers. A Presbyterian Church was organized at Craig's Settlement by 1737. Mount Bethel Presbyterian Church was organized in 1738 in "Hunter's Settlement" in Lower and Upper Mount Bethel Townships.

First Presbyterian Church, Easton
 * First Presbyterian Church, Easton Alphabetical Listing. Courtesy USGenWeb Archives

Presbyterian Church, Allen Township
 * 1822-1875  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index
 * 1822-1889  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Reformed Church

 * 1745-1750 History of Northampton County, Pennsylvania Davis, ed.,  (Philadelphia and Reading: Peter Fritts, 1877.), 179 and 181.   Third Street Reformed Church located in Easton was organized between 1745 and 1750 and was the first Reformed church in the area. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library; also atUSGWArchives.


 * Deaths and Burials of Reformed Churches of Easton 1768-1844 Courtesy USGenWeb Archives

Christ Union Church
 * 1756-1845 Northampton County, Pennsylvania, 1756-1845: Christ Union Church. Online at: Ancestry ($)

Grace Reformed Church
 * Grace Reformed Church RecordsCourtesy USGenWeb Archives

Lowhill Reformed Congregation
 * 1769-1881 Lowhill Reformed Congregation, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, 1769-1881. Online at: Ancestry ($)