Monroe County, Pennsylvania Church Records

List of Churches and Church Parishes in Monroe 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 – ($), free to members of the society, List of Churches Included; Also available at Ancestry ($)

Lutheran Church
Hamilton Church


 * Miscellaneous Hamilton Church Records on at PAGenWeb – free, incomplete

Salem Reformed and Lutheran Church, Chestnut Hill Township
 * Baptism Records of Salem Reformed and Lutheran Church on at PAGenWeb – free, located in Chestnut Hill Township

Salem Evangelical Lutheran and Reformed Church, Gilbert
 * 1807-1866  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Methodist Church
The Delaware Water Gap Methodist Church (also called Dutotsburg) began in 1800.

Presbyterian Church
The Delaware Water Gap Methodist Church (also called Dutotsburg) began in 1800.

Reformed Church

 * Baptism Records of Salem Reformed and Lutheran Church on at Monroe PAGenWeb – free, located in Chestnut Hill Township

Dutch Reformed The first church in Monroe County was a Dutch Reformed Church, organized in 1737 and called the Old Log Church. It was located in Smithfield. The Smithfield Church was one of the four Dutch Reformed churches built in about 1741 in the area. The other 3 churches were all built on the other side of the Delaware River in Minisink Valley area (Northwestern New Jersey).
 * 1741-1825 Humphrey, John T. Pennsylvania Births, Carbon County, 1795-1825; Monroe County, 1741-1825; Schuylkill County, 1755-1825. Washington, D.C.: PA Genealogy Books, 2006.
 * Contains church records of the Dutch Reformed Church, Smithfield Township; Lutheran and Reformed Congregations in Hamilton Township; Lutheran and Reformed Congregations in Lower Smithfield Township; Stroudsburg Monthly Meeting; and Lutheran and Reformed Congregations at Gilbert in Chestnuthill Township.


 * 1741-1814 Canfield, Amos. "Records of the Reformed Dutch Church at Smithfield, Pennsylvania," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record,
 * Church Officials 1745-1814, Membership Lists 1745-1788, Marriage Banns 1742-1786, Baptisms 1741-1749: Vol. 57, No. 1 (Jan. 1926):63-74;*Baptisms 1749-1807: Vol. 57, No. 2 (Apr. 1926):142-152. Online at:; also New York Family History ($);