Records of Cupar Boston United Presbyterian, Cupar First Relief and Cupar United Free Church

Session minutes, 1813-1918; Manager's minutes, 1828-1880 and 1898-1918.

The congregation of Cupar Boston United Presbyterian church, which sits within the Presbytery of Cupar, can be traced back to 1770 when an area of land was purchased at Westport in the burgh for the purpose of erecting a Relief Church (hence the original name of Cupar Westport). Laurence Bonnar, who became the first minister of the newly established congregation, was ordained at a date no later than 1772. A new church, built on the site of the old one, was opened in 1849, and was now called Boston Church, within the United Presbyterian Church. Following the union of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland in 1900, Cupar Boston United Presbyterian Church became Cupar Boston United Free Church but the congregation was dissolved in 1918.

Sources: Robert Small, The History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church 1733-1900 (Edinburgh, 1904); John Alexander Lamb, The Fasti of the United Free Church of Scotland 1900-1929 (Edinburgh, 1956).

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