Church records and registers -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society collection, 1635-1874.
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-624
Abstract
The Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society was instituted on 27 January 1843 for the “collection and preservation of books, pamphlets, manuscripts and curiosities, bearing on the biography and history of men and things in the United States, from the earliest period”. In 1907, all records and activity of the Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society ceased.Account books, broadsides, correspondence, deeds, diaries, estate inventories, marriage intentions, meeting...
Dates:
1635-1874; Majority of material found within (: 1720-1870)
South Congregational Church records, 1823-1887.
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-12
Scope and Contents
Consists of records relating to two major functions of the South Congregational Church of Boston: its sizeable Sunday-school library and the South Friendly Society. The South Friendly Society was a women's charitable organization devoted to supplying indigent female church members with material to make into saleable clothing and to assisting needy people in general. Included in the records are several business letters written by Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909), minister of South...
Dates:
1823-1887