Collection ID: 0040 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Congregational minutes, 1757-1769

Authors

• First Baptist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) (https://viaf.org/viaf/138474365)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

ABHS.FBCMinutes1757-1769
(Atlanta, United States, American Baptist Historical Society)

Alternate identifiers

• https://philadelphiacongregations.org/records/item/ABHS.FBCMinutes1757-1769

Publisher

American Baptist Historical Society

Language

English

Origin

Place

United States

Summary

Congregational minute book begun in 1760, which begins with notes about meetings that occurred during the previous three years, before organized record-keeping was established, and runs to 1769. Entries include dates of meetings, members present, and business conducted. Topics include but are not limited to: disputes between church members, appointments to positions such as deacon and sexton, invitations to visiting preachers, financial gifts to the church and gifts from the church to the poor, which included firewood, coffins, and the forgiveness of burial fees in addition to financial donations, letters of dismission, applications for baptism, excommunications and restorations to membership, construction and maintenance of buildings and grounds, church purchases such as a new chalice, and the settlement of accounts with both debtors and creditors. There is an alphabetical index of church members' names at the back of the book.

Extent

149 pages;

Support

Paper

Related resources

• Philadelphia Congregations Early Records Project (https://philadelphiacongregations.org)
• ATLA Digital Library (https://dl.atla.com/collections/philadelphia-congregations-early-records-project)

Subjects topical

• Church records and registers
• Corporate minutes
• Baptists
• Church finance
• Church buildings
• Church discipline
• Church membership
• Church management
• Poor
• Charity
• Church fund raising
• Church committees
• Pews and pew rights
• Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
• First Baptist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Genres

• Minutes (Records)
• Manuscripts

Keywords

• 18th century

Licenses

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