Description of American Baptist Historical Society, ABHS.FBCMinutes1757-1769: Congregational minutes, 1757-1769 contributor Carly Sewell cataloger Michelle Belden Council on Library and Information Resources American Baptist Historical Society 2019-09-19 2019-09-19 These images and the content of American Baptist Historical Society ABHS.FBCMinutes1757-1769: Congregational minutes, 1757-1769 are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, American Baptist Historical Society has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about American Baptist Historical Society ABHS.FBCMinutes1757-1769: Congregational minutes, 1757-1769. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. Philadelphia Congregations Early Records Project ATLA Digital Library United States Atlanta American Baptist Historical Society ABHS.FBCMinutes1757-1769 https://philadelphiacongregations.org/records/item/ABHS.FBCMinutes1757-1769 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. English Congregational minutes, 1757-1769 First Baptist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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United States 18th century 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.) Minutes (Records) Manuscripts