bMS 259

East Boston Universalist Parish, East Boston, Massachusetts. Records, 1842-1948; 1952.

Container List

Church Record, 1842-1952

  • bMS 259/1 (1) Central Square Universalist Church. Register, 1867-1942. Includes: index; lists of members, marriages, deaths, births.
  • bMS 259/1 (2) Central Square Universalist Church. Record book, 1866-1877. Includes: minutes, 28 December 1866-9 April 1877; constitution, list of original members, 1866; lists of officers, deacons, and new members; new constitution, 31 March 1877.
  • bMS 259/1 (3) Central Square Universalist Church. Record book, 1877-1897. Includes: minutes, 9 April 1877-30 November 1897; constitution; notes on new churches, 1891 and 1894: White Street Universalist Church and All Souls Universalist Church.
  • bMS 259/1 (4) All Souls Universalist Church. Record book, 1897-1931. Includes: minutes, 28 December 1897-5 April 1931; record of church events, services, marriages; list of christenings, 1894-1910; clippings; reports; constitution, 1927.
  • bMS 259/1 (5) All Souls Universalist Church. Record book, 1931-1942. Includes: minutes, 12 June 1931-15 February 1942; record of church events, services, marriages; clippings; reports; list of members.
  • bMS 259/1 (6) All Souls Universalist Church. Record book, 1942-1948. Includes: minutes, 15 February 1942-June 1948; record of church events, services, marriages; reports; note on closing of church, March 1948.
  • bMS 259/1 (7) Papers from previous record books, 1843-1948. Includes; list of members, 1916; letter; constitutions, 1877, 1894.
  • bMS 259/2 (1) All Souls Universalist Church. Record book, 1925-1937. Includes: minutes of annual and semi-annual church meetings, 20 February 1925-13 March 1928; reports of treasurer, Sunday School, committees and officers; minutes of the executive board, 10 April l928-7 January 1937.
  • bMS 259/2 (2) All Souls Universalist Church. Record book, 1937-1948, 1952. Includes: minutes of annual meetings, 27 January 1937-15 April 1948; minutes of executive board, 3 May 1937-18 March 1948 and 7 February 1952.
  • bMS 259/2 (3) Papers from previous record books. Includes: annual reports from committees and organizations; clerk's notebook of draft minutes, 21 November 1942-8 November 1945, recorded in bMS 259/2 (2).
  • bMS 259/2 (4) Loose records from bMS 259/1 - bMS 259/2 (2). Includes: clippings on dedication of church, 1842, and 100th anniversary, 1938; programs; photograph of the Central Square Universalist Church.
  • bMS 259/2 (5) White Street Church and Central Building. Record book, 1890-1891. Treasurer's records, a ledger account.
  • bMS 259/2 (6) White Street Church and Central Building. Record book, 1890-1891. Treasurer's records, cash received and paid.

Society Records, 1865-1918

  • bMS 259/2 (7) Central Square Universalist Society. Record book, 1865-1884. Includes: minutes, 19 June 1865-14 December 1884; act of incorporation, September 1865; by-laws, March 1866; record of reorganization, October 1872; records of annual meetings of the society, executive committee, and pew holders.
  • bMS 259/2 (8) East Boston Universalist Parish. Record book, 1886-1918. Includes: minutes of annual meetings, 20 May 1886-3 January 1918; constitution; act of incorporation; list of original members; reports of committees, organizations, treasurer, trustees.
  • bMS 259/3 (1) East Boston Universalist Parish. Building Committee record book. Includes minutes of meetings, 2 August 1865-7 September 1874.
  • bMS 259/3 (2) East Boston Universalist Parish. Standing committee record book. Includes: minutes, 2 October 1874-2 May 1886; reports of organizations, committees, treasurer.
  • bMS 259/3 (4) Papers from previous record books. Includes: minutes of meeting, 12 March 1889.

Affiliated Organizations, 1873-1944

  • bMS 259/3 (5) East Boston Universalist Parish. Sunday School record book. Includes: minutes, 20 September 1931-24 September 1939; financial and committee reports.
  • bMS 259/3 (6) Papers from previous record book.
  • bMS 259/3 (7) Record book of the Corps Vivant, Universalist Social Union, and Chapin Club, 1873-1885. Includes: minutes of Corps Vivant, 14 January 1873-25 November 1873, with account of lectures, entertainments, reports; minutes of Universalist Social Union, 7 October 1874-8 January 1878, with constitution, list of members, records of entertainments, reports; minutes of Chapin Club, 14 November 1882-10 March 1885, with constitution, list of members, records of entertainments, reports.
  • bMS 259/3 (8) Record book of the Chapin Club and Young People's Christian Union. Includes: Chapin Club minutes, 24 March 1885-10 November 1885, with list of members, reports, records of entertainments; YPCU minutes, October 1888-5 February 1895, with constitutions of 1888 and 1891, reports, list of members, record of entertainments.
  • bMS 259/3 (9) Young People's Christian Union. Record book. Includes: list of members, 1895-1899; minutes, 18 February 1895-9 May 1904; reports; records of entertainments; historical note, November 1895.
  • bMS 259/3 (10) Young People's Christian Union. Treasurer's record book, 1895-1903.
  • bMS 259/3 (11) Papers from previous record books.
  • bMS 259/4 (1) Ladies Aid Society. Record book, 1880-1889. Includes: minutes, 14 January 1880-20 December 1889; constitution, 1880; lists of members and officers; reports; financial records.
  • bMS 259/4 (2) Ladies Aid Society. Record book, 1889-1897. Includes: constitution; list of members; minutes, 3 January 1889-29 December 1897.
  • bMS 259/4 (3) Ladies Aid Society. Record book, 1910-1918. Includes: constitution; list of members; minutes, 13 April 1910-1 May 1918; memorials. Note: name changed to All Souls Universalist Ladies Aid Society of East Boston in 1901.
  • bMS 259/4 (4) Ladies Aid Society. Record book, 1918-1942.. Includes: constitution; list of members; minutes, 22 May 1918-27 February 1942; memorials; clippings; reports.
  • bMS 259/4 (5) Papers from previous record books.
  • bMS 259/4 (6) Mission Circle. Record book, 1928-1943. Includes: constitution, 1928; minutes, 11 November 1929-7 May 1943; reports; records of fund raising, lectures, contributions.
  • bMS 259/4 (7) Mission Circle. Treasurer's record book, December 1928-September 1943.
  • bMS 259/4 (8) Papers from previous record books.
  • bMS 259/4 (9) Women's societies. Record book. Includes: minutes, 23 November 1942-15 December 1942, 8 February 1944; treasurer's reports.

Scrapbook Material, 1927-1940

  • bMS 259/4 (10) Scrapbook material: programs, letters, clippings, 1927-1931 (pastorate of Sylvia Laurine Freeman).
  • bMS 259/4 (11) Scrapbook material: programs, orders of service, clippings, 1939-1940 (pastorates of O. Herbert McKenney, Jr., and Maurice W. Cobb).