Container List:
Society and Church Records, 1835-1920
bMS 250/1 (1) Fourth Universalist Society in Boston. Record book, 1842-1868. Includes: by-laws, 1842; warrants and minutes of meetings, 3 May 1842-13 April 1868, containing reports, copies of correspondence.
bMS 250/1 (2) Proprietors of the Fourth Universalist Meeting House in the City of Boston/Broadway Universalist Society. Record book, 1835, 1868-1901. Includes: warrants and minutes of meetings, 14 April 1868-11 April 1901, containing reports, clippings, copies of correspondence, printed treasurer's reports and orders of service; "The Agreement and Constitution of the Fourth Universalist Church in Boston," 1835 (pamphlet); copy of act legalizing name change, 14 February 1876.
bMS 250/2 (1) Broadway Universalist Society. Record book, 1840-1920. Includes: receipts, scattered, 1840-1852; copy of Massachusetts Universalist Convention quit claim to Society, 5 March 1879; minutes, 3 October 1901-14 May 1920, containing copies of correspondence, clippings, printed treasurer's reports.
bMS 250/2 (2) Fourth Universalist Church in Boston. Record book, 1835-1852. Includes: church agreement, rules and regulations, 1835; minutes and records of services, 6 December 1835-11 April 1852.
bMS 250/3 (1) Fourth Universalist Church in Boston. Record book, 1852-1861. Includes: Church agreement, covenant, and constitution, 1852; membership list; minutes and records of services, 11 April 1852-4 October 1861.
bMS 250/3 (2) Church of Our Father. Record book, 1870-1888. Includes: minutes and records of services, 15 February 1870-8 June 1888; reports; clippings.
bMS 250/3 (3) Church of Our Father. Record book, 1867-1898. Includes: membership records, 1867-1898; lists of baptisms, 1881-1886, marriages 1867-1873, and deaths, 1867-1871; records of attendance at services, 1868-1873; church government, special rules, with amendments, 1895.
bMS 250/3 (4) Articles of Association and By-laws of the Society, 1866.
bMS 250/3 (5) By-laws of the Broadway Universalist Society, 1901 (pamphlet).
bMS 250/3 (6) Massachusetts Universalist Convention pamphlet: A Suggested Constitution for a Universalist Parish, with annotations for the Church of Our Father, n.d.
bMS 250/3 (7) Correspondence and papers concerning legal disputes over right of way through Society land, 1909-1910.
bMS 250/3 (8) Letters to Society from pastors, March-April, 1917.
bMS 250/4 (1) Record book of the Church of Our Father and Broadway Universalist Society, 1895-1918. Includes lists of: pastors, 1895-1917; members, 1895-1917; baptisms, 1895-1911; marriages, 1895-1917; deaths, 1895-1918.
Financial Records, 1870-1920
bMS 250/4 (2) Pew deed, 1870.
bMS 250/4 (3) Pew record book, 1872-1882. Includes clipping, 1900, obituary of Winslow B. Lucas.
bMS 250/4 (4) Society Treasurer's record book, 1800-1914. Includes accounts, April 1880-March 1914.
bMS 250/4 (5) Treasurer's record book, 1914-1920. Includes Society accounts, April 1914-April 1920, and Church accounts, 1918.
bMS 250/4 (6) Insurance policies, 1917-1919.
Sunday School Records, 1838-1886
bMS 250/5 (1) Records of the Association connected with the Fourth Universalist Sabbath School, South Boston. Record book, 1838-1854. Includes: brief history of the association, from September 1838; lists of teachers; constitutions and by-laws, 1845, with amendment, 1851; minutes of meetings, 17 February 1846-21 March 1854.
bMS 250/5 (2) Copy of letter to Superintendent from Committee to hold a Sunday School Union meeting, 19 September 1846.
bMS 250/5 (3) Record of the Teachers' Association connected with the Broadway Universalist Sabbath School, South Boston, Massachusetts. Record book, 1868-1880. Includes: copies of the constitution, by-laws; schedule of property belonging to the association; membership list; minutes, 25 February 1868-6 December 1880.
bMS 250/5 (4) Fourth Universalist Sabbath School record book, 1857-1859. Includes lists of students and teachers, attendance records.
bMS 250/5 (5) Fourth Universalist Sabbath School record book, 1861-1863. Includes lists of students and teachers, attendance records.
bMS 250/5 (6) Fourth Universalist Sunday School classbook, 1874-1877. Includes attendance records.
bMS 250/5 (7) Broadway Universalist Sunday School classbook, 1879-1886. Includes attendance records.
bMS 250/5 (8) Sunday School record book, 1880-1884. Includes attendance records of one class.
Miscellaneous Papers
bMS 250/5 (9) Programs, clippings, orders of service, 1833-1901.