Handwritten manuscripts, sermons, church histories, and church records. There are a total of 15 discrete sections within series 1, some of these sections are one or two items, while others are more extensive. Dr. Boles has included detailed information about each.

Handwritten records that run from the 1840s-1850s. Includes list of members from 1843 to 1853, some marriage/death records, church meeting minutes that address doctrinal issues and church decisions. About 50 handwritten pages, bound into brown paper wraps.

One sheet, handwritten sermon dated April 16, 1842 and labeled "no. 3", perhaps by a C. Beach. Sermon begins with "The duties which rest upon us as intellectual and moral beings are great and numerous."

A soft-bound handwritten book measuring 8 inches by 13 inches. Most of the volumes contained "Otis Allen's Arithmatick, Mansfield January 23d, 1806." It also contains a handwritten list of major religious events in Mansfield from 1766 to 1865 (about 4 pages) and Allen family genealogical records.

Published books and pamphlets having to do with churches, religious history and religious figures from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The majority are mid-19th century, only one from the 18th century.

Bound record book with some loose papers that cover the years 1834 to 1855. They contain some interesting material, including minutes, lists of baptisms and members (including two people identified as "colored"), discipline records (including an excommunication for a church deacon who became a universalist in 1841 and an 1844 discipline case against someone violated a pledge to not sell ardent spirits), a confession of faith, death records, etc.

Bound record book that contains a list of members from the 1830s as well as some historical information about the Orthodox Church in Athol, including some chronological and alphabetical lists. Book is in very worn shape and the covers have detached from the pages.