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Box 2

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

Records of marriages, 1815-1864, 1839-1899

 Item — Box: 2, Volume: 1
Scope and Contents

This volume of records contains detailed records on the marriages of members within the church. The list of marriages contains information such as the names and dates of those involved, as well as the location of the marriage, the age of the people, the occupations of the men, and the relations of the women.

Dates: Record Keeping: 1815-1864; 1839-1899

Edmund H. Sears' "Reminiscence, Auto Biography, and Self Examination" manuscript, 1836-1837

 Item — Box: 2, Volume: 2
Scope and Contents

This volume contains the manuscript writings of Edmund Hamilton Sears from his time at the Harvard Divinity School. The volume contains an autobiographical sketch of Edmund Sears, a section on recollections and thoughts, poetry, some of which is pointedly political and/or anti-slavery, hymns, including a Christmas hymn, and a genealogy of the Sears family. There are portions of the manuscript which have been deliberately removed from the volume resulting in significant gaps.

Dates: 1836-1837

Tax and travel journal, 1852

 Item — Box: 2, Volume: 3
Scope and Contents

This volume is a daily journal kept by Rev. Joseph Field. The journal contains near daily entries about the happenings in Rev. Field's life, including travel and the names of those who he visited, the topics of Sunday sermons, tax records for the church, and agricultural notes regarding Field's garden.

Dates: 1852