Minute book, 1813-1820

Bound minute book (March 10, 1813 - March 1, 1820) detailing weekly and annual meetings, listing officers and members who attended, applied for membership or relief, were fined, elected to office, died, etc. With periodic entries on the Fellowship Society's school, remarking on its success, its school master, John C. You, the ability to expand (February 16, 1814), the desire to build or acquire an appropriate building, the names of children taken on as students, necessary retrenchments due to fiscal issues, with mention of the South Carolina Legislature creating Free Schools, and thus minimizing the need for its school (November 5, 1817) and many other issues. Minutes include location of meeting and bill for services. Catering proposals from two different vendors, including the Planter's Hotel, are included in the minutes of October 6, 1813 meeting; various carpenter estimates are in the February 14, 1814 minutes. There are mentions of members helping to build fortifications on Charleston neck (September 28 and October 5, 1814); descriptions of the various tenements on the Society's lot at Meeting and Wentworth Streets (February 21, 1816); mentions of preparations for President James Monroe's visit to Charleston (March and April, 1819); and the ordering of three maces (October 20, 1819). There are periodic tabulations of the Society's finances, with final entries detailing the need for additional fiscal retrenchments, with lists scrutinizing the needs and conditions of various widows and others on the Society's bounty.