Minute book, 1820-1827

Oversize minute book (March 8, 1820 - May 2, 1827) detailing weekly, then monthly (circa September 1820 - March 1825), back to weekly, and annual meetings, noting officers and members attending, people applying for membership or relief, members fined, elected to office, died, resigned, etc., with periodic notations of finances, and changes to the rules of the Society. There are frequent detailed pension lists assessing the conditions and need of widows on the Society's bounty, often mentioning their ownership and hiring out of slaves; conditions and assessment of the school, noting progress of students (pp. 120-121), possible changes to the school (pp. 41-52, passim, 163), deterioration of the school (p. 210) and charges against, and exoneration of, the teacher, John You (pp. 184, 190). With frequent references to "stitching" (binding) and printing of new rules (pp. 28, 101), properties mortgaged to the Society, the possibility of a starting a loan program, with description of property at Wentworth and Meeting (p. 78) and another to be purchased between Broad and Chalmers Street for the Society's hall (p. 220); with an index in the front of the volume. Each meeting notes the venue where held with the charges for it; there are proposals for two different vendors and venues (p. 37).