Volume 8

Scope and Contents 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...