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Providence Female Charitable Society Records (MSS 642)

Rhode Island Historical Society

121 Hope Street
Providence, RI 02906
Tel: 401-273-8107
Fax: 401-751-7930
email: reference@rihs.org

Inventory

Series 1. Correspondence

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1
1802-1819
Box 1, Folder 2
1849-1869
Box 1, Folder 3
1873-1889
Box 1, Folder 4 Undated

Series 2. Society administration

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 5 Notice of wish for a relief fund
Contents Note: Includes list of subscribers
c.1799
Box 1, Folder 6 Petition to incorporate
1802
Triple Oversize Storage Charter
1802
Box 1, Folder 7 Printed charter of the charter and constitution
Contents Note: (2 copies and reprint)
1804

Series 3. Subscribers

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 8 Subscribers
1801-1932
Box 1, Folder 9 Subscribers (volume)
1898-1952

Series 4. Accounts/account books

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 10 "Manager's book, 1800 and 1801"
Contents Note: Contains only 1800
1800
Box 1, Folder 11 Accounts for clothing ("Mrs. R. Munro")
1800-1801
Box 1, Folder 12 Accounts for clothing
c.1800-1805
Box 1, Folder 13 Account book
1800-1828
Box 1, Folder 14 Accounts for clothing ("Elizabeth Burrill")
1801
Box 1, Folder 15 Accounts (clothing) ("Ann Eliza")
1801
Box 1, Folder 16 Accounts
1801-1802
Box 1, Folder 17 Accounts for clothing
1801-1802
Box 1, Folder 18 Accounts of clothing made
1802 May-1803 Sep
Box 1, Folder 19 Accounts of clothing (Peddy Bowen)
1802 Oct-1803 Feb
Box 1, Folder 20 Manager's book
1802-1804
Box 1, Folder 21 Accounts, including clothes received
1803
Box 1, Folder 22 Accounts of clothing
1803 Apr-1804 Apr
Box 1, Folder 23 Accounts (adjusted)
1803 May-1804 Mar
Box 1, Folder 24 Accounts of clothing
1803 Dec-1808 Mar
Box 1, Folder 25 Accounts of clothing
1804 Apr-1805 Apr
Box 1, Folder 26 Accounts
1804-1805
Box 1, Folder 27 Accounts with women serving
1804-1805
Box 1, Folder 28 Accounts between Eliza Bowen and PFCS
1805-1806
Box 1, Folder 29 Account book, (Rebecca F. Snow)
1805-1806
Box 1, Folder 30 Manager's book, (Sarah C. Howell)
1805-1806
Box 1, Folder 31 Accounts
1806
Box 1, Folder 32 Accounts for clothing, ("Martha Munro's applicants")
1806-1807
Box 1, Folder 33 Accounts (Sarah Mumford)
1806-1809
Box 1, Folder 34 Bank book
1809-1810
Box 1, Folder 35 Accounts
1809-1811
Box 1, Folder 36 Accounts
1823-1869
Box 1, Folder 37 Accounts
1828-1842
Box 1, Folder 38 Account book
1828-1847
Box 1, Folder 39 Accounts ("Anne A. Ives")
1837-1868
Box 1, Folder 40 Accounts
Contents Note: With list of subscribers, 1801-1866
1840-1858
Box 1, Folder 41 Accounts
1847-1872
Box 1, Folder 42 Treasurer
1865-1923
Box 1, Folder 43 Accounts
1872-1912
Box 1, Folder 44 Schedule of property and accounts
1876-1892
Box 1, Folder 45 Manager's book
1890-1929
Box 1, Folder 46 Schedule of property and accounts
1892-1912
Box 2, Folder 1 Accounts and receipt book
1912-1917
Box 2, Folder 2 Accounts, undated.

Series 5. Receipts

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folder 3
1800-1818
Box 2, Folder 4
1801
Box 2, Folder 5
1802-1822
Box 2, Folder 6
1820-1825
Box 2, Folder 7
1823
Box 2, Folder 8
1824-1886
Box 2, Folder 9
1843-1852
Box 2, Folder 10
1882-1892
Box 2, Folder 11
1892-1901
Box 2, Folder 12 Receipts and expenditures
1917-1939
Box 2, Folder 13 Receipts, subscriptions
1949-1952
Box 2, Folder 14 Receipts, undated

Series 6. Meeting minutes and resolutions

Container Description Date
Volume Minute book, includes by-laws
1800-1934
Box 2, Folder 15 Resolutions
Contents Note: Some undated
1852

Series 7. Miscellaneous

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folder 16 Sermon, Jonathan Maxcy
Contents Note: 2 copies
1802
Box 2, Folder 17 Sermon, James Wilson
1803
Box 2, Folder 18 "A Discourse delivered in Providence Sept. 6th 1804 before the Female Charitable Society for the Relief of indigent widows and children" by Theodore Dehon
1804
Box 2, Folder 19 Blank subscription form, 19th c.; obituaries for 3 members, 1926; newspaper articles, 1950 and undated
Box 2, Folder 20 Tribute to Harriet Morris Smith
1906 Apr