Middlesex County Bible Society (Middlesex County, Mass.)

Society established in or by 1814 as the Bible Society in the County of Middlesex, to promote Bible distribution in Middlesex County, Mass. Governed by officers and by a Board of Directors. Meetings were held in various Middlesex towns represented in the membership. Within individual towns, there were committees to facilitate local distribution of Bibles. (In 1814, the Concord committee consisted of Ezra Ripley, John White, Abiel Heywood, Isaac Hurd, and Samuel Hoar.) By 1816, the Society had begun to refer to itself as the Middlesex Bible Society.

(Cont.) In 1816, the Society voted to become "auxiliary to the American Bible Society." Those serving as secretaries of the Society (and consequently keeping the records) included Jeremiah Evarts, Joseph McKean, William Collier, Joseph Locke, Nathaniel Whitman, Samuel Sewall, Jacob Coggin, Sewall Harding, and Lemuel Shattuck.