Records, 1730-1864.

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Uxbridge (Mass.). Records, 1730-1864.

Records, 1730-1864.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191259827

This collection includes school records, church records, and several legal documents. There are two volumes of school records, for the period 1797 to 1864, for Uxbridge School District #5. Minutes for the district meetings concern repairs, additions, and locality changes for the schoolhouse, procurement of firewood, establishment of the school calendar, and the employment of teachers, as well as an annual list of scholars. There is also a volume of records for the Uxbridge Male and Female Seminary, a private school, for the period 1835 to 1841. The records include the articles of incorporation and the minutes of meetings of the Board of Trustees in which they determined school policy, hired teachers, set tuition, etc. The collection also contains the records, for the period 1730 to 1833, of the Church of Christ in Uxbridge. These records include regular entries by ministers of baptisms, admissions of new members, confessions of sins, etc., and minutes of church meetings, in which church policies were established. There are also marriage records and occasional complaints registered against individuals for such indiscretions as lying and drunkenness. In September 1782, a committee questioned a candidate for the church's ministry; the volume contains Josiah Spalding's (1751-1823) response to queries about the half-way covenant, as well as the duties of a Congregational minister. The legal documents include a 1771 court summons, a 1774 warrant for payment of a debt, an 1807 property deed, and a typescript copy of a petition to disband the former militia company, military orders, minutes of company meetings, the constitution and by-laws of the company, and a list of the company members, with dates of their discharge or death.

3 v. ; octavo.1 v. (122 leaves, 28 blank) ; folio.1 folder (4 items)

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