Charitable Library Society records, 1795-1821.

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Charitable Library Society records, 1795-1821.

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Records, 1795-1821, include: bound volume, 1795-1821, containing constitution, membership list, minutes of meetings, lists of officers and Standing Committee members, records of donations (an entry for Jan. 13, 1801, recording a gift by John Thoreau, father of Henry, of Hannah More's Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education; other Thoreau family donations recorded later); bound volume, 1795-1819, containing records of book purchases and donations, records of expenditures for books and supplies. (Cont.) and Standing Committee meeting minutes; one volume (1795-1801) in paper wrapper, containing "An account of Books lent by the Charitable Society ... "; printed catalog ("A Catalogue of Books in the Charitable Library, Concord, 1804"), with ms. additions; and a ms. list of pledged member donations for 1816.

.21 linear ft.

Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Ripley, Ezra, 1751-1841

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Unitarian minister. A.B. Harvard, 1776. Installed as minister of the First Parish in Concord, Mass. in 1778. Remained minister there for 63 years, until his death in 1841. From the description of Sermons, 1783-1837 (inclusive). (Harvard University, Divinity School Library). WorldCat record id: 122592368 Sermon delivered by Ripley--Unitarian clergyman, pastor of the First Church in Concord, Mass., step-grandfather of Ralph Waldo Emerson--on Nov. 16, 1828, to commemorate the f...

Thoreau, John, 1787-1859

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Storekeeper and pencil-maker in Concord, Mass.; father of Henry David Thoreau. Born in Boston, Oct. 8, 1787; married Cynthia Dunbar, May 11, 1812; died in Concord, Feb. 3, 1859. From the description of Deeds relating to John Thoreau's ownership of a pew in the First Parish in Concord, 1832-1833. (Concord Public Library). WorldCat record id: 34766099 Father of Henry D. Thoreau. From the description of Printed document filled in and signed : Boston, 1814 Jun. 9. (U...

Charitable Library Society (Concord, Mass.)

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Society formed May 25, 1795, in Concord, Mass., "for the promotion of useful knowledge" and the encouragement of virtue. Established under the name Charitable Society in Concord; by 1801, referred to in the records as Charitable Library Society in Concord. Similar to a subscription library (that is, a library the members of which pay dues entitling them to use the library collection), but with an added, constitutionally-stated benevolent function. The Society provided books from its...

Thoreau family.

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