Minutes, 1797-1932.

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Minutes, 1797-1932.

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Minutes, 1797-1932. They record annual meetings and regular business meetings, and contain information about the Society's foundation in 1797, its finances and fund-raising, names of its officers, and details of its work, with some names of families helped by the Society. There is some description of individual cases, and reference to ways in which demands on the Society were affected by difficult times for the city as a whole, such as the 1798 yellow fever epidemic. The Society was founded by Isabella Graham, and many notable New York women were involved in its work, including Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, the widow of Alexander Hamilton. Printed copies of the Society's bylaws for 1813, 1857, and 1887 are included.

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