Unitarian Church of Charleston, S.C., records, 1819-2000.

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Unitarian Church of Charleston, S.C., records, 1819-2000.

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Building and property records (1870s-1990s); correspondence; financial records (1844-1990s); membership and ministerial records; vestry records; scrapbooks (1904-1990); records of auxiliary organizations; and miscellaneous items, including papers of Samuel Gilman. A small amount of correspondence dates from 1861 to 1917, but the bulk of general correspondence begins in 1943. Membership records include a register (1819-1979) of marriages, births, baptisms, and communicants, as well as a record of marriages (1822-1857) and burials (1846-1925). Vestry records (1865-1989) include minutes and correspondence. Miscellaneous items include church bulletins; directories; papers pertaining to Alva Gage; papers of Samuel Gilman, including correspondence (1819-1852) and sermons (1819-1850s); papers concerning Caroline H. Gilman; sermons of various ministers; visitors' registers; newsletters; and a small file of research requests which includes some genealogical information on church members. Records of auxiliary organizations mainly consist of those of the Alliance, which began in the 1840s as the Ladies' Sewing Society and was later known as the Women's Alliance. Records of the Ladies' Sewing Society, including cash books, minutes, and membership lists, date from 1847 into the 1920s, during which time the name was changed to the Women's Alliance of the Unitarian Church. Records of the Women's Alliance, and later the Alliance, date from the 1920s into the 1990s.

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South Carolina Historical Society

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Gilman, Caroline Howard, 1794-1888

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Caroline Howard Gilman (pen name, Mrs. Clarissa Packard; 1794–1888) was an American author. Her writing career spanned 70 years and include poems, novels, and essays. She was born Caroline Howard in Boston, Massachusetts in 1794, the daughter of Samuel Howard. She was young when her parents died and grew up with an older sister and brothers. She passed her school days at Concord, Cambridge and other towns in her native State of Massachusetts. Despite a poor formal education, she was motiva...

Gilman, Samuel, 1791-1858

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