Scope and Contents From the Series: Series IV. Miscellaneous Papers, 1699-1920, includes the papers of Reverend Samuel Fiske's controversy with Salem's First Church, of which Joseph Bowditch (1700-1780) was a member. The dispute, which began over Fiske's refusal to give a certain lecture and his tampering with the church meeting records, led to a split in the congregation with a number of members leaving. Fiske finally received ecclesiastical censure from the Council of Churches and was dismissed...