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Box 5

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

Photocopies of materials from the Salem Court House records, 1739-1755, undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 1
Identifier: SERIES IV.
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...
Dates: 1739-1755, undated

Photocopies of materials from the Salem Court House records, 1749-1766, undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 2
Identifier: SERIES IV.
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...
Dates: 1749-1766, undated

Photocopies of materials from the Salem Court House records, 1743-1766, undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 3
Identifier: SERIES IV.
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...
Dates: 1743-1766, undated