Federal Adelphi Society records (MS-1Q-F1)

Consists of correspondence, receipts, records of books purchased, a committee report, and a record book of the Brown University Federal Adelphi. The record book (1797-1833) contains the Petition for an act of incorporation to the State of R.I.; Institutions [Constitution] of the Federal Aldelphi; and minutes of meetings. The society maintained a library which is described in the Institutions of the Federal Adelphi. There are membership certificates (1797) engraved on velum by William Hamlin of Providence