Roger Williams Baptist Church records

Series 1. Administration

Container	Description	Date
Box 1, Folder 1	Advisory Board Church Business Meetings	1960-1964
Box 1, Folder 2	Annual Reports	1905, 1907, 1909-1915, 1918-1920, 1935
Box 1, Folder 3	Annual Reports	1936-1942
Box 1, Folder 4	Annual Reports	1943-1949
Box 1, Folder 5	Annual Report	1950
Box 1, Folder 6	Annual Reports	1964-1966
Box 1, Folder 7	Annual Reports	1967-1969
Box 1, Folder 8	Annual Reports	1970-1973
Box 1, Folder 9	Annual Reports	1974-1978
Box 1, Folder 10	Annual Reports	1979-1985
Box 1, Folder 11	Annual Reports	1986-1990
Box 1, Folder 12	Annual Reports	1991-2000
Box 1, Folder 13	Annual Reports	2001-2010
Box 1, Folder 14	Annual Reports to American Baptist Churches of Rhode Island, State of Rhode Island Northern Baptist Convention, and Rhode Island Baptist State Convention	1904-1913, 1991-2000
Box 1, Folder 15	Assets Management Committee Fire Code	2009-2010
Box 1, Folder 16	Board of Christian Education	1993-1998
Box 1, Folder 17	Board of Trustees	1991-1995
Box 1, Folder 18	Child Abuse Policy	2008
Box 7, Volume 1	Church Records	1867-1910
Box 7, Volume 2	Church Records	1910-1935
Box 7, Volume 3	Church Records	1934-1946
Box 1, Folder 19	Constitutions & By-Laws	1965, 1971, 1978, 1980, 1985, 1993, 2009
Box 1, Folder 20	Constitutions and By-Laws Record and Roll Book	1917-1918
Box 1, Folder 21	Deacon's Minutes	1960-1962
Box 1, Folder 22	Deacon's - Minutes	June 1994- April 2001, November 2006
Box 1, Folder 23	Executive Board Church Business Meetings	1969-1976
Box 1, Folder 24	Executive Board Church Business Meetings	1977-1980
Box 1, Folder 25	Executive Board Church Business Meetings	1986-1988
Box 1, Folder 26	Executive Board Church Business Meetings	1991-1992
Box 1, Folder 27	Executive Board Church Business Meetings	1989-1990
Box 1, Folder 28	Executive Board Church Business Meetings	1993-1994
Box 1, Folder 29	Executive Board Church Meetings	1981-1983
Box 1, Folder 30	Executive Board Church Meetings	1984-1985
Box 1, Folder 31	Executive Board Church Meetings	1995-1996
Box 1, Folder 32	Executive Board Church Meetings	1997-1998
Box 2, Folder 1	Executive Board Church Meetings	1998-1999
Box 2, Folder 2	Executive Board Church Meetings	2000-2001
Box 2, Folder 3	Executive Board Church Meetings	2002-2003
Box 2, Folder 4	Executive Board Church Quarterly Meetings	1965-1966
Box 2, Folder 5	Executive Board Church Quarterly Meetings	1967-1968
Box 2, Folder 6	Financial Board - Minutes	1993-1994
Box 2, Folder 7	Financial Board Minutes	1995-1996
Box 2, Folder 8	Financial Board Minutes	1997-1998
Box 2, Folder 9	Finance Board	23. June 1998- 2 Dec. 2003
Box 2, Folder 10	Finance Board	6 Jan. 2004 - 21 May 2006
Box 2, Folder 11	Finance Committee Minutes	2000-2001
Box 2, Folder 12	Finance Committee Minutes	2002-2004
Box 2, Folder 13	Financial Reports - Annual	1995-1996, 1998-2004, 2006-2010
Box 2, Folder 14	Legal Documents - Corporate Charter Real Estate	1887, 1911, 1916, 1961, 1990
Box 2, Folder 15	Reports to Warren Baptist Association	1964-1970
Box 2, Folder 16	Standing Committee - Church Business Meetings	1946-1947
Box 2, Folder 17	Standing Committee - Church Business Meetings	1948-1950
Box 2, Folder 18	Standing Committee Church Business Meeting	1951-1953
Box 2, Folder 19	Standing Committee Church Business Meeting	1954-1956
Box 2, Folder 20	Standing Committee Church Business Meetings	1952-1959
Box 2, Folder 21	Women's Cabinet	1962-1969

Series 2. Organizations

Container	Description	Date
Box 2, Folder 22	The Christian Endeavor Society Minute Book	1899-1917
Box 2, Folder 23	The Christian Endeavor Society Minute Book	1917-1922
Box 2, Folder 24	Class no. 2 Minutes	1923-1931
Box 2, Folder 25	Church Mission & Christian Social Action Committee	1981-1989
Box 2, Folder 26	Ladies Industrial Society - Minutes and Members Book 1	15 Feb 1888- April 1896
Box 3, Folder 1	Ladies Industrial Society - Minutes and Members Book 2	1896-1906
Box 3, Folder 2	Ladies Industrial Society - Minutes and Members Book 3	1907-1913
Box 3, Folder 3	Ladies Industrial Society - Minutes and Members Book 4	1914-1923
Box 3, Folder 4	Ladies Industrial Society - Minutes and Members Book 5	1923-1951
Box 3, Folder 5	Ladies Industrial Society - Minutes and Members Book 6	1952-1958
Box 3, Folder 6	Ladies Industiral Society - Minutes and Members Book 7	1958-1964
Box 3, Folder 7	Ladies Industrial & Missionary Society	1907-1910, 1952 - 1960, 1938, 1947
Box 3, Folder 8	Queens of Avilion	1913
Box 3, Folder 9	Receipts of Roger Williams Sunday School	1894-1909
Box 3, Folder 10	Sunday School and Church Anniversaries	1905, 1915, 1940, 1965, 1952, 1977
Box 3, Folder 11	Sunday School Minutes	1905-1909, 1920-1930
Box 3, Folder 12	Sunday School Minutes	1912-1932
Box 3, Folder 13	Sunday School Reports	1901-1913, 1932-1942, 1947-1954
Box 3, Folder 14	Sunday School Reports	1931-1954
Box 3, Folder 15	V.C.P. Class Minutes	1919-1930
Box 3, Folder 16	V.C.P. Class Minutes	1930-1946
Box 3, Folder 17	V.C.P. Class Minutes	0196-1956
Box 3, Folder 18	Young People's Society	1940-1944

Series 3. Membership

Container	Description	Date
Box 3, Folder 19	Alphabetical Membership List	[2011]
Box 7, Folder 15	Church Census	1989
Box 3, Folder 20	Funeral Folders	1992, 1994-1999
Box 3, Folder 21	Funerals of Members	1944, 1945, 1989-1992, 1996-2003, 2007-2009
Box 3, Folder 22	Membership List	1997, 1999
Box 3, Folder 23	Membership Reports	1950, 1974-1976, 1984-1992
Box 3, Folder 24	Old Membership Lists	1946, 1997, 1980, 2009
Box 3, Folder 25	Transfers	1899-1924
Box 4, Folder 1	Transfers	1921, 1936-1938, 1966-1994, 2002-2005

Series 4. Publications

Container	Description	Date
Box 4, Folders 2-7	Bulletins	1905-1926
Box 4, Folder 8	Bulletins	1989
Box 4, Folder 9	Church Directory	1993, 2007, 2010
Box 4, Folders 10-20	Church Newsletter	1956-1967
Box 4, Folder 21	Church Newsletter	1974
Box 4, Folders 22-24	Church Newsletter	1976-1981
Box 4, Folder 25	Church Newsletter	1992, 1993, 1995
Box 4, Folder 26	Church Newsletter	1997-1998
Box 4, Folders 27-30	Church Newsletter	2000-2011
Box 6, Folder 1	Miscellaneous Programs and Dedications	1867-1907, 1919, 1929, 1950-1957, 1974-1990
Box 6	Program and Directory	1953-1971
Box 7, Folder 1	Roger Williams Herald	1891, 1894, 1896
Box 5	Church Bulletins and Calendars	1927-1970
Box 6	Church Bulletins and Calendars	1971-2011

Series 5. History

Container	Description	Date
Box 7, Folder 2	Chairlift and Organ Fund	1991
Box 7, Folder 3	Church Cluster - Lenten Services	1996-1998
Box 7, Folder 4	Church History	1876, 1915, 1933, 1940, 1959, 1965, 1985, 1990, 2012
Box 7, Folder 13	Commemoration of Church	2011
Box 7, Folder 5	Miscellaneous Clippings	1907-1908, 1940, 1956-1959, 1964-1977
Box 7, Folder 6	Miscellaneous Correspondence	1905-1924, 1974-1975, 1959, 2005-2009
Box 7, Folder 7	Moller Organ	1909
Box 7, Folder 8	Pastors	1884-1896, 1908, 1920, 1959-1977, 1992-2009
Box 8XX, Folder 1	Scrapbook	1943-1962
Box 7, Folder 9	Trowbridge Jubilee Souvenir	1911
Box 7, Folder 14	Time Capsule Contents	1884-1889, 2011

Series 6. Photographs and Ephemera

Container	Description	Date
Box 7, Folder 11	Church Building	1905-1965
Box 8XX, Folder 3	Church Building - oversize
Box 8XX, Folder 6	Class Photographs	1930-1950
Box 8XX, Folder 4	Hotaling, Ira A. - Pastor	[1933]
Box 7, Folder 12	Individuals	1892-1968
Box 8XX, Folder 5	Group Photographs - identified	1908-1940
Box 8XX, Folder 7	Groups photographs - unidentified	Undated
Box 8XX, Folder 8	Military Service Roll	circa 1945
Box 8XX, Folder 2	Time Capsule created in 1889 being installed in new cornerstone during dedication of new addition to the church	1906

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