Church of the Advent (Mss. Gr. 175)

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Series 1. Subject, 1890-2005
7 box(es); 3 Oversized boxes
(3.5 linear feet)

Contains records documenting administrative, financial, and social activities. The bulk of the records are from the late 20th century. With the exception of the financial information, there are gaps in the early documentation of the church in this series.

Arrangement: This series is arranged alphabetically by subject or type or record and chronologically within each folder. Oversized material is located at the end of the collection.

Container	Description	Date
Box 1, Folder 1	Administrative Memoranda	1973, 1983
Box 1, Folder 2	Advent and Lenten Letters	1972-1987
Box 1, Folder 3	Agreement between St. Paul's Church and Church of the Advent	1969 Sep 27
Box 1, Folder 4	Annual Meetings	1909, 1913
Box 1, Folder 5	Annual Meetings	1975, 1977-1979
Box 1, Folder 6	Annual Meetings	1980-1984
Box 1, Folder 7	Annual Meetings	1985 - 1994
Box 1, Folder 8	Annual Meetings	1996-2003
Box 1, Folder 9	100th Anniversary Booklet	1980
Box 1, Folder 10	100th Anniversary Contact Prints and Negatives from Rhode Island Churchmen (with article)	1980 Dec
Box 1, Folder 10a	Pawtucket Centennial by The Evening Times (in oversize box 3)	1986 Sep 17
Box 1, Folder 11	100th Anniversary Dinner	1980
Box 2, Folder 12	100th Anniversary- Notes and Time Line	1980
Box 2, Folder 13	100th Anniversary- Mockups	1980
Box 2, Folder 14	100th Anniversary- Mockups	1980
Box 2, Folder 15	Bible, Presented by St. Barbara's Guild (in oversize box 2)	1906
Box 2, Folder 16	Bylaws	undated
Box 2, Folder 17	Census Forms	undated
Box 2, Folder 18	Ceremonial Rights	undated
Box 2, Folder 19	Certificate of Organization	1893 Aug 4
Box 2, Folder 20	Charities Fund	1974, 1977, 1982-1988
Box 2, Folder 21	Church Bulletins	1907, 1913, 1925
Box 2, Folder 22	Church School Materials	1979, undated
Box 2, Folder 23	Church Service Programs	2003-2004
Box 2, Folder 24	Clergy Record for Funerals	1990-91, 1994-1995, 2003-2004
Box 2, Folder 25	Committees of the Church - Various Reports	1936- 1942
Box 2, Folder 26	Consecration, Request For and Consecration Certificate, (in oversize box 3)	1899 Dec 3
Box 2, Folder 27	Construction for New Entrance and Tower (Blueprints in oversize box 3)	1937 May 1
Box 2, Folder 28	Confirmation Data	1971, 1977-1986
Box 2, Folder 29	Cookbook	1903
Box 2, Folder 30	Covenant Parish (in oversize box 3)	1974-1981, scattered dates, undated
Box 2, Folder 31	Deanery, Blackstone Valley	1998, 1999, 2004, undated
Box 2, Folder 32	Deeds, Warranty; Quit Claim	1890-1948, scattered dates
Box 2, Folder 33	Diocesan Council	1978 Sep-1983 Mar
Box 2, Folder 34	Diocese of RI	1998-1999
Box 2, Folder 35	Directories: Episcopal Church Center; Windward Islands	1983
Box 3, Folder 36	Emergency Assistance Resources	1982, 1987, undated
Box 3, Folder 37	The Episcopal Church Welcomes You" (Pamphlet)	undated
Box 3, Folder 38	Fidelitas Club Minutes of Meetings	1936 May-1942 Mar
Box 3, Folder 39	Financial Check Register	1907 Jun-1912 Jan
Box 3, Folder 40	Financial Check Register	1916-1919 Jun
Box 3, Folder 41	Financial Check Register	1919 Jul-1923 Jan
Box 3, Folder 42	Financial Check Register	1923 Feb-1927 Sep
Box 3, Folder 43	Financial Ledger	1912-1919
Box 4, Folder 44	Financial Ledger	1921-1930
Box 4, Folder 45	Financial Ledger (in oversize box 1)	1968-1975
Box 4, Folder 46	Financial Ledger (in oversize box 3)	1980-2003
Box 4, Folder 47	Financial-Loose Change Book	1941-2004
Box 4, Folder 48	Financial Reports	1898, 1911, 1952-1987, 1990, 2000
Box 4, Folder 49	Foster Parents Plan- Introduction	1977, 1978, undated
Box 4, Folder 50	Fund Contributions	undated
Box 4, Folder 51	Guest Register	1989-2005
Box 4, Folder 52	Interim Ministry/ Search Committee Materials	undated
Box 5, Folder 53	Jubilee Fund	1943 Jul-1943 Aug
Box 5, Folder 54	Letters of Transfer	1916, 1961, 1970-1988, scattered dates
Box 5, Folder 55	Lists, Parishioners	1970-1988, 1997?, undated
Box 5, Folder 56	Marriage Forms/ Requirements	1983, undated
Box 5, Folder 57	Marriage Decrees, Requests to Solemnize, Declarations of Intention	1973-1985
Box 5, Folder 58	Merger, Church of the Good Shepard	2005 Jun-2005 Jul
Box 5, Folder 59	Mitchell, Judith N. Letter, Resignation as Rector	2002 May 5
Box 5, Folder 60	News Clippings	undated
Box 5, Folder 61	Ordinations	1936, 1978, 1981
Box 5, Folder 62	Pawtucket Redevelopment Agency- Redevelopment Plan Newsletter Year III, IV	1977-1979
Box 5, Folder 63	Parish Council Constitution and Minutes	1923-1924
Box 5, Folder 64	Parish Statistical Report by Church Report Company	1994-1998
Box 5, Folder 65	Parochial Reports	1970-1984
Box 5, Folder 66	Parochial Reports	1985-1995
Box 5, Folder 67	Parochial Reports	1996-2000
Box 6, Folder 68	Pentecost Peace Sabbath and Memorial Day	1982 May 29-1982 May 31, 1982 Apr
Box 6, Folder 68a	Perry, Bishop James DeWolf letter to Deaconess [Florence P.] Jones	1915?
Box 6, Folder 69	Purpose of the Church	1973?, undated
Box 6, Folder 70	Recommending a Strategy-Church of the Advent (Powerpoint Slide Printouts)	2004 Jan 25
Box 6, Folder 71	Steward Ship	1978, 1981, 1982
Box 6, Folder 72	St. Margaret's Guild- Correspondence	1939-1943
Box 6, Folder 73	St. Margaret's Guild	1935, 1938, 1940, 1960, 1981, 1986
Box 6, Folder 74	St. Margaret's Guild (See Also Women's Aid Society, 1936)	1936
Box 6, Folder 75	St. Margaret's Guild	1937-1946
Box 6, Folder 76	St. Margaret's Guild	1946-1960
Box 6, Folder 77	St. Margaret's Guild	1961- 2001
Box 6, Folder 78	St. Margaret's Guild, Publicity Committee	1937-1940
Box 7, Folder 79	St. Margaret's Guild Book of Remembrances (in oversize box 1)	1983, undated
Box 7, Folder 80	St. Margaret's Guild, Treasurer's Report	1927?, 1939-1942, 1976, 1979, 1981-1985
Box 7, Folder 81	Venture in Mission	1978
Box 7, Folder 82	Vestry Minutes and Notes	1976 -1985,1988, undated
Box 7, Folder 83	Vestry Minutes, Notes	1993-1994
Box 7, Folder 84	Vestry Minutes and Notes	1996, 1998, 2000- 2004
Box 7, Folder 85	Westhorp, Clifford S.	1974-1988
Box 7, Folder 86	Women's Aid Society	1912-1917
Box 7, Folder 87	Women's Aid Society	1919-1923
Box 7, Folder 88	Women's Aid Society; Willing Workers Circle and Inner Circle; Sunshine Circle (only 1930); St. Margaret's Guild (only 1936)	1923-1936

Series 2. Registers, 1886-2005
3 box(es)
(1.5 linear feet)

Contains the record of church services, marriages, births, baptisms, confirmation, and deaths of congregants.

Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by bound volume.

Container	Description	Date
Box 8, Folder 1	Families	1886-1927
Box 8, Folder 1	Baptisms	1899-1918
Box 8, Folder 1	Communicants	1890-1917
Box 8, Folder 1	Confirmations	1899-1917
Box 8, Folder 1	Marriages	1899-1922
Box 8, Folder 1	Burials	1899-1923
Box 8, Folder 1	Offerings	1899-1916
Box 8, Folder 2	Baptisms	1918-1928
Box 8, Folder 2	Communicants	1919-1924, undated
Box 8, Folder 2	Confirmations	1918-1928
Box 8, Folder 2	Marriages	1918-1928
Box 8, Folder 2	Burials	1918-1928
Box 8, Folder 3	Baptisms	1928-1969
Box 8, Folder 3	Communicants	1935-1958
Box 8, Folder 3	Confirmations	1929-1968
Box 8, Folder 3	Marriages	1928-1960
Box 8, Folder 3	Burials	1929-1945
Box 8, Folder 4	Burials	1946-1970
Box 9, Folder 5	Church Services	1940-1951
Box 9, Folder 6	Church Services	1951-1954
Box 9, Folder 7	Church Services	1954-1959
Box 9, Folder 8	Church Services	1959-1961
Box 9, Folder 9	Church Services	1961-1979 May
Box 9, Folder 10	Marriages	1961 Jul-1969
Box 10, Folder 11	Baptisms	1971-2005
Box 10, Folder 11	Confirmations	1970-2005
Box 10, Folder 11	Communicants	1918-1987
Box 10, Folder 11	Marriages	1971-2000
Box 10, Folder 11	Burials	1971-2004
Box 10, Folder 12	Church Services	1979 May-2005
Box 10, Folder 13	Marriages	2002 Jun 8

Series 3. Clerk's Files, 1981-1992
2 folders
(1")

Contains the files kept by Beatrice Minkins in her role as Clerk of the Vestry.

Arrangement: The records were kept in their original chronological order.

Container	Description	Date
Box 11, Folder 1	Beatrice Minkins Files	1981/1987
Box 11, Folder 2	Beatrice Minkins Files	1988-1992

Series 4. History Project, 2005
5 folders
( 2")

This series consists of oral history interview tapes recorded in April 2005 and short remembrances of parishioners sent during a history project in 2005. The project was organized by Vincent Cherico to coincide with the closing of the Church of the Advent. University of Rhode Island history professor, Evelyn Sterne conducted an oral history student project for her history class. The tapes are not transcribed.

Arrangement: This series is arranged in two sub-series, written remembrances by parishioners and micro-cassette recordings of oral histories.

Written Remembrances, 2005
4 folders
(1")

Contains written remembrances of parishioners collected for an oral history project.

Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by parishioner's last name.

Container	Description	Date
Box 11, Folder 1	Black, Russell	2005 Apr 1
Box 11, Folder 2	Blake, Ruth M.	2005 Mar 20
Box 11, Folder 3	Duhaine, Alfred	2005 Mar 1
Box 11, Folder 4	Minkins, Beatrice	2005?

Oral History Recordings, 2005
1 folder; 19 micro cassette tapes box(es)
(1" linear feet)

Contains 19 micro cassette tapes of interviews by URI history students of parishioners of the Church of the Advent. A list of the interviewers is included.

Arrangement: The tapes are in one folder and are labeled by the interviewee name.

Container	Description	Date
Box 11, Folder 5	Avery, Gary. Tape 1	2005 Apr 10
Box 11, Folder 5	Bouchard, Mike and Janice. Tape 2	2005 Apr 10
Box 11, Folder 5	Cherico, Vincent. Tape 3	2005 Apr 10
Box 11, Folder 5	Drake, Rev. Jo-Ann. Tape 3	2005 Apr 10
Box 11, Folder 5	Duhaine, Alfred. Tape 4	2005 Apr 10
Box 11, Folder 5	Goff, Doris Cook. Tape 17	2005 Apr 10
Box 11, Folder 5	Hallstrom, [elder?]. Tape 6	2005 Apr 10
Box 11, Folder 5	Hallstrom, Christopher [Chip?] and Diane. Tape 6	2005 Apr 10
Box 11, Folder 5	Hallstrom, Christopher [Chip?]. Tape 7	2005 Apr 10
Box 11, Folder 5	Harrison, Mark and Christie with children. Tape 8	2005 Apr 10
Box 11, Folder 5	Keiser, Carol. Tape 9	2005 Apr 10
Box 11, Folder 5	Keiser, Raymond. Tape 10	2005 Apr 10
Box 11, Folder 5	Lewis, Doris and Everett. Tape 11	2005 Apr 10
Box 11, Folder 5	Minkins, Beatrice. Tape 12	2005 Apr 10
Box 11, Folder 5	Mitchell, Rev. Judy. Tape 13	2005 Apr 10
Box 11, Folder 5	Newel, Ilene Black. Tape 14	2005 Apr 10
Box 11, Folder 5	Olbrych, Kathy. Tape 15	2005 Apr 10
Box 11, Folder 5	Pelletier, Deacon Ann. Tape 16	2005 Apr 10
Box 11, Folder 5	Spencer, Melba Towl. Tape 17	2005 Apr 10
Box 11, Folder 5	Stephenson, Raymond. Tape 18	2005 Apr 10
Box 11, Folder 5	Sylvester, Rosa. Tapes 17 and 19	2005 Apr 10
Box 11, Folder 5	Taft, Florence. Tape 17	2005 Apr 10

Series 5. Photographs, 1899, 1915-1980s, 2005
14 folders
(3")

Contains mostly portraits of the rectors or bishops presiding during the life of the church. There are a few photographs of parishioners collected during a history project conducted in 2005.

Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by subject of photograph.

Container	Description	Date
Box 11, Folder 1	Barbour, James E. (also in oversize box 14)	1917
Box 11, Folder 2	Belden, Bishop Frank Hesley	1970s?
Box 11, Folder 3	Carter, Rev. Harold Redevers and Murcison, Rev. James	1943?
Box 11, Folder 4	Choir	19[?]3, 1910
Box 11, Folder 5	Church Exterior	1899
Box 11, Folder 6	Church Interior	1915?-1957?, 1970
Box 11, Folder 6	Groups: 100th anniversary (in oversize box 14)	1980
Box 11, Folder 6	Groups: Children [church school?]	undated
Box 11, Folder 7	Groups: In costume for play Joy to the Bride	undated
Box 11, Folder 8	Higgins, Bishop John Seville	1960s?
Box 11, Folder 9	Historic Photo Identification Project	2005
Box 11, Folder 10	Hunt, Bishop George Nelson	1980s?
Box 11, Folder 11	Roebuck, Canon Arthur Fenton	undated
Box 11, Folder 12	Sweet, Rev. Harold, includes portraits, candids with others, grave of	1934-1940
Box 11, Folder 13	Various Parishoners	1935-1960s, scattered dates
Box 11, Folder 14	Westrop, Rev. Clifford	1970s

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