St. Stephen's Church, Providence (Mss. Gr. 98)

The records of St. Stephen's Church documents the administrative activities of the parish and includes minutes of the parish's annual meetings, minutes of vestry and Parish Corporation meetings, a parish guest book, correspondence, bound copies of the Sunday Bulletin of the parish entitled The Kalendar, a typed chronology of significant events in parish history and a published history of the parish entitled St. Stephen's Church in Providence, 1839-1964.

Additional materials are bound volumes in which are recorded the details of religious services as well as listings of communicants, marriages, baptisms, confirmations, and burials held in the parish. The information recorded includes the date, the type of service, the place of service, the number of people in attendance, the name of the officiating priest and celebrant.

The bulk of the records detail the financial activities of the parish and includes balance sheets, check registers, cash receipts and disbursement ledgers, general ledgers, payroll ledgers, pledges and offering ledgers, treasurer's reports and treasurers' monthly statements. Further financial records include pew rental ledgers, and deeds to pews both in bound volumes and in loose pages.

The final grouping of documents consists of bound volumes of the parish's monthly newsletter entitled St. Stephen.