New England Yearly Meeting, circa 1760
Scope and Contents
A transcribed page at the beginning of the volume reads "Christian and Brotherly Advices Given forth from time to time by the Yearly Meetings in London to which have been added various rules and advices of New England Yearly Meeting about 1760". The disciplines fall into a number of categories which include: appeals, arbitrations, books, children, conversation, correspondence, covetousness, discipline, families, fightings, kings and governors, law, love, marriage, meeting houses, meetings for discipline, meetings for worship, mourning, "negroes", oaths, orphans, persecution, plainess, the poor, preachers, questions, records, removals of settlements, representatives, salutations, schools, scriptures, servants, singing, steeplehouse rates, national stock, sufferings, talebearing and backbiting, tombstones, trading, wills, and yearly meeting.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1760
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