The pages are 7.5 x 12.75 inches. The 416 scanned pages at 400dpi. The images are 3040x5100 includes a 40 pixel slop on the sides. There are 10 images of extra material taped or glued into the book. 13 blank page placeholders and the spine, cover, inside and this meta data page in 2 images for a total of 441 images.
Two anomalies in the numbering: 338/339 is missing. There was a page that was cut out, but it was probably blank as 337 has the warrant for the 1932 Annual Parish Meeting and 340 meeting minutes. Mistakes in numbering resulted in pages 367 and 372 being skipped.
Blank Pages. I only scanned 1 blank page: 147. These blank pages are also numbered, but not scanned or included xsvhere: 146, 155, 156, 174, 181, 184, 208, 226, 230, 245, 327, 334, 354, 421-426
p. 3 - dissatisfaction re Hurlbut exchanging
p. 5 - same: pulpit committee supples pulpit during H's absence
p. 7 - dispute re who owns church records
p. 9 - lawsuit vs. First Parish for records (The Inhabitants of the FIRST PARISH IN SUDBURY v. Thomas Stearns)
p. 11 - fire Hurlbut
p. 29 - set up a bldg committee to split meetinghouse into two floors
p. 36 - dedication of meetinghouse
p. 40 - cost of bldg. program $1485.93
p. 44 - Linus Shaw to be preacher
p. 47 - salary of 8450 per annum
p. 48 - Shaw's letter of acceptance
p. 51 - ecclestastical council to install Shaw as minister
p. 66 - Shaw paid $325
p. 67 - town trying to erect storage sheds on common belonging to the church
p. 79 - committee to exchange old bell for new
p. 83 - enlarge horse sheds
p. 87 - buy bell (the one we have now) for $359.10, old bell sold for $211 new one cast by Geo. H. Holbrooke, East Medway, Mass. in 1851
p. 102 - typical treas. report of Ministerial fund
- 5 trustees set up under legislature
- $3200.63 - $192.03 Interest/year
- usually goes to help defray the expense of preaching
p. 106 - Shaw gets $386
p. 113 - Shaw gets $374.54 - 198.03 from Min Fund, 182.51 from subscription
p. 114 - cost of bldge repairs, and painting (?)
p. 117 - town again encroaches on church common
p. 133 - need a new minister to supply pulpit
p. 145 - Geo. Knowles min for another yr
p. 151 - call to Re. A. P. Willard
p. 154 - clock In steeple
p. 161 - vote on admitting those who want to join parish, also on pp. 182, 194, 205, 207. 232
p. 161 - Willard fired because "by his course and conduct (he has) destroyed his usefulness to the society."
p. 173 - 1878 Rev. A.M. Sherman hired for one year contract renewed next yr.
p. 214 - re monument to the revolutionary solders
p. 219 - buy a new organ: 1895
p. 222 - new organ cost $1500 - this is the one we have now;
- it would cost at least thirty thousand today (1960 dollars)
p. 223 -- Beautiful Warrant 223, 1897
p. 232 - Rev. Cyrus Heizer of Wayland Joins church probably preaching at Sudbury in afternoon
p. 236 - $77 to Almina Clarke for preaching
p. 238 - preaching b1ll to F.R. Lewis
p. 240 - preaching bills; Heizer, Clark, Lewis, Frank R. Gale
p. 212 - church 0K's town erecting 11 horsesheds - presentones
p. 244 - AUA becomes member of parish committee
p. 246 - letter from G.H. Badger (of AUA presumably) on the unhappy condition of the parish and hopes for its rejuvenation.
p. 248 - Miss L. Freemen Clarke of Boston to preach
p. 252 - Mr. Hosmer trespasses on church grounds (OH*HOH!)
p. 258 - first eleven horse sheds to be repaired
p. 264 - Rev. Ida Hultin to be minister; also 1905(266), 1906(270)
p. 274 - Ministerial Fund sella Marlboro Land
p. 278 - Hultin & Rev. Wm Chaning Brown join, 1908 - Brown is trustee
p. 279 - insert: statement re investments
p. 282 - 1913: Brown still trustee
p. 294 - Hultin resigns of Dec., 1915
p. 296 - write to Rev. Sam Nobles of AUA re pulpit supply
p. 298 - Noble to provide minister
p. 304 - Brown still on trustees: 1921
p. 306 - 19211 sell the communion table for $1000 Victory bond at 4 3/4% int
p. 312 - Rev. Wm Wood preaches in summer of 1924, 1925
p. 318 - Rev. Geo Patterson (evidently of AJA) Joins perleh
p. 320 - Investigate electricity and water installation
p. 321 - 1928: Patterson becomes AUA rep on the trustees
p. 322 - electricity installed, on Ralph Barton's report: 1928: auditorium repaired on Abel Cutting's report: 1928
p. 331 - subscription to the town clock purchased in 1871 - still in the steeple - cost $300
- list of donors and how much they gave
p. 332 - Mrs. Warren Hunt, organist - asked by rising vote to continue
p. 336 - moved by minister to hold Ancestor's Sunday on Sept.20. 1931
p. 340 - Patterson still AUA rep ( this in '32), thanks voiced to Abel Cutting for his services, $10 given to AUA, Ancestor's Sunday on sept. 18, 1932
p. 356 - old-style lights put on common, stone wall built in front of church
p. 362 - AJA delegates Instructed to vote for Frederick Hay Illot
p. 364 - Rev. John Foglesong, Min delegate to AUA
p. 371 - April 10, 1939 - water to be installed In church
p. 375 - Tercentenary: stand in silent tribute to Mias Allee Barton
p. 378 - silent tribute to Miss Sarah Pratt
p. 377 - Article 5 re welcoming new members into church
p. 388 - vote to pass the plate in church - April of 1944
p. 390 - refuse to merge with another Sudbury church
PURPOSE OF A UNITARIAN CHURCH IN A COMMUNITY
VOTE TO CONTINUE AS THE FIRST PARISH OF SUDBURY
p. 394 - note made of V-S and V-J day - evening services Ward Clarke preached here in July and August of 1946
These seven books are in the First Parish of Sudbury collection: RECORD BOOKS: 1704, 1767, 1836-1956 (this
book), JACOB BIGELOW BOOK (1772), MINISTERIAL FUND BOOK (1817-1836), FIRST PARISH TREASURERS
ACCOUNTS: 1892-1931, 1931-1952.
Scanned and packaged in 2024 by YON - Jan C. Hardenbergh, jch.com/history/fps
jch 2024-03-04
It should be hosted on the web in archive.org or digitalcommonwealth.org. This page will be upsated when the URL is determined.
Records of the First Parish in Sudbury, 1836-1956
A document, FirstParish1836RecordBook.pdf, giving a flavor of the book was created to help prove corporate existence. It has a list of pages of interest. I'm not sure who created this, yet. But they may the same person that numbered the pages in pencil.
In the image to the right you can see the setup, including a BookScanner 6167, which scans up to 1/10th on an inch of the edge of the scanner and only requires the book to be opened to about 110 degrees. Since it is an older model, I had to buy an old Windows 10 laptop to run the scanner.
More info: Notes on Scanning
Below is a list of some of the pages. The Index Page with Thumbnail is more up to date as of 2/3 . Each page has a PDF & JPEG version that have been compressed to get the size of each down to about 1MB.
The PDF link below the image will take you to a PDF version, which will be easier to print.
Ideally, there will be an HTML link, too. That would contain the transcription, also the thumbnail and other relevant notes. There is a website transkribus.org that transcribes handwriting to some degree.
Comments are very welcome -Jan jch@jch.com
See also Index with thumbnail images with all pages as seen to the right.
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