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Rhea County (Tenn.) Luminary Baptist Church Minute Book

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0185
Abstract

This collection consists of a book of minutes for meetings of the Luminary Baptist Church (Rhea County, Tenn.) from 1819-1839.

Dates: 1819-1839

Goodfield Baptist Church (Meigs County, Tenn.) Minutes

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0342
Abstract

This collection consists of the minutes of meetings of Goodfield Baptist Church (Meigs County, Tenn.) from 1827-1852. These documents are copies of the originals; the copies were made in 1964.

Dates: 1827-1852

E. S. Chesbrough Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0923
Abstract

E. S. Chesbrough wrote this letter to H. M. Nelson, a civil engineer in Faytteville, North Carolina, from Knoxville, Tennessee on June 12, 1837. In it, Chesbrough describes spending the night with a local family in a small cabin, mentions his duties as a surveyor, and discusses some church matters. This collection also houses a typewritten transcript of the original letter.

Dates: 1837 June 12

Concord Sabbath School Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: MS-1222
Abstract

This ledger records the names of the teachers and students who participated in the classes offered through the Concord Sabbath School in 1838, 1857, and 1858.

Dates: 1838 April 13-June 22, 1857 May 10-1858 October 31

James J. Vauln Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0969
Abstract

A single handwritten letter from James J. Vauln in LaGrange, Tenn. to General Ulysses S. Grant in Memphis, Tenn. dated June 23, 1862. Vauln, a deacon of the American Catholic Church in LaGrange, pleas for permission to continue his church services, as the new brigadier general had forced him to stop holding services.

Dates: 1862 June 23

Methodist Episcopal Church Minutes

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0188
Abstract

This collection consists of a book of minutes for the Methodist Episcopal Church in Knoxville, Tenn.

Dates: 1865 July-November

Methodist Episcopal Church South, Holston Conference Minutes

 Collection
Identifier: MS-1607
Abstract

Record book of the Speedwell (later Big Valley) Circuit's Morristown (later Powell's Valley) District in East Tennessee, part of the Holston Conference of the United Methodist Church. The book contains minutes from most of the quarterly meetings from 1868 to 1883, as well as the articles of their constitution, bylaws, and rules of order for the circuit.

Dates: 1868-1883

Tennessee Baptist Convention Receipt

 Collection
Identifier: MS-1622
Abstract

Collection consists of a Tennessee Baptist Convention receipt dated February 17, 1899. It is credited to Fall Branch Baptist Church.

Dates: 1899 February 17