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Maker(s):Female Charitable Society of Prescott
Culture:American
Title:Account book
Date Made:1830-1856
Type:Document
Materials:paper
Place Made:North America; United States; Massachusetts; Prescott
Accession Number:  MH SK D.B.9
Credit Line:Joseph Allen Skinner Museum, Mount Holyoke College
Museum Collection:  The Joseph Allen Skinner Museum at Mount Holyoke College

Description:
The account book of the "Female Charitable Society at Prescott," from 1830. "1835 - At the annual meeting of this society the Rev Mr Clapp of Enfield... He told them of the degraded state of the females in distant India; of the sufferings they endured,..." "...the following officers were chosen. -Mrs. Stacy Linzie President. Semanthe Keith Secretary. Mrs. Dea Colton, Treasurer." Final entry: "Prescott December 12th 1856...The object of the Society shall be to paint the Orthodox Congregational Church in Prescott, and if they are not able to raise a sum sufficient for that purpose, what is raised shall go for lighting said Church."

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