Life of Elder John Buzzell -- photocopies from the Free Will Baptist Repository, 1849 - 1850

Material in the collection is primarily comprised of record books containing meeting minutes and financial information of several Freewill Baptist organizations. Also includes several application forms from students applying to the Free Baptist Education Society for financial aid; Freewill Register statistical report forms filled out by churches in the Bowdoin Quarterly Meeting; some correspondence, including a few letters written to Alfred Williams Anthony and a few from individual churches in the Bowdoin Quarterly Meeting giving additional information about their churches. Additional material includes programs from two Free Baptist General Conferences; a missionary and birthday calendar published by the Free Baptist Woman's Missionary Society; an article writtten by Kate J. Anthony concerning Freewill Baptist work in Harpers Ferry, VA.; photocopies of a series of articles from the Free Baptist Repository written by John Buzzell about his life; and a certificate of ordination for Ephraim Stinchfield, an early Freewill Baptist minister, signed by Benjamin Randall, John Buzzell and Pelatiah Tingley. Other material includes an etching of the Zechariah Boodey House, where the first church was organized in New Durham, NH, and several photographs of the Boodey House and denominational members, taken at the Centennial celebration in 1880. Also included in the collection are meeting minutes of a Calvinist Baptist church in Litchfield, ME.; an article and pamphlet containing incidents involving Calvinist Baptist churches in Augusta and Bath, ME.; a booklet on the Squirrel Island Chapel Association and an annumal meeting program and other assorted material on the Burma Baptist Convention.