Congregational and membership lists comprising original and copies of lists of members of the Glasite church across Scotland, England and North America, many with annotated comments and details of baptisms, marriage and death. Service registers noting dates of services and texts for the day. Ceremonies, ordinations, procedures and prayers comprising notes and other papers relating to baptism, death, ordinations and marriages. Sermons, discourses and exhortations comprising papers, notebooks, drafts and letters with devotional and theological poems, hymns, notes and letters, mainly concerning the beliefs and debates of the church. Copies and original correspondence relating to individuals and congregations, concerning family and congregational news, disputes and schisms, and the life of the church in the 20th century. Scrapbooks and letter books containing copy and original correspondence between individuals and churches, notes and news cuttings, often concerning church disputes on matters such as ‘the eating of blood and of things strangled’. Journals and narratives comprising transcriptions of letters, narratives, accounts and diaries describing events and activities of members of the church'. Property and land records comprising plans and correspondence and petition relating to the building of the Edinburgh meeting houses and their sale. Accounts, invoices and receipts, tenders, promissory notes and correspondence mainly relating to the Barony Street Chapel, Edinburgh. Engravings, photographs and postcards featuring members of the church. Newscuttings, histories, lectures, articles and other ephemera. Correspondence and papers relating to various persons' research into the Church, mainly addressed to Gerard Sandeman. Notes and documents relating to births, deaths and marriages of Glasite families. Items used within church services
Original and copies of lists of members of the Glasite church across Scotland, England and North America, many with annotated comments and details of baptisms, marriage and death
Lists the communicants in the parish of Tealing on 13 July 1725 broken down by village or farmhouse: Kirktown, Tealing, Finlarg, Todhills, Newbigging, Balgray Easter, Balgray Wester, Balnuth, Balkalk, Prieston, Balkemback, Balutheran. Also lists elders and deacons and narrates the church's activities until 1727
Folded sheets containing lists of the churches, some with Elders noted: Edinburgh, Paisley (Elders), Dunkeld, Galashiels, London (Elders and Deacons), Old Buckingham [Old Buckenham], Liverpool (Elders), Trowbridge (Deacons), Lindhurst, Chatham, Newcastle, Stafford, York (Elders), Nottingham (Elders), Aberdeen (Elders), Perth (Elders), Montrose (Elders), Glasgow (Elders)
Contains: Notes on the churches in America, with 'List of the members of the first Church of Christ in North America'. [Portsmouth, New Hampshire with their age, occupation, place of birth, dates of reception and excommunication, 1841; List of men and women, 'Brethren in America, 1839; Transcriptions of letters by Robert Sandeman and one by John Glas; Sandeman's observations on the Song of Solomon, 1740; Notes on the first marriage in London "without the Church of England ceremony", 1840; Extracts from the life of John Barnard, 1777; Notes on the formation of the London Church; "Memoranda of a visit by T Boasey (sic) [Boosey] to Dundee, Arbroath, Perth, Dunkeld, Edinburgh, Galashiels and Newcastle in 1843": apart from describing his visits to various congregations the author also mentions a trip on the Dundee and Newtyle Railway. Also transcription of the Memoranda by Rufus Sweetman [2021] ; Church Rolls for Aberdeen, Arbroath, Newcastle, Cupar, Edinburgh, Dunkeld, Galashiels, Perth, Hazlehall, Montrose, Old Buckingham (sic), Dundee, Glasgow, Paisley, and list of elders at London, York, Nottingham, Liverpool, Trowbridge, Lindhurst, and Chatham. 1808-1809 With basic index added in 20th century
'The number and names of Christ's disciples in the United States of America - and the distance of their places of residence from Danbury. 17th February 1817.' Lists of male and female members and church rolls, from 1788, in: Danbury, Newtown, Newhaven, Turnbull, Stratford and Bridgeport, Connecticut; Providence, Rhode Island; Taunton, Deerfield, and Boston, Massachusetts; Gray and Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Vergennes, Shelburne, Vermont; Harpersfield, Whitesborough, and New York City, New York; Fayetteville, North Carolina. The author mentions that New Haven, Connecticut and Portsmouth, New Hampshire once had members but that there are none there at the time of writing. Also gives list of men and women who are 'Jesus Christ's Disciples in Dundee on 29 January 1747'
Notebook containing lists of the following congregations, often listing men and women separately: Great Britain: Tealing (list of members who agreed to break away from the Church of Scotland in 1725), and later lists (1751-1753), York (1786), Dundee (1782-1783), Perth (1751 and 1782-1832), Dunkeld (1798), Aberdeen (1751), Arbroath (n.d.), Montrose (n.d.), Glasgow (n.d.), Wooler (1753), Newcastle (n.d.). United States: Danbury, Connecticut (1782 and 1858), Newark, New Jersey (1858), Norwalk, Connecticut (1858). Also contains a list of churches in Scotland and England giving membership totals and an estimate of the number of members in America 1782. Also mentions that James Allen was the first English Elder in 1762.
Includes additional rolls for 1863, updated to 1875, for 1876, updated to 1912, and for 1912, updated to 1932. Includes a list of members present when the Perth Church closed on 14 October 1928. Also contains 'List of Brethren who have died in the Church of Perth, 1832-1910' and 'Brethren at Arbroath and neighbourhood connected with Church at Perth', 1841-1862; Also, 'Brethren in the East Indies connected with Church at Perth', 1835-1861 and 'Brethren in Glasgow connected with the Church of Perth', 1844-1845
Notebook containing church rolls for unspecified church, 1862-1941. Also contains schedule showing who was reading during services, 1855 and baptism record 1865-1905. Contains loose papers including a list of those present at a service for receiving of members, 1933
Contains membership lists of the church at Dundee, 1877, also members list of an unnamed church in London [probably Albion Road, Barnsbury], 1883-1888, with 'Church Members in America', 1886-1889 and Halifax, Nova Scotia, n.d.
Notebook containing roll of members in Dundee, 1879-1899, London, 1880-1881, Old Buckenham, 1880-1887, Glasgow 1881-1889' Halifax, Nova Scotia (1881-1887) and additional information about some new members at Danbury, Connecticut, 1898. Also includes description of the ordinance service for David Philp Jr in the Dundee Church, 1885.
Includes rolls of church members in Albion Road, Barnsbury, London (1885-1936); the rolls for Dundee, London, Glasgow, Newcastle and "American Friends" in November, 1888 [annotated up to 1908]. Also includes a song (n.d.), a sketch of a 1746 survey map of Glovers Hall, 1963. Extract of a letter from Mr Ferrier to Mrs Humphreys, 1786, concerning the conversion of a servant girl and the servant's subsequent testimony; Henry Young's visit to the Lake District with Gerald Reid, 1885; a discourse by George Whitelaw in 1869 [two versions]; historical notes on the London church 1967; a brief account of the visit of the American brethren in 1834; newspaper cutting: "Modern Religious Sects - IV. Glassites",nd, and copy of James Scott of Dundee's notes on his first Sabbath in the Glasite Meeting in 1765
Notebook pages containing numbers and locations of members in America, broken down by gender, 1820, with a short account of the state of the American brethren generally; numbers of members in Scotland, broken down by gender and also giving numbers of elders and deacons, naming the elders, 1820; L lists of members in London, Glasgow, Dundee, Newcastle, Old Buckenham, America, 1856-1903.
Lists of members, when they joined, were excluded, restored and died, including Michael Faraday and his family. Churches listed include Liverpool, London, Tunstall, Clapham, Nottingham, Trowbridge, Brampton Moor [Chesterfield], Banham, Old Buckenham, Newcastle, York, Whitehaven, Kirkby Lonsdale, Dundee, Edinburgh, Perth, Dunkeld, Arbroath, Glasgow, Cupar, Aberdeen, Galashiels. Also includes lists for the Church in North America, including Danbury, Newton, Connecticut; New York, Harpersfield, New York; Vermont; Providence, Rhode Island; Greenfield, Taunton, Massachusetts; Ohio. There are several songs at the end of the volume and an account of the visit of the American Brethren in 1834
