Hopedale Community Papers on Microfilm at the Bancroft Memorial Library Hopedale, Massachusetts
available in the safe at the library.
Nearly all of the items in this reel were written in cursive. Some of it looks like it may be impossible to decipher and some of it is reasonably easy to read. No. 1 - Record book of the Hopedale Community No. 2 - Declaratory Resolutions No. 3 - Record of the Inductive Community at Hopedale, Milford, 1849 No. 4 - Record Book of the Hopedale Inductive Community, 1850 – 1856 No. 5 – Proceedings of the Trustees and Council of Fraternal Community No. 1, Book 1, 1841 - 1847 No. 6 – The Hopedale Industrial Army, 1849 – 1854 No. 7 – Minutes of the Hopedale Sewing Circle, 1848 – 1862 No. 8 – Inventory of the Hopedale Home School Property, 1859 No. 9 – Home School Journal, 1861 – 1871 No. 10 – Hopedale Home School Ledger, 1861 – 1871 No. 11 – Account book for Cabinet Branch, 1854 – 1855 No. 12 – Ledger, 1850 – 1853 No. 13 – Ledger, 1854 – 1855 No. 14 – Ledger, 1858 No. 15 – Record of marriages conducted by Adin Ballou No. 16 – Record of marriages conducted by Adin Ballou, 1823 – 1889 No. 17 – Index to Marriages – Book 1 No. 18 – Index to Marriages, Book 2 No. 19 – Funeral Register of Adin Ballou, Book 1, 1821 – 1884 (including some obituaries) Baptisms, 1831 – 1890. Reel 2 – Ballou’s funeral register Organization of Commune No. 1 Agreement transferring books of Mechanics’ Association to Hopedale Community Funeral sermon for Abbie Ballou Heywood by Rev. L.G. Wilson The Inductive Harbinger, 1853 (hand written – legibility ranges from poor to good) The Practical Christian, 1840 – 1860 (quite clear) The Diamond (some pages of fair legibility, others good) The Mammoth (most in good condition; some not) The Radical Spiritualist, 1859 (very good condition) Reel 3 – Spiritual Reformer, 1866 The Modern Age, 1865 A Journal of Progressive Thought and Sentiment The Non-Resistant, 1839 Address Delivered Before the Thwing Family Annual Gathering, Thanksgiving 1849 Address at the Funeral of Mrs. Anna Thwing Draper Autobiography of Adin Ballou Practical Christian Tracts, No. 111 Capital Punishment Christian Non-resistance Defended against Rev. Henry Ward Beecher by Adin Ballou Christian Non-resistance by Adin Ballou- 2 volumes – Second volume includes “Biographical Sketch of the Author,” A Discourse on Christian Non-resistance in Extreme Cases (including slavery) 1860 A Discourse on the Subject of American Slavery Delivered at the First Congregational Meeting House in Mendon, Mass – July 4, 1837 Endless Punishment Rejected Exposition of Views on Spiritual Manifestations – 1853 Fundamental Principles The Furious Priest Reproved – 1823 The Golden Wedding or Furniture Marriage Anniversary of Arnold Taft, esq, and wife, September 4, 1865 History of the Hopedale Community Reel 4 - History of Milford Hopedale Collection of Hymns and Songs for the Use of Practical Christians The Inestimable Value of Souls – Sermon – Universalist Society, Medway, 1830 Memoir of Adin Augustus Ballou, 1853 Monitorial Guide for the Use of Inductive Conferences in the Practical Christian Republic, 1862 Non-resistance in Relation to Human Governments, 1839 Oration before the Citizens of Blackstone Village and its Vicinity, Mendon, Mass., July 5, 1830 An Oration, Milford, July 4, 1827 Practical Christian Socialism, 1854 Practical Christianity in Relation to Different Christs and Christianities Practical Christianity in Relation to Education and Amusements, 1860 Practical Christianity in Relation to Endless Punishment, 1860 Practical Christianity in Relation to Voting at the Polls Reel 5 – Primitive Christianity Prospectus of the Hopedale Educational Home Annual Meeting of the Hopedale Community, January 1861 Report of a Public Discussion between the Revs. Adin Ballou and Daniel D. Smith, 1834 True Love vs. Free Love – Testimony of a True Hearted Woman, 1855 The True Scriptural Doctrine of the Second Advent – Antidote to Millerism, Adin Ballou, 1843 Violations of the Federal Constitution in the “Irrepressible Conflict,” Adin Ballou, 1861 The Voice of Duty, delivered at the antislavery picnic, Westminster, July 4, 1843 An Argument on Punishment and Forgiveness between Adin Ballou and Barton Ballou, 1832 A Treatise on the Strawberry, Samuel Brown, 1856 On Earth, Peace Bertha and Willie, A Story for the Young, by Mrs. H.N. Greene Butts Eda Darling; or the Little Flower Girl, by Mrs. H.N. Greene Butts Printers and Compositors School Catalogue and Circular of the Hopedale Home School for School Years 1856 – 1859 Communal Songs and Hymns, 1856 Compact of the Commune No. 1 of the Hopedale Community, 1856 Constitution, As Altered and Adopted, 1847 Constitution of the Hopedale Community, 1849 Constitution of the Hopedale Community, 1850 Constitution of the Hopedale Community, 1853 Constitution of the Hopedale Community, 1861 The Second Coming of Christ, Lyman day Christ and the End of the World, Lyman Day The Adin Ballou Memorial Hopedale Town Report for the year 1886 Evils of the Revolutionary War, 1846 Orthodoxy vs. Spiritualism and Liberalism, William H. Fish, 1857 Memoir of Butler Wilmarth The Little Angel; A Temperance Story for Children, Mrs. H.N. Greene Little Harry’s Wish, or “Playing Soldier,” Mrs. H.N.Greene, 1868 Child’s Gift Book, 1860 Rhymes for Little Folks, H.N.Greene, 1860 Declaratory Resolutions of the Hopedale Community, with reference to the existing civil war, etc. Home School Memorial – Reunion of the Hopedale Home School, 1867 (A complete catalogue of the members.) Reel 6 – Hopedale Reminiscences Memoir of Adin Ballou (Including a sermon written by himself to be read at his own funeral.) On the Formation of the Town of Hopedale, sermon, April 11, 1886 Report of a Select Committee on the Subject of a High School in Milford, Mass, 1848 Human Life, delivered in Mendon, Mass., on the death of Seth Davenport, by Linus Shaw, 1843 In Memorium – Rev. Adin Ballou by Rev. C.A. Staples, 1890 To the Blessed Memory of Joseph Bubier Bancroft, by his daughter, Lilla Bancroft Pratt, 1938 Non-Resistance by Charles Whipple The Inductive Communion, Susan E. Whitney, 1908 The Arena, B.O. Flower Hopedale and its Founder, Rev. Lewis G. Wilson Milford and Hopedale, Rev. Lewis G. Wilson The Immortal Life, G. Young Farewell to the Schoolhouse Chapel, Adin Ballou Festival Songs of the Inductive Communion, 1857 Also on microfilm – Draper, Preston and Allied Family Histories
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