- Collection:
- St. Paul's Church of Augusta Collection
- Title:
- Minutes of the vestry 1923-1935
- Creator:
- St. Paul's Church (Augusta, Ga.)
- Date of Original:
- 1923-05-10/1934-12-11
- Subject:
- Church records and registers--Georgia--Augusta
Corporate minutes--Georgia--Augusta
Letters
Financial statements
Clergy--Georgia--Augusta
Wages--Church employees
Law offices--Records and correspondence
Augusta (Ga.)--History--20th century
St. Paul's Church (Augusta, Ga.)
Church membership--Georgia--Augusta
Genealogy--Georgia--Augusta
Genealogy--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta, 33.47097, -81.97484
- Medium:
- church records
typescripts
reports
letters (correspondence)
minutes (administrative records)
financial records - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Saint Paul's Church, Augusta, Georgia, Minutes of the Vestry of Saint Paul's Church, May 10, 1923 - December 11,1934. A single handwritten ledger lined volume, 14 1/8 in. X 8 1/2 in X 1 3/8 in., bound in dyed red leather and black cloth with gold lettering, very worn. 300 total pages, with 191 written pages, with many interpolations of typescript and a collection of loose typescript letters and reports loosely inserted at page 193. Pages after 191 are blank. Includes all or part of the rectorships of the Rev. George S. Whitney, the Rev. Julius A. Schaad, and the Rev. John Armstrong Wright as well as part of the tenure of Bishop Frederick F. Reese. Includes the names of Wardens and Vestry members. Includes minutes of monthly and special meetings of the Vestry, financial statements, and additional information about parish finances, including salaries, maintenance costs, loans, legacies, and charities, pledges, and paments to the diocese. Also include copies of legal documents. Inside front end page has a glued-in list of bequestors to Saint Paul's Church from 1883-1921. A list of interpolated and loose documents follows. -- Interpolations: -- Between pp. 73-74, Application for change of Trustees to name Bishop Frederick F. Reese sole trustee, June 8, 1920, 1 page. -- p. 81, List of Saint Paul's Vestrymen, 1856-1928. -- p. 84, Parish Finance Report, Jan. 1-Sept. 1, 1930, 1 page. (loose). -- pp. 92-93, Letter from the Rev. J.A. Schaad to the Vestry, no date, 1 page. -- pp. 92-93, Report and Analysis of Church Pledges, 1919. No date, 2 pages. -- pp. 92-93, Report of Estimated Income, April 1, 1929. 1 page. -- pp. 100-101, ECB Danforth to Vestry, Report of Every Member Canvas, December 30, 1929, 1 page. -- pp. 100-101, Report of Income Received, 1929-1930. No date. 1 page. -- pp. 106-107, Letter and Financial Report from ECB Danforth to Vestry, March 29, 1930, 2 pages. -- pp. 144-145, Copy of signed consent from Wardens and Vestry of Saint Paul's for meeting to ratify a loan and give a secure deed. November 12, 1932. 1 page. -- pp. 192-193, Loose Papers in the following order: -- 1. Receipt signed by Vestry for $500 received from the estate of Mrs. Frank Gualdo For Baker. May 21, 1934. 1 page. - 2. Finance Report detailing unpaid salaries, bills, bank notes, and church account balances. Undated. 1 page. -- 3. Letter, SPC Treasurer F.F. Powers to George Schley forwarding letter from law offices of Lee, Congdon, and Fulcher in connection with estate of Cornelia Mayer Day. June 13, 1934. 1 page. -- 4. Letter from Lee, Congdon, and Fulcher, Attorneys, to SPC in re: estate of Cornelia Mayer Day. May 26, 1934. 1 page. -- 5. Letter from F.B. Culley to George Schley submitting formal resignation as Senior Warden. October 1, 1934. 1 page. -- 6. Letter from F.B. Culley to Vestry of Saint Paul's tendering resignation as Senior Warden. October 1, 1934. 1 page. -- 7. Financial Statement for Saint Paul's Church to October 1, 1934. 1 page. -- 8. Financial Statement for Saint Paul's Church to September 1, 1934. 1 page. -- 9. Tentative Budget for Saint Paul's Church 1935. 1 page with handwritten notes on reverse side. -- 10. Extract from Vestry Minutes of Saint Paul's Church with verbatim transcript of a resolution to authorize the sale of property passed at a Vestry meeting of September 11, 1934. Signed by George Schley, Secretary. September 19, 1934. 1 page. -- 11. Letter from Lee, Congdon and Fulcher, Attorneys, reporting the status of the estate of Cornelia Mayer Day and requesting approval from Saint Paul's Church as a legatee for a sale of her assets. July 16, 1934. 3 pages. -- 12. Statement of Expenditures compare with Budget Allowance for Saint Paul's Church, January 1 - October 1, 1934. 1 page. -- 13. Statement of receipt of an electric clock and $275 to endow clock's maintenacnce from the estate of Maris Louise Dupont Farrar, signed by Senior Warden F. B. Culley and Junior Warden E.C.B. Danforth. March 20, 1934. 1 page. -- 14. Statement of Receipt of $1500 received from the estate of Mrs. Frank Gualdo Ford Baker signed by the Rector, Wardens, secretary, and Treasurer of the Vestry of Saint Paul's Church. February 19, 1934. 1 page. -- 15. Letter from R.B. Herbert, executor for the estate of Mrs. Frank Gualdo Ford Baker to F.B. Culley, Senior Warden of Saint Paul's, conveying a check for $2500 from Mrs. Baker's estate. February 2, 1934. 1 page. -- 16. Copy of Stipulation that Saint Paul's reimburse R.B. Herbert, executor for the estate of Mrs. Frank Gualdo Ford Baker for taxes related to Mrs. Baker's legacy to Saint Paul's. Signed by the Rector, Wardens, and Vestry of Saint Paul's. May 7, 1934. 1 page. -- 17. Final Budget for Saint Paul's Church for 1934 (adopted December 14, 1933). 1 page. -- 18. Copy, Affidavit to Richmond County, State of Georgia, acknowledging receipt of a bequest in the form of an electric clock and $275 for maintenance from the estate of Marie Louise Dupont Farrar. Signed by the Wardens of Saint Paul's Church. February 1933. 1 page. -- 19. Letter to Fred Powers, Treasurer of Saint Paul's Church, from F. B. Culley, Senior Warden, reporting details of the sale of a church-owned property to Mrs. Mary V. Whittle. April 23, 1934. 2 pages. -- 20. Copy of an indenture describing an agreement to the sale of real property, terms of payment, and assumption of loan obligation between the corporation of Saint Paul's Church as seller and Mary V. Whittle as buyer, signed by the Senior and Junior Wardens of Saint Paul's Church. April 13, 1934. 2 pages. Original materials: handwritten bound volume.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:spcag_spcagc_spc18
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:spcag_spcagc_spc18
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 193 pages
- Holding Institution:
- St. Paul's Church (Augusta, Ga.)
- Rights:
-
