First Church (Boston, Mass.)

Overview: James Penn (d. 1671), a Boston church leader, bequeathed an annual scholarship for Harvard students that was distributed by the elders and deacons of the Boston First Church of Christ from the early 1700s until 1866. This collection contains handwritten orders of payment and receipts issued by the ministers, elders, and deacons of the Boston First Church of Christ to the Penn estate-holder Penn Townsend, and later to the Sale Family. The payment orders were issued by the Church leaders, and...