GB 0154 NBA Northamptonshire Record Office This catalogue was digitised by The National Archives as part of the National Register of Archives digitisation project NRA 21515 The National Archives NORTHAMPTONSHIRE RECORD OFFICE NORTHANTS. ... BAPTIST ASSOCIATION RECORDS Number Minutes etc. Northants. Assn. manuscript history (summary of events at annual meetings), 1835-51. At end li3t of documents belonging to Assn. May 1852 in possession of Secretary, 8 items including this book, circular letters, bound, 1765-1820 and letters from churches. "Copied into New Book, W. Robinson", (see also No. 129) 237 Minute book 28 Sept. 1875 - 2k July 1912. At bc.uk list of trustees of Eastcote chapel and graveyard, appointed 5 May 1891, and lists of places of various meetings etc. 1765-1911, rules, subjects and writers of Circular Letters, presidents, state of churches 236 Minute book, 2 June 191k. - 3 June 1925 234 Ditto; 8 July 1925 - 20 Jan. 1932 235 Ditto, 1932-36 129 Ditto, 1936-44., mainly of committees 127 Minutes of meeting about establishing Sunday School at Kingsthorpe St. David1 s estate and newspaper report of Borough Education Committee meeting re same, 1937 in Bun. 1 Accounts etc. Fund Book, Olney. Receipts from various churches, misc. payments for Assn. expenses, subs, to abolition of slavery. Audited each year. Inside, 78b, list of Assn. Letter copies sent to each place, 1833. 1776-1833 78a N. B.A. Fund A/c book, John Cooper Gotch, treasurer. Subs, from enzh church, 1835-83 239 Printed accounts with list of Churches (from Annual Report) 1917-8 in Bun. 20 Ledger, numerous funds incl. Association Funds and County Mission, 1915-21 123 Ledgers including Association account, Balance sheet, Capital account, Interest, Investment and Loan accounts as well as individual legacy, gift and loan accounts. Also loose various supporting documents and draft accounts, 1950-68 in Bun, 16 Cash book, 1928-36, analysed in columns 122 Cash book 1937-40 118 Ditto, 1941-45 119 - 2 - Cash book, 1945-48 120 Cash analysis book 1946-53 in Bun. 20 Cash analysis book 1963-67 including, loose, list of subs, of personal members of N. B.A., 1962-4 in Bun. 20 Statements of a/cs and audited balance sheets of various funds, and audited annual cash statements, 1928-48 124 Audited balance sheet, 1952 in Bun. 20 Statement of account by trustees of estate of Alfred Westley with letter enclosing cheque for £ residue for N.B.A., 1955 in Bun. 18 Letter with cheque for bequest under will of T.A. Walker, 1966 in Bun. 20 Cancelled promissory notes for loans made by N.B.A. to churches and corr. re same 1897" 1941 in Bun. 2 Stock receipts 1925-31 in Bun. 2 For accounts of the Thomas Trinder Fund, Provident Society Home Missionary Society and Parker Gray Fund see under those headings Reports etc. Large pile of loose printed N.B.A. reports, 1767­ 1650, 1866-69, 1872, 74-80, 82, 84, 85, 93, 94, 96", 97, 1910-12, 14*. 15 (list'on top) ' ?49 Bound vol., printed N.B.A. reports, 1866-91 2,'i2 Ditto, 1692-1907 243 Ditto, 1908-28 244 Bound vols. of same, 1868-19n 2 in Box 1 Ditto* 1902-28 in Box 1 Ditto, 1929-41 in Box 1 0 u IT-O , ij^x-fo ni, at. Large pile of N.B.A. printed reports, 1874-1927 (some copies missing) 246 Annual Meeting Report, Rushden, 1904 Vih Annual Meeting Report 1911, 12, 15-20, 26-43, 45, 47-48. 1911 report contains^list of officers and committee, past presidents 1892-1910, statistics of churches 19'*0-11, rules, presidents address, minutes of proceedings, record of churches (summary of letters), balance sheet, list of Assr.. meetings from 1875 , 68th Annual Report 01 Northants. Home Mission, list of subs., and Annual Report of Provident Society B52 \ - 3 - Surplus N. B.A. reports, sundry years, 1911-1+1 E^7 As above, 1921-32, several copies of each 21+7 Prinx^d N. B.A. annual meeting reports 1925-27 in Bun. 19 Printed N.B.A. annual meeting programme 1931 in Bun. 19 Annual Report, 1950 115 Ditto, 1953 B2 Ditto, 1959* Loose statistics of churches inserted B16 Bundle of statistics (printed forms) of N.B.A. churches. Number of members, and Assn. Fund amount, 1874-75 263 Letters etc. Bound volume, printed Circular Letters (i.e. address from Annual Meeting to al l churches in Assn.) 1765-1820. First is MS copy 21+0 Bound vole, printed Circular Letters 1770, 76-87, 89-99, 1801-15. MS contents list at front. "Caml. Cooper Tite, Towcester, Nov. 20, 1851" 238 As above, 1821-65 24.1 Circular letter from N.B.A. meeting, Kettering 1813 (printed, 3 copies) 298 List of Assns Letter copies sent to each place, 1633 76b Bouurt volume of MS letters from churches Vol. 1 Bads. , Bucks^ , Cambs. , Derbys. , and Herts. (Annual letters from churches to Assn. Meeting held at various places in the area) 1775-1814 (also incl. 2 newspaper cuttings about restoration of Thorn Baptist chapel ground in 1932) lax Box 4 Ditto, Vol. 2, Leics. and Lines. , 1775-1814 Vj Ditto, Vol. 3, 1775-1814 20 Ditto, Vol. 4, College Lane, Northampton, Notts., Rutland and Staffs, 1775-1814 21 Loose green cloth cover cont. details of letters sent to N.B.A. meetings from churches in (1) E. Midlands area, and (2) Northants. Date er.* place of meeting only 1775-1814 245 Letters from, churches, in paper folders, each endorsed with contents list , date and place of annual meeting:­ C-Lney, 1834 266 Kcltering, 1835 2C7 ,:Jipston, 1836 2b8 Mculton, 1837 209 - k - Northampton, 1839 270 AJLdwinkle, 1 640 271 Bugbrooke, 1841 272 Hackleton, 1842 273 Grey Friars, Northampton, 1843 274 Stony Stratford, 1844 275 Olney, 1845 276 Clipston, 1846 277 Long Buckby, 1847 278 Kettering, 1846 279 College Street, Northampton, 1849 260 Towcester, 1850 281 Thrapston, 1851 282 Olney, 1852 283 Northampton, 1855 264 Stony Stratford, I856 285 Clipston, I857 286 Long Buckby, 1858 287 Kettering, 1859 288 1 College Street, Northampton, 1860 289 Guilsborough, 1861 290 Bugbrooke, 1862 291 Olney, 1863 292 Hackleton, 1 864 293 Eushden, 1865 294 Kettering, 1866 306 ulipston, 1867 295 Lcng Buckby. 1868 307 Stony Stratford, 1869 308 Northampton, 1870 309 Stony Stratford, 1881 296 Letters to E.A. Payne for Annual Report, from various churches, 1931 297 Framed letter from Dre Carey on behalf cf church at Moulton to associated ministers at Kettering 27 May 1788 27 Printed sermon to B. A. at Not Gingham, by Andrew Fuller, 2 June 1784 Roll of papers endorsed "Case of Baptist ... at Nottingham as stated ... Northampton Assn. 25 M^y 1803" - excommunication of Minister's son, kr, Richard Hopper, for attending a Horse Race, billiard table, cricket club, etc. signed by c.50 members of Nottingham church. Various advice and letters enclosed, incl. one from A. Fuller, Kettering, 22 Jan. 1803 263 Form of Trust Deed of a Baptist Building and Act to simplify appointment cf new trustees, 1874 in Bun. 1 Copies of circular letter and forms sent out in October 1914 by W.P. Gray in Bun. 1 p Corre re handing over in 1914 nd notes on various trusts by the previous custodian in Bun. 1 Corr. re handing over of parcels of deeds of property of Baptist Chape.'s in various villages from College Street safe (except those of College Street and its branches) to W. Parker Gray on behalf of N.B.A. 'i$ 13-14, with list of villages amended from time to time and revised 11 it of July 1917 in Bun. 1 - 5 - Forms returned to W. P. G. by various village church secretaries giving whereabouts of deedG, names of trustees and date of last appointment, and note as to fire insurance of each chapel etc. , 19114-17; also some corr. and notes as to whereabouts of deeds 5n Bun. 1 Corr. with Baptist Union as to deeds deposited with them 1917-8 in Bun. 1 Packet containing printed suggested clauses for a chapel trust deed; printed circular from Baptist Union Corporation as to trust deeds, transfer to B. U.C. etc. , printed memo, and Articles of Association of B.U.C. 1890; corr. about advantages of transfer to B.U.C., notice of meeting of College St. Chapel to decide on this question, 1921 in Bun. 1 File including printed information and instructions about B.U.C. as Trustee (revised 1945)* lis t of chapels whose deeds are with B. U.C. and of those whose deeds are with N. B.A. (with notes of last appointment of trustees etc.); list of1 other' trust deeds either not with above organizations or not of chapels; corr. and notes 194-2-5 about whereabouts of deedst names of trustees etc. of various chapels and draft lis t for printing in Bim. 1 File of corr. with B.U.C. as to what chapels they are trustees for and whose deeds they have, 1950-1 in Bun. 1 Printed Charity Commission circulars about registering trusts 1960-4 and copies of B.U.C. papers re same 1964 and of their annual report 1964 i n Bun. 2 List of trust deeds held at N?.t. Prov. Bank, 1930 with annotations and note of those with-drawn in Bun. 1 Nat. Prov. Bank receipt for tin box from N.B*A. and pencil notes as to contents (trust deeds) 1949 - Bun, 2 Old list of contents of Nat. Prov. Bank Box 2073 312 Letters to and from E.A.