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Identifier/Call Number
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Doc 721-723
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Description
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The Vermont Quebec Universalist-Unitarian Convention records consist of records of the organization between 1881 and 2014. Correspondence files contain mostly correspondence of the secretary of the Convention from 1950 to 2007. Letters concern a variety of topics such as the hiring of ministers, the dissolution of churches throughout the state, attendance at meetings, and the Association of Universalist Women. A series of subject files, primarily from the late 1940s to 2005, includes annual reports, constitutions, bylaws, and treasurers' reports. A third series contains correspondence with prominent individuals in the organization, including Martin Leinwohl, Joseph Nerod, Edith MacDonald, William Hardin and Herman Young, between 1962 and 1972. The fourth series documents the Universalist Unitarian churches in several different Vermont towns. Most of the early records of the organization can be found in the fifth series of ledgers of financial records, memberships, and minutes spanning the years 1881 through 1987. Some ledgers also document related groups and societies such as the First Universalist Society of Lyndonville, the Young People's Christian Union, the Universalist-Unitarian Women's Association and the Twin State Area Ministry at Ascutney.
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Biography, Administrative History and Provenance
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The Universalist Convention of Vermont and the Province of Quebec was officially incorporated by the State of Vermont in 1888, though the Vermont Historical Society holds a publication dated 1872 which suggests the union of Vermont and Quebec conventions took place earlier. Previously the convention was known as the Universalist Convention of Vermont, which was formed in 1833. The current name of the convention, the Vermont Quebec Universalist Unitarian Convention, was approved at a meeting held in October, 1937. According to the organization's 1947 constitution, the purpose of the Convention was to assist its member societies in "the promotion of liberal religion and fellowship and the application of the democratic process to all spheres of living." The VQUUC was also formed to receive, hold, administer and manage property of any kind, nature and description which might come to its care, control, management, custody or ownership by gift, grant, devise, bequest, trust, statute, implication of law or otherwise. The Convention held annual meetings and each member society was entitled to voting delegates. The management of the Convention was by a board of trustees. In 2008, they consolidated with the Northern NE District (NNED) of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, which includes Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont and the VQUUC continued as a holding company to administer and disburse funds.
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Extent
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3 linear feet
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