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The Salem Social Library (1760-1810) or Social Library in Salem was a
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Library
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Salem, Massachusetts
Salem ( ) is a historic coastal city in Essex County, Massachusetts, located on the North Shore of Greater Boston. Continuous settlement by Europeans began in 1626 with English colonists. Salem would become one of the most significant seaports tr ...
. "Twenty-eight gentlemen ... subscribed 165 guineas. ... A Boston minister,
eremy Condy was employed to buy the books in London and the library opened in a brick schoolhouse May 20, 1761, with 415 volumes including gifts given by members. The
revolution
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was a bitter blow to many of the gentlemen who had founded the library. Many of the proprietors fled to England. ... In 1784 the library made a new start in new quarters in the new ... schoolhouse. Here they remained about 15 years, the schoolmaster acting as librarian."
[Library Journal, April 1910] "In 1797 they became incorporated;"
Edward Augustus Holyoke
Edward Augustus Holyoke (August 1, 1728 – March 31, 1829) was an American educator and physician.
Biography
Edward Augustus was born in Marblehead, Province of Massachusetts Bay, on August 1, 1728. His father was the Reverend Edward Holyoke ...
, Jacob Ashton, Joseph Hiller, and Edward Pulling served as signatories.
[An Act for incorporating certain Persons by the Name of The Proprietors of the Social Library in Salem, February 7, 1797]
Private and special statutes of the commonwealth of Massachusetts
Volume 2. Printed for the state, by Manning & Loring, 1805 "There were over 40 proprietors when in 1810 the library was turned over to the
alemAthenaeum."
Subscribers
* Samuel Barnard
[H. Wheatland. Sketch of the Social and Philosophical Libraries]
Proceedings of the Essex Institute
1857
* Thomas Barnard
* Samuel Barton Jr.
* Joseph Blaney
* Joseph Bowditch
* William Browne
* Francis Cabot
* Joseph Cabot
* S. Curwen
* Richard Derby
* William Eppes
* Samuel Gardner
* Samuel Gardner Jr.
* Stephen Higginson
* E.A. Holyoke
* William Jeffry
* Daniel King
* John Nutting Jr.
* A. Oliver Jr.
* Timothy Orne
* Benjamin Pickman
* Benjamin Pickman Jr.
* Ebenezer Putnam
* William Pynchon
* Nathaniel Ropes
* William Vans
* W. Walter
See also
*
Salem Athenaeum
The Salem Athenaeum, founded in 1810, is one of the oldest membership libraries in the United States. The Athenaeum is located at 337 Essex Street in Salem, Massachusetts in the McIntire Historic District.
History
The Salem Athenaeum was founded ...
, successor to the Social Library of Salem
References
Further reading
* Bylaws and regulations of the incorporated proprietors of the Social Library in Salem. 1797. (Includes catalog)
* By-laws and regulations of the Proprietors of the Social Library in Salem ; with a Catalogue of the books belonging to the Library by Proprietors of the Social Library in Salem. Salem: Printed by Thomas C. Cushing, 1809.
* "The Social Library."
External links
Phillips Library Peabody Essex Museum. Records of the Social Library, 1760-1810.
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1761 establishments in the Province of Massachusetts Bay
1810 disestablishments in the United States
Libraries in Essex County, Massachusetts
History of Salem, Massachusetts
Subscription libraries in the United States