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The Salem Social Library (1760-1810) or Social Library in Salem was a proprietary library in Salem, Massachusetts. "Twenty-eight gentlemen ... subscribed 165 guineas. ... A Boston minister, [Jeremy 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 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." "In 1797 they became incorporated;" Edward Augustus Holyoke, Jacob Ashton, Joseph Hiller, and Edward Pulling served as signatories. "There were over 40 proprietors when in 1810 the library was turned over to the [Salem] Athenaeum."
Subscribers
See also
Salem Athenaeum, 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." Harriet Silvester Tapley (1927), Salem imprints, 1768-1825, Salem, Mass: Essex Institute, OL 16654407M
External links
Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum. Records of the Social Library, 1760-1810.
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