Contains bylaws, incorporation papers, minutes, budgets, reports, and correspondence relating to the administration and fundraising activities of the Amherst Community Association, including the Community Chest fund drive. Also included are budget proposals and agency profiles documenting organizations such as the Amherst Boys Club and Girls Club, Children’s Aid and Family Service, Hampshire County Association for Retarded Citizens and Camp Anderson.

The Ancient Order of United Workmen, a fraternal benefit society, was originally founded in Pennsylvania in 1868. The Massachusetts lodge was founded in 1879 with the Deerfield Valley Lodge incorporated in 1880.

The collection consists of records dating from 1895–1920, including financial documents, membership information, and correspondence.

The Bethel Lodge of Masons, organized in 1825, is the oldest recorded social or fraternal group in Enfield, Massachusetts. Records include a membership list, financial records, by-laws, burial service manual, directories, insurance policies, meeting cards, and a one-hundredth anniversary booklet.

Agency providing traditional child and family service and extensive mental health services that worked closely with the SPCC, was a member in the Child Welfare League of America, and was the Northampton representative for the National Association of Travelers Aid Societies. Includes 10 versions of the constitution, typed personal recollections from the 25th anniversary, annual reports, minutes, and the correspondence of President Miriam Chrisman (1952-1957). Of special note, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge was the Chair of the Home Finding Committee of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children which helped to found the CAFS.

Minutes and correspondence of the Executive Committee, correspondence and general files of chairmen Philip Eddy, David E. Matz, and Donn Kesselheim, as well as correspondence, briefs, and clippings related to legal cases and inquiries undertaken by the chapter.

Organization created to sponsor and conduct all fundraising for, and to distribute funds to, relief and social agenices in the town of Easthampton, Massachusetts. Contains records of minutes, campaign reports, Presidents’ and Treasurers’ reports, and correspondence. Also included are scrapbooks with newspaper clippings and other printed material.

Founded in 1895, the Girls Club of Greenfield provides high quality early care and educational services to the girls of Franklin County, Massachusetts, and advocates for the rights of children and their families. During the school year, the Club offers diverse programming, ranging from an infant room and preschool to after school activities that promote teamwork, community spirit, social skills, and confidence. Since 1958, they have also operated a summer camp, Lion Knoll, in Leyden.

The records of the Girls Club of Greenfield include by-laws, annual reports, reports and meeting minutes of the Board of Directors, correspondence, and ledgers and account books. Also contains program files for daycare, summer camp, education worker programs, and others, personnel records, membership and committee lists, newsletters, press releases, ledgers, account books, scrapbooks, news clippings, photographs, slides, and artifacts.

A private, non-profit corporation founded in 1965 in Northampton, Massachusetts to finance community action programs for eliminating poverty and assisting low income people. Programs included day care centers, Neighborhood Youth Corps, Summer Head Start, a drug addiction clinic at the jail, Legal Services, and the Foster Grandparent Program.

Records comprise bylaws and organizational charts, annual reports, board of directors minutes; administrative directors’ records, including correspondence with the federal agencies and state agencies granting funds, grant applications and awards, program plans, financial and legal documents, personnel records and staff training directives; the agency newsletter County Voice, Noticero Latina; and newsclippings about welfare programs.

Nonprofit organization with representatives from sixteen Western Massachusetts towns that raised funds for and distributed funds to local and national social service organizations in their communities. Records include minutes of the Board of Directors, Executive Committee, financial and other standing committees; annual reports, correspondence, ledgers, budget worksheets, agency reports, campaign materials, including solicitation lists and letters, campaign studies and reports; brochures and surveys; and printed materials and photographs.

Title page, Volume 1 (1671)

The Hampshire Council of Governments is a voluntary association of cities and towns and the successor to the former government of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, that was abolished in 1999. A body politic and corporate, its charter ratified by Massachusetts General Law 34B, §20(b), the Council oversees roadways, the electricity supply, building inspection, tobacco control, cooperative purchasing, and other services for member communities.

The HCOG collections contains a remarkably dense record of county level governance in western Massachusetts from the colonial period through the mid-twentieth century. The collection contains extensive bound volumes of Session records from the Court of Common Pleas going back to 1677, along with associated dockets and maps. (25 volumes predate 1800). In addition to containing records of legal proceedings relating to disorderly conduct (fornication, Sabbath breaking) the Sessions include much on settlement of estates, governance, public works, and local and regional politics. The early records in the collection include materials relating to Franklin and Hampden Counties, which until 1811-1812 were part of Hampshire County. More recent records remain with the Council and can be consulted at their offices in Northampton.

Sessions Records

• General Sessions and Common Pleas, Vol. 01: 1677-1728
• (lib. A). Record A, Vol. 02: 1728-1735
• (lib. B). Inferior Court, Court of Sessions, Vol. 03: 1735-1741
• (lib. C). Inferior Courts, General Sessions, Vol. 04: 1741-1745
• (lib. D). General Sessions and Common Pleas, Vol. 05: 1746-1757
• (lib. E). General Sessions and Common Pleas, Vol. 06: 1758-1762
• (lib. F). General Sessions and Inferior Court of Common Pleas, Vol. 07: 1762-1774
• (lib. G) General Sessions and Common Pleas, Vol. 08: 1764-1766
• (lib. H). Inferior Court of Common Pleas, Vol. 09: 1766-1770
• Court of Sessions, Hampshire County, Vol. 10: 1766-1771
• (lib. I). Inferior Court of Common Pleas, Vol. 11: 1770-1773
• (lib. K). Inferior Court of Common Pleas, Vol. 12: 1773-1780
• (lib. M). Inferior Courts. General Sessions, Vol. 13: 1771-1781
• (lib. L). Sessions Records, Vol. 14: 1776 May-1790 Jan.
• (lib. N). Inferior Court of Common Pleas, Vol. 15: 1782-1783
• (lib. O). Court of Common Pleas, Vol. 16: 1783-1784
• (lib. P) Court of Common Pleas, Vol. 17: 1784-1785
• Court of Common Pleas, Vol. 18: 1785 Aug.-1788 Sep.
• Sessions records. Court of General Session. Vol. 19 not scanned due to fragility of original
• No. A Executions 1715-1764, pages 1 to 80 inclu. Common Pleas, Vol. 20: 1715-1790
• (lib. S) General Sessions and Common Pleas, Vol. 21: 1791-1794
• (Book T) Court of Common Pleas, Vol. 22: 1794-1795
• Court of Common Pleas, Vol. 23: 1796-1797
• (Book W). General Sessions and Common Pleas, Vol. 24: 1797-1798
• Sessions records, no. 1, Vol. 25: 1800-1823
• Records of the Court of Sessions, Commissioner of Highways, County Commissioners, Vol. 26: 1824 Mar.-1837 Apr.

County Commissioners Records

• County Commissioners Records, Vol. 03: 1837-1844
• County Commissioners Records, Vol. 04: 1844-1852
• County Commissioners Records, Vol. 05: 1852-1860
• County Commissioners Records, Vol. 06: 1860-1867
• County Commissioners Records, Vol. 07: 1868-1871
• County Commissioners Records, Vol. 08: 1871-1875
• County Commissioners Records, Vol. 09: 1876-1880
• County Commissioners Records, Vol. 10: 1881-1882
• County Commissioners Records, Vol. 11: 1883-1886
• County Commissioners Records, Vol. 12: 1887-1889
• County Commissioners Records, Vol. 13: 1890-1894
• County Commissioners Records, Vol. 14: 1895-1900
• County Commissioners Records, Vol. 15: 1901-1906
• County Commissioners Records, Vol. 16: 1907-1910
• County Commissioners Records, Vol. 17: 1911-1916
• County Commissioners Records, Vol. 18: 1917-1923
• County Commissioners Records, Vol. 19: 1923-1929
• County Commissioners Records, Vol. 20: 1929-1935
• County Commissioners Records, Vol. 21: 1935-1940
• County Commissioners Records, Vol. 22: 1940-1945
• County Commissioners Records, Vol. 23: 1945-1950
• County Commissioners Records, Vol. 24: 1950-1954
• County Commissioners Records, Vol. 25: 1954-1958
• County Commissioners Records, Vol. 26: 1958-1961