To The Friends And Patrons Of The Poor This Sketch Of A Plan For A Charity Fund Is Respectfully

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Charlestown, MA : 1805. Printed broadside, 11 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type. Call for contributions to this fledgling charity to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, to be called The Baptist Charity Fund, signed in type by a six-member committee, including William Collier, John Carter, David Goodwin, Jacob Forster, Oliver Holden, and James Harrison. The Baptist community had organized and built a place of worship in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1801;

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