| Description | Copies of papers relating to the Providential Society of Scarborough, including:
- request dated 27 March 1809 from Deodatus Bye, George Fleming and Thomas Elders three members of the Society to the clerk of the Providential Society established at Scarborough, to convene a general meeting of the Society at Scarborough at the house of Thomas Ware innkeeper called the Lamb on 23 May 1809 next to revise the rules and to make other alterations to promote the welfare of the society
- notice dated 28 March 1809 and issued by Robert Darling clerk of the Society calling a general meeting
- memorandum that the notice of the general meeting was read at a meeting of the Society on 28 March 1809 and fixed up in the Society's room
- similar memorandum that the like was done at the next meeting of the society on 25 April 1809 |