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Incorporation of the St. Francis Missionary and Benevolent Society, 1855In relation to
The St. Francis Missionary
and Benevolent Society
Established July 17, 1855
State of New York
Cattaraugus County
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Clerk’s office
Recorded the 21st day of Aug.
AD 1855 at 8 o’clock A. M. in-
liber [ ] of Miscellaneous Records at
pages 517 and examined.
M. Beecher. [ ] clk.
I approve [often] with-
in certificate & consent
to the filing of the same
Aug. 16, 1855
R. F. [ ]
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Know all men by these presents that in conformity with
the provisions of an act, passed in 1848, entitled “An
Act for the Incorporation of benevolent, charitable, Sci-
entific & Missionary Societies”, Nicholas Devereux
Mary D. Devereux, John F. Devereux, Thomas B.
Devereux and John Timon, all being citizens
of this State of the United States, have associated
together to establish a Missionary, Scientific,
Charitable, & Benevolent Society, to be located in
the Village of Allegany City, or in Ellicottville, where it
now has its beginning, or in both Villages, in Catta-
araugus Co. And the said Nicholas Devereux, Mary
D. Devereux, John F. Devereux, Thos. B. Devereux, & John Timon,
further declares that the above referred to Society
shall be known by the name of “the St. Francis Mission-
ary & Benevolent Society”; - they also declare that
the object of the society which they thus constitute
& establish, is to provide for Missionary duties
in this Western part of the State of New York for aiding
the poor & the orphans, & for instructing the ignorant, by teach-
ing, as far as means permit, divine and human science,
& for no other object. And the said Nicholas Devereux; John
F. Devereux, & John Timon shall be trustees for
the first years existence of said society; “the St.
Francis Missionary & Benevolent Society”, & the number
of trustees of the said Society shall be three to be
elected & continue as directed in the act above & cited.
In witness whereof, they, the parties above recited, have
Here unto set their hands & seals this seventeenth day of
July in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred fifty five
[signed]
Thos. B. Devereux
Nicholas Devereux
John Timon Mary D. Devereux
John C. Devereux
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