This subseries contains the by-laws of the Boston Society of the New Jerusalem, including proposed revisions to by-laws, related correspondence, notes, and memoranda. Also included are incorporation documents, as well as records of laws outlining the governance of various aspects of the Boston Society of the New Jerusalem.

This subseries contains by-laws, meeting minutes, reports, and correspondence of the Boston Society of the New Jerusalem Church Committee, which was organized into the Church Council in 1952 (though it was called the Church Council in 1937 and 1938). The Church Committee and Council were responsible for the church's religious activities. In 2015, the Church Council and the Board of Trustees merged to become the Board of Governors.

This subseries contains records of the Boston Society of the New Jerusalem bodies responsible for the legal and financial activities of the church. Records include those of the Boston Society of the New Jerusalem Corporation (1823-1957), Standing Committee (1861-1951), and Board of Trustees (1958-2015). In 2015, the Board of Trustees merged with the Church Council to become the Board of Governors. Also included are by-laws, meeting minutes, correspondence, and joint meeting records.

This subseries contains meeting minutes of the Boston Society of the New Jerusalem member meetings, as well as the reports submitted by various church committees. Some of the early volumes contain records of various committees, as well as new member admission lists.

This subseries contains meeting minutes, reports, correspondence, financial records, and ephemera related to various Boston Society of the New Jerusalem boards and committees. Files titled "Various committee reports" and "Various committee records" also contain some service organization records.

This subseries includes a copy of land deed and land parcel descriptions, notes from the clerk's office of Boston, and bequests from wills a various members.

This subseries contains Boston Society of the New Jerusalem member lists and address and telephone directories. Some directories include handwritten additions, revisions, and notes.

This subseries contains vital records, such as birth and death records, and official act records, such as baptism and marriage records. Church record books or parish registers contain birth, baptism, confirmation, marriage, and death records, as well as genealogical information about families. Also included are membership transfer and removal requests and other membership records.

This subseries consists of the records of the Boston Society of the New Jerusalem's Ladies' Aid Association (LAA), which was formed in 1861 when Catherine (Clark) Reed and Selina Cranch (Minot) Clark called upon the governor of Massachusetts, John Albion Andrew, and expressed their desire to help American Civil War relief efforts. The LAA, formed by the women of the church "for the purpose of furnishing articles which are needed for the health and comfort of the soldiers," was officially recognized by the Church Committee on 16 November 1862. After the war, the LAA continued their charitable endeavors. They stopped meeting in 1991 because of "declining membership and health." The Memorial Fund of the Ladies' Aid Association was established soon after.

The subseries contains meeting minutes, reports, member lists, treasurer's books, bank books, receipts, notes, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera. Also included are records of organizations related to the LAA, such as the Boston New Church Sewing Society, or Ladies' Sewing Circle, which was also formed in 1861 (it is unclear if this was the earliest incarnation of the LAA) and whose by-laws were finalized in 1874. The subseries also contains interfiled records of the National Alliance of New Church Women, as well as collected New-Church Messenger articles related to Swedenborgian women's charitable organizations.

This subseries contains records related to the Boston Society of the New Jerusalem Young People's Association (YPA), also called the Young People's League, which was created in October 1876 after Rev. James Reed expressed his desire for the young people of the society to form a club "to be useful to the New Church." Included are meeting minutes, reports, programs, by-laws, correspondence, sheet music, a scrapbook, and newsletters. Also included are letters (primarily addressed to secretary Adelaide Toombs) and reports of the YPA-associated American New-Church League, Boston League, as well as the American New-Church League Co-operative Committee, which was comprised of the Boston, Cambridge, Newtonville, and Roxbury Leagues.

This subseries contains meeting minutes, treasurer's books, member lists, and other records related to the Boston Society of the New Jerusalem's Thimble Club. The Thimble Club disbanded in 1968.

This subseries contains records related to the Boston Society of the New Jerusalem New-Church Club, which was formed 31 January 1877 as the Magazine Club. Renamed the New-Church Club on 14 October 1885, its purpose was to facilitate the study and discussion of Emanuel Swedenborg's works. Included are by-laws and member lists, calendars, reports, and notices of upcoming events and activities. In the records dated 1951-1953, the New-Church Club was interchangeably called the New-Church Men's Club.

This subseries contains the records of the Charity Association of the Boston Society of the New Jerusalem, which distributed donated clothing to the less fortunate. Included are by-laws, meeting minutes, and reports.

This subseries contains meeting minutes, reports, programs, and treasurer's books and other records of the Boston Society of the New Jerusalem group, Sons of the New Jerusalem (Gamma Chapter). The chapter, whose first meeting appears to have been held on 15 November 1902, was open to male members of the church (enrolled in Sunday School) who were at least ten years of age, and its purpose was the "cultivation and promotion of loyalty to [the] church and to [the] country."

This subseries contains the records of other Boston Society of the New Jerusalem service organizations and clubs. Included are meeting minutes, membership lists, correspondence, and ephemera.

This subseries contains records related to the Boston Society of the New Jerusalem Sunday School (also Sabbath School), including meeting minutes, attendance lists, collected reference books, and correspondence.

This subseries contains records related to the Boston Society of the New Jerusalem Church School, including meeting minutes, lessons charts, and correspondence.

This subseries contains bound ledgers with the following information recorded by the church treasurer: accounts and transactions related to Boston Society of the New Jerusalem committee spending, bonds, stocks, real estate, mortgages, employee salaries, pew rentals, weekly offerings, utilities, and more.

This subseries contains booklets of Boston Society of the New Jerusalem financial statements and auditor reports for the fiscal year.

This subseries contains pew rent and ownership records. Some books include lists of subscriptions for support of worship.

This subseries contains various bound financial records, including records related to tithes and offerings, subscriptions for worship support, real estate, and bonds and stocks.

This subseries contains loose financial records, including treasurer's reports, budgets, insurance policies, and pew records.

This subseries contains Boston Society of the New Jerusalem manuals and newsletters, which generally include personalia, pastoral letters, notices of upcoming church events and activities, brief updates from committees and service organizations, and photographs. Manuals and newsletters were usually issued monthly, with the exception of a single issue for the church's summer hiatus (June, July, and August). From 1934 to 1938, manuals were issued weekly and included orders of Sunday service. In 1939, the manual was briefly titled "Beacon Hill Chimes." The manual was referred to as the newsletter beginning in 1992. In 2018, "manual" was again adopted to celebrate the church's bicentennial. Some manuals contain handwritten notes and corrections.

This subseries contains letters written by the pastor in order to convey well wishes to Boston Society of the New Jerusalem members, as well as provide general church updates and communicate important information. Letters were usually disseminated at Easter and Christmas, though letters were also issued at other times throughout the year. The subseries contains letters that were issued separately, as letters were usually included in church manuals and newsletters.

This subseries contains Boston Society of the New Jerusalem yearly (September-June) calendars of church activities, meetings, and historically significant dates. Calendars also include lists of church officers and committees.

This subseries contains brochures, primarily for visitors, of general information about the Boston Society of the New Jerusalem, as well as Swedenborgianism. The subseries also contains an introduction to the church community by Rev. Ted Klein.

This subseries contains orders of Sunday worship service (church bulletins) and orders of service for special events such as weddings and funerals.

This subseries contains announcement sheets for Sunday worship service. Announcements generally include Bible verses, selected hymns, reminders for upcoming church activities and meetings, and announcements regarding church members. Orders of worship are sometimes included on verso.

This subseries consists of handwritten and typed sermons by pastors, as well as addresses by other church leaders. Some sermons of Rev. G. Steven Ellis were sent as emails to church members and friends.

The series contains the papers of Theophilus Parsons (1797-1882), a professor of law at Harvard University and a member of the Boston Society of the New Jerusalem. Included are drafts of lectures, essays, magazine articles, book chapters, notes, and a Fourth of July address. Topics mostly pertain to his faith and religious beliefs.

This subseries contains the author's home copies of the first two books that comprised The Prince of 42nd Street: The Donald Brien Story by Bradford Ropes. The work was published in 1932 as 42nd Street and was adapted into a 1933 movie directed by Busby Berkeley. Also included is a letter from Ropes discussing his approach and research of Donald Brien.

This subseries consists of a card listing times of Sunday service held at the New Church Theological School on the corner of Quincy and Kirkland Streets led by Rev. Theodore F. Wright, a pamphlet on the architectural history of the building, and a copy of an extract from an 1889 Boston Society of the New Jerusalem Church Committee report discussing the establishment of a movement in Cambridge.

This record book contains the by-laws and membership lists for the Brookline Society of the New Jerusalem. Included are members from the start of the church in 1857 to 1939 with, in some cases, their date of death or date of withdrawal. Attached to the record book is a handmade photograph album listing pastors of the church from 1857-1923, photographs of pastors from 1896-1923, photographs of the exterior and interior of the church, and a brief history of the building. Also attached to the record book is the sesquicentennial celebration program marking the first proclamation of the New Church in New England by James Glen, as well as various other letters documenting the Brookline Society of the New Jerusalem's history.