{"value"=>"<p>The series contains minutes dating from the original organizational meeting in 1864 through its first twenty-five years of existence. The growth of the conference is documented in annual statistics, records of personnel changes, and reports of committees including temperence, freedman's aid, Sunday Schools, and missions. Individual annual reports of each member church are also included in the minutes. The reports often discuss administrative and financial difficulties.</p> <p>Other significant early material in the series includes membership rolls as well as reports and minutes of layman's conferences and associations. (Additional layman's reports are scattered throughout the Official Board and Joshua E. Licorish sub-series of the Zoar series). Also included are records of disciplinary proceedings against clergymen (1884-1934). These contain minutes of hearings, supporting documents, and decisions in cases often involving intoxication, embezzlement, or sexual misconduct.</p> <p>The dissolution of the Delaware Conference of the Central Jurisdiction and its merger into other geographic conferences is documented by minutes, resolutions, and other supporting material of its centennial meeting in 1964.</p>"}