Burial ground expenses, 1768

Metadata

Title

Creator

First Baptist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date

1768

Digital Identifier

ABHS.FBCBurialGroundExpenses1768

Description

One page, front and back, documenting "an account of work and materials" done at First Baptist Church in 1768. Expenses include, for example, supplies such as stone, brick, sand, wood, and nails, and services such as relocating corpses from a bank into the vaults, and building gutters for those vaults.

Note: A piece of the page is missing, due to deterioration.

Subject

First Baptist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Church records and registers

Place

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia

Congregation

First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA

Holding Institution

American Baptist Historical Society

Extent

1 page

Format (Original)

Manuscripts

Account books

Format (Digital)

tiff

Rights

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Language

eng

Type

Text

Thumbnail

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IIIF Manifest

https://www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images/iiif.cfm/ABHS.FBCBurialGroundExpenses1768/manifest

Text

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Collection

First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA

Citation

First Baptist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.), “Burial ground expenses, 1768,” Philadelphia Congregations Early Records, accessed May 22, 2025, https://philadelphiacongregations.org/records/item/ABHS.FBCBurialGroundExpenses1768.