Metadata
Title
Congregational minutes, 1795-1806
Date
1795/1806
Digital Identifier
ABHS.FBCMinutes1795-1806
Description
Congregational minutes include dates of meetings, members present, and business conducted from 1795 to 1806. Topics include but are not limited to: collection of pew rent and management of donations and legacies; payments to church employees such as the minister and sexton; payments for goods such as candles and firewood and services such as the printing of minutes and pamphlets; repairs and improvements to church buildings and burial grounds; baptism and transfer of members, as well as exclusions for poor conduct; charitable gifts to other churches and to the poor; and resolutions for improved record-keeping.
Subject
Place
Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Congregation
First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA
Holding Institution
American Baptist Historical Society
Extent
274 pages
Format (Digital)
tiff
Rights
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Language
eng
Type
Text
Thumbnail
IIIF Manifest
https://www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images/iiif.cfm/ABHS.FBCMinutes1795-1806/manifest
