Metadata
Title
Congregational minutes, 1806-1813
Date
1806/1813
Digital Identifier
ABHS.FBCMinutes1806-1813
Description
Congregational minutes include dates of meetings, members present, and business conducted from 1806 to 1813. Topics include but are not limited to: income from pew rents, house rents, legacies, and donations; baptism, dismission, and transfer of members; exclusion of members for bad behavior and readmission upon repentance; repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including fundraising for enlargement of the meeting house; payments to the minister and the appointment of a librarian; purchases of firewood, candles, and curtains; and charity for the poor, including funeral expenses for orphans and the loan of stoves to recent widows.
Subject
Place
Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Congregation
First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA
Holding Institution
American Baptist Historical Society
Extent
265 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.FBCMinutes1806-1813/manifest
