Miscellaneous burial ground records, 1799-1901

Miscellaneous burial ground records, 1799-1901

1799/1901

ABHS.FBCMiscBurialGroundRecords

Miscellaneous records of the First Baptist Church burial grounds, dating from 1799 to 1901, first at the La Grange/Arch Street site and then at Mount Moriah Cemetery. Items include: a resolution by the trustees in 1799 to raise the cost of interment in order to keep the burial ground in good repair; reports by the superintendent of the burial ground on interments performed; receipts for payments to the sexton and to Mount Moriah Cemetery Association for cutting the grass in section 112; the "Proposition for the Removal of the Dead" in 1860, and permission from the Health Office to move the burials from La Grange to Mount Moriah; and letters documenting the return of some remains to family members.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia

First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA

American Baptist Historical Society

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