Pew rents, St. Peter's Church, 1779 March

Metadata

Title

Pew rents, St. Peter's Church, 1779 March

Date

1779-03

Digital Identifier

ChristChurch.AccountingWardensPewRentAccountBooks_v223

Call Number

3.4.3.2, v223

Description

The practice of renting pews was common in 18th and 19th century churches; members paid a fee for the right to occupy a particular pew every week. This bound manuscript is a record of pew rents due to St. Peter's Church in March 1779. Entries are listed alphabetically by last name, with pew number, number of seats, sums due and sums paid. Pages after page 17 are blank and were not scanned.

Place

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia

Congregation

Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA

Holding Institution

Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA

Extent

17 pages

Format (Original)

Format (Digital)

tiff

Rights

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

Language

eng

Type

Text

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