Correspondence from Horace Binney and the City Commissioners' Office, 1815

Correspondence from Horace Binney and the City Commissioners' Office, 1815

1815

ChristChurch.CorporationCorrespondence_4-2-0-31

4.2.0.31; F519

Letter from the City Commissioners Office instructing the corporation to pave a sidewalk in front of church owned property at Pine and Fourth Streets.

Also contains a letter from Horace Binney to Charles N. Bancker regarding patronage for an initiative to improve church music.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia

Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA

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This item comprises two letters concerning Christ Church, Philadelphia, dated 1815. In the first letter, Horace Binney writes to Mr. Charles N. Bancker on May 26, 1815, recommending an enclosed subscription paper to Bancker's patronage and that of his friends, noting he intends to interest gentlemen in Christ's Church and St. Paul's by sending each a copy. Binney explains that the paper's design, which has the entire approbation of the Bishop whose name heads one list, would introduce a great improvement in church music if carried into effect, and emphasizes that dispatch is a very great object because the engraver has no leisure for the work except in the following months [p.1].

The second letter, from the City Commissioners' Office in Philadelphia dated November 30, 1815 and signed by City Commissioner Thomas Hirst, requires the Rector, Wardens and Vestry of the Protestant Episcopal Churches of Christ and St. Peter's to have the footway opposite their lot at Pine and Fourth streets well paved within twenty days, in accordance with the ordinances of the Select and Common Councils passed May 22, 1797, and October 1, 1811 [p.2].

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