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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
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A general meeting for Friends in the Delaware Valley area was first convened at Burlington, New Jersey, in 1681. The first general meeting held in Philadelphia was in 1683, and in 1685, it was agreed that the meetings in New Jersey and Pennsylvania should be combined into one yearly meeting with alternate sessions at Philadelphia and at Burlington. Since 1760, all Philadelphia Yearly Meetings have been held at Philadelphia. At its greatest extent, its territory embraced eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, Delaware, and parts of Maryland and Virginia. In 1790, Warrington Quarterly Meeting and Fairfax Quarterly Meeting were transferred to Baltimore Yearly Meeting in exchange for the old meetings on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. In 1819, several components of Western Quarterly Meeting were similarly transferred. The great Separation, which divided much of the Society of Friends across the country, began at the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of 1827.
Among Quakers, a Yearly Meeting is an annual gathering, open to all members, and held over a period of several days. Each yearly meeting is autonomous. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the business of the meeting included the receipt of answers to a set of queries to the Quarterly Meetings, issuing and reading epistles to and from other yearly meetings, receiving reports, establishing discipline, and seeking God's guidance on larger regional or national issues. Minutes of the Yearly Meeting frequently summarized reports and other testimonies, but the original documents also form part of the records.
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Minutes, 1681-1746
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FHL.PYM_Min16811746
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HC.Phy.100.002 (1250/A1.2)
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1681/1746
Description
An account of the resource
Yearly Meetings are large autonomous bodies of Quakers, meeting for several days once annually to conduct business, formulate the discipline, receive reports and concerns from its constituent meetings, review the state of the Society, and communicate with other yearly meetings and non-Quaker organizations.
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Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
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1 volume
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Records (Documents)
Manuscripts
Minutes (Records)
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jp2
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eng
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Text
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
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Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
Subject
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
Society of Friends--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Quakers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Genealogy
Corporate minutes
Correspondence
Church committees
Church discipline
Church finance
Church management
Church membership
Religious education
Temperance
Poor
Charity
African Americans
Antislavery movements
Religious literature
Persecution
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Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia
Title
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Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia
Description
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A monthly meeting at Philadelphia was established along with Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting in 10mo 1682/3. Quakers first met in homes, but the first Bank Meeting House – the “meeting on the Delaware side” – was built late in 1683 or early in 1684, located on the west side of Front Street, north of Mulberry (Arch). A second meeting house was erected in Centre Square by 1687, but this was infrequently used due to its distance from the rapidly developing area along the Delaware. Construction began on the Great Meeting House on the southwest corner of 2nd and Market in 1696. In 1772, this meeting was divided, resulting in two additional monthly meetings in Philadelphia: Philadelphia Monthly Meeting for the Northern District and Philadelphia Monthly Meeting for the Southern District. The original meeting was then sometimes referred to as the "Middle District."
Text
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Miscellaneous Papers, 1682-1764
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FHL.PMM_Misc16821764
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HC.PhM.P455.04.018 (1250/S3.2), HC.PhM.P455.04.019 (1250/JH1.8)—HC.PhM.P455.04.027 (1250/JH1.8), HC.PhM.P455.04.028 (1250/JH1.9)
Date
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1682/1764
Description
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Miscellaneous papers might include reports, financial documents, epistles, and other items which were usually only briefly referenced in the minutes of the business meeting.
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
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1 folder
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Records (Documents)
Manuscripts
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jp2
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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eng
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Text
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Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia
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Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections
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Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia
Subject
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Society of Friends--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Quakers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Genealogy
Church management
Persecution
Corporate minutes
African Americans
Antislavery movements
Church committees
Church finance
Correspondence
Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia
Religious education
Temperance
Poor
Charity
Cemeteries
Church discipline
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Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
Description
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Founded in 1695, Christ Church was the first Anglican church to be established in Pennsylvania. This fulfilled the provision outlined by King Charles II in the charter he granted to William Penn in 1681 stipulating that if twenty individuals requested an Anglican clergyman the Bishop of London would appoint one. Accordingly, thirty-nine Philadelphians came together in 1695 to form Christ Church. Located on Second Street, just north of Market Street the Church transitioned from a small frame structure in its early years to the imposing Georgian structure built from 1727-1754 that still stands on the site today. Members of the Continental Congress and early government officials worshipped here and seven signers of the Declaration of Independence are buried on Church property. When the congregation grew too large to be accommodated here the vestry built St. Peter's at the southern edge of the city in 1760 and later St. James. Those United Churches remained a unit until the 1820s and 1830s. Christ Church is an active Episcopal parish today as well as a major historic site.
The records consist of vestry minutes, parish records, accounting and financial records, deeds, architectural drawings, photographs, and audiovisual materials. In addition, there are materials from parish organizations and affiliated institutions such as Christ Church Hospital, Episcopal School, Christ Church Burial Ground, and Christ Church Preservation Trust.
Text
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Vestry minutes, Christ Church, v. 1, 1717-1760
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ChristChurch.MinuteBooks_v1
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1.1.0.1, v1
Date
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1717/1760
Description
An account of the resource
This volume holds the oldest known meeting minutes for Christ Church, dating from 1717 to 1760. The vestry is the governing body for the church. Each entry records the date, members present and business discussed. The Lieutenant Governor was often present at early meetings, and the Governor became a member of the vestry in 1718. Topics covered include: elections of wardens and vestrymen; fundraising for a steeple and burial ground; establishment of new pew rents; settlement of various accounts; the need to write to the Bishop of London for a new reverend; application for a charter; and the appointment of a schoolmaster.
Note: Page 92 was blank and was not scanned.
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
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177 pages
Medium
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Minutes (Records)
Manuscripts
Format
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tiff
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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eng
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Text
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Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
Creator
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Christ Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Subject
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Parish elections
Church records and registers
Church finance
Christ Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Church management
Church fund raising
Church schools
Pews and pew rights
Church of England
Episcopalians
Corporate minutes
Episcopal Church
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Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
Description
An account of the resource
Founded in 1695, Christ Church was the first Anglican church to be established in Pennsylvania. This fulfilled the provision outlined by King Charles II in the charter he granted to William Penn in 1681 stipulating that if twenty individuals requested an Anglican clergyman the Bishop of London would appoint one. Accordingly, thirty-nine Philadelphians came together in 1695 to form Christ Church. Located on Second Street, just north of Market Street the Church transitioned from a small frame structure in its early years to the imposing Georgian structure built from 1727-1754 that still stands on the site today. Members of the Continental Congress and early government officials worshipped here and seven signers of the Declaration of Independence are buried on Church property. When the congregation grew too large to be accommodated here the vestry built St. Peter's at the southern edge of the city in 1760 and later St. James. Those United Churches remained a unit until the 1820s and 1830s. Christ Church is an active Episcopal parish today as well as a major historic site.
The records consist of vestry minutes, parish records, accounting and financial records, deeds, architectural drawings, photographs, and audiovisual materials. In addition, there are materials from parish organizations and affiliated institutions such as Christ Church Hospital, Episcopal School, Christ Church Burial Ground, and Christ Church Preservation Trust.
Text
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Robert Jenney Pledge of Conformity, 1742
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ChristChurch.RobertJenneyPledgeOfConformity1742
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1742
Description
An account of the resource
Robert Jenney served as the Reverend of Christ Church from 1742 until his death in 1762. In this document, he writes: "I do declare that I will Conform to the Liturgy of the Church of England as it is now by Law established." Such a pledge of conformity was required to secure license to perform ministerial office in the colonies.
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
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1 page
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Manuscripts
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tiff
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eng
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Text
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Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Christ Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Subject
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Oaths
Christ Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Church of England
Religious leaders
Church management
British colonies
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First Moravian Church, Philadelphia, PA
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First Moravian Church, Philadelphia, PA
Description
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In 1742, the Moravian Church began holding services in Philadelphia under the leadership of Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf. On New Year’s Day in 1743, 34 members organized as a Moravian congregation in a new church building in Old City, at the corner of Race and Bread Streets. In 1820, the original church building was enlarged and remodeled. In 1856, a second church building was dedicated by the congregation, on Franklin and Wood Streets. A third and final church building was dedicated in 1893 on Fairmount Avenue, between 16th and 17th Streets, where it remained until the congregation’s official closing in 1965. Today, Redeemer Moravian Church continues the Moravian tradition in Southwest Philadelphia. Select archival records from this massive collection (54 boxes) of First Moravian Church were scanned as part of this project and include diaries, minutes, membership lists, church registers, and drawings.
Text
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Congregational diary, 1743-1745
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Moravian.MC_Phila_I_1
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Congregational diary of First Moravian Church of Philadelphia, 1743-1745
Date
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1743/1745
Description
An account of the resource
A journal of happenings in the "English congregation" from its establishment on January 1, 1743, running up to June 15, 1745. Topics covered include births and baptisms, sermons preached and hymns sung, "love feasts," meetings and conferences, members' travel (including extensive travel between Philadelphia and Bethlehem), missionary work with Native Americans, and correspondence with Moravians in other parts of Pennsylvania and abroad, as far as London and Germany.
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
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83 pages
Medium
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Manuscripts
Diaries
Format
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tiff
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Language
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eng
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Text
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First Moravian Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Moravian Archives
Creator
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First Moravian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Subject
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First Moravian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Moravian Church
Moravians
Love feasts
Sermons
Church membership
Hymns
Church management
Church records and registers
Indians of North America
Baptismal records
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First Moravian Church, Philadelphia, PA
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First Moravian Church, Philadelphia, PA
Description
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In 1742, the Moravian Church began holding services in Philadelphia under the leadership of Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf. On New Year’s Day in 1743, 34 members organized as a Moravian congregation in a new church building in Old City, at the corner of Race and Bread Streets. In 1820, the original church building was enlarged and remodeled. In 1856, a second church building was dedicated by the congregation, on Franklin and Wood Streets. A third and final church building was dedicated in 1893 on Fairmount Avenue, between 16th and 17th Streets, where it remained until the congregation’s official closing in 1965. Today, Redeemer Moravian Church continues the Moravian tradition in Southwest Philadelphia. Select archival records from this massive collection (54 boxes) of First Moravian Church were scanned as part of this project and include diaries, minutes, membership lists, church registers, and drawings.
Text
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Title
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Minutes of the English Conference, 1743-1747
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Moravian.MC_Phila_I_245
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Minutes of "the [English] Conference" of First Moravian Church of Philadelphia
Date
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1743/1747
Description
An account of the resource
This committee included the elders of the English-speaking Moravians in Philadelphia. Minutes run from September 27, 1743 to July 3, 1747, and cover a variety of topics. Disputes between the German and English members of the Philadelphia congregation were common in the early period, so management of those conflicts - as well as conflicts among the English speaking congregants, including marital disputes - is a recurrent subject. Other topics include, but are not limited to: collections to pay for church supplies, ground rent, and preachers' salaries; relations with the Quakers; visitation of the sick and care of vulnerable members; reception of new members; baptisms and love feasts; upkeep of the church building and grounds; members' travel; the desire for a school church; and a conference to bring together English and German-speaking laborers in the congregation.
Spatial Coverage
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Extent
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144 pages
Medium
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Manuscripts
Minutes (Records)
Format
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tiff
Rights
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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First Moravian Church, Philadelphia, PA
Rights Holder
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Moravian Archives
Creator
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First Moravian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Subject
The topic of the resource
First Moravian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Moravian Church
Moravians
Corporate minutes
Church meetings
Elders (Church officers)
Church discipline
Conflict management
Church finance
Church management
Love feasts
Baptism
Church buildings
Church schools
Church membership
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Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA
Identifier
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Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA
Description
An account of the resource
Presbyterians who favored the religious revivalism of George Whitefield organized a Second Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia in 1743. Second was a “New Side” church as opposed to the “Old Side” First Presbyterian Church. For many years, the congregation worshipped in its building at Third and Arch streets, where the first General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. met in 1789. In 1837, the church moved to Seventh and Arch, and in 1872, to 21st and Walnut. In 1949, the congregation united with First Presbyterian Church.
Records scanned for this project include minutes, pew records, deeds, and burial records.
Text
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Title
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Session minutes, 1744–1798
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PHS.SecondPresbyterianChurchSessionMinutes1744-1798
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https://www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images/iiif.cfm/PHS.SecondPresbyterianChurchSessionMinutes1744-1798/manifest
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V MI46 P533s
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Second Presbyterian Church Session Minutes, 1744-1798
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1744/1798
Description
An account of the resource
The Session is a body of elected elders governing a Presbyterian church. In this bound volume, the Session is referred to as the Consistory until 1767. Meeting minutes run from 1744 to 1798, and note the date, members present, and business discussed. Business includes elections to office and management of church finances, including financial assistance to the poor, with the bulk of entries concerning resolution of conflicts between church members and discipline of church members found guilty of offenses such as drinking, fighting, theft, slander and adultery.
Spatial Coverage
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Extent
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135 pages
Medium
The material or physical carrier of the resource.
Minutes (Records)
Manuscripts
Format
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tiff
Rights
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Is Part Of
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Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA
Rights Holder
A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource.
Presbyterian Historical Society
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Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Church records and registers
Church discipline
Church finance
Church management
Corporate minutes
Presbyterians
Presbyterian Church
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First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA
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First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Presbyterians began gathering for worship in Philadelphia in 1692, sharing a building known as the "Barbadoes Warehouse" at Second and Chestnut streets with Baptists and Congregationalists. In 1698, the congregation officially organized as the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia. Six years later, the congregation moved to High Street (now Market Street) at the corner of Bank Street, and built the first Presbyterian church building in the city, known as "Old Buttonwood." Both the first American presbytery and the first synod met in this church building. In 1820, the church moved to a new building on the south side of Washington Square where it remained until the late 1920s, when it moved to 15th and Locust streets. In 1949, First and Second Presbyterian Churches united as First with the congregation moving into the Second Presbyterian Church building at 21st and Walnut streets, where the congregation continues today.
Records scanned for this project include congregation minutes, pew records, and lists of burials.
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Presbyterian Historical Society
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General committee meeting minutes, 1747-1772
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PHS.FirstPresbyterianChurchMinutes1747-1772
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1747/1772
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Meeting minutes begin with the names of members elected for the Committee in May of 1747, and go on to document the dates of meetings, members present, and business conducted. Topics covered include financial matters such as account balances, collections, payments to those employed by the church, and pew rents; charity, including a very active widows' fund; and repairs and upgrades such as new roof shingles and a new velvet cover for the pulpit. The minutes also contain discussion of the need for a second church building to accommodate a growing congregation, and the eventual split with Third Presbyterian ("the Pine Street church.")
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
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186 pages
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Minutes (Records)
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tiff
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Text
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First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Presbyterian Historical Society
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First Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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First Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Church records and registers
Presbyterians
Corporate minutes
Church management
Church finance
Church fund raising
Pews and pew rights
Church buildings
Church committees
Presbyterian Church
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
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A general meeting for Friends in the Delaware Valley area was first convened at Burlington, New Jersey, in 1681. The first general meeting held in Philadelphia was in 1683, and in 1685, it was agreed that the meetings in New Jersey and Pennsylvania should be combined into one yearly meeting with alternate sessions at Philadelphia and at Burlington. Since 1760, all Philadelphia Yearly Meetings have been held at Philadelphia. At its greatest extent, its territory embraced eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, Delaware, and parts of Maryland and Virginia. In 1790, Warrington Quarterly Meeting and Fairfax Quarterly Meeting were transferred to Baltimore Yearly Meeting in exchange for the old meetings on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. In 1819, several components of Western Quarterly Meeting were similarly transferred. The great Separation, which divided much of the Society of Friends across the country, began at the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of 1827.
Among Quakers, a Yearly Meeting is an annual gathering, open to all members, and held over a period of several days. Each yearly meeting is autonomous. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the business of the meeting included the receipt of answers to a set of queries to the Quarterly Meetings, issuing and reading epistles to and from other yearly meetings, receiving reports, establishing discipline, and seeking God's guidance on larger regional or national issues. Minutes of the Yearly Meeting frequently summarized reports and other testimonies, but the original documents also form part of the records.
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Minutes, 1747-1779
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FHL.PYM_Min17471779
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HC.Phy.100.003 (1250/A1.3)
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1747/1779
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Yearly Meetings are large autonomous bodies of Quakers, meeting for several days once annually to conduct business, formulate the discipline, receive reports and concerns from its constituent meetings, review the state of the Society, and communicate with other yearly meetings and non-Quaker organizations.
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Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
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1 volume
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Records (Documents)
Manuscripts
Minutes (Records)
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jp2
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eng
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Text
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
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Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
Society of Friends--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Quakers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Genealogy
Corporate minutes
Correspondence
Church committees
Church discipline
Church finance
Church management
Church membership
Religious education
Temperance
Poor
Charity
African Americans
Antislavery movements
Religious literature
Persecution
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Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Presbyterians who favored the religious revivalism of George Whitefield organized a Second Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia in 1743. Second was a “New Side” church as opposed to the “Old Side” First Presbyterian Church. For many years, the congregation worshipped in its building at Third and Arch streets, where the first General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. met in 1789. In 1837, the church moved to Seventh and Arch, and in 1872, to 21st and Walnut. In 1949, the congregation united with First Presbyterian Church.
Records scanned for this project include minutes, pew records, deeds, and burial records.
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Congregational, corporation, and trustees minutes, vol. 1, 1749-1775
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PHS.SecondPresbyterianChurchMinutes1749-1772
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V MI46 P533c v. 1
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Second Presbyterian Church Minutes, 1749-1772
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1749/1775
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Congregational minutes from 1749, 1751 to 1755, and 1759 to 1772 run through page 163 of this bound manuscript, then the trustee minutes from January 1773 to January 1775 begin at the back of the book, upside down, and continue until page 164.
Entries note the date and place of meetings, members present, and business discussed. Topics include but are not limited to: the purchase of new grounds and building of a new meeting house; the assignment of pews and pew rents and later a rise in pew rents to help the church out of debt; fees for baptisms and terms for burials; the choice of a new minister; discipline of members for ill behavior; and application for a charter.
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
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178 pages
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Minutes (Records)
Manuscripts
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tiff
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eng
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Text
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Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Presbyterian Historical Society
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Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Church records and registers
Church finance
Church management
Church discipline
Presbyterians
Church buildings
Cemeteries
Pews and pew rights
Corporate minutes
Church committees
Church membership
First Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Founded in 1695, Christ Church was the first Anglican church to be established in Pennsylvania. This fulfilled the provision outlined by King Charles II in the charter he granted to William Penn in 1681 stipulating that if twenty individuals requested an Anglican clergyman the Bishop of London would appoint one. Accordingly, thirty-nine Philadelphians came together in 1695 to form Christ Church. Located on Second Street, just north of Market Street the Church transitioned from a small frame structure in its early years to the imposing Georgian structure built from 1727-1754 that still stands on the site today. Members of the Continental Congress and early government officials worshipped here and seven signers of the Declaration of Independence are buried on Church property. When the congregation grew too large to be accommodated here the vestry built St. Peter's at the southern edge of the city in 1760 and later St. James. Those United Churches remained a unit until the 1820s and 1830s. Christ Church is an active Episcopal parish today as well as a major historic site.
The records consist of vestry minutes, parish records, accounting and financial records, deeds, architectural drawings, photographs, and audiovisual materials. In addition, there are materials from parish organizations and affiliated institutions such as Christ Church Hospital, Episcopal School, Christ Church Burial Ground, and Christ Church Preservation Trust.
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Robert Jenney letter, 1753
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ChristChurch.RobertJenneyLetter1753
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1753
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Robert Jenney served as the Reverend of Christ Church from 1742 until his death in 1762.
Jenney wrote this letter "to the Subscribers for erecting a new Church in Philadelphia" in 1753. As the population of Philadelphia grew, Christ Church no longer had enough room, and as a result, some members wanted to build a new church. While Jenney approved of the goal to accommodate more congregants, he was concerned about the approach, and strongly believed that the new church should remain part of one congregation with Christ Church, led by the same vestry, with a minister licensed by the Bishop of London. As long as they followed the "established rules" of erecting new churches, he was willing to assist them however he could.
In 1758 the vestry of Christ Church authorized the construction of a new chapel at Third & Pine Streets to accommodate its members living in the southern section of the city. St. Peter's Church, located at the corner of Third & Pine Streets, and Christ Church shared the same vestry, ministers, and records and until they formally separated in 1832, and were known as the United Churches of Christ Church & St. Peter's.
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
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1 page
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Manuscripts
Correspondence
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tiff
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eng
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Text
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Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Christ Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Christ Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
St. Peter's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
United Churches of Christ-Church and St. Peter's (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Church management
Church finance
Church of England
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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A "Meeting for Sufferings" was established by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1756. This representative body, functioning roughly as an executive committee when the Yearly Meeting was not in session, consisted of approximately 25 "weighty" members appointed by the Yearly Meeting. Duties included oversight of Quaker publications, recording annual accounts of sufferings (primarily as a result of the Peace Testimony) and assistance to any affected individuals, collecting memorials concerning deceased Friends, and correspondence with the Meeting for Sufferings in London.
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Miscellaneous Papers, 1755-1760
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FHL.PYMS_Misc17551760
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HC.PhY.040.04.002.1 (1250/B4.13A)—HC.PhY.040.04.002.4 (1250/B4.13A), HC.PhY.040.04.003 (1250/B.4.13B)
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1755/1760
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Miscellaneous papers might include reports, financial documents, epistles, and other items which were usually only briefly referenced in the minutes of the business meeting. Includes index of content at beginning dated 1755-1760.
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Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
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1 folder
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Records (Documents)
Manuscripts
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jp2
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eng
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Text
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
Society of Friends--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Quakers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Genealogy
Church management
Persecution
Religious literature
Corporate minutes
African Americans
Antislavery movements
Church committees
Church finance
Correspondence
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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A "Meeting for Sufferings" was established by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1756. This representative body, functioning roughly as an executive committee when the Yearly Meeting was not in session, consisted of approximately 25 "weighty" members appointed by the Yearly Meeting. Duties included oversight of Quaker publications, recording annual accounts of sufferings (primarily as a result of the Peace Testimony) and assistance to any affected individuals, collecting memorials concerning deceased Friends, and correspondence with the Meeting for Sufferings in London.
Text
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Minutes, 1756-1775
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FHL.PYMS_Min17561775
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HC.PhY.040.01.001 (1250/B3.1)
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1756/1775
Description
An account of the resource
A “Meeting for Sufferings” was established by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1756. This representative body was specifically charged with acting for the Society of Friends in the region during the time when the Yearly Meeting was not in session. Duties included oversight of Quaker publications, recording annual accounts of sufferings (primarily as a result of the Peace Testimony) and assistance to any affected individuals, collecting memorials concerning deceased Friends, and correspondence with the Meeting for Sufferings in London. Includes index of names at front of volume.
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Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
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1 volume
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Records (Documents)
Manuscripts
Minutes (Records)
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jp2
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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eng
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Text
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
Society of Friends--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Quakers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Genealogy
Church management
Persecution
Religious literature
Corporate minutes
African Americans
Antislavery movements
Church committees
Church finance
Correspondence
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First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA
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First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Notable for its early leadership in Baptist organization and evangelism, the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia was prominent both in its region and city and in the transatlantic community of Baptists. Begun in 1698 as a mission of the more suburban Pennepack (now, Lower Dublin) Baptist Church, First Baptist soon became the leading congregation for the city, region, and colonies, gaining independent status from Pennepack in 1746.
In 1707 the church hosted the organizing meeting of the Philadelphia Baptist Association, the first lasting inter-regional organization of Baptists in America, and over the years provided a disproportionate share of this group’s officers. From the beginning, the lives of this association and the First Baptist congregation were intertwined, with the church meeting house hosting meetings of the association and welcoming delegates, called messengers by the Baptists, from as far south as Charleston and as far north as Boston. By the 1760s, the first decade for which minutes survive, the congregation had gained prominence beyond its modest size, including among the transatlantic Baptist network. This prominence had to do with its leaders hosting and shaping the role of the Philadelphia Baptist Association, to which far-flung congregations wrote letters that began, “Dear Mother.”
The life of the congregation and its leaders was also intertwined with that of its city, with several ministers taking teaching posts at the University of Pennsylvania, then the College and Academy of Philadelphia. William Rogers, for example, came from New England to pastor the church but remained in that post for only three years, though active in the congregation and as a supply preacher until his death in 1824. Like several other Baptist ministers, Rogers served as a military chaplain during the American Revolution, an event that made havoc of the congregation’s finances and leadership. While these Baptists supported the American rebellion as a fight for necessary liberties, their former pastor Morgan Edwards criticized the rebels until 1775 when he was convinced to revise his opinion. With his excellent preaching, historical research and publications on early Baptists, and support for formal education leading to the founding and support of Brown University, Edwards embodied the strengths of Baptists. It was under Edwards’ leadership that First Baptist built a new and larger meeting house at the same time accepting the need to lend their pastor to the larger Baptist cause and arranging for supply preaching while Edwards traveled the colonies as an evangelist, church organizer, and historian of Baptists. Despite these successful efforts toward gaining respect and leaders for Baptists, Edwards’ connection with the Philadelphia congregation grew strained during the 1780s, largely because Edwards struggled through bouts of drinking and subsequent church meetings for discipline, only being restored to the congregation’s fellowship in late 1788.
When in 1814 Baptists from twelve states gathered to form a national organization in support of Baptist missions, the meeting was at the First Baptist meeting house in Philadelphia, with two of the four officials chosen being laymen from that congregation and a third, William Staughton, a former pastor. Throughout the next century, the congregation grew in numbers and influence in the city and in national and global mission programs, despite conflicts related to theology, leadership, and relationships with daughter churches, including two competing First African Baptist congregations. Its early interest in circulating religious pamphlets, as well as Philadelphia’s wealth of printers, made it feasible for American Baptists to locate their publishing operations in the city, where they remained until 1961, when operations moved to a new building and printing plant in Valley Forge.
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<p style="font-weight:400;">Minutes Books of First Baptist Church of Philadelphia, A. D. Gillette, editor,<span> </span><em>Minutes of the Philadelphia Baptist Association from A.D. 1707, to A.D. 1807</em><span> </span>(Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1851), and William Williams Keen,<span> </span><em>The Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the First Baptist Church of the City of Philadelphia<span> </span></em>(Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1899).</p>
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Congregational minutes, 1757-1769
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ABHS.FBCMinutes1757-1769
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1757/1769
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Congregational minute book begun in 1760, which begins with notes about meetings that occurred during the previous three years, before organized record-keeping was established, and runs to 1769. Entries include dates of meetings, members present, and business conducted. Topics include but are not limited to: disputes between church members, appointments to positions such as deacon and sexton, invitations to visiting preachers, financial gifts to the church and gifts from the church to the poor, which included firewood, coffins, and the forgiveness of burial fees in addition to financial donations, letters of dismission, applications for baptism, excommunications and restorations to membership, construction and maintenance of buildings and grounds, church purchases such as a new chalice, and the settlement of accounts with both debtors and creditors.
There is an alphabetical index of church members' names at the back of the book.
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
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149 pages
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Minutes (Records)
Manuscripts
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tiff
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eng
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Text
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First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA
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American Baptist Historical Society
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First Baptist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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First Baptist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Church records and registers
Corporate minutes
Baptists
Church finance
Church buildings
Church discipline
Church membership
Church management
Poor
Charity
Church fund raising
Church committees
Pews and pew rights
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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A "Meeting for Sufferings" was established by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1756. This representative body, functioning roughly as an executive committee when the Yearly Meeting was not in session, consisted of approximately 25 "weighty" members appointed by the Yearly Meeting. Duties included oversight of Quaker publications, recording annual accounts of sufferings (primarily as a result of the Peace Testimony) and assistance to any affected individuals, collecting memorials concerning deceased Friends, and correspondence with the Meeting for Sufferings in London.
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Miscellaneous Papers, 1757-1797
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FHL.PYMS_Misc17571797
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HC.PhY.040.04.013 (1250/C2.1)—HC.PhY.040.04.013.1 (1250/C2.1)
Date
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1757/1797
Description
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Miscellaneous papers might include reports, financial documents, epistles, and other items which were usually only briefly referenced in the minutes of the business meeting. Includes index of contents at beginning dated 1757-1797.
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Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
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1 folder
Medium
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Records (Documents)
Manuscripts
Format
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jp2
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Language
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eng
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Text
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
Subject
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
Society of Friends--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Quakers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Genealogy
Church management
Persecution
Religious literature
Corporate minutes
African Americans
Antislavery movements
Church committees
Church finance
Correspondence
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St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, PA
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St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, PA
Description
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In 1760 a group of congregants from Christ Church, supporters of the Rev. William Macclanachan, an Anglican minister of evangelical leanings, formed a new church, seceded from Christ Church. They drafted articles of agreement for a new church St. Paul’s and promptly set about raising funds to construct it. Built on Third Street, below Walnut, St. Paul’s opened for services in 1762 and remained an active congregation throughout the nineteenth century. The Church’s building still stands, now home to Episcopal Community Services. St. Paul’s records, housed at the Episcopal Diocesan Archives include vestry minutes, baptismal, marriage and burial records as well as some financial records.
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Parish register, including early trustee minutes, 1759-1835
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EpiscopalDiocese.StPaulVestryMinutes1760-1764
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Date
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1759/1835
Description
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This bound volume includes St. Paul's early trustee and vestry minutes from 1760 to 1762, marriage records from 1759 to 1835, baptism records from 1782 to 1834, and death records from 1790 to 1812.
The first numbered pages include a defense of Reverend Mcclenachan, and plans to build a church separate from Christ Church. Entries then cover the election of trustees and a treasurer, committees to secure land and materials for a new church, lotteries to raise funds, decisions on architecture and furnishings, management of pews, and selection of wardens. Vestry minutes from 1762 start on page 21; these can also be found in the separate volume entitled "Vestry minutes, 1762-1774."
Records of marriages, baptisms and deaths start with image 46, whereupon page numbering starts anew. Marriage and baptism records include the date of the ceremony, officiant and the names of the people being married or baptized. Later baptism records also note names of parents. Death records include the name of decedent, age at time of death (or date of birth, from which it can be extrapolated), and date of death.
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Extent
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182 pages
Medium
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Minutes (Records)
Manuscripts
Format
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tiff
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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eng
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Text
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St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania Archives
Creator
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St. Paul's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Subject
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St. Paul's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Marriage records
Burial records
Baptismal records
McClenachan, William, 1714-
Episcopalians
Church buildings
Church committees
Church finance
Church fund raising
Church management
Church records and registers
Episcopal Church
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First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA
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First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA
Description
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Notable for its early leadership in Baptist organization and evangelism, the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia was prominent both in its region and city and in the transatlantic community of Baptists. Begun in 1698 as a mission of the more suburban Pennepack (now, Lower Dublin) Baptist Church, First Baptist soon became the leading congregation for the city, region, and colonies, gaining independent status from Pennepack in 1746.
In 1707 the church hosted the organizing meeting of the Philadelphia Baptist Association, the first lasting inter-regional organization of Baptists in America, and over the years provided a disproportionate share of this group’s officers. From the beginning, the lives of this association and the First Baptist congregation were intertwined, with the church meeting house hosting meetings of the association and welcoming delegates, called messengers by the Baptists, from as far south as Charleston and as far north as Boston. By the 1760s, the first decade for which minutes survive, the congregation had gained prominence beyond its modest size, including among the transatlantic Baptist network. This prominence had to do with its leaders hosting and shaping the role of the Philadelphia Baptist Association, to which far-flung congregations wrote letters that began, “Dear Mother.”
The life of the congregation and its leaders was also intertwined with that of its city, with several ministers taking teaching posts at the University of Pennsylvania, then the College and Academy of Philadelphia. William Rogers, for example, came from New England to pastor the church but remained in that post for only three years, though active in the congregation and as a supply preacher until his death in 1824. Like several other Baptist ministers, Rogers served as a military chaplain during the American Revolution, an event that made havoc of the congregation’s finances and leadership. While these Baptists supported the American rebellion as a fight for necessary liberties, their former pastor Morgan Edwards criticized the rebels until 1775 when he was convinced to revise his opinion. With his excellent preaching, historical research and publications on early Baptists, and support for formal education leading to the founding and support of Brown University, Edwards embodied the strengths of Baptists. It was under Edwards’ leadership that First Baptist built a new and larger meeting house at the same time accepting the need to lend their pastor to the larger Baptist cause and arranging for supply preaching while Edwards traveled the colonies as an evangelist, church organizer, and historian of Baptists. Despite these successful efforts toward gaining respect and leaders for Baptists, Edwards’ connection with the Philadelphia congregation grew strained during the 1780s, largely because Edwards struggled through bouts of drinking and subsequent church meetings for discipline, only being restored to the congregation’s fellowship in late 1788.
When in 1814 Baptists from twelve states gathered to form a national organization in support of Baptist missions, the meeting was at the First Baptist meeting house in Philadelphia, with two of the four officials chosen being laymen from that congregation and a third, William Staughton, a former pastor. Throughout the next century, the congregation grew in numbers and influence in the city and in national and global mission programs, despite conflicts related to theology, leadership, and relationships with daughter churches, including two competing First African Baptist congregations. Its early interest in circulating religious pamphlets, as well as Philadelphia’s wealth of printers, made it feasible for American Baptists to locate their publishing operations in the city, where they remained until 1961, when operations moved to a new building and printing plant in Valley Forge.
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<p style="font-weight:400;">Minutes Books of First Baptist Church of Philadelphia, A. D. Gillette, editor,<span> </span><em>Minutes of the Philadelphia Baptist Association from A.D. 1707, to A.D. 1807</em><span> </span>(Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1851), and William Williams Keen,<span> </span><em>The Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the First Baptist Church of the City of Philadelphia<span> </span></em>(Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1899).</p>
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Committee minutes, 1760-1761
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ABHS.FBCMinutes1760-1761
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Date
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1760/1761
Description
An account of the resource
On August 11, 1760 the First Baptist Church appointed a committee to "to Settle the Church Affairs, and Examine the State of the Church Purchases, Gifts and Donations, Given to the Said Church, and get them well Secured where they are not, and to settle other Affairs that shall
Come before them." The minutes of this committee, recorded on both sides of four loose sheets, include the dates of meetings, members present, and committee work discussed, including registering deeds, paying leases, collecting interest on accounts, and consolidating records.
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
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4 leaves
Medium
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Minutes (Records)
Manuscripts
Format
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tiff
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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eng
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Text
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First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA
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American Baptist Historical Society
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First Baptist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Subject
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First Baptist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Church records and registers
Corporate minutes
Baptists
Church finance
Church management
Church committees
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Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Founded in 1695, Christ Church was the first Anglican church to be established in Pennsylvania. This fulfilled the provision outlined by King Charles II in the charter he granted to William Penn in 1681 stipulating that if twenty individuals requested an Anglican clergyman the Bishop of London would appoint one. Accordingly, thirty-nine Philadelphians came together in 1695 to form Christ Church. Located on Second Street, just north of Market Street the Church transitioned from a small frame structure in its early years to the imposing Georgian structure built from 1727-1754 that still stands on the site today. Members of the Continental Congress and early government officials worshipped here and seven signers of the Declaration of Independence are buried on Church property. When the congregation grew too large to be accommodated here the vestry built St. Peter's at the southern edge of the city in 1760 and later St. James. Those United Churches remained a unit until the 1820s and 1830s. Christ Church is an active Episcopal parish today as well as a major historic site.
The records consist of vestry minutes, parish records, accounting and financial records, deeds, architectural drawings, photographs, and audiovisual materials. In addition, there are materials from parish organizations and affiliated institutions such as Christ Church Hospital, Episcopal School, Christ Church Burial Ground, and Christ Church Preservation Trust.
Text
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Draft of constitution for St. Paul's Church, circa 1760
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ChristChurch.StPaulCharter
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4.1.0.2
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St. Paul's Charter
Date
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1760~
Description
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In 1760 a group of congregants from Christ Church, supporters of the Rev. William McClenachan, an Anglican minister of evangelical leanings, seceded from Christ Church, and eventually formed St. Paul's.
This document is a first draft of the constitution of St. Paul's, resolving to find land to rent in Philadelphia and funds to erect a new church building. The church was to follow the principles of the Church of England. Twelve persons were to be elected trustees, with the Reverend McClenachan serving as the first minister, and "sober Reputable and Religious Persons of the Congregation" appointed to collect pew rents and tend to the church building and grounds.
Spatial Coverage
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Extent
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2 leaves
Medium
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Manuscripts
Charters and articles of incorporation
Format
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tiff
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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eng
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Text
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Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
Creator
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St. Paul's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Subject
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St. Paul's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
McClenachan, William, 1714-
Church of England
Church buildings
Church finance
Church history
Church management
Christ Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Episcopal Church
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Description
An account of the resource
A "Meeting for Sufferings" was established by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1756. This representative body, functioning roughly as an executive committee when the Yearly Meeting was not in session, consisted of approximately 25 "weighty" members appointed by the Yearly Meeting. Duties included oversight of Quaker publications, recording annual accounts of sufferings (primarily as a result of the Peace Testimony) and assistance to any affected individuals, collecting memorials concerning deceased Friends, and correspondence with the Meeting for Sufferings in London.
Text
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Miscellaneous Papers, 1761-1765
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FHL.PYMS_Misc17611765
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https://www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images/iiif.cfm/FHL.PYMS_Misc17611765/manifest
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HC.PhY.040.04.004 (1250/B4.14)
Date
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1761/1765
Description
An account of the resource
Miscellaneous papers might include reports, financial documents, epistles, and other items which were usually only briefly referenced in the minutes of the business meeting. Includes typed index of content at beginning.
Spatial Coverage
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Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Extent
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1 folder
Medium
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Records (Documents)
Manuscripts
Format
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jp2
Rights
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Language
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eng
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Text
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Rights Holder
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Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Creator
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
Subject
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
Society of Friends--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Quakers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Genealogy
Church management
Persecution
Religious literature
Corporate minutes
African Americans
Antislavery movements
Church committees
Church finance
Correspondence
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Title
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Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
Description
An account of the resource
Founded in 1695, Christ Church was the first Anglican church to be established in Pennsylvania. This fulfilled the provision outlined by King Charles II in the charter he granted to William Penn in 1681 stipulating that if twenty individuals requested an Anglican clergyman the Bishop of London would appoint one. Accordingly, thirty-nine Philadelphians came together in 1695 to form Christ Church. Located on Second Street, just north of Market Street the Church transitioned from a small frame structure in its early years to the imposing Georgian structure built from 1727-1754 that still stands on the site today. Members of the Continental Congress and early government officials worshipped here and seven signers of the Declaration of Independence are buried on Church property. When the congregation grew too large to be accommodated here the vestry built St. Peter's at the southern edge of the city in 1760 and later St. James. Those United Churches remained a unit until the 1820s and 1830s. Christ Church is an active Episcopal parish today as well as a major historic site.
The records consist of vestry minutes, parish records, accounting and financial records, deeds, architectural drawings, photographs, and audiovisual materials. In addition, there are materials from parish organizations and affiliated institutions such as Christ Church Hospital, Episcopal School, Christ Church Burial Ground, and Christ Church Preservation Trust.
Text
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Title
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Vestry minutes, Christ Church and St. Peter's Church, v. 2, 1761-1784
Identifier
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ChristChurch.MinuteBooks_v2
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https://www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images/iiif.cfm/ChristChurch.MinuteBooks_v2/manifest
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1.1.0.2, v2
Date
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1761/1784
Description
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Vestry minutes of the United Congregations of Christ Church and St. Peter's from 1761 to 1784. Each entry records the date and place of the meeting, members present and business discussed. Regular business includes elections of church leaders and hiring and payment of church staff; fundraising and the ongoing settlement of various financial accounts; establishment and collection of pew rents; and maintenance and repair of church buildings and grounds.
Other important events and topics include:
The opening of St. Peter's and the establishment of the United Churches of Christ-Church and St. Peter's in 1761, with shared government and finances. Minutes include draft and final versions of the charter for the United Churches.
The response of the United Churches to the 1763 "Indian invasion" of the "back provinces" of Pennsylvania and subsequent correspondence with church officials from York and Cumberland Counties on behalf of "families on the frontier."
The 1763 review and approval of Reverend William Sturgeon's fulfillment of his duty as the "Catechist to the Negroe Children for the Society for Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts."
The 1772 bequest from Dr. John Kearsley that funded the development of the Christ Church Hospital for poor women and widows.
The American Revolution. Minutes from the Vestry meeting of July 4, 1776, when the Vestry resolved at the onset of the American Revolution: "Whereas the Honorable Continental Congress have resolved to declare the American Colonies to be free and independent States, In consequence of which it will be proper to omit those Petitions in the Liturgy wherein the King of Great Britain is prayed for, as inconsistent with the said Declaration. Therefore Resolved, that it appears to this Vestry to be necessary for the peace and well-being of the Churches to omit the said Petitions, and the Rector and Assistant Ministers of the United Churches are requested in the Name of the Vestry and their Constituents to omit such petitions as are above mentioned." (p. 338)
Subsequent minutes reveal effects of the war, including the loss of pew rents after many parishioners fled the city during the British occupation, the damage to church property caused by the British army, and the departure of Reverend Coombe, who could not tolerate the conflict of serving revolutionary subjects while ordained and governed by the Church of England.
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
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461 pages
Medium
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Minutes (Records)
Manuscripts
Format
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tiff
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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eng
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Text
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Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
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United Churches of Christ-Church and St. Peter's (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Subject
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Parish elections
Church records and registers
Church finance
Christ Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
St. Peter's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
American Revolution (1775-1783)
Church buildings
Church committees
Church discipline
Church fund raising
Church management
Church of England
American Revolution (United States : 1775-1783)
Corporate minutes
Episcopalians
United Churches of Christ-Church and St. Peter's (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Frontier and pioneer life
Indians of North America
Charters
Pews and pew rights
Poor
Charity
African Americans
Kearsley, John, 1684-1772
Episcopal Church
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Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia
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Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia
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A monthly meeting at Philadelphia was established along with Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting in 10mo 1682/3. Quakers first met in homes, but the first Bank Meeting House – the “meeting on the Delaware side” – was built late in 1683 or early in 1684, located on the west side of Front Street, north of Mulberry (Arch). A second meeting house was erected in Centre Square by 1687, but this was infrequently used due to its distance from the rapidly developing area along the Delaware. Construction began on the Great Meeting House on the southwest corner of 2nd and Market in 1696. In 1772, this meeting was divided, resulting in two additional monthly meetings in Philadelphia: Philadelphia Monthly Meeting for the Northern District and Philadelphia Monthly Meeting for the Southern District. The original meeting was then sometimes referred to as the "Middle District."
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Miscellaneous Papers, 1765-1778
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FHL.PMM_Misc17651778
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https://www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images/iiif.cfm/FHL.PMM_Misc17651778/manifest
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HC.PhM.P455.04.028 (1250/JH1.9)—HC.PhM.P455.04.030 (1250/JH1.9), HC.PhM.P455.04.032 (1250/JH1.9)—HC.PhM.P455.04.035 (1250/JH2.1)
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1765/1778
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Miscellaneous papers might include reports, financial documents, epistles, and other items which were usually only briefly referenced in the minutes of the business meeting.
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
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1 folder
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Records (Documents)
Manuscripts
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jp2
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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eng
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Text
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Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia
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Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections
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Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia
Subject
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Society of Friends--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Quakers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Genealogy
Church management
Persecution
Corporate minutes
African Americans
Antislavery movements
Church committees
Church finance
Correspondence
Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia
Religious education
Temperance
Poor
Charity
Cemeteries
Church discipline
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Gloria Dei Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Gloria Dei Church, Philadelphia, PA
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In the 17th century Swedish settlers landed on the banks of the Delaware River establishing churches in Wilmington, Tinicum and by the mid-17th century in Wicaco outside of what would become Philadelphia. That latter church, Gloria Dei, is Pennsylvania’s oldest congregation. The existing church was built between 1698 and 1700 and originally served a Swedish Lutheran congregation. The church today is part of the Episcopal Diocese and a national historic site. Archival records scanned as part of this project include vestry minutes, registers, financial, correspondence between the original Swedish parishes and the churches in Philadelphia, Delaware and New Jersey as well as their "miscellaneous records."
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Title
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Vestry minutes, 1765-1840
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GloriaDei.VestryMinutes1765-1840
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1765/1840
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Meeting minutes of the vestry of the United Swedish Lutheran Churches of Wicaco (Gloria Dei), Kingsessing and Upper Merion. The book begins with a partial index of contents, then the charter of incorporation for the three churches. Meeting minutes start in 1765, and include the date, list of attendees, and business discussed. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: election of vestrymen and selection of other church employees such as wardens, clerks and deacons; filling and supporting the position of minister; management of church finances, including rents and deeds; establishing rules for the management of the cemetery and assignment of pews; communications with Swedish royalty and church leaders in Europe; appointing committees and receiving their reports; assisting widows and the sick and poor of the congregations; and mediating conflict. Many of the early entries concern the vestry's defense of minister, Dr. Carl Magnus Wrangel.
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
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444 pages
Medium
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Minutes (Records)
Manuscripts
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tiff
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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eng
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Text
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Gloria Dei Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Gloria Dei Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Gloria Dei Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Subject
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Gloria Dei Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Corporate minutes
Church records and registers
Lutherans
Church management
Charters
Wrangel, Carl Magnus, -1786
Poor
Charity
Church finance
Church discipline
Sweden
Church committees
Cemeteries
Pews and pew rights
Lutheran Church
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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A "Meeting for Sufferings" was established by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1756. This representative body, functioning roughly as an executive committee when the Yearly Meeting was not in session, consisted of approximately 25 "weighty" members appointed by the Yearly Meeting. Duties included oversight of Quaker publications, recording annual accounts of sufferings (primarily as a result of the Peace Testimony) and assistance to any affected individuals, collecting memorials concerning deceased Friends, and correspondence with the Meeting for Sufferings in London.
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Miscellaneous Papers, 1766-1773
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FHL.PYMS_Misc17661773
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https://www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images/iiif.cfm/FHL.PYMS_Misc17661773/manifest
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HC.PhY.040.04.005 (1250/B5.1)—HC.PhY.040.04.005.1 (1250/B5.1)
Date
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1766/1773
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Miscellaneous papers might include reports, financial documents, epistles, and other items which were usually only briefly referenced in the minutes of the business meeting. Includes typed index of content at beginning.
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Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
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1 folder
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Records (Documents)
Manuscripts
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jp2
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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eng
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Text
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
Society of Friends--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Quakers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Genealogy
Church management
Persecution
Religious literature
Corporate minutes
African Americans
Antislavery movements
Church committees
Church finance
Correspondence
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First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA
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First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA
Description
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Notable for its early leadership in Baptist organization and evangelism, the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia was prominent both in its region and city and in the transatlantic community of Baptists. Begun in 1698 as a mission of the more suburban Pennepack (now, Lower Dublin) Baptist Church, First Baptist soon became the leading congregation for the city, region, and colonies, gaining independent status from Pennepack in 1746.
In 1707 the church hosted the organizing meeting of the Philadelphia Baptist Association, the first lasting inter-regional organization of Baptists in America, and over the years provided a disproportionate share of this group’s officers. From the beginning, the lives of this association and the First Baptist congregation were intertwined, with the church meeting house hosting meetings of the association and welcoming delegates, called messengers by the Baptists, from as far south as Charleston and as far north as Boston. By the 1760s, the first decade for which minutes survive, the congregation had gained prominence beyond its modest size, including among the transatlantic Baptist network. This prominence had to do with its leaders hosting and shaping the role of the Philadelphia Baptist Association, to which far-flung congregations wrote letters that began, “Dear Mother.”
The life of the congregation and its leaders was also intertwined with that of its city, with several ministers taking teaching posts at the University of Pennsylvania, then the College and Academy of Philadelphia. William Rogers, for example, came from New England to pastor the church but remained in that post for only three years, though active in the congregation and as a supply preacher until his death in 1824. Like several other Baptist ministers, Rogers served as a military chaplain during the American Revolution, an event that made havoc of the congregation’s finances and leadership. While these Baptists supported the American rebellion as a fight for necessary liberties, their former pastor Morgan Edwards criticized the rebels until 1775 when he was convinced to revise his opinion. With his excellent preaching, historical research and publications on early Baptists, and support for formal education leading to the founding and support of Brown University, Edwards embodied the strengths of Baptists. It was under Edwards’ leadership that First Baptist built a new and larger meeting house at the same time accepting the need to lend their pastor to the larger Baptist cause and arranging for supply preaching while Edwards traveled the colonies as an evangelist, church organizer, and historian of Baptists. Despite these successful efforts toward gaining respect and leaders for Baptists, Edwards’ connection with the Philadelphia congregation grew strained during the 1780s, largely because Edwards struggled through bouts of drinking and subsequent church meetings for discipline, only being restored to the congregation’s fellowship in late 1788.
When in 1814 Baptists from twelve states gathered to form a national organization in support of Baptist missions, the meeting was at the First Baptist meeting house in Philadelphia, with two of the four officials chosen being laymen from that congregation and a third, William Staughton, a former pastor. Throughout the next century, the congregation grew in numbers and influence in the city and in national and global mission programs, despite conflicts related to theology, leadership, and relationships with daughter churches, including two competing First African Baptist congregations. Its early interest in circulating religious pamphlets, as well as Philadelphia’s wealth of printers, made it feasible for American Baptists to locate their publishing operations in the city, where they remained until 1961, when operations moved to a new building and printing plant in Valley Forge.
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<p style="font-weight:400;">Minutes Books of First Baptist Church of Philadelphia, A. D. Gillette, editor,<span> </span><em>Minutes of the Philadelphia Baptist Association from A.D. 1707, to A.D. 1807</em><span> </span>(Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1851), and William Williams Keen,<span> </span><em>The Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the First Baptist Church of the City of Philadelphia<span> </span></em>(Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1899).</p>
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Title
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Congregational minutes, 1771-1775
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ABHS.FBCMinutes1771-1775
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https://www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images/iiif.cfm/ABHS.FBCMinutes1771-1775/manifest
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Date
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1771/1775
Description
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Congregational minute book includes dates of meetings from 1771 to 1775, members present, and business conducted. Topics include but are not limited to: property bequeathed to the church; the filling of positions such as moderator, clerk, treasurer, deacon and minister; maintenance of burial grounds; the church's position on the impropriety of the slave trade; collections for the poor; payment of pew rents; nominations for representatives to the annual association meeting; and admission of new members.
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
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64 pages
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Minutes (Records)
Manuscripts
Format
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tiff
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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eng
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Text
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First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA
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American Baptist Historical Society
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First Baptist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Subject
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First Baptist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Church records and registers
Corporate minutes
Baptists
Church management
Charity
Pews and pew rights
Church finance
Church membership
Church fund raising
Church discipline
Church committees
Church buildings
Poor
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Third Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Third Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Third Presbyterian Church began in 1761 as an extension of First Presbyterian Church, located in a house at Second and South streets. In 1768, the congregation of Third Church moved into their new building at 4th and Pine streets. The church called George Duffield as their new pastor in 1771, without the concurrence of First Church. The resulting rift cemented the split between First and Third. The congregation still worships at 4th and Pine today although the building has been extensively renovated since colonial times. The church is popularly known as “Old Pine” while its official name is Third, Scots and Mariners Presbyterian Church, reflecting two of the mergers that comprise the continuing church.
Records scanned for this project include trustees minutes and pew records.
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Trustees minutes, 1771-1796
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PHS.ThirdPresbyterianChurchMinutes1771-1796_Vol1
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https://www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images/iiif.cfm/PHS.ThirdPresbyterianChurchMinutes1771-1796_Vol1/manifest
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V MI46 P54t
Date
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1771/1796
Description
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Inscribed as "The Pine Street Presbyterian Church Committee Book," this bound volume contains the minutes of the meetings of trustees of Third Presbyterian from 1771 to 1796. Each entry includes the date, place, members present, and business discussed.
Topics of the meetings generally include the collection of pew rents, settlement of financial accounts, improvements to the buildings and grounds, and management of charitable funds, as well as more specific entries such as the seasonal adjustment of service times and adoption of a new version of the Psalms. Of particular interest are the minutes pertaining to the call for George Duffield to serve as their new pastor, and the resulting rift with First Presbyterian Church.
The bulk of the minutes end on page 168, and pages 174, 175 and 176, which list the books and verses read from during services, are written upside down, so run in reverse chronological order.
Note: Prior to 1797, the Trustees were called "the Committee."
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
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180 pages
Medium
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Minutes (Records)
Manuscripts
Format
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tiff
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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eng
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Text
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Third Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Presbyterian Historical Society
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Third Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Subject
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Third Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Church records and registers
Corporate minutes
Presbyterians
Pews and pew rights
Church finance
Church committees
Church management
Church discipline
Charity
Presbyterian Church
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Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Presbyterians who favored the religious revivalism of George Whitefield organized a Second Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia in 1743. Second was a “New Side” church as opposed to the “Old Side” First Presbyterian Church. For many years, the congregation worshipped in its building at Third and Arch streets, where the first General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. met in 1789. In 1837, the church moved to Seventh and Arch, and in 1872, to 21st and Walnut. In 1949, the congregation united with First Presbyterian Church.
Records scanned for this project include minutes, pew records, deeds, and burial records.
Text
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Title
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Congregational, corporation, and trustees minutes, vol. 2, 1772-1805
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PHS.SecondPresbyterianChurchMinutes1772-1805
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https://www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images/iiif.cfm/PHS.SecondPresbyterianChurchMinutes1772-1805/manifest
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V MI46 P533c v. 2
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Second Presbyterian Church Minutes, 1772-1805
Date
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1772/1805
Description
An account of the resource
Minutes of the Second Presbyterian trustees, corporation and congregational meetings from 1772 to 1805 are all recorded together in this bound manuscript, in chronological order. Meetings cover topics including but not limited to: elections to church leadership positions; church finance, including the collection of pew rent; and the need for new construction to accommodate growing membership. There is a membership list from 1773 and a map of pews in the back of the book.
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
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351 pages
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Minutes (Records)
Manuscripts
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tiff
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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eng
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Text
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Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Presbyterian Historical Society
Creator
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Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Subject
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Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Church records and registers
Corporate minutes
Presbyterians
Church finance
Church management
Church buildings
Church membership
Church discipline
Cemeteries
Pews and pew rights
Church committees
Presbyterian Church
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Description
An account of the resource
A "Meeting for Sufferings" was established by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1756. This representative body, functioning roughly as an executive committee when the Yearly Meeting was not in session, consisted of approximately 25 "weighty" members appointed by the Yearly Meeting. Duties included oversight of Quaker publications, recording annual accounts of sufferings (primarily as a result of the Peace Testimony) and assistance to any affected individuals, collecting memorials concerning deceased Friends, and correspondence with the Meeting for Sufferings in London.
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Miscellaneous Papers, 1774-1775
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FHL.PYMS_Misc17741775
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HC.PhY.040.04.006 (1250/B5.2)
Date
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1774/1775
Description
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Miscellaneous papers might include reports, financial documents, epistles, and other items which were usually only briefly referenced in the minutes of the business meeting.
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Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
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1 folder
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Records (Documents)
Manuscripts
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jp2
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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eng
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Text
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
Subject
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
Society of Friends--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Quakers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Genealogy
Church management
Persecution
Religious literature
Corporate minutes
African Americans
Antislavery movements
Church committees
Church finance
Correspondence
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Description
An account of the resource
A "Meeting for Sufferings" was established by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1756. This representative body, functioning roughly as an executive committee when the Yearly Meeting was not in session, consisted of approximately 25 "weighty" members appointed by the Yearly Meeting. Duties included oversight of Quaker publications, recording annual accounts of sufferings (primarily as a result of the Peace Testimony) and assistance to any affected individuals, collecting memorials concerning deceased Friends, and correspondence with the Meeting for Sufferings in London.
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Title
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Miscellaneous Papers, 1774-1778
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FHL.PYMS_Misc17741778
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HC.PhY.040.04.006 (1250/B5.2)—HC.PhY.040.04.006.1 (1250/B5.2)
Date
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1774/1778
Description
An account of the resource
Miscellaneous papers might include reports, financial documents, epistles, and other items which were usually only briefly referenced in the minutes of the business meeting. Includes typed index of content at beginning.
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Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
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1 folder
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Records (Documents)
Manuscripts
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jp2
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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eng
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Text
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
Subject
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
Society of Friends--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Quakers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Genealogy
Church management
Persecution
Religious literature
Corporate minutes
African Americans
Antislavery movements
Church committees
Church finance
Correspondence
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Title
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Description
An account of the resource
A "Meeting for Sufferings" was established by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1756. This representative body, functioning roughly as an executive committee when the Yearly Meeting was not in session, consisted of approximately 25 "weighty" members appointed by the Yearly Meeting. Duties included oversight of Quaker publications, recording annual accounts of sufferings (primarily as a result of the Peace Testimony) and assistance to any affected individuals, collecting memorials concerning deceased Friends, and correspondence with the Meeting for Sufferings in London.
Text
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Title
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Minutes, 1775-1785
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FHL.PYMS_Min17751785
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HC.PhY.040.01.002 (1250/B3.2)
Date
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1775/1785
Description
An account of the resource
A “Meeting for Sufferings” was established by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1756. This representative body was specifically charged with acting for the Society of Friends in the region during the time when the Yearly Meeting was not in session. Duties included oversight of Quaker publications, recording annual accounts of sufferings (primarily as a result of the Peace Testimony) and assistance to any affected individuals, collecting memorials concerning deceased Friends, and correspondence with the Meeting for Sufferings in London.
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Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
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1 volume
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Records (Documents)
Manuscripts
Minutes (Records)
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jp2
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Creator
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
Subject
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
Society of Friends--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Quakers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Genealogy
Church management
Persecution
Religious literature
Corporate minutes
African Americans
Antislavery movements
Church committees
Church finance
Correspondence
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Title
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Description
An account of the resource
A "Meeting for Sufferings" was established by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1756. This representative body, functioning roughly as an executive committee when the Yearly Meeting was not in session, consisted of approximately 25 "weighty" members appointed by the Yearly Meeting. Duties included oversight of Quaker publications, recording annual accounts of sufferings (primarily as a result of the Peace Testimony) and assistance to any affected individuals, collecting memorials concerning deceased Friends, and correspondence with the Meeting for Sufferings in London.
Text
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Miscellaneous Papers, 1777-1782
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FHL.PYMS_Misc17771782
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HC.PhY.040.04.008 (1250/B5.4)
Date
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1777/1782
Description
An account of the resource
Miscellaneous papers might include reports, financial documents, epistles, and other items which were usually only briefly referenced in the minutes of the business meeting. Includes typed index of contents at beginning dated 1781-1782.
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Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
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1 folder
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Records (Documents)
Manuscripts
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jp2
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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eng
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Text
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Creator
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
Subject
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
Society of Friends--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Quakers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Genealogy
Church management
Persecution
Religious literature
Corporate minutes
African Americans
Antislavery movements
Church committees
Church finance
Correspondence
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Title
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Description
An account of the resource
A "Meeting for Sufferings" was established by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1756. This representative body, functioning roughly as an executive committee when the Yearly Meeting was not in session, consisted of approximately 25 "weighty" members appointed by the Yearly Meeting. Duties included oversight of Quaker publications, recording annual accounts of sufferings (primarily as a result of the Peace Testimony) and assistance to any affected individuals, collecting memorials concerning deceased Friends, and correspondence with the Meeting for Sufferings in London.
Text
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Title
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Miscellaneous Papers, 1777-1800
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FHL.PYMS_Misc17771800
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HC.PhY.040.04.013 (1250/C2.1)—HC.PhY.040.04.013.1 (1250/C2.1)
Date
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1777/1800
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Miscellaneous papers might include reports, financial documents, epistles, and other items which were usually only briefly referenced in the minutes of the business meeting. Includes index of contents at beginning dated 1798-1800.
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Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
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1 folder
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Records (Documents)
Manuscripts
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jp2
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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eng
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Text
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Creator
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
Subject
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
Society of Friends--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Quakers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Genealogy
Church management
Persecution
Religious literature
Corporate minutes
African Americans
Antislavery movements
Church committees
Church finance
Correspondence
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Title
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Description
An account of the resource
A "Meeting for Sufferings" was established by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1756. This representative body, functioning roughly as an executive committee when the Yearly Meeting was not in session, consisted of approximately 25 "weighty" members appointed by the Yearly Meeting. Duties included oversight of Quaker publications, recording annual accounts of sufferings (primarily as a result of the Peace Testimony) and assistance to any affected individuals, collecting memorials concerning deceased Friends, and correspondence with the Meeting for Sufferings in London.
Text
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Title
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Miscellaneous Papers, 1778-1780
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FHL.PYMS_Misc17781780
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HC.PhY.040.04.007 (1250/B5.3)—HC.PhY.040.04.007.1 (1250/B5.3)
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Miscellaneous Papers
Date
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1778/1780
Description
An account of the resource
Miscellaneous papers might include reports, financial documents, epistles, and other items which were usually only briefly referenced in the minutes of the business meeting. Includes typed index of content at beginning dated 1779-1780.
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Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Extent
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1 folder
Medium
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Records (Documents)
Manuscripts
Format
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jp2
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Language
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eng
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Text
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Rights Holder
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Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Creator
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
Subject
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
Society of Friends--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Quakers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Genealogy
Church management
Persecution
Religious literature
Corporate minutes
African Americans
Antislavery movements
Church committees
Church finance
Correspondence
-
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Title
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Description
An account of the resource
A "Meeting for Sufferings" was established by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1756. This representative body, functioning roughly as an executive committee when the Yearly Meeting was not in session, consisted of approximately 25 "weighty" members appointed by the Yearly Meeting. Duties included oversight of Quaker publications, recording annual accounts of sufferings (primarily as a result of the Peace Testimony) and assistance to any affected individuals, collecting memorials concerning deceased Friends, and correspondence with the Meeting for Sufferings in London.
Text
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Title
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Miscellaneous Papers, 1778-1794
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FHL.PYMS_Misc17781794
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HC.PhY.040.04.011 (1250/C1.1)—HC.PhY.040.04.011.1 (1250/C1.1)
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1778/1794
Description
An account of the resource
Miscellaneous papers might include reports, financial documents, epistles, and other items which were usually only briefly referenced in the minutes of the business meeting. Includes typed indexes of contents at beginning dated 1778-1792.
Spatial Coverage
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Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
1 folder
Medium
The material or physical carrier of the resource.
Records (Documents)
Manuscripts
Format
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jp2
Rights
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Rights Holder
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Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Creator
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
Subject
The topic of the resource
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
Society of Friends--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Quakers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Genealogy
Church management
Persecution
Religious literature
Corporate minutes
African Americans
Antislavery movements
Church committees
Church finance
Correspondence
-
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First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA
Title
A name given to the resource
First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA
Description
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Notable for its early leadership in Baptist organization and evangelism, the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia was prominent both in its region and city and in the transatlantic community of Baptists. Begun in 1698 as a mission of the more suburban Pennepack (now, Lower Dublin) Baptist Church, First Baptist soon became the leading congregation for the city, region, and colonies, gaining independent status from Pennepack in 1746.
In 1707 the church hosted the organizing meeting of the Philadelphia Baptist Association, the first lasting inter-regional organization of Baptists in America, and over the years provided a disproportionate share of this group’s officers. From the beginning, the lives of this association and the First Baptist congregation were intertwined, with the church meeting house hosting meetings of the association and welcoming delegates, called messengers by the Baptists, from as far south as Charleston and as far north as Boston. By the 1760s, the first decade for which minutes survive, the congregation had gained prominence beyond its modest size, including among the transatlantic Baptist network. This prominence had to do with its leaders hosting and shaping the role of the Philadelphia Baptist Association, to which far-flung congregations wrote letters that began, “Dear Mother.”
The life of the congregation and its leaders was also intertwined with that of its city, with several ministers taking teaching posts at the University of Pennsylvania, then the College and Academy of Philadelphia. William Rogers, for example, came from New England to pastor the church but remained in that post for only three years, though active in the congregation and as a supply preacher until his death in 1824. Like several other Baptist ministers, Rogers served as a military chaplain during the American Revolution, an event that made havoc of the congregation’s finances and leadership. While these Baptists supported the American rebellion as a fight for necessary liberties, their former pastor Morgan Edwards criticized the rebels until 1775 when he was convinced to revise his opinion. With his excellent preaching, historical research and publications on early Baptists, and support for formal education leading to the founding and support of Brown University, Edwards embodied the strengths of Baptists. It was under Edwards’ leadership that First Baptist built a new and larger meeting house at the same time accepting the need to lend their pastor to the larger Baptist cause and arranging for supply preaching while Edwards traveled the colonies as an evangelist, church organizer, and historian of Baptists. Despite these successful efforts toward gaining respect and leaders for Baptists, Edwards’ connection with the Philadelphia congregation grew strained during the 1780s, largely because Edwards struggled through bouts of drinking and subsequent church meetings for discipline, only being restored to the congregation’s fellowship in late 1788.
When in 1814 Baptists from twelve states gathered to form a national organization in support of Baptist missions, the meeting was at the First Baptist meeting house in Philadelphia, with two of the four officials chosen being laymen from that congregation and a third, William Staughton, a former pastor. Throughout the next century, the congregation grew in numbers and influence in the city and in national and global mission programs, despite conflicts related to theology, leadership, and relationships with daughter churches, including two competing First African Baptist congregations. Its early interest in circulating religious pamphlets, as well as Philadelphia’s wealth of printers, made it feasible for American Baptists to locate their publishing operations in the city, where they remained until 1961, when operations moved to a new building and printing plant in Valley Forge.
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<p style="font-weight:400;">Minutes Books of First Baptist Church of Philadelphia, A. D. Gillette, editor,<span> </span><em>Minutes of the Philadelphia Baptist Association from A.D. 1707, to A.D. 1807</em><span> </span>(Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1851), and William Williams Keen,<span> </span><em>The Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the First Baptist Church of the City of Philadelphia<span> </span></em>(Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1899).</p>
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Congregational minutes, 1779-1786
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ABHS.FBCMinutes1779-1786
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1779/1786
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Congregational minute book includes dates of meetings from 1779 to 1786, members present, and business conducted. In addition to commonplace business such as repairs to the buildings and grounds, admission and dismission of members, appointment of trustees and directions for better record-keeping, this bound manuscript also documents reinvigorated collection of pew rents for the purpose of securing a new minister, and conflict in the congregation over the Doctrine of Universal Restoration. A listing of members is included in the first few pages of the book, and financial records, including recordings of pew rent, can be found in the last quarter of the book.
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
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223 pages
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Minutes (Records)
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tiff
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eng
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Text
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First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA
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American Baptist Historical Society
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First Baptist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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First Baptist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Church records and registers
Corporate minutes
Baptists
Church finance
Church management
Church discipline
Pews and pew rights
Church membership
Church fund raising
Church committees
Church buildings
Poor
Charity
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Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia
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Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia
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A monthly meeting at Philadelphia was established along with Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting in 10mo 1682/3. Quakers first met in homes, but the first Bank Meeting House – the “meeting on the Delaware side” – was built late in 1683 or early in 1684, located on the west side of Front Street, north of Mulberry (Arch). A second meeting house was erected in Centre Square by 1687, but this was infrequently used due to its distance from the rapidly developing area along the Delaware. Construction began on the Great Meeting House on the southwest corner of 2nd and Market in 1696. In 1772, this meeting was divided, resulting in two additional monthly meetings in Philadelphia: Philadelphia Monthly Meeting for the Northern District and Philadelphia Monthly Meeting for the Southern District. The original meeting was then sometimes referred to as the "Middle District."
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Miscellaneous Papers, 1779-1795
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FHL.PMM_Misc17791795
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HC.PhM.P455.04.035 (1250/JH2.1)—HC.PhM.P455.04.040 (1250/JH2.1), HC.PhM.P455.04.041 (1250/JH2.2)
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1779/1795
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Miscellaneous papers might include reports, financial documents, epistles, and other items which were usually only briefly referenced in the minutes of the business meeting.
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
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1 folder
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Records (Documents)
Manuscripts
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jp2
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eng
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Text
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Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia
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Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections
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Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia
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Society of Friends--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Quakers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Genealogy
Church management
Persecution
Corporate minutes
African Americans
Antislavery movements
Church committees
Church finance
Correspondence
Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia
Religious education
Temperance
Poor
Charity
Cemeteries
Church discipline
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Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Presbyterians who favored the religious revivalism of George Whitefield organized a Second Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia in 1743. Second was a “New Side” church as opposed to the “Old Side” First Presbyterian Church. For many years, the congregation worshipped in its building at Third and Arch streets, where the first General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. met in 1789. In 1837, the church moved to Seventh and Arch, and in 1872, to 21st and Walnut. In 1949, the congregation united with First Presbyterian Church.
Records scanned for this project include minutes, pew records, deeds, and burial records.
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Act re-establishing the charter, 1780
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PHS.SecondPresbyterianChurchActReestablishingCharter1780
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RG 33-1-41
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Second Presbyterian Church, Act Reestablishing Charter, 1780
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1780
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During the American Revolution, the trustees of the Second Presbyterian Church found it difficult to gather the quorum required by their original charter in order to conduct church business. They also desired the freedom to hold property in a greater amount than allowed for in the original charter. This document reaffirms the charter of Second Presbyterian Church in the City of Philadelphia, while also allowing for a smaller quorum and increased investments.
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
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4 leaves
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Charters and articles of incorporation
Manuscripts
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tiff
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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eng
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Text
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Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Presbyterian Historical Society
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Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Charters
Presbyterians
American Revolution (1775-1783)
Church finance
Church management
Presbyterian Church
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
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A general meeting for Friends in the Delaware Valley area was first convened at Burlington, New Jersey, in 1681. The first general meeting held in Philadelphia was in 1683, and in 1685, it was agreed that the meetings in New Jersey and Pennsylvania should be combined into one yearly meeting with alternate sessions at Philadelphia and at Burlington. Since 1760, all Philadelphia Yearly Meetings have been held at Philadelphia. At its greatest extent, its territory embraced eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, Delaware, and parts of Maryland and Virginia. In 1790, Warrington Quarterly Meeting and Fairfax Quarterly Meeting were transferred to Baltimore Yearly Meeting in exchange for the old meetings on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. In 1819, several components of Western Quarterly Meeting were similarly transferred. The great Separation, which divided much of the Society of Friends across the country, began at the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of 1827.
Among Quakers, a Yearly Meeting is an annual gathering, open to all members, and held over a period of several days. Each yearly meeting is autonomous. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the business of the meeting included the receipt of answers to a set of queries to the Quarterly Meetings, issuing and reading epistles to and from other yearly meetings, receiving reports, establishing discipline, and seeking God's guidance on larger regional or national issues. Minutes of the Yearly Meeting frequently summarized reports and other testimonies, but the original documents also form part of the records.
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Minutes, 1780-1798
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FHL.PYM_Min17801798
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HC.Phy.100.004 (1250/A1.4)
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1780/1798
Description
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Yearly Meetings are large autonomous bodies of Quakers, meeting for several days once annually to conduct business, formulate the discipline, receive reports and concerns from its constituent meetings, review the state of the Society, and communicate with other yearly meetings and non-Quaker organizations.
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Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
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1 volume
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Records (Documents)
Manuscripts
Minutes (Records)
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jp2
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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eng
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Text
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
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Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
Society of Friends--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Quakers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Genealogy
Corporate minutes
Correspondence
Church committees
Church discipline
Church finance
Church management
Church membership
Religious education
Temperance
Poor
Charity
African Americans
Antislavery movements
Religious literature
Persecution
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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A "Meeting for Sufferings" was established by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1756. This representative body, functioning roughly as an executive committee when the Yearly Meeting was not in session, consisted of approximately 25 "weighty" members appointed by the Yearly Meeting. Duties included oversight of Quaker publications, recording annual accounts of sufferings (primarily as a result of the Peace Testimony) and assistance to any affected individuals, collecting memorials concerning deceased Friends, and correspondence with the Meeting for Sufferings in London.
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Miscellaneous Papers, 1783-1788
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FHL.PYMS_Misc17831788
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HC.PhY.040.04.009 (1250/B6.1)
Date
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1783/1788
Description
An account of the resource
Miscellaneous papers might include reports, financial documents, epistles, and other items which were usually only briefly referenced in the minutes of the business meeting. Includes typed index of contents at beginning dated 1783-1785.
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Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
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1 folder
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Records (Documents)
Manuscripts
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jp2
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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eng
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Text
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
Society of Friends--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Quakers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Genealogy
Church management
Persecution
Religious literature
Corporate minutes
African Americans
Antislavery movements
Church committees
Church finance
Correspondence
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Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Founded in 1695, Christ Church was the first Anglican church to be established in Pennsylvania. This fulfilled the provision outlined by King Charles II in the charter he granted to William Penn in 1681 stipulating that if twenty individuals requested an Anglican clergyman the Bishop of London would appoint one. Accordingly, thirty-nine Philadelphians came together in 1695 to form Christ Church. Located on Second Street, just north of Market Street the Church transitioned from a small frame structure in its early years to the imposing Georgian structure built from 1727-1754 that still stands on the site today. Members of the Continental Congress and early government officials worshipped here and seven signers of the Declaration of Independence are buried on Church property. When the congregation grew too large to be accommodated here the vestry built St. Peter's at the southern edge of the city in 1760 and later St. James. Those United Churches remained a unit until the 1820s and 1830s. Christ Church is an active Episcopal parish today as well as a major historic site.
The records consist of vestry minutes, parish records, accounting and financial records, deeds, architectural drawings, photographs, and audiovisual materials. In addition, there are materials from parish organizations and affiliated institutions such as Christ Church Hospital, Episcopal School, Christ Church Burial Ground, and Christ Church Preservation Trust.
Text
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Vestry minutes, Christ Church, St. Peter's Church, and St. James' Church, v. 3, 1784-1815
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ChristChurch.MinuteBooks_v3
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1.1.0.3, v3
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1784/1815
Description
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Minutes of the vestry of the United Churches from 1784 to 1815; first as the United Churches of Christ-Church and St. Peter's, then as the United Churches of Christ Church, St. Peter's Church and St. James's Church. The first mention of St. James's occurs on p. 151 in the meeting minutes from March 30, 1807, in which a building committee was appointed to erect the new church. By 1810, the vestry is incorporating St. James's Church into their charter.
Entries include the date and place of the meeting, members attending, and business discussed. Topics include church elections, improvements to buildings and grounds, fundraising efforts, burial requests, and the ongoing operation of Christ Church hospital.
Recorded at the rear of the book are legacies, gifts, and donations made to an assortment of church related funds by various congregation members. Of note is a transcribed copy of Dr. John Kearsley's will. This volume has inserted at page 47 two additional items: a printed excerpt from the minutes of October 30, 1752 and a printed version of Bishop White's sermon delivered on June 21, 1786. Note: Blank pages were not scanned.
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
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259 pages
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Minutes (Records)
Manuscripts
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tiff
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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eng
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Text
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Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Christ Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Subject
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Parish elections
Church records and registers
Church finance
United Churches of Christ-Church, St. Peter's, and St. James's (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Kearsley, John, 1684-1772
White, William, 1748-1836
United Churches of Christ-Church and St. Peter's (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Church management
Church fund raising
Church committees
Church buildings
Cemeteries
Church bells
Poor
Charity
Hospitals
Charters
Episcopalians
Episcopal Church
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Description
An account of the resource
A "Meeting for Sufferings" was established by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1756. This representative body, functioning roughly as an executive committee when the Yearly Meeting was not in session, consisted of approximately 25 "weighty" members appointed by the Yearly Meeting. Duties included oversight of Quaker publications, recording annual accounts of sufferings (primarily as a result of the Peace Testimony) and assistance to any affected individuals, collecting memorials concerning deceased Friends, and correspondence with the Meeting for Sufferings in London.
Text
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Minutes, 1785-1802
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FHL.PYMS_Min17851802
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https://www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images/iiif.cfm/FHL.PYMS_Min17851802/manifest
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HC.PhY.040.01.003 (1250/B3.3)
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1785/1802
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A “Meeting for Sufferings” was established by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1756. This representative body was specifically charged with acting for the Society of Friends in the region during the time when the Yearly Meeting was not in session. Duties included oversight of Quaker publications, recording annual accounts of sufferings (primarily as a result of the Peace Testimony) and assistance to any affected individuals, collecting memorials concerning deceased Friends, and correspondence with the Meeting for Sufferings in London.
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Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
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1 volume
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Records (Documents)
Manuscripts
Minutes (Records)
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jp2
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eng
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Text
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
Society of Friends--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Quakers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Genealogy
Church management
Persecution
Religious literature
Corporate minutes
African Americans
Antislavery movements
Church committees
Church finance
Correspondence
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First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA
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First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Notable for its early leadership in Baptist organization and evangelism, the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia was prominent both in its region and city and in the transatlantic community of Baptists. Begun in 1698 as a mission of the more suburban Pennepack (now, Lower Dublin) Baptist Church, First Baptist soon became the leading congregation for the city, region, and colonies, gaining independent status from Pennepack in 1746.
In 1707 the church hosted the organizing meeting of the Philadelphia Baptist Association, the first lasting inter-regional organization of Baptists in America, and over the years provided a disproportionate share of this group’s officers. From the beginning, the lives of this association and the First Baptist congregation were intertwined, with the church meeting house hosting meetings of the association and welcoming delegates, called messengers by the Baptists, from as far south as Charleston and as far north as Boston. By the 1760s, the first decade for which minutes survive, the congregation had gained prominence beyond its modest size, including among the transatlantic Baptist network. This prominence had to do with its leaders hosting and shaping the role of the Philadelphia Baptist Association, to which far-flung congregations wrote letters that began, “Dear Mother.”
The life of the congregation and its leaders was also intertwined with that of its city, with several ministers taking teaching posts at the University of Pennsylvania, then the College and Academy of Philadelphia. William Rogers, for example, came from New England to pastor the church but remained in that post for only three years, though active in the congregation and as a supply preacher until his death in 1824. Like several other Baptist ministers, Rogers served as a military chaplain during the American Revolution, an event that made havoc of the congregation’s finances and leadership. While these Baptists supported the American rebellion as a fight for necessary liberties, their former pastor Morgan Edwards criticized the rebels until 1775 when he was convinced to revise his opinion. With his excellent preaching, historical research and publications on early Baptists, and support for formal education leading to the founding and support of Brown University, Edwards embodied the strengths of Baptists. It was under Edwards’ leadership that First Baptist built a new and larger meeting house at the same time accepting the need to lend their pastor to the larger Baptist cause and arranging for supply preaching while Edwards traveled the colonies as an evangelist, church organizer, and historian of Baptists. Despite these successful efforts toward gaining respect and leaders for Baptists, Edwards’ connection with the Philadelphia congregation grew strained during the 1780s, largely because Edwards struggled through bouts of drinking and subsequent church meetings for discipline, only being restored to the congregation’s fellowship in late 1788.
When in 1814 Baptists from twelve states gathered to form a national organization in support of Baptist missions, the meeting was at the First Baptist meeting house in Philadelphia, with two of the four officials chosen being laymen from that congregation and a third, William Staughton, a former pastor. Throughout the next century, the congregation grew in numbers and influence in the city and in national and global mission programs, despite conflicts related to theology, leadership, and relationships with daughter churches, including two competing First African Baptist congregations. Its early interest in circulating religious pamphlets, as well as Philadelphia’s wealth of printers, made it feasible for American Baptists to locate their publishing operations in the city, where they remained until 1961, when operations moved to a new building and printing plant in Valley Forge.
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<p style="font-weight:400;">Minutes Books of First Baptist Church of Philadelphia, A. D. Gillette, editor,<span> </span><em>Minutes of the Philadelphia Baptist Association from A.D. 1707, to A.D. 1807</em><span> </span>(Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1851), and William Williams Keen,<span> </span><em>The Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the First Baptist Church of the City of Philadelphia<span> </span></em>(Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1899).</p>
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Congregational minutes, 1786-1791
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ABHS.FBCMinutes1786-1791
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1786/1791
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Congregational minutes include dates of meetings, members present, and business conducted from 1786 to 1791. Topics include but are not limited to: baptism, admission, exclusion, readmission, and transfer of members; discipline for drinking, fraud, or holding to the doctrine of universal salvation; building construction and repairs; management of the burial ground; election of deacons; income from legacies, donations, pew money and burial money; and relief for the poor, including widows and orphans.
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
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82 pages
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Minutes (Records)
Manuscripts
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tiff
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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eng
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Text
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First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA
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American Baptist Historical Society
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First Baptist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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First Baptist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Church records and registers
Corporate minutes
Baptists
Church buildings
Church finance
Church management
Church membership
Church discipline
Poor
Charity
Pews and pew rights
Church fund raising
Church committees
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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A "Meeting for Sufferings" was established by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1756. This representative body, functioning roughly as an executive committee when the Yearly Meeting was not in session, consisted of approximately 25 "weighty" members appointed by the Yearly Meeting. Duties included oversight of Quaker publications, recording annual accounts of sufferings (primarily as a result of the Peace Testimony) and assistance to any affected individuals, collecting memorials concerning deceased Friends, and correspondence with the Meeting for Sufferings in London.
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Miscellaneous Papers, 1786-1796
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FHL.PYMS_Misc17861796
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HC.PhY.040.04.010 (1250/B6.2)—HC.PhY.040.04.010.1 (1250/B6.2)
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1786/1796
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Miscellaneous papers might include reports, financial documents, epistles, and other items which were usually only briefly referenced in the minutes of the business meeting. Includes typed index of contents at beginning dated 1786-1789.
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Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
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1 folder
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Records (Documents)
Manuscripts
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jp2
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eng
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Text
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
Society of Friends--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Quakers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Genealogy
Church management
Persecution
Religious literature
Corporate minutes
African Americans
Antislavery movements
Church committees
Church finance
Correspondence
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St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, PA
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St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, PA
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In 1760 a group of congregants from Christ Church, supporters of the Rev. William Macclanachan, an Anglican minister of evangelical leanings, formed a new church, seceded from Christ Church. They drafted articles of agreement for a new church St. Paul’s and promptly set about raising funds to construct it. Built on Third Street, below Walnut, St. Paul’s opened for services in 1762 and remained an active congregation throughout the nineteenth century. The Church’s building still stands, now home to Episcopal Community Services. St. Paul’s records, housed at the Episcopal Diocesan Archives include vestry minutes, baptismal, marriage and burial records as well as some financial records.
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John Wood accounting journal, 1788-1791
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EpiscopalDiocese.JohnWoodAccountJournal1788-1789
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1788/1791
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John Wood Jr. (ca. 1736-1793) was a clock and watch maker in early Philadelphia, and served as a warden of St. Paul's for 24 years. The majority of this book consists of financial records from Wood's business, however towards the end of the book he also recorded accounting information from St. Paul's, including collections and disbursements.
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
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149 pages
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Account books
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tiff
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eng
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Text
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St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania Archives
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St. Paul's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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St. Paul's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Church records and registers
Clock and watch making
Church finance
Church management
Episcopal Church
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Old St. Mary's Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Old St. Mary’s is the second oldest Roman Catholic Church in Philadelphia. Located at 248 S. Fourth Street, it was built in 1763 as a Sunday Church to be used by the parishioners of Old St. Joseph Church. In 1788, the Board of Trustees was incorporated to manage the temporal affairs of the church. After Philadelphia was made a diocese in 1808, Bishop Michael Egan selected Old St. Mary Church as the first Cathedral. Problems would arise between the trustees and the bishops over the appointment of priests. This would eventually lead to the Hogan schism and appeals to the Pope for intervention. After over 20 years of conflict, the third Bishop of Philadelphia, Francis Kenrick temporarily closed in the church 1831 and would later move the Cathedral to St. John the Evangelist in 1838.
The early congregation of 222 families was mostly Irish but with 30 German and 15 French. Some of the more distinguished early members were George Meade, great-grandfather to Civil War General George Gordon Meade, the victor at Gettysburg; Revolutionary War naval hero Commodore John Barry; Thomas Fitzsimmons, a signer of the Constitution; and Matthew Carey, a leading publisher in the Federalist era.
Both George Washington and John Adams attended Vespers there in October of 1774 and it was the site of the first public religious commemoration of the Declaration of Independence.
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Old St. Mary's Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Minutes, 1788-1811
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OldStMary.Minutes1788-1811
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1788/1811
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Minutes of the meetings of the trustees of Old St. Mary's from 1788 to 1811.
Front matter includes a copy of the Act of Incorporation dated September 13, 1788; lists of subscribers who paid towards the burial ground, the building of the church in 1762, and the addition of pews and galleries in 1782; and rules for conducting church business.
The meeting minutes begin on image 26, and each entry includes a list of attendees and a description of the topics covered. Topics include but are not limited to: election, appointment, and payment of church staff; management of the church finances, buildings, school and burial ground; pew rentals; and reports from committees.
Rear matter includes: a copy of the articles agreed upon in 1782; another list of subscribers, towards building the schoolhouse in 1781; an account of the costs involved in building that schoolhouse; a list of pewholders and their pew numbers dated 1782; and maps of the numbered pews.
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
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222 pages
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Manuscripts
Minutes (Records)
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tiff
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eng
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Text
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Old St. Mary's Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Catholic Historical Research Center of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia
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Old St. Mary's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Old St. Mary's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Church records and registers
Corporate minutes
Catholics
Church management
Church finance
Church buildings
Church schools
Pews and pew rights
Cemeteries
Church committees
Church fund raising
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Holy Trinity Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Holy Trinity parish was formed in 1788 at the initiative of German-speaking Catholics who wanted a separate place for worship. Once established, it was the first ethnic parish in the United States. The movement for a separate congregation began when the Germans bought a purchased their own burial ground in 1768. They would also begin keeping separate registers in 1784. The German Catholic Society was organized in 1787 to acquire land for a church as well as for the maintaining of a school. Construction started on the church in in 1788 and the first Mass was held in 1789. The exterior of the church has remained largely unchanged, while the interior was twice destroyed by fire, the first in 1860 and again in 1890.
Similar to Old St. Mary’s, Holy Trinity was incorporated with trustees, which led to a conflict with the bishops over the appointing of priests. This conflict would be resolved in 1859, when the original charter was replaced with a new one giving the Bishop more control. In 1797, the parish established America’s first Catholic orphanage for children left homeless by the yellow fever epidemics. The parish closed and combined with Old St. Mary’s in 2009.
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Holy Trinity Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Minutes, 1788-1839
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HolyTrinity.Minutes1788-1839
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1788/1839
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Meeting minutes from Holy Trinity, dating from 1788 to 1839. Much of the text is in German. Topics covered include but are not limited to: pew rents; election of trustees and committees; staff salaries; and management of the church buildings, cemetery and schools.
A notable topic is the schism between the trustees and Bishop Carroll of Baltimore, who held authority over the entire Catholic population of the United States prior to the creation of the diocese of Philadelphia in 1808, over the hiring of priests.
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
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387 pages
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Manuscripts
Minutes (Records)
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tiff
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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eng
ger
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Text
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Holy Trinity Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Catholic Historical Research Center of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia
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Holy Trinity Catholic Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Holy Trinity Catholic Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Catholics
Corporate minutes
Church management
Pews and pew rights
Church finance
Church buildings
Cemeteries
Church schools
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First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA
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First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Notable for its early leadership in Baptist organization and evangelism, the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia was prominent both in its region and city and in the transatlantic community of Baptists. Begun in 1698 as a mission of the more suburban Pennepack (now, Lower Dublin) Baptist Church, First Baptist soon became the leading congregation for the city, region, and colonies, gaining independent status from Pennepack in 1746.
In 1707 the church hosted the organizing meeting of the Philadelphia Baptist Association, the first lasting inter-regional organization of Baptists in America, and over the years provided a disproportionate share of this group’s officers. From the beginning, the lives of this association and the First Baptist congregation were intertwined, with the church meeting house hosting meetings of the association and welcoming delegates, called messengers by the Baptists, from as far south as Charleston and as far north as Boston. By the 1760s, the first decade for which minutes survive, the congregation had gained prominence beyond its modest size, including among the transatlantic Baptist network. This prominence had to do with its leaders hosting and shaping the role of the Philadelphia Baptist Association, to which far-flung congregations wrote letters that began, “Dear Mother.”
The life of the congregation and its leaders was also intertwined with that of its city, with several ministers taking teaching posts at the University of Pennsylvania, then the College and Academy of Philadelphia. William Rogers, for example, came from New England to pastor the church but remained in that post for only three years, though active in the congregation and as a supply preacher until his death in 1824. Like several other Baptist ministers, Rogers served as a military chaplain during the American Revolution, an event that made havoc of the congregation’s finances and leadership. While these Baptists supported the American rebellion as a fight for necessary liberties, their former pastor Morgan Edwards criticized the rebels until 1775 when he was convinced to revise his opinion. With his excellent preaching, historical research and publications on early Baptists, and support for formal education leading to the founding and support of Brown University, Edwards embodied the strengths of Baptists. It was under Edwards’ leadership that First Baptist built a new and larger meeting house at the same time accepting the need to lend their pastor to the larger Baptist cause and arranging for supply preaching while Edwards traveled the colonies as an evangelist, church organizer, and historian of Baptists. Despite these successful efforts toward gaining respect and leaders for Baptists, Edwards’ connection with the Philadelphia congregation grew strained during the 1780s, largely because Edwards struggled through bouts of drinking and subsequent church meetings for discipline, only being restored to the congregation’s fellowship in late 1788.
When in 1814 Baptists from twelve states gathered to form a national organization in support of Baptist missions, the meeting was at the First Baptist meeting house in Philadelphia, with two of the four officials chosen being laymen from that congregation and a third, William Staughton, a former pastor. Throughout the next century, the congregation grew in numbers and influence in the city and in national and global mission programs, despite conflicts related to theology, leadership, and relationships with daughter churches, including two competing First African Baptist congregations. Its early interest in circulating religious pamphlets, as well as Philadelphia’s wealth of printers, made it feasible for American Baptists to locate their publishing operations in the city, where they remained until 1961, when operations moved to a new building and printing plant in Valley Forge.
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<p style="font-weight:400;">Minutes Books of First Baptist Church of Philadelphia, A. D. Gillette, editor,<span> </span><em>Minutes of the Philadelphia Baptist Association from A.D. 1707, to A.D. 1807</em><span> </span>(Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1851), and William Williams Keen,<span> </span><em>The Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the First Baptist Church of the City of Philadelphia<span> </span></em>(Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1899).</p>
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Congregational minutes, 1792-1795
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ABHS.FBCMinutes1792-1795
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https://www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images/iiif.cfm/ABHS.FBCMinutes1792-1795/manifest
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Date
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1792/1795
Description
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Congregational minutes include dates of meetings, members present, and business conducted from 1795 to 1806. Topics include the baptism, dismission, transfer, exclusion and readmission of members, church finance, charity for the poor, and repairs and improvements to building and grounds.
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
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70 pages
Medium
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Minutes (Records)
Manuscripts
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tiff
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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eng
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Text
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First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA
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American Baptist Historical Society
Creator
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First Baptist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Subject
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First Baptist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Church records and registers
Corporate minutes
Baptists
Church membership
Church discipline
Church finance
Church management
Church fund raising
Church committees
Church buildings
Poor
Charity
Pews and pew rights
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St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, PA
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St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, PA
Description
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In 1760 a group of congregants from Christ Church, supporters of the Rev. William Macclanachan, an Anglican minister of evangelical leanings, formed a new church, seceded from Christ Church. They drafted articles of agreement for a new church St. Paul’s and promptly set about raising funds to construct it. Built on Third Street, below Walnut, St. Paul’s opened for services in 1762 and remained an active congregation throughout the nineteenth century. The Church’s building still stands, now home to Episcopal Community Services. St. Paul’s records, housed at the Episcopal Diocesan Archives include vestry minutes, baptismal, marriage and burial records as well as some financial records.
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Title
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Vestry minutes, 1792-1797
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EpiscopalDiocese.StPaulVestryMinutes1792-1797
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https://www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images/iiif.cfm/EpiscopalDiocese.StPaulVestryMinutes1792-1797/manifest
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St. Paul Vestry Minutes, 1792-1797
Date
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1792/1797
Description
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Minutes of the meetings of the St. Paul's vestry, from 1792 to 1797. Each entry includes the date of the meeting, members present, and business discussed. Many entries include wardens' accounts, as reports from the committee appointed to examine those accounts. Other topics include: elections to the vestry and the appointment of wardens and sextons; the management of pews and of the church graveyard; the departure of one minister and need to secure a new one; and the presentation of an act of incorporation to the state assembly for ratification in 1795.
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Extent
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84 pages
Medium
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Minutes (Records)
Manuscripts
Format
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tiff
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, PA
Rights Holder
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Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania Archives
Creator
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St. Paul's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Subject
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St. Paul's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Church records and registers
Church committees
Church buildings
Church finance
Church management
Churchwardens' accounts
Episcopalians
Cemeteries
Pews and pew rights
Episcopal Church
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Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA
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Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA
Description
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Presbyterians who favored the religious revivalism of George Whitefield organized a Second Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia in 1743. Second was a “New Side” church as opposed to the “Old Side” First Presbyterian Church. For many years, the congregation worshipped in its building at Third and Arch streets, where the first General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. met in 1789. In 1837, the church moved to Seventh and Arch, and in 1872, to 21st and Walnut. In 1949, the congregation united with First Presbyterian Church.
Records scanned for this project include minutes, pew records, deeds, and burial records.
Text
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Title
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Congregational, corporation, and trustees minutes, vol. 3, 1792-1803
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PHS.SecondPresbyterianChurchMinutes1792-1803
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https://www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images/iiif.cfm/PHS.SecondPresbyterianChurchMinutes1792-1803/manifest
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V MI46 P533c v. 3
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Second Presbyterian Church Minutes, 1792-1803
Date
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1792/1803
Description
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Rough draft ("Rough Draught") of minutes for meetings of the Second Presbyterian Church trustees, corporation and congregation from 1792 to 1803. Meetings cover issues such as church committees, church finance, and the need to accommodate a growing membership.
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Extent
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98 pages
Medium
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Minutes (Records)
Manuscripts
Format
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tiff
Rights
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA
Rights Holder
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Presbyterian Historical Society
Creator
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Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Subject
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Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Church records and registers
Church finance
Church management
Church committees
Presbyterians
Corporate minutes
Church discipline
Pews and pew rights
Church buildings
Cemeteries
Church membership
Presbyterian Church
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Description
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A "Meeting for Sufferings" was established by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1756. This representative body, functioning roughly as an executive committee when the Yearly Meeting was not in session, consisted of approximately 25 "weighty" members appointed by the Yearly Meeting. Duties included oversight of Quaker publications, recording annual accounts of sufferings (primarily as a result of the Peace Testimony) and assistance to any affected individuals, collecting memorials concerning deceased Friends, and correspondence with the Meeting for Sufferings in London.
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Title
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Miscellaneous Papers, 1793-1794
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FHL.PYMS_Misc17931794
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https://www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images/iiif.cfm/FHL.PYMS_Misc17931794/manifest
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HC.PhY.040.04.012 (1250/C1.2)—HC.PhY.040.04.012.1 (1250/C1.2)
Date
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1793/1794
Description
An account of the resource
Miscellaneous papers might include reports, financial documents, epistles, and other items which were usually only briefly referenced in the minutes of the business meeting. Includes typed indexes of contents at beginning dated 1793-1794.
Spatial Coverage
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Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Extent
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1 folder
Medium
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Records (Documents)
Manuscripts
Format
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jp2
Rights
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Rights Holder
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Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Creator
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
Subject
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
Society of Friends--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Quakers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Genealogy
Church management
Persecution
Religious literature
Corporate minutes
African Americans
Antislavery movements
Church committees
Church finance
Correspondence
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First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA
Title
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First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA
Description
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Notable for its early leadership in Baptist organization and evangelism, the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia was prominent both in its region and city and in the transatlantic community of Baptists. Begun in 1698 as a mission of the more suburban Pennepack (now, Lower Dublin) Baptist Church, First Baptist soon became the leading congregation for the city, region, and colonies, gaining independent status from Pennepack in 1746.
In 1707 the church hosted the organizing meeting of the Philadelphia Baptist Association, the first lasting inter-regional organization of Baptists in America, and over the years provided a disproportionate share of this group’s officers. From the beginning, the lives of this association and the First Baptist congregation were intertwined, with the church meeting house hosting meetings of the association and welcoming delegates, called messengers by the Baptists, from as far south as Charleston and as far north as Boston. By the 1760s, the first decade for which minutes survive, the congregation had gained prominence beyond its modest size, including among the transatlantic Baptist network. This prominence had to do with its leaders hosting and shaping the role of the Philadelphia Baptist Association, to which far-flung congregations wrote letters that began, “Dear Mother.”
The life of the congregation and its leaders was also intertwined with that of its city, with several ministers taking teaching posts at the University of Pennsylvania, then the College and Academy of Philadelphia. William Rogers, for example, came from New England to pastor the church but remained in that post for only three years, though active in the congregation and as a supply preacher until his death in 1824. Like several other Baptist ministers, Rogers served as a military chaplain during the American Revolution, an event that made havoc of the congregation’s finances and leadership. While these Baptists supported the American rebellion as a fight for necessary liberties, their former pastor Morgan Edwards criticized the rebels until 1775 when he was convinced to revise his opinion. With his excellent preaching, historical research and publications on early Baptists, and support for formal education leading to the founding and support of Brown University, Edwards embodied the strengths of Baptists. It was under Edwards’ leadership that First Baptist built a new and larger meeting house at the same time accepting the need to lend their pastor to the larger Baptist cause and arranging for supply preaching while Edwards traveled the colonies as an evangelist, church organizer, and historian of Baptists. Despite these successful efforts toward gaining respect and leaders for Baptists, Edwards’ connection with the Philadelphia congregation grew strained during the 1780s, largely because Edwards struggled through bouts of drinking and subsequent church meetings for discipline, only being restored to the congregation’s fellowship in late 1788.
When in 1814 Baptists from twelve states gathered to form a national organization in support of Baptist missions, the meeting was at the First Baptist meeting house in Philadelphia, with two of the four officials chosen being laymen from that congregation and a third, William Staughton, a former pastor. Throughout the next century, the congregation grew in numbers and influence in the city and in national and global mission programs, despite conflicts related to theology, leadership, and relationships with daughter churches, including two competing First African Baptist congregations. Its early interest in circulating religious pamphlets, as well as Philadelphia’s wealth of printers, made it feasible for American Baptists to locate their publishing operations in the city, where they remained until 1961, when operations moved to a new building and printing plant in Valley Forge.
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<p style="font-weight:400;">Minutes Books of First Baptist Church of Philadelphia, A. D. Gillette, editor,<span> </span><em>Minutes of the Philadelphia Baptist Association from A.D. 1707, to A.D. 1807</em><span> </span>(Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1851), and William Williams Keen,<span> </span><em>The Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the First Baptist Church of the City of Philadelphia<span> </span></em>(Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1899).</p>
Text
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Title
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Trustee minutes, 1794-1836
Identifier
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ABHS.FBCTrusteeMinutes1794-1836
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https://www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images/iiif.cfm/ABHS.FBCTrusteeMinutes1794-1836/manifest
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Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1794-1836
Description
An account of the resource
The meeting minutes of the Trustees of First Baptist Church from 1794 to 1836 contain the date of each meeting, the trustees present, the topics they discussed, and the resolutions they passed. Trustee business included appointments to positions such as treasurer and clerk; the management of donations and investments; oversight of record-keeping; payment to workers such as the minister and carpenter; and maintenance of buildings and burial grounds. There is an index on the inside back cover of the bound manuscript.
Note: The meeting minutes between March 1796 and February 1798 are missing from the original manuscript, which is why they do not appear in the digital version, and why the page numbering skips from page 8 to page 11. Also, page numbering on the original manuscript starts over at a new page 1 following page 89. To identify page numbers in citations, researchers can use the image number in combination with the page number.
Spatial Coverage
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Extent
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185 pages
Medium
The material or physical carrier of the resource.
Minutes (Records)
Manuscripts
Format
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tiff
Rights
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Is Part Of
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First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA
Rights Holder
A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource.
American Baptist Historical Society
Creator
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First Baptist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Subject
The topic of the resource
First Baptist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Church records and registers
Corporate minutes
Baptists
Church management
Church finance
Church buildings