Pew rents, Christ Church, 1780 September

Metadata

Title

Pew rents, Christ Church, 1780 September

Date

1780-09

Digital Identifier

ChristChurch.AccountingWardensPewRentAccountBooks_v225

Call Number

3.4.3.3, v225

Description

The practice of renting pews was common in 18th and 19th century churches; members paid a fee for the right to occupy a particular pew every week. This bound manuscript is a record of pew rents due to Christ Church in September 1780. Entries are listed by pew number, with occupant's names, number of seats, sums due and sums paid.

The journal entries are formatted such that they carry across both leaves of the book opening, and instead of pages being numbered, the openings (called "folios" in the book) are numbered. Both left and right leaves have been scanned together.

Place

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia

Congregation

Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA

Holding Institution

Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA

Extent

14 pages

Format (Original)

Format (Digital)

tiff

Rights

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

Language

eng

Type

Text

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