Pew rents, Christ Church and St. Peter's Church, 1797 March

Metadata

Title

Pew rents, Christ Church and St. Peter's Church, 1797 March

Date

1797-03

Digital Identifier

ChristChurch.AccountingWardensPewRentAccountBooks_v258

Call Number

3.4.3.17, v258

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 and St. Peter's in March 1797. Entries are listed by pew number, with occupant's name, number of seats, sums due and sums paid. Christ Church pew rents are listed from the beginning of the book, and St. Peter's pew rents start on page 25.

Note: Pages 13 and 14 are blank and were not scanned.

Place

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia

Congregation

Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA

Holding Institution

Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA

Extent

44 pages

Format (Original)

Account books
Manuscripts

Format (Digital)

tiff

Rights

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

Language

eng

Type

Text

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