Orphans book, 1795

Metadata

Title

Orphans book, 1795

Creator

First Baptist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date

1795

Digital Identifier

ABHS.FBCOrphansBook1795

Description

On February 16, 1795, the members of First Baptist Church established "a fund for the relief of Orphans and other indigent Persons." This bound manuscript contains details of how the fund was established and administered, and a list of members who paid an annual contribution to the fund in order to insure those in their charge would receive aid upon their death. Identifying information includes subscriber names, parents' names, birthdates, birthplaces, contributions paid and dates of death.

Subject

First Baptist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Church records and registers

Registers of births, etc.

Charity

Church fund raising

Burial records

Place

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia

Congregation

First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA

Holding Institution

American Baptist Historical Society

Extent

46 pages

Format (Original)

Registers (Lists)

Manuscripts

Format (Digital)

tiff

Rights

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

Language

eng

Type

Text

Thumbnail

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IIIF Manifest

https://www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images/iiif.cfm/ABHS.FBCOrphansBook1795/manifest

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Collection

First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA

Citation

First Baptist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.), “Orphans book, 1795,” Philadelphia Congregations Early Records, accessed July 12, 2025, https://philadelphiacongregations.org/records/item/ABHS.FBCOrphansBook1795.