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OLD ST. PAUL'S CHURCH,
225 S. THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
1760 1898"^
OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY
OF
OLD ST. PAUL'S CHURCH
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
WITH AN APPEAL FOR ITS PRESERVA-
TION, TOGETHER WITH ARTICLES OF
AGREEMENT, ABSTRACT OF TITLE, LIST
OF RECTORS, VESTRYMEN, AND INSCRIP-
TIONS OF TOMBSTONES AND VAULTS.
MAY 2 1949
BY
NORRIS STANLEY BARRATT
PRESIDENT JUDGE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, NO. 2, FIRST JUDICIAL
DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA
PUBLISHED BY
THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA
1917
Copyright, 1918, by
NoRRis Stanley Barratt
PRESS OF
THE NEW ERA PRINTING COMPANY
LANCASTtR, PA.
ILLUSTRATIONS-PLATES.
Episcopal Church of St. Paul Frontispiece.
Facing Page
Main entrance gates of Old St. Paul's 3
Family vaults in front churchyard, south side 5
Burial ground rear churchyard 7
Family vault ' ' William Cummings " 15
Family vault "Edwin Forrest" 19
Portrait Colonel Blaithwaite Jones 23
Christ Church, Second and Market Streets 29
Font 45
Font with silver baptismal bowl 47
Portrait Rev. William Smith, D.D 77
Portrait Rt. Rev. William White, D.D 104
Portrait Rev. Joseph Pilmore, D.D 113
Cathedra 123
Portrait Rev. Benjamin Allen, Rector 1821-1829 125
Portrait Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, D.D., Rector 1829-1833 . . 135
Portrait Rev. Samuel A. McCoskrey, D.D., Rector 1834-
1836 141
Portrait Rev. James May, D.D., Rector 1836-1840 143
Portrait Rev. Richard Newton, D.D., Rector 1840-1862. . 145
Interior of St. Paul's in 1861 147
Portrait Richard Alexander 149
Portrait Rev. Kingston Goddard, D.D., Rector 1862-1866 . 158
Portrait Rev. R. Heber Newton, D.D., Rector 1866-1868 . . 161
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Portrait Eev. Eobert T. Koche, D.D., Rector 1869-1872. . 173
Portrait Rev. Samuel H. Boyer, D.D., Rector 1873-1879 . 175
Portrait Rev. William Adamson, Rector 1880-1886 176
Portrait Rev. Thomas K. Conrad, Rector 1886-1893 .... 179
Portrait Rev. Charles Ellis Stevens, Rector 1893-1894. . . 180
Portrait Rev. William I. McGarvey, Rector 1897-1898. . . 182
Portrait William Cummings, 1806-1889 162
Pulpit and communion set 210
Plan of vaults and graves — Appendix F 216
Portrait Cornelius Stevenson 228
Portrait Captain Norris Stanley 231
James Alexander 's receipt for pew rent 254
ILLUSTEATIONS AND FAC-SIMILES IN
TEXT.
Arms of the United States of America 3
Autograph Norris Stanley Barratt 24
Seal of corporation of St. Paul's Church, 1797 25
St. Paul's Church lottery ticket, 1761— No. 71 37
Deed William Cummings family pew No. 15 62
Title page Rev. Dr. Samuel Magaw's prayer, 1786 107
Title page Rev. Dr. Samuel Magaw's sermon, 1793 108
Notice to pay pew rent or forfeit pew, 1819 119
Title page Rev. Dr. Joseph Pilmore 's sermon, 1786 121
Richard J. Alexander's receipt for pew rent, 1853 149
James Alexander's receipt for pew rent, 1773 254
TABLE OF STATUTES IN TEXT.
General Laws of Massachusetts, 1640 59
Laws of Connecticut, 1672 59
Digest of Ordinances of New England 59
Act of February 17, 1762, Penna 40
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Act of March 17, 1789, Penna 40
Act of April 6, 1790, Penna 40
Act of March 3, 1800, Penna 41
Act of March 11, 1816, Penna 8
Act of April 26, 1855, Penna 190
Act of May 19, 1874, Penna 12
Act of May 13, 1876, Penna 12
Act of April 18, 1877, Penna 13
Act of May 23, 1887, Penna 15-17-189
TABLE OP CASES IN TEXT.
Appeal Society of Cincinnati 8
Campher vs. Paulson 12
Church vs. "Wells, Executor 63
Commonwealth vs. Susquehanna Coal Co 5
Commonwealth vs. St. Mary 's Church 63
Colbert vs. Kirtly and Shepherd, Va 192
Congregation Shaari Shomayim vs. Moss 12
Cooney vs. Laurence 12
Craig vs. First Presbyterian Church 13
Episcopal Academy vs. Taylor 101
First Presbyterian Church vs. Second Presbyterian
Church 10
Fox vs. Gordon 12
Francis Estate 12
Gampher vs. Woodland Cemetery Co 5
Harding Estate 12
Hoppe vs. Cathedral Cemetery 15
In re German Roman Catholic Holy Trinity Burial
Ground 18
In re Stephen Girard 12
In re Trinity Episcopal Church. 18
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Kincaid 's Appeal 10
Krauczunas vs. Hogan 190
Laurie vs. Piatt 12
Louther vs. Methodist Episcopal Church 190
Mazaika vs. Krauczunas 191
Memorial Assn., Valley Forge 8-189
Methodist Cemetery Case 189
Morris Appeal — City Troop Case 4
Pawlet vs. Clark 102
Pearsall vs. Great Northern R.R 9
Pennsylvania Archives 120
Pettigrew vs. Pettigrew 12
Phillips vs. Westminster 191
Proposed Act of 1917 192
Quigg vs. Tracy 102
Scott vs. Reilly 12
Society for Propagation of Gospel vs. New Haven 10
State vs. Trinity Church 63
St. Paul's Church Chestnut Hill 190
St. John 's Church vs. Hanns 5
Town of Pawlet vs. Clark 10
Terrett vs. Taylor 10
Veto of Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh 192
Wynkoop vs. Wynkoop 12
Young's Estate 189
Zion German Reformed Congregation 189
APPEAL
THE IRON ENTRANCE GATE OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF
ST. PAUL'S ON THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
MADE IN ENGLAND ESPECIALLY FOR THE PURPOSE. ERECTED PRIOR TO THE REVOLUTION
AND WHICH WAS THE ADMIRATION AND PRIDE OF OUR COLONIAL ANCESTORS.
AN APPEAL FOR THE PRESERVATION OF
OLD ST. PAUL'S
M^/J^ is understood that the Right Reverend
j[ Philip M. Rhinelander and the Trustees of
^m I the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Dio-
M^^^ cese of Pennsylvania are considering the sale
of the Old Episcopal Church of St. Paul,
Third Street, below Walnut Street, Philadelphia (now
used by the Protestant Episcopal City Mission), to-
Considering Sale gether with the burial ground, vaults and
of St. Paul's graves, for the purpose of applying the
proceeds thereof towards building a Diocesan House
for the City Mission, and other diocesan uplift activi-
ties, in connection with the contemplated Cathedral
Church of St. Mary's, to replace the Church of the
Ascension, now at Broad and South Streets.
My ancestors ex parte materna were prominent in St.
Paul's before and after the Revolution. James Alex-
ander (1726-1795), my great-great-grandfather; Rich-
ard Alexander (1780-1825), my great-grandfather;
William Cummings (1806-1889), my grandfather, forty
years a vestryman; Captain Norris Stanley (1765—
1851), whose namesake I am, also a vestryman, as well
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as other members of my family down to and including
my mother, Mary Irvine Barratt, were communicants.
Many of my masonic brethren, members of Lodge No. 2,
Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania (the
Revolutionary Mother Lodge of the State), of which I
Heroes have the honor to be a Past Master, were
likewise prominent. Colonel Thomas Proctor, Colonel
Blathwaite Jones, Captain David Hall, John Wood, dis-
tinguished members of the Grand Lodge as well as offi-
cers in Washington's forces, also private Blair
McClenachan of the First Troop City Cavalry,^ George
Glentworth, the prominent physician and Revolution-
ary surgeon, are buried in the church-yard. All this
gives me a deep interest in the question and makes
me seriously opposed to having this ancient church, with
its rich Colonial, Revolutionary and Masonic history,
sold for mere profit and business purposes, and the
vaults and graves of its honored dead disturbed and
demolished, particularly when no necessity for such ac-
tion exists. The City Mission, which now occupies
the church edifice, is doing much efficient relief work
among the needy poor, and can continue its beneficent
labors as effectively here as at Broad and South Streets.
The right of descendants to protect the graves of
their ancestors is well settled. The common law im-
poses the duty of providing sepulture
of and of carrying to the grave the dead
Descendants }jo(jy^ decently covered, not only upon
the heir and next of kin, but upon the person under
1 For a short history, of the City Troop and letter of Washington com-
mending it, see Morris Appeal, 68 Pennsylvania State Reports, p. 17,
Opinion by Justice Sharswood.
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whose roof the death takes place. And these legal
rights of the next of kin, the Courts of law will recog-
nize and protect (Com. ex. rel. v. Susquehanna Coal
Co., 5 Kulp 195; Gampher et al. v. Paulson and the
Woodland Cemetery Co., 19 Weekly Notes of Cases, p.
230; St. John's Church v. Harms, 31 Penna. State Re-
ports, p. 9).
There are many buried in St. Paul's ground,— the
rich, the great, the learned, and the wise, as well as the
poor and the humble— death obliterating all earthly dis-
tinctions. When their bodies were consigned to their
graves, *' earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust,"
it was contemplated that they were there to remain
until tlie trumpet should sound on the resurrection
morn. Many Philadelphians will be surprised to learn
that here interred are their great-grandfathers, who,
having reached their journey's end, sleep peacefully,
and whose repose should not be disturbed. Among the
descendants of these now quiet sleepers, here in Phila-
delphia and widely elsewhere scattered, are scores, who,
if they knew of the proposed sale, would earnestly en-
dorse my opposition.
From vaults, gravestones and burial lists of St.
Paul's, the following surnames may be gathered:
Alexander, Allen, Anderson, Armat, Auber, Babb,
Well Known Barbazett, Barratt, Barker, Barger,
Philadelphians Bames, Bartram, Bayne, Beatty, Beard,
Buried jgg^]^^ ggii^ Benson, Beaks, Blair, Biggs,
Brown, Bridges, Boyd, Bowen, Buckley, Butler, Camp-
bell, Cameron, Cannon, Carteret, Carson, Caskey,
Christy, Claypoole, Claxton, Clark, Connelly, Cox, Co-
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hoon, Consort, Copper, Cowell, Craven, Cromwell, Cum-
mings, Curtis, Cnrrie, Davis, Dawson, De Bray, Desil-
ver, Dilworth, Donaven, Daughty, Du Plessis, Doughty,
Drais, Eccles, Edwards, Elmslie, Ellis, Ernes, Erwin,
Evans, Fannen, Farr, Ferguson, Fenton, Feinour,
Fleeson, Freburger, Field, Flower, Fitzrandolpli, Fitz-
gerald, Forrest, Foot, Forder, Fennell, Gartley, Gill,
Gilligban, Glentworth, Goodwin, Gosner, Guerin, Hal-
berstadt. Hall, Halt, Harman, Hay ward, Harris, Heyl,
Hinton, Hicks, Holland, Hood, Hook, Hozey, Hulse-
kamp, Hyde, Hunt, lann, Irving, Irvine, Jacobson,
James, Johnston, Johnson, Josiah, Jones, Jordan,
Keble, Keen, Keller, Kirkliam, Kirk, Lake, Lane, Las-
key, Ledlie, Leech, Leamy, Loper, Lowry, Lougeay, Mat-
thews, Masden, Marsden, Marple, Marshall, Manning,
Marsh, Meer, Miller, Mitchell, Mory, Moyes, Morrison,
Moore, Molier, Moffet, Moyston, Myers, Murdick, Mus-
kett, McClenachan, McKay, McGlathery, McPherson,
Macpherson, Nally, Neaill, Nelson, Neilson, Neave,
Neill, Nichols, Norman, North, Oliphant, Parker,
Pechin, Palmer, Pilmore, Patton, Phillip, Pritchard,
Potter, Powers, Price, Procter, Rankin, Roberdeau, Ra-
worth, Randolph, Read, Redner, Renshaw, Reynolds,
Richards, Richardet, Rimer, Rivelly, Robinson, Robinett,
Ross,Rinedollar, Robbins, Rose, Row, Rowley, Rushton,
Ryerson, Sadler, Seaborn, Seyfert, Shade, Shaffner,
Shinkle, Smith, Simpson, Spooner, Stewart, Skerret,
Snyder, Spence, Spain, Spillard, Sperry, Stanley,
Stotesbury, Stevenson, Stokes, Stiles, Swain, Stuart,
Tallman, Thackara, Thomson, Toland, Thompson,
Town, Turner, Vallance, Vanderhalt, Voigt, Wallace,
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Watkins, Webb, Wharton, Wbeaton, Wiltberger, Wig-
more, Wilson, Wood, Wright, Yorke, Young.
There are doubtless omissions from this list. Grave-
stones here and there cannot now be deciphered ; some
removals to Mt. Moriah and other burial grounds in
Philadelphia were effected in 1855, while many, promi-
nently identified with the parish, were originally else-
where interred. Among the latter may be noted:
Jay Cooke, Lewis H. Redner, J. D. George, Henry
George, John P. Bankson, William Weightman, Joseph
B. Van Dusen, Thomas Latimer, George C. Thomas,
Charles B. Durborow, John W. Thomas, Richard G.
Stotesbury, Henry M. Kimmey, Eleazer Fenton, James
Farr, and Dr. Charles E. Cadwalader.
We all cherish a reverence for antiquity and believe
in the preservation of those things and places which
make our history. A few years ago no one in the Dio-
Preservation of ^^^e would have been brave enough to
Memorials of the have Suggested that historic old St.
Past Paul's should be sold for any purpose
whatsoever. If the spirit and policy of the threatened
movement continue unchecked, and this generation sells
St. Paul's, there is no precedent to deter the next gen-
eration, which may have even less reverence for Co-
lonial affairs and the Revolution, selling both Christ
Church and St. Peter's, if the money be needed, to con-
tinue, under a new application of the Cy Pres doctrine,
some activities which may then be a part of church
work and now undreamt of.
To show that this is within the range of possibility,
it is only necessary to give two prominent instances in
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which buildings of great historic interest escaped de-
struction. The State of Pennsylvania, by the act of
March 11, 1816, P. L. 109,^ authorized the sale for
$150,000 of the State House, the State House Yard, the
Liberty Bell and the clock. The land was valuable, the
Liberty Bell building was regarded as old material,
State House and the Liberty Bell and the Clock as
Clock junk. This caused the late Chief Jus-
tice James T. Mitchell to remark, in delivering the opin-
ion of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in the appeal
of the Society of the Cincinnati, in 1893 (154 Penna.
State Eeports, page 621), that, ''it was a sad illustra-
tion of the want of reverence for historical and patriotic
associations in our people at that time." The citizens
of Philadelphia, to their credit let it be said, bought the
shrine of American liberty and saved it from destruc-
tion and desecration, so that the square should remain
to the people as a public green and walk forever.
The other instance was in 1878, when it was seriously
proposed to sell, to a brewery, Washington's Headquar-
ters at Valley Forge, with three acres of surrounding
Washington's ground. This historic shrine was only
Headquarters at savcd for posterity and from dese-
Vaiiey Forge cration by a society which then alone
seemed alive to the situation, a fraternal organization,
the Patriotic Order Sons of America, which deserves
great credit for the prompt and effective measures with
which the emergency was met.^
2 See letter of Eobert Wharton to Thomas Kittera, Feb. 3, 1816, Pa.
Mag. of Hist, and Biog., Vol. XL, p. 316.
3 Memorial Association Valley Forge, 235, Pa. St. Eep., 206, 1912.
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In this connection, the fact that the majority of the
citizens of Philadelphia care very little for Christ
Church, St. Peter's, or St. Paul's, must not be over-
looked. We can repeat the warning of that well-known
lawyer, the late John Hill Martin, Esq., who, in 1877,
remarked of St. Paul's Church, Chester, Penna.:
** Apart from the mere matter of feeling, our ancestors
bought of the church the right of burial, and such a
right was sold, knowing it was to exist for all time.
And whatever may be the rights of the
^^^^Deaa *^^ present congregation, the dead and their
descendants have rights which cannot be
successfully resisted. I trust the day will never come
when the congregation to save their purses will sell the
bones of their ancestors."
If this becomes our church policy, those of us who
disapprove of it can only mourn and say :
" They all are passing from the land,
Those churches old and gray;
In which our forefathers used to stand,
In years gone by, to pray."
In passing, it might be added that Mr. Justice Brown
of the Supreme Court of the United States, in deliver-
ing the opinion of that Court in the case of Pearsall v.
Great Northern E. R. Co. (161 U. S. Rep. 646, 1895,
page 661), said: ''Even before the Dartmouth College
case was decided, it was held by this Court that grants
Grants of the ^^ IsLJid made by the Crown to colonial
Crown to Colonial churches were irrevocable, and that
Churches property purchased or devised to them,
prior to the adoption of the Constitution, could not be
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devoted to other purposes by the states which succeeded
to the sovereign powers of the colonies" (Terrett v.
Taylor, 9 Cranch 43; Town of Pawlett v. Clark, 9
Cranch, 292 ; Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
V. New Haven, 8 Wheaton, 464). President Judge
Joseph Allison of Philadelphia, in March, 1867, in the
case of First Presbyterian Church v. Second Presby-
terian Church (Brewster's Rep., Vol. 11, p. 374), held
that the removal of the remains of persons interred in
a burial ground, without the consent of their families,
may be enjoined at the suit of such families as have
the right to inter in said ground.
The law as summed up by Judge Sharswood in Kin-
caid's Appeal, 66 Pa. State Reports, page 411, is:
1. The certificate to purchasers of lots ''in the bury-
ing-ground of the church" was *'to have and to hold
Judge Sharswood's^l^^ ^^^^ l^^s for the use and purpose,
Opinion in re and subject to the conditions and regula-
Lot-hoiders tions mentioned in the deed of trust to
the trustees of said church." This was not evidence
of a grant of any interest in the soil.
2. The certificate was the grant of a license or privi-
lege to make interments in the lots described, exclusive
of others, so long as the ground should remain the
*'burying-ground of the church."
3. Whenever by lawful authority the ground should
cease to be a burying-ground, the lot-holder's right and
property ceased.
4. When it became necessary to vacate the ground
for burial, all the lot-holder could claim, was to have
notice and an opportunity of removing the bodies and
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monuments; on his failure to do so they could be re-
moved by others.
5. The lot-holder accepted the grant on this condition.
6. The grant of a pew in perpetuity does not give an
absolute right as the grant of land in fee.
7. The pew-owner takes only a usufructuary right.
8. If the building be destroyed by casualty the pew-
owner's right is gone.
9. If the church has to be rebuilt on the same or a
different location the pew- owner has no claim.
10. The disinterment of a body is a misdemeanor at
common law.
11. The power of disinterment is a police power and
can be delegated by the legislature to municipalities.
12. Every right from an absolute ownership to an
easement is held subject to the restriction that it shall
so be exercised as not to injure others.
13. Every purchaser is bound to know that, although
at the time of his purchase the exercise of his right may
be inoffensive, it may become otherwise by residence of
many others in the vicinity and must yield to laws for
suppressing nuisances.
14. The owner of a burial lot in which no interment
has been made, loses the use of his lot by a law prohibit-
ing interments there, and is not entitled to compensa-
tion.
15. In such case his property has not been taken for
public use.
16. The state has the right to regulate the use of all
property for the public good.
17. Where one covenants not to do a lawful thing
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and the legislature afterwards compels him to do it, the
law repeals the covenant.
This case is also reported in 4 American Law Times,
128. Also, see as to burial and removal of bodies:
In re Stephen Girard, 5 Clark (Phila.) 68 (1860) King,
Other Legal J.; Wynkoop V. Wynkoop, 42 Penna.
Opinions St. Rep. 293 (1862) Read, J.; Lourie v.
Piatt, 11 Phila. 303 (1876) Finletter, J.; Francis Es-
tate, 75 Penna. State Rep. 225 (1874) Murcur, J. ; Scott
V. Reilly, 16 Phila. Rep., p. 106 (1883) Finletter, J.;
Fox V. Gordon, 16 Phila. Rep., p. 185 (1883) Thayer, P.
J.; Campher v. Poulson, 19 Phila. Rep., p. 234 (1887),
Biddle, J. ; Cooney v. Laurence, 11 Pa. County Court,
p. 79 (1891) Per Curiam; Comth. v. Susquehanna Coal
Co., 6 Lane. Law Review, p. 107 (1889), Rice, P. J.;
Harding's Estate, 21 Pa. County Ct., p. 641 (1898),
Ferguson, J.; Congregation ShaaraiShomayimi;. Moss,
22 Penna. Supr. Ct. p. 356 (1903), W. D. Porter, J.;
Pettigrew v. Pettigrew, 207 Pa. St. Rep. 313 (1904),
Mitchell, C. J. These cases are interesting as indicat-
ing how the courts have viewed the questions involved.
Bearing on this subject, the legislature of Pennsyl-
vania passed several acts, viz.: (1) Act May 19, 1874
(P. L. 208), authorizing the Court of Quarter Sessions
Acts of Assembly ^^ make such orders and decrees for the
in re regulation and care of burial grounds
Bunai Grounds ^j^en any such burial ground shall be-
come so neglected as in the opinion of said court to
become a public nuisance, the Court may direct the re-
moval of the dead therefrom to some other properly
regulated burying ground. (2) The Act May 13, 1876
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(P. L. 159), and (3) the Act April 18, 1877 (P. L. 54),
were further supplements changing the title of the act
of 1874, and extending the power of the Court to cases
to order removal where interments have ceased and
such remains interfere with religious buildings or
trusts.
These acts were passed upon by the Supreme Court
in Craig v. First Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh,
88 Pa. St. Rep., p. 42, and sustained by that Court, Jan-
uary 6, 1879, in an opinion by Mr. Justice Paxson.
Chief Justice Daniel Agnew entertained strong views
upon the sacredness of burial grounds, as may be gath-
ered from the following taken from his vigorous dis-
sent:
''I cannot assent to the decision in this case," said
Judge Agnew. ''In my judgment, it offends against
natural feeling and constitutional law. I grant the
Judge Agnew's ^^^^* °^ ^^^ ^^^^^' i^ *^® exercise of her
Opinion on the police power to regulate graveyards for
Sacredness of the public good, and to remove decaying
Burial Giounds • x! ti^ j.* i> j.i
remams tor the preservation of the
health of the citizens. I grant her right of removal by
way of eminent domain when a great public interest
requires it, but in compensation to those who have ac-
quired a right of sepulture by contract. Yet even in
this respect the State has shown her sense of propriety
and right in the General Railroad Law of 1849, Sec. 10,
by excepting burial places from the powers of a com-
pany to appropriate lands, but I deny the right of re-
moval for individual or private interest, whether it be
for building a lecture-room for a church congregation
or a Sabbath school room. Its purpose is to save
money by taking ground appropriated for the dead. A
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religious congregation is a private body, and its inter-
ests are individual, not public. Thus to coin money
out of the bones of the dead, is to violate a purchaser's
right of sepulture, contrary to the instincts of the race
and the keenest sensibilities of the heart.
*' Among all tribes and nations, savage and civilized,
the resting places of the dead are regarded as sacred.
There memory loves to linger and plant the choicest
flowers ; there the sorrowing heart renews the past, re-
kindles into life the viewless forms of the dead, revives
the scenes where once they moved, and recalls the
happy hours of love and friendship. There parent and
child, husband and wife, relatives and friends, with
broken spirits and crushed hopes, revisit often the spot
where they deposited their dead. Who does not feel
the fountains of his heart broken up and the warm
gushing of emotion, when standing over the green sod
which covers the departed; 'Wherever the simple stone
is placed, or the marble monument is reared, spontane-
ous thought inscribes upon it' 'sacred to the memory.'
''This sacredness is evidenced by one of the most
touching incidents of Scripture. When Abraham stand-
ing by the dead body of Sarah, addressed the Sons of
Heth, saying, 'I am a stranger and sojourner with you,
give me a possession of a burying place with you, that
I may bury my dead out of my sight : ' they offered him
a choice of their sepultures ; but Abraham intent upon
a possession of his own, where the remains of her he
had loved might repose in security, purchased the field
of Machpelah of Ephron, the Hittite, for four hundred
shekels of silver. Even more touching is the reference
to Jacob, who dying in Egypt surrounded by his chil-
dren, charged them and said unto them 'I am to be
gathered unto my people, bury me with my fathers in
the cave that is in the field of Machpelah. There they
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FAMILY VAULT WILLIAM CUMMINGS, 1917.
SLtcW^^op ^tentins!i&V0 Sipptsd
buried Abraham and Sarab, bis wife, tbere tbey buried
Isaac and Rebecca, bis wife, and tbere I buried Leab.'
Tradition has preserved to tbis day, tbe identity of tbe
cave and tbe tombs of tbose ancient worthies, undis-
turbed even by tbe Moslem, wbose mosque covers and
protects tbeir resting places. ' '
Tbe latest act is tbat of May 23, 1887 (P. L. 168),
wbicb I will refer to later.
His Grace Arcbbisbop Edmond F. Prendergast of
tbe Roman Catholic Church of Philadelphia, in 1915,
Archbishop ^^^ Sustained by the Court in refusing
Prendergast's to permit the body of one Mary K.
Appeal Hoppe, twenty-one years after burial, to
be removed from the Cathedral Cemetery to Laurel
Hill upon tbe application of her husband and children,
stating ' ' It is my duty to guard the repose of the dead
who are buried in the Catholic Cemeteries of the dio-
cese of which I am the bead" (Hoppe v. Cathedral
Cemetery et al., 24 Penna. Dist. rep., 344). Why
should not the Episcopal Church be equally vigilant in
guarding the repose of her dead?
In July, 1904, it was proposed to sell the Old Pine
Street Presbyterian Church and burial ground, Fourth
Proposed Sale ^nd Pine Streets.* Their patriotic
Prevented of Old pastor, the late Rev. Dr. Hughes 0.
Pine Street .
Presbyterian Gibbons, earnestly objected to the prop-
Church osition and prevented its consummation.
What he said in protest is equally true of St. Paul's.
I quote a few sentences from his sermon.
4 Captain Charles Boss, Seventh Captain, First Troop Philadelphia City
Cavalry, 1772-1817, is here buried. The City Troop, in 1818, erected
over his grave a monument of white marble surmounted by a bronze
trophy of arms. 25
l^i^toti^ ot &t paurjEi episcopal Cj^utc^
''Many are buried here whose names are written in
the early history and development of our nation and
who laid down their lives in the memorable struggle
that our land might be free.
''Desecration of these dead would be the worse by
reason of the fact that the great majority of the bones
are those of members of the church, among them those
who stood high in the counsels of that church and la-
bored hard for its growth and development.
"One physician has declared that the bones of the
dead have been in the ground so long that they must
have become dust. Under such circumstances any at-
tempt to remove the bodies would result in the most
disgraceful desecration and it would be impossible to
preserv^e their identity."
Passing the question of St. Paul's family, church, and
historic relations, which to some may seem sentimental,
and viewing the proposed sale solely in the cold, com-
Poor Business mercial aspect of dollars and cents.
Proposition it will not, as a mere business propo-
sition, produce the sum of money, which those who ad-
vocate it claim. Either they have not studied the sub-
ject, or, having studied, have not understood. "An un-
wise man doth not well consider this : and a fool doth
not understand it," says the psalmist.^ They expect
to realize from $50,000 to $60,000, and let it be admitted
for the present purpose that this amount represents
the fair market value. To buy the necessary ground
in Laurel Hill Cemetery, or a cemetery of like charac-
ter, and separately exhume the bodies, recofifin, remove
and reinter them, including the removal of tablets,
6 Psalm 92 : 6.
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Sict0 ot agijSemftIp ajsf to Wit-intttmtnt
gravestones and vaults, and make provision for their
perpetual care and maintenance, would require an ex-
penditure of from forty to fifty thousand dollars, henct;
there would be little balance, if any, for the projectea
diocesan home of the City Mission. Judged commer-
mercially, therefore, it is not a pajring proposition. I,
of course, assume that the Tmstees do not contemplate
merely plowing up the ground and arranging with some
general contractor, the lowest bidder, to remove such
bones as he may be able to recover, and reinter them
in some cemetery organized for corporate profit, the
trustees of which would accept them in bulk and charge
accordingly, even though this were the sole method of
obtaining the best financial results from the sale.
The act of Assembly approved by the Governor, May
23, 1887 (P. L. 168), expressly provides that each body
to be removed shall be separately reinterred in some
Act of Assembly Suitable burial ground and each grave
as to to be marked by headstones, et cetera.
Re-interment rpj^jg ^^^ confers jurisdiction upon the
Court of Common Pleas to order removals, after final
hearing of all parties in interest, but it also expressly
provides, ''That no such petition shall be granted ex-
cept upon condition set forth in the decree requiring
the petitioners to purchase the rights of all lot-holders
in such burial grounds, and to secure the consent in
writing of the near relatives of decedents whenever
such relatives shall appear as parties to such proceed-
ings. And provided further, That any party in inter-
est may appeal from the decree of such Court within
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thirty days." These provisions show how careful and
tender is the law in safeguarding the burial places of
the dead.^
In the case of St. Paul's, our ancestors not only
bought the graves, but paid forty dollars to the church
for the privilege of erecting a gravestone 6 feet by 3
feet, and two and a half dollars extra for every square
foot of ground, besides an additional sum for a vault.
The church corporation in Article V of the By-laws
agreed :
*' Every Vault, sunk and built by a member of this
Church, shall be a sacred depository for the deceased
remains of the family of such member, and the de-
Eveiy Vault scendants of such family forever, on
a Sacred their complying with the rules and regu-
Depository lations laid by the Vestry of said Church
from time to time ; provided always, that such regula-
tions do not infringe the rights established for the bene-
fit of the regular and sitting members in said Church
(burying in such vaults or elsewhere) nor the descend-
ant or descendants of such members holding a vault,
notwithstanding the said descendant or descendants
may not be members of the said church, they shall be
entitled to the same privileges as if they were actually
members so long as the said Family Vault can admit
interments. It is to be understood that the aforesaid
privilege shall not be so construed as to extend to any
« In re German Roman Catholic Holy Trinity Burial ground, Passyunk
Ave. and Washington Ave., Philadelphia, Quarter Sessions, Philadelphia,
Decree January 18, 1906, John M. Campbell, Esq., Atty. in re Trinity
Episcopal Church, in the district of Southwark, Philadelphia, see report
of Edward S. Sayres, Esq., Master, and Decree Quarter Sessions, Phila-
delphia, May 8, 1913.
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IBlequeiSt foe ^i^totif ot C|utc5
but such as may be the actual descendants of the
Family, by which the Vault was built."
The contract therefore is that ' 'Every Vault, sunk and
built by a member of this church, shall be a sacred de-
pository for the deceased remains of the family of such
member, and the descendants of such family forever.''
This is plain and easily understood. And the act of
1887, just quoted, requires the Trustees of the Diocese,
should they ask the Court of Common Pleas to order
the removal of those buried in St. Paul's, to purchase
the rights of all lot-holders, and to secure the consent
in writing of the near relatives before each body is re-
moved, which must be separately reinterred, and each
grave marked by headstones.
During the agitation and discussion which this entire
subject has engendered, several gentlemen, representa-
tives of families prominent in Pennsylvania and for-
Request for merly of St. Paul's Congregation, have
History of Church requested me to prepare a brief history
of the parish, to put into print some memorial of its
useful past, for the information of those who are con-
sidering what best to do for its preservation in the
present crisis.
The tide has ebbed and, like many a goodly ship who
has nobly done her part at sea, has left Old St. Paul's
on the shore. Other men and other times are here, a
Ebb of the new generation, who, unmindful, perhaps
Tide ignorant or forgetful of her great past
in their Church History, now seriously propose to coin
money by her sale and demolition.
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The Holy Eoman Catholic Church from the earliest
times has been awake to the fact that those relics, places
and buildings which make her history, especially old
Consecrated churches and cathedrals, are among her
Places City's greatest assets. This is so, even after
Greatest Asset they are in ruins and nothing remains
except a few columns and pilasters, or perhaps, a
chancel, nave or part of the choir, to indicate the site
of the original building. These relics are prized, and
the places visited yearly by innumerable thousands
of pious pilgrims from all over the world, as was Can-
terbury after Archbishop Becket's death, who regard
them with profound veneration and respect. They are
consecrated places and nothing would tempt the Roman
Catholic Church to sell them.
This was originally our church policy, and why aban-
don it now? Let us not destroy St. Paul's, one of our
historic assets, and have posterity regard us as vandals,
or, more mortifying still, as without historic sense or rev-
erence, as merely a commercial people of small breadth
of view who possessed good intentions, without knowl-
edge. Let posterity see that we have all the reverence
felt in the old world for the dead and their burial places.
General tentative suggestions as to the proper dis-
position of St. Paul's have been made:
1. That the church building be restored as it was in
colonial days with high pews and used as it is to-day for
Tentative occasional services, since there are not
Suggestions enough people to make a congregation.
2. That the building remain as it is and be made a
museum, similar to the Old South Church on Washing-
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ton street, in Boston, Massachusetts, services being
held as at present.
3. Adding to tlie first suggestion, such necessary-
changes as would make the front and sides usable as
a recreation center, an open breathing place for the
people of the neighborhood, as has been done in sev-
eral instances with old churches in London. This
would necessitate placing the tombstones and tablets
against the walls of the adjoining buildings, and per-
haps turning the building, ground and graves over to
the city of Philadelphia in trust, if it would accept and
maintain it for this purpose.
All these plans would require the expenditure of
some money. The first plan is, seemingly, the best, if
a sufficient number of people are interested to raise the
money. A moderate sum of money in trust, would in-
sure for all time the preservation of this historic church,
and the repose of its heroic dead who helped secure our
liberty and make us a nation.
To these men, and their associates, we owe our com-
mon country, that we are one people, one nation, one
Debt to St. Paul's power. To them we owe our flag and
Dead all that it typifies of freedom civil
and religious—
" The Star-Spangled Banner,
Oh long may it wave,
O'er the land of the free and the
Home of the brave."
These men deserve well of posterity, and I cannot
conceive that, the patriotic citizens of Pennsylvania,,
The Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, The Pennsyl-
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vania Society of the Cincinnati, of which some were
members, The Society of Colonial "Wars in Pennsyl-
vania, The Societies of Colonial Dames in Pennsyl-
Patriotic Societies vania, The Pennsylvania Society Sons
Based on Services ^ ^^^ Revolution, The Patriotic Order
of St. Paul's '
Dead Sons of America, whose very existence,
as organizations, is based upon the services to our Com-
monwealth and Country of men like Col. Thomas Proc-
tor,^ General Walter Stewart, Col. Blathwaite Jones,
Captain Gibbs Jones, Capt. John Maepherson,^ Briga-
7 Thomas Proctor, born in Ireland in 1739, accompanied his father,
Francis Proctor, to Philadelphia. He was elected a member of Car-
penter's Company in 1772 and was instrumental in obtaining the use of
Carpenter 's Hall for the meetings of the Continental Congress. In 1775,
he was commissioned Captain of an artillery company, which command
was raised to a battalion the following year, and he appointed its
major. He was commissioned colonel in 1777, with instructions to raise
an entire regiment of artillery. This regiment, under Wayne at Brandy-
wine, was engaged in the artillery duel at Chad's Ford, where Colonel
Proctor 's horse was shot under him. It became part of the Continental
rarmy in 1778, and he received his commission as colonel of artillery,
May 8, 1779, and marched to Wyoming. By commission of Congress,
lie served as Major of Artillery from December 25, 1782, until October
22, 1783; Major of the Artillery battalion of "Militia of the City and
liiberties of Philadelphia" from May 12, 1792, until April 12, 1793,
when he was promoted Brigadier General. At the outbreak of the
Whiskey Insurrection, in command of the first brigade, he marched
against the insurgents August 7, 1794. He became Major General of the
Philadelphia militia June 7, 1796, and when war threatened with France,
he assured Governor Mifflin of his cordial support in the event of hos-
tilities. He filled the office of High Sheriff from October 20, 1783, to
October 14, 1785, and, as City Lieutenant of Philadelphia, superintended
the celebration of the arrival of General Washington, November 23, 1790.
A founder of the Sons of Saint Tammany of Philadelphia, he was also
an original member of the Pennsylvania State Society of the Cincinnati.
He died at his residence in Philadelphia, Arch Street, between Fourth
and Fifth, March 16, 1806, and was buried with military honors in St.
Paul's ground. Thus closed the earthly career of one of the most
brilliant artillerists of the Eevolution. May he rest in peace.
8 For account of Capt. John Macpherson, see Thompson Westcott's
"Historic Mansions and Buildings of Philadelphia," pp. 212 et seq.
COL. BLAITHWAITE JONES.
BORN JUNE, 1726; DIED AUGUST, 1789.
CHIEF ENGINEER AT BILLIN8P0RT, 1777,
UNDER GENERAL WASHINGTON.
^attiotit fbotittie0
dier Genl. William Macpherson,® and others buried in
the churchyard; or The Historical and Genealogical So-
cieties of Pennsylvania, which cherish and preserve
their memories and deeds; or The First Troop Phila-
delphia City Cavalry, the Masonic Lodges, Nos. 2,
3, and Lodge, No. 19, to which many of them be-
longed, as well as the Grand Lodge Free and Ac-
cepted Masons of Pennsylvania, of which Thomas
Proctor, Blathwaite Jones,^^ Gibbs, Jones,!^ David Hall,
John Wood, Dr. George Glentworth and others were
officers and distinguished members, will permit the sale
and destruction of this shrine and the removal of the
historic dead without protest and active opposition.
Duty of the The duty of these Societies and of patri-
Diocese otic citizens of Pennsylvania generally,
especially members of the Episcopal Church, is to pre-
9 See sketch of Brigadier General William Macpherson and some of
his descendants, in * ' Descendants of Joran Kyn, ' ' by Gregory B. Keen,
LL.B., pp. 149 et seq.
10 Blathwaite Jones, son of Gibbs and Jane (Crapp) Jones, baptized
at Christ Church, July 21, 1726; died at Philadelphia shortly before
August 10, 1789. His paternal grandfather, John Jones, was a member
of Philadelphia Common Council 1691, alderman 1701 and one of the
justices of the County Courts. In early life Blathwaite Jones followed
the sea and was a member of the Masonic fraternity, Lodge No. 2 of
Pennsylvania. At the outbreak of the Revolution he espoused the
American cause and was a member of the Philadelphia Committee of
Safety and of the Provincial Convention of January 23, 1775. When.
Congress ordered the construction of fortifications at Billingsport for
the defence of Philadelphia, he was, on February 15, 1777, appointed
Chief Engineer of Construction, with rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. It
was here that he obstructed the channel of the Delaware River and built
the chevaux-de-frise.
11 Gibbs Jones, son of Blathwaite Jones by his first wife Jane, born
March 5, 1748, was baptized at Christ Church and predeceased his father.
On February 9, 1776, he was appointed Captain Lieutenant of the Artil-
lery Company of the United Colonies raised for Canadian service. Mem-
ber of Lodge No. 2, F. and A. M. Among his descendants was the
lately deceased and well known physician, John B. Shober.
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l^ijStotg of &t pauPiS CpiiScopal C^urcS
serve it, and I think there will be no failure or neglect
of this duty, now that the matter is presented to them
for consideration and action. It also should appeal
to the Bishop and clergy of the Diocese, who, I
confidently expect, will by voice and pen express their
disapproval of any sale of this church and its ground,
vaults and graves.
In response, therefore, to the before mentioned re-
quest, that some memorial of St. Paul's be prepared, I
herewith submit, in connection with my appeal for its
preservation, the subjoined outline of its past, which
may some day, under other hands, grow into a more
comprehensive church history than I have the time,
amid pressing official duties, to prepare.
/^MjJm^
April 30, 1917.
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OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF ST.
CHURCH
PAUL'S
sand souls.
Eighteen
Thousand Souls
^^^ T the time of its organization in 1760, St. Paul's was
^■r% the third Church of England congregation in
^^1^ Penn's fair city of Philadelphia, which then
^^^ ^^ had nearly reached the age of four score years,
and had a living progeny of eighteen thou-
By the City of Philadelphia, is meant the
the original city, two miles long and a mile
wide, bounded on the north by Vine street,
and on the south by South street, and extending east and
Original ^^^^ from the Delaware to the Schuylkill,
City containing 1,280 acres, or as it was, until the
consolidation in 1854, by which the twenty-eight villages or
districts, Southwark, Northern Liberties, Moyamensing, Spring
Garden, Kensington, Richmond, etc., became the city of
Philadelphia as it exists to-day. Christ Church, which be-
longed to the first parish or congregation, begun in 1695, was
completed by May, 1747, except the steeple, which was fin-
ished in 1754. St. Peter's, the second, on Society Hill,^
incepted in 1753,^ was opened for divine service, Sep-
1 Society Hill, from the Free Society of Traders which originally owned
the land from river to river, including the hill at or about Front and
Pine Streets.
2 At Christ Church vestry meeting March 19, 1753, the Eev. Dr. Jenney
represented that some gentlemen from the south end of the city had
25
"f^i^tot^f ot &t pmV0 episcopal Cj^utcg
tember 4, 1761, and though sometimes called a ** chapel of
case" was, **in every respect whatever," "upon an equal
footing with Christ Church," and the Con-
gregations of the two churches were by vote
of the vestry, August 19, 1761, to "be styled the united Con-
gregations of Christ Church and St. Peter 's. ' ' This was rati-
fied by the Proprietary Charter of June 24, 1765, which Con-
stituted the Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of the
United Churches of Christ Church and St.
St. Peter's Peter's in the city of Philadelphia in the
Church
Province of Pensylvania, a body politic.
Gloria Dei, the Swedes Church at Wicacoa, though dedicated
July 2, 1700, was of the Lutheran denomination, not in con-
nection with the Church of England, by whom it was subse-
quently absorbed, and St. James at Kingsessing and Christ
Church, Upper Merion, though possessed of church buildings,
the first in 1760, the latter in 1763, continued under the
mother church at Wicacoa.'
The Church of England adherents had no settled clergy-
man of their own in Penn's Quaker Colony until 1698, when
Henry Compton, Bishop of London, sent the Rev. Thomas
Clayton to Philadelphia, where he found a
First Church ^ . .
of England congregation of fifty persons* which, m two
Clergyman in years, increased to seven hundred. Clayton
1 a e p la ^^^ called by the Quakers, the minister of
acquainted him of their intention to build a new church and desired his
opinion and encouragement. This was the first movement in reference
to the building of St. Peter's Church. The next signal step in this
direction was the memorial to the Penns, August 1, 1754, praying for
the grant of one hundred and four feet of ground belonging to the
Proprietary on the west side of Third Street, bounded north by Pine
Street, for a church and yard, and signed by eighty-six divers inhabitants
of the city of Philadelphia. This lot was subsequently enlarged by pur-
chase to the westward extending the church-yard to Fourth Street. —
Dorr's "History of Christ Church," pp. 102-3; " Sesquicentennial Year
Book, Saint Peter's Parish," pp. xxiv-v.
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With, Wiit^ath fbt^saU
the doctrine of devils. The Bishop of London, by virtue of a
clause in Charles II 's Charter to Penn, was authorized, upon
the request of twenty inhabitants, to appoint a chaplain to
minister in Pennsylvania, which provision was inserted at
the suggestion of Bishop Compton^ whose foresight in this re-
spect is much to be commended. In 1695, the required num-
ber had met, appointed a vestry and purchased a lot of
ground one hundred feet front on Second Street, on which,
according to Gabriel Thomas' publication of 1698, ''a very
fine church ' ' had been ' ' built in the year 1695. ' '« This latter
statement is corroborated by Colonel Quarry's letter of Janu-
ary 18, 1696, to Governor Nicholson in which he thanks him
for ''assisting us to build our Church, which being now fin-
ished, &c."^
The Reverend Richard Sewell of St. Stephen's Parish,^
Cecil County, Maryland, was perhaps the first to hold the
Church of England services in Philadelphia, making occasional
Rev. Richard visits to the city for that purpose. Under
Sewell date of March 26, 1698, J. Arrowsmith writ-
ing from Philadelphia to Governor Nicholson says: ''We
have a full congregation and some are very desirous to re-
ceive the sacrament if it could be administered at Easter. I
did speak to Mr. SewelP who gave me a promise to come."
sAcrelius, "History of New Sweden," pp. 349-50 (Memoirs of the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, vol. xi).
4 "Year Book and Eemembrances of Christ Church, Philadelphia,
1695-1912," pp. 10, 16.
5 Hazzard's "Kegister of Pennsylvania," vol. i, pp. 269-70.
6 "History of Pennsylvania," by Gabriel Thomas, London, 1698, p. 51.
7 Perry's "Historical Collections Relating to the American Colonial
Church, ' ' vol. ii, p. 5.
8 Philip Barratt, the first of this surname in Maryland, a parishioner of
St. Stephens, Cecil County, in 1678, was married by Mr. Sewell, who
baptized his youngest son Philip Barratt, Jr., from whom the writer also
descends.
^9 Further notices of Mr, Sewell will be found in the Acts of Dr. Bray's
"Visitations" reprinted in Hawk's "Ecclesiastical Contributions"
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^i0tot^ ot &t pauriS episcopal CSutcJ
In the following November, another letter to Governor Nichol-
son speaks of "so good a divine as Mr. Clayton"^" being at
Christ Church,
St. Paul's Church was formed principally by persons who
were attached to Christ Church, though some were primarily
Presbyterians and Lutherans. They as-
Formed Mainly ,,-,«, ^ • ^
from Christ sembled for the first time as a new Congre-
Church gation, June 22, 1760, in the State House,
now known as Independence Hall, and some
three thousand people are said to have been present.
Two days later, certain articles of agreement" for raising
money to purchase ground on which to erect a church build-
ing, since known as St. Paul's Church, received ninety- four
signatures. Of this number, at least ten had been signa-
tories to the Memorial to the Penns in 1754, for ground upon
which to build the church, later St. Peter's, and three had
lately been vestrymen of Christ Church. The italicized
names in the subjoined list of St. Paul 's subscribers are those
of the memorialists of 1754, while the first three are those of
the late Christ Church vestrymen. The brief footnotes show
something of the subscribers' standing in the community:
(Maryland), vol. ii, pp. 500, 523; Dorr's "History of Christ Church,"
p. 418; Barratt's Chapel, Papers of Delaware Historical Society, Ivii,
1911, p. 20.
10 ' ' Thomas Clayton, minister of the Church of England, died at
Sassafras, in Maryland [of yellow fever], and here is another from
London in his room, happened to come opportunely" — Isaac Norris'
letter to Jonathan Dickinson in Jamaica, dated Philadelphia, 11 — 7 mo.,
1699. Penn-Logan Correspondence, vol. i, p. Iviii. (Memoirs of the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania).
Additional references to Thomas Clayton will be found in Perry's
"Historical Collections of the Protestant Episcopal Church," vol. i, pp.
13, 14, 15, 42, 47, 49, 68; Anderson's "Colonial Church," vol. ii, p. 436;
vol. iii, p. 257; Hawkins' "Missions of the Church of England in the
Colonies," pp. 16, 107.
11 See Appendix A for full text.
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Christ Church was founded in 1695, under a provision of the original charter of King Charles
II to William Penii for the creation of the Province of Pennsylvania.
The parish was subsidized by King William III (William of Orange).
Here the Colonial Governors had their State Pew.
The Penn family pew was No. 60. John Penn, the last male member of this line, is buried near
the steps to the pulpit.
Communion silver presented in 1709 by Queen Anne.
Whitefield preached here in 1729.
The tablet to General Forbes, the victor of Fort Duquesne, 1758, may be seen in the chancel.
The pulpit dates from 1770. The candelabra in the centre isle is for candle-light, and has hung
in place since 1749. The gravestones and tablets are mostly of colonial and revolutionary days.
Continental Congress attended here a service of fasting and prayer in 1775, shortly after the
battle of Lexington.
The Baptismal Font dates from 1695.
The church organ, built in 1765, has been rebuilt twice, except the front case and keyboard.
The chime of bells pealed forth the Declaration of Independence in response to the Liberty
Bell, July 4, 1776. They were taken from the city with the Liberty Bell by Continental Congress at
the British occupation of the city, and were subsequently rehung in the tower by Congress.
Many members of the convention which framed the Constitution of the United States, 1787,
worshipped here during the sessions.
George Washington and Martha Washington regularly occupied Pew No. 58 from 1790 to 1797,
while he was President. The same was the official pew of John Adams while President, and was
used by the Marquis de Lafayette on his second visit to this country.
Benjamin Franklin was a member of the committee which built the spire, and occupied Pew
No. 70 ; since used by members of his family.
Robert Morris, Treasurer of the Revolution, who is buried beneath the Parish House, sat in
Pew No. 52.
Francis Hopkinson, Secretary of Continental Congress, and his son. Judge Joseph Hopkinson,
author of the national hymn, "Hail Columbia," occupied Pew No. 65.
General Charles Lee, of the Continental army, is interred beside the southwest door; and
nearby was laid to rest, after the battle of Princeton, General Hugh Mercer, 1777.
Rt. Rev. William White, D.D., first Bishop of Pennsylvania, is interred before the chancel
rails ; and his episcopal chair is beside the altar.
General Cadwalader, of the War of 1812, occupied the Cadwalader family Pew No. 55.
Henry Clay, during the time of his temporary attendance, sat in front of the west column,
north side.
In the churchyard are interred Peyton Randolph, first President of Continental Congress ;
Commodores Truxton, Bainbridge, Biddle and Richard Dale; Eleanor, daughter of Nellie Custis
(Mrs. Lewis), daughter of Martha Washington, and several signers of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, and other persons of distinction.
The American Episcopal Church was organized, its constitution was framed and the American
Prayer Book was adopted in this church, 1785.
At the southeast of the nave is the "Washington Door," through which was accustomed to
enter the " Father of his Country."
Rev. Louis C. Washburn is Rector 191 7.
Msntt0 to Sitticlc& ot Sifitttmtnt
Signers to Articles of Agreement
Thomas Leeeh^^
John Ross^3
John Baynton^^
Plunkt Fleesonis
"Walter Goodman^^
Thos. Campbelli^
James Benezet^^
John Ord^^
Jno. Knowles^"
Ephraim Bonham^i
John Pahner-2
Andw. Bankson^s
Andrew Doz^*
Thos. Charlton'^^
Trustees
Willm Macclenachan
Minister of St. Paul's
John Young
David Haipe
Walter Shee^^
John Howard^^
Lester Falkner^^
Jos. Pursell
Robt. Usher
Robt. Mullan
Charles Stow
Joseph Wardden
Isaac Stretch
John Reily^^
Henry Burnet
William Murdoch
Thos. Richard
his
Alexander C.
Hiekenbottom
mark
Richard Taylor
Doctr Willm
Dickenson
Edmund Beach^^
Benj. Randolph
Richd. Swan
William Shute^^
Robt Towers
Willm Young
12 Thomas Leech, Esq., third son of Tobias Leech, Esq., by his wife
Esther Ashmead, born circa 1685,- died 31 March, 1765, was a prominent
Philadelphia merchant and one of the leading men of the city. He was
clerk to the Assembly from 1723 until 1727; member of that body for
twenty-five years, serving as speaker in 1758 and 1759; trustee of the
College of Philadelphia, now the University of Pennsylvania, from 1749
until his death, and treasurer of Philadelphia County in 1757-8-9. He
was one of the committee of three which procured the now famous
"Independence Bell," and one of the trustees in whom the title to the
State House and other public buildings was vested by Act of Assembly
of February 17, 1762. A devout Episcopalian, he was for thirty-two
years a vestryman of Christ Church and a warden five years. He
took an active part in founding St. Paul's, and was interred under one
of the aisles of this church. "A sermon, suitable to the occasion, was
preached by the Eeverend Mr. William McClenachan, A.M., and Minister
of that Church, to a crowded and weeping congregation." An interest-
ing obituary of him appears in The Pennsylvania Gazette of April 8,
1762.
13 John Eoss, Esq., 1715-1776, son of the eminent divine, Eev. George
Boss, forty years the Eector of Emanuel Church, New Castle, Delaware,
and half brother of Hon. George Eoss, a Signer of the Declaration of
Independence, was one of Philadelphia's best known legal lights of the
period and the chief rival before the courts of Andrew Hamilton. In
his diary, under date of September 25, 1775, John Adams writes of him
as " a lawyer of great eloquence and heretofore of extensive practice, a
great Tory, but now they say beginning to be converted." The Penn-
sylvania Gazette of May 15, 1776, records: "On the 5th instant, de-
parted this life, aged 61 years, John Eoss, Esquire, long an eminent
counsellor of the law, in this city. His remains, bourne by the Gentle-
men of the Bar, attended by a number of the most respectable of his
29
i^i^tot^ ot &t pauPiei episcopal C|)utc|^
Danl. Clark John Lees
William Leech Thomas Mackarall
Kenneth Maekensie James Harris
Humphy Wayne his
Jas Claypoole Jeremiah T. Sharp
John Young mark
Jacob Imitz George Leadbetter
fellow citizens, was deposited in St. Paul's Church agreeably to his own
desire." For twenty-two years he was a vestryman of Christ Church
and several years of St. Paul's. His wife, Elizabeth Morgan, whom
he married December 28, 1735, is also buried at St. Paul's as was their
daughter, Catharine, wife of Henry Gurney, see Appendix. He was, in
1729, counsel for the Penn Estate in Pennsylvania. In this connection,
see vol 10, Penna. Mag. of History and Biog., p. 477.
14 John Baynton of the firm of Baynton, Wharton & Morgan, one of
the noted commercial houses of his time in Philadelphia and son of Peter
and Mary (Budd) Baynton, was born December 17, 1726. From 1756
until 1761, he was a member of the Assembly, and under an act of that
body in 1758/9, was appointed a trustee for disbursing £100,000 ordered
for paying and clothing the troops raised in Pennsylvania for the war
then pending. In 1762 he became one of the trustees of the Province,
in whom was vested, by an Act of Assembly passed that year, the legal
title of the State House, now Independence Hall, with its adjoining
property. He was a founder of the Society of Sons of St. George, a
member of the American Philosophical Society, and a contributor to the
Pennsylvania Hospital. He died May 8, 1773, having married, Decem-
ber 17, 1747, Elizabeth Chevalier, by whom he had several children, of
these were: John, who was commissioned by Congress, Deputy Pay-
master General to the troops and garrisons on the frontiers of Virginia
and Pennsylvania; Peter, Treasurer of Pennsylvania in 1797, and Ad-
jutant General in 1799; Mary, who married Colonel George Morgan, an
eminent Pennsylvanian ; Esther, who married Joseph Bullock, Esq., and
Elizabeth, who married Abraham Markoe, the first Captain of the First
City Troop, and the founder of the Markoe family of Philadelphia, q. v.
isPLUNKET Fleeson, Philadelphia, 1712-1791, became ensign in Capt.
Bond's Company of the Associated Regiment of Foot, of Philadelphia,
under commission of January 1, 1747/8. In 1762 and 1763 he was a
member of the Pennsylvania Assembly; signed the Non-Importation
Eesolutions in 1765, and on March 28, 1777, was commissioned a Justice
of the Courts of Philadelphia. On November 18, 1780, he was com-
missioned Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, of which he was some
years president judge, also of "the Court of Quarter Sessions and later
of the Orphans Court. Active in furthering the cause of the Revolution,
he in 1776, loaned the State £500 to raise recruits for the army. Among
the early contributors to the Pennsylvania Hospital, he was some years
a director of that institution. He died in August, 1791, aged seventy-
30
feiffnetsf to Sittic\t0 ot Sisttemtnt
John Wilkinson John Jones
James Stevenson James White
W. Blanch White Giles Tidmarsh Junr
William Budden George Hawkins
Nathaniel Curren Blair Macelenachan
seven years. His first wife, Catharine Fleeson, was buried in Christ
Church ground, December 13, 1752. He married (2), June 16, 1753,
Martha, widow of John Linton and daughter of Andrew Bankson. Of
his children : Esther, married 1st, Commodore John Hazlewood, 2d Samuel
Leacock and had issue by both marriages; Thomas, married Kebecca
Britton, and had issue; Ann, married Samuel Penrose, one of the
founders of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry; Martha, married
Thomas Canadine.
16 Capt. Walter Goodman, died August 26, 1782, aged sixty-seven
years, buried at Christ Church of which he was a vestryman as early as
1745. He signed St. Paul's Church lottery ticket, infra.
17 Capt. Thomas Campbell, on the roll of The St. Andrew's Society
of Philadelphia, in 1756.
18 Major James Benezet, of the well-known Huguenot family of his
surname, was born in London, England, August 26, 1721, and died in
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, May 16, 1794. He married June 5, 1747,
Ann, daughter of the Hon. Samuel Hasell, three times mayor of Phila-
delphia, and Provincial Councillor, who survived him. In 1765, he was a
signer of the Non-Importation Eesolutions, after which he removed to
Bucks County, where he took an active part in civil and military affairs
during the Kevolution and where he was Major of Militia, March 3, 1777.
In the latter year he became Prothonotary and Clerk of Court of Com-
mon Pleas, which office he held until 1787. His eldest son. Captain
Samuel Benezet, was the only one of his children to marry.
19 John Ord, Esq., died December 11, 1781, in the sixty-third year of
his age. His obit, in the Pennsylvania Gazette of December 19, 1781, says
in part : ' ' This gentleman maintained in every stage and situation of his
life, the character of a valuable member of civil and religious society.
He executed the office of a Magistrate both under the old and new condi-
tions of the State with integrity and impartiality. ... In private life,
he was kind, sincere and just. In a word, all who knew him agree that
he was in the fullest import of the words, a good citizen and an honest
man. ' ' His wife Ann, daughter of Thomas Mason, was buried in Christ
Church ground in 1752, as was he nearly thirty years later.
20 John Knowles was a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the
City and County of Philadelphia, June 6, 1777 to 1786.
21EPHRAIM Bonham, a member of Lodge No. 2 (Philadelphia), in
1749 (Moderns), and proposed by Blathwaite Jones', November 14, 1769,
in Lodge No. 2, Ancient York Masons, was also a member of the Fishing
Company of Fort St. David's in 1763. He had been connected with
Christ Church and his children were there baptized.
31
^igitorp ot fe»t ^mV0 (£pi0topal CfiutcS
John Perry John Williams
David Boore John Wood
William Smith James Payne
John Johnston - William Murdock Junr
Riehd Parker John Presley
22 John Palmer, frequently mentioned in Jacob Hiltzheimer 's Diary,
married Deborah Bankson, May 7, 1743, and had several children bap-
tized at Christ Church. He died April 8, 1797, aged 80 years, the last
survivor of the original trustees, and was buried in St. Paul's grounds,
q. V.
23 Andrew Bankson, a descendant of some of the earliest and most
influential of the Swedish settlers on the Delaware and brother-in-law
of Plunkett Fleeson and John Palmer, also signatories to the Articles of
Agreement, died at Philadelphia in March, 1786. Eeaders of Colonial
newspapers will recall the causa celehre between Andrew Bankson and
the clergy and vestry of Gloria Dei Church in 1767. By his wife, Sarah
Allen, who was buried in Christ Church ground in January, 1786, he had
at least seven children, of whom: "Jacob Bankson delivered the Saluta-
tory oration at the University of Pennsylvania November 19, 1767. On
the same occasion an Ode set to music was sung by [his brother] Mr.
John Bankson with great sweetness and Propriety accompanied by the
Organ." The former became a practitioner of the law in Chester
County; the latter a Captain in the Revolution and an original member
of the Cincinnati.
24 Andrevp" Doz, son of Philip and Martha Doz, baptized at Christ
Church, December 26, 1727; died December 18, 1788, and was interred in
Christ Church ground. The Pennsylvania Gazette said after his death:
' ' This worthy citizen does not require the panegyric of a newspaper to
spread the knowledge of his virtues, or to perpetuate his name in the
City of Philadelphia. His country, the Church of Christ, and the
distressed of every description and denomination, shared largely in the
benefits of his public spirit and charities during his life, and were
remembered by him with peculiar liberality in the hour of his death.
These public virtues were not the splendid apologies for the want of
those of private life. He was upright, faithful and affectionate in the
discharge of all the social and domestic obligations." He married
Rebecca, daughter of Caleb Cash. Their daughter Lucia became the
wife of the Rev. Samuel Magaw, D.D., rector of St. Paul's, 1781 to
1804, q. V. The bequest of Mr. Doz to the Bishop of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church, was all Bishop White had to depend upon as Bishop outside
of his salary as Rector of Christ Church. His will dated December 17,
1788, of which his wife Rebecca, daughter Martha Flower, Rt. Rev. Dr.
William White, Samuel Coates and Miers Fisher, were executors, devised
entire estate after death of his wife and daughter to Pennsylvania Hos-
pital, Protestant Episcopal Academy, Bishop Protestant Episcopal
Church, Society for Relief of Protestant Episcopal Clergymen widows
32
^isnet0 to SitticU^ ot Sisttemmt
John Bourn Thomas Cuthbert
John Moyes John Sprogell Junr
Richard Hancock John George
George Goodwin John Ledru
Robert Carson Claudius Dubois
and children, St. Paul's Church, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Dispensary,
and Humane Society of Philadelphia. — Eegister of Wills, Phila., Boole
W, page 206.
25 Thomas Charlton, vestryman of Christ Church, 1769.
26 David Hall, born in Scotland in 1714; died in Philadelphia, De-
cember 24, 1772, and was buried in Christ Church burying ground. For
eighteen years he was a partner of Benjamin Franklin in the printing
business, and with him published the Pennsylvania Gazette. Upon the
dissolution of this partnership in 1766, Mr. Hall formed a new one with
William Sellers, under the firm name of Hall & Sellers, which concern
continued the printing and publishing business until the death of the
former. In 1751 and 1753 Mr. Hall was a vestryman of Christ Church.
He became a member of Lodge Xo. 2, Free and Accepted Masons, Jan-
uary 25, 1760. He was one of the founders of the St. Andrews Society
of Philadelphia and a member of the American Philosophical Society.
His sons, William and David, succeeded to their father's place in the
printing firm and they continued the publication of the Pennsylvania
Gazette.
27 Walter Shee, an Irish gentleman who had come to Philadelphia
about 1745, and engaged in the shipping business with his two sons, the
firm being Walter Shee & Sons when they signed the Non-Importation
Kesolutions of 1765. In 1777 he became Collector of Customs at Phila-
delphia, and held this position throughout the Eevolution. His eldest
son was later Colonel John Shee of the 3d Battalion of Pennsylvania
Troops, member of the Pennsylvania Board of War, General of Volun-
teers after the War, and Collector of the Port of Philadelphia, dying
during his incumbency of the last office, August 5, 1808.
28 John Howard, vestryman of St. Paul 's, 1764-1771, q.v.
29 Lester Falkner, wealthy sea captain affi.liated with Christ Church,
died August 8, 1766, His second wife was Sarah, daughter of John
Coats and widow of Captain Thomas Penrose. She married 3d, An-
thony Duche.
30 John Eeily was a conveyancer and, in 1760, Secretary of Lodge
No. 3, F. & A. M., called the Tun Tavern Lodge from the place of meet-
ing, a noted hostelry on the east side of Water Street just south of
Chestnut Street. Associated with him in this Lodge were the following
subscribers to St. Paul's: John Howard, John Wilkinson, John Ord,
John Eoss, Walter Shee.
31 Mr. Edmund Beach, of Southwark, died February 25, 1787. ''His
remains were interred in the burial grounds of the Third Presbyterian
4 33
Christopher Pechin Michael Brothers
David Branson William Sellers
George Nelson Thos. White
John Smith Josh. Ledru
Danl Dupuy Nat. Irish
John Doyle Jonathan Hanson
Joseph Hargrave
The agreeements, concessions, and constitutions of The
Episcopal Church of St. Paul were drawn by John Ross, Es-
quire, the rival of Andrew Hamilton at the Philadelphia bar,
and are a tribute to their author's legal acumen and ability.
It will be noticed that the corporate title is. The Episcopal
Church of St. Paul not "Protestant Episcopal," because St.
Paul's was founded before the organization of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in America. In point of fact, St. Paul's
was one of the founders of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
On the 24th day of June, 1760, as before set forth, these
certain agreements, concessions, and constitutions were made,
concluded and agreed upon, by and between
_ ^. , the subscribers and contributors for raising
Propagation of °
Principles of a sum of money for purchasing or renting
Established ^^^ qj. more lots of ground and building a
Church
church in the City of Philadelphia, wherein
Church attended by a large number of respectable inhabitants." See
obit, in The Pennsylvania Gazette.
82 William Shute, nephew of Atwood Shute, Esq., a vestryman of
Christ Church and Mayor of Philadelphia, was a well-known merchant
of his time and the ancestor of many prominent Philadelphians, among
whom may be mentioned the late Col. Charles Somers Smith, Henry
Hollingsworth Smith, M.D., Francis Gurney Smith, M.D., Atwood Smith
and the present Charles Smith Turnbull, M.D., Mr. Shute died in
February, 1783, having been contributor to Pennsylvania Hospital,
member of Fishing Company of Fort St. David 'sj first lieutenant of
Captain Richard Barrett's Company of Guards, under Major Lewis
Nichola in 1777, and one of the Wardens of Philadelphia in 1782. He
was an active Mason, a member of Lodge No. 2 in 1754 and after the
decline of the "Moderns," joined Lodge No. 3 of the "Ancients";
served as Master in 1770; became active in the Grand Lodge and was
Senior Grand Warden in 1772. (Sachse, "Old Masonic Lodges in Penn-
sylvania, Moderns and Ancients," vol. i, p. 87.
34
^tinciplt^ ot C0tabIi0|^eti Cj^utci^
it was provided that the ground to be purchased and the
building thereon to be erected should be conveyed to fourteen
persons and the survivor of them, and held upon the following
uses and trusts:
First, to build thereon a house of public worship, *'to be
used and employed as a house of public worship forever,
wherein shall be read, performed, and taught the liturgy,
rights, ceremonies, doctrines and true principles of the estab-
lished church of England, according to the plain, literal and
grammatical sense of the thirty-nine articles^^ of the said
church, and none other whatsoever; and the same house is
hereby agreed forever hereafter to be styled and called by the
name of St. Paul's Church."
Second, That the title should be vested in the said fourteen
persons and their survivors, and by them conveyed to the per-
son or persons named by the congregation.
Third, That the Kev'd William MacClenachan should be-
minister of the said Church until his successor was duly
chosen.
Fourth, That an assistant minister should be chosen.
Fifth, That a vestry of twenty persons should be elected.
Sixth, That the Vestry should collect the revenues of the
Church, and apply them to the payment of the ground rents,
the salaries of the clerk and sexton, repairs to the church,
and churchyard, and other incidental expenses in the order
named, and
Lastly, To put the residue into the hands of the Minister
and his assistant, in such portions as the congregation by
ballot should direct.
On the 16th day of September, 1760, Anthony Morris, the
33 MoConnell in his ' * History of the American Episcopal Church, ' ^
p. 274, gives the history of the thirty-nine articles and states that their-
adoption was foreign to the genius of the American Church and shouldL
have been eliminated at the organization thereof.
35
younger, conveyed the greater part of the premises, being the
part on which the church building was afterward erected, to
the fourteen persons, viz. : Thomas Leech, et al. and survivor
of them in fee, and on the 19th day of April, 1762, Israel
Morris conveyed the other part of the premises to the four-
teen persons, viz. : John Koss, et al. and the survivor of them
in fee.
On the 23d day of September, 1783, the church was in-
corporated by Act of Assembly^* of that date, under the name
and title of ''The Minister, Church Wardens and Vestrymen
of the Episcopal Church of St. Paul, in the
Church Q,^. . Philadelphia, in the Common-
Incorporated
wealth of Pennsylvania." The incorpora-
tors named in the Charter were: the Rev. Samuel Magaw,
D.D., rector or minister, John Wood and Lambert Wilmer,
wardens ; Plunket Fleeson, John Young, Andrew Doz, George
Goodwin, John Campbell, George Ord, Blair McClenachan,
William Graham, George Glentworth, Joseph Bullock, Samuel
Penrose, George Nelson, Richard Renshaw, Joseph Turner,
John Keble, John Bates, James Dougherty and Benjamin
Towne, vestrymen. John Palmer, who, on October 14, 1796,
was the sole survivor of the orginal fourteen trustees, con-
veyed the lot of ground first before mentioned, and on De-
cember 22, 1796, he conveyed the lot, second before named,
to the church as incorporated, its successors and assigns.
None of the deeds by which the church acquired its prop-
erty imposed any restriction, condition, or trust upon its use ;
but it is provided in the twelfth section of its charter that the
agreements, concessions, and constitutions made by the sub-
scribers and contributors to the church, by their agreement
of June 24, 1760, before recited, should remain in force and
operation.
34 See copy of Act of Assembly, Appendix A, pp. 11-19.
36
C5utc$ 3fncotpotatfli
By section 5 of said Act it was further enacted that said
corporation and its successors "shall and may grant, alien,
or otherwise dispose of any messuages, houses, lands, tene-
ments or hereditaments other than the site of the house of
public worship or church aforesaid and the burial ground or
grounds which they do now or may hereafter possess as to
them may seem meet and proper. ' '^^
The ground on Third Street, below Walnut, acquired^^ for
the church building consisted of several lots making the front
103 feet on Third Street, extending southward of that width
195 feet to Levant, now American Street. It was purchased
upon ground rent, payable in Spanish pistoles, a gold coin, a
quarter doubloon, worth $3.92, which in the latter part of the
eighteenth and early part of the ninetheenth century, in Phila-
delphia, was equal to $4.00 silver coin. These ground rents
were subsequently paid off and extinguished.
The erection of the present edifice was at once begun and
the walls were built in 1761 with the amount subscribed.
More money was needed, and it was determined to raise it by
St. P J U L's Church LOTTERY,
1761. NuMfi. y^
THIS Ticket entitles ^e Bearer to fuch
Prize as may be drawn againit ils
Number, if demanded withm fix Months
after the Drawing is fiuifhed ; fubjecl 10 fuch
Deduftion as h menticmeiLyi ifie Scheme.
35 St. Paul's is the owner of a certain burial lot in the Mount Moriah
Cemetery, granted by deed dated the 23d day of June, 1855, numbered
section Forty-seven on the plan of said Cemetery, containing in front on
the avenue surrounding the Western Circle in said cemetery, one hundred
and fifty feet and in depth on the East Line, one hundred and sixty feet
and on the West Line, two hundred and fifty-one feet, containing 25,120
square feet more or less.
se Abstracts of the title deeds, 1760 to 1904, are given as Appendix B.
37
l^(0tots ot &t paurjEi (Episcopal C|^utc|
a lottery. Through the courtesy of Dr. John "W. Jordan of
the Historical Society, of Pennsylvania, a facsimile reproduc-
tion of the original lottery ticket number 71, which partici-
pated in the first drawing, is given on the preceding page.
The full scheme appeared in The Pennsylvania Gazette under
date of January 29, 1761, as follows :
" As a new church, called ST. PAUL'S-CHURCH, has been thought
necessary, for the Worship of Almighty God, to be erected in the
City, by many well disposed Christians who have, according to their
Abilities, cheerfully svibscribed, and many of them
_/ , , paid considerable Sums of Money, towards carry-
Method " ^. . ^ . ^ ^' 1 4>
mg on the pious Work. In consequence wliereoi,
a very large and commodious Building hath been begun, and car-
ried on to the full Height of the Brick Work: But it being judged
that the Expence of completing and finishing this Church, will
greatly exceed the Sums subscribed; therefore it is thought expedient
to set up a LOTTERY, for the purpose of raising 3000 pieces of
Eight, which it is hoped will completely finish the said church; and
not doubted but all well Wishers to the true Worship of God, will
favour and encourage this Under taking.
"THE SCHEME for the purpose is as follows:
Number of Prizes. Pieces of Eight. Total Value.
1
of
1000
is
1000
1
of
500
is
500
2
of
300
are
600
3
of
200
are
600
4
of
100
are
400
8
of
75
are
600
20
of
40
are
800
30
of
30
are
900
40
of
20
are
800
149
of
10
are
1490
1515
of
8
are
12120
1773
prizes
First
drawn Ticket
50
3227
blanks
Last
drawn Ditto,
50
Ticket
Drawn before the 1000
30
Ticket
Next after the 1000
30
Ticket
Drawn before the 500
16
Ticket
Drawn next after the 500
14
20000
38
fLotttt)f Common S^tt^oh
" This scheme is the most favourable and heretofore calculated in
this City to the Adventurers. The Banks and Prizes being consid-
erably less than two to one. The large number of middling Prizes
is also a great Advantage; and the Deduction is but small, being
only fifteen per cent. The Drawing to begin punctually on the first
Day of April Next, or sooner, if sooner full. The prizes to be pub-
lished in this Gazette, and the Pennsylvania Jouraal, and the Prize
Money to be paid as soon as the Drawing shall be finished, the afore-
said Dedication to be first made.
"Prize money not demanded in six months after the Publication
of the Prizes, to be deemed as generously given to the use of the said
Church and to be applied accordingly. The following Gentlemen
are appointed Managers, viz. : Walter Goodman, Thomas Campbell,
John Ord, Plunket Fleeson, Ephraim Bonham, Andrew Bankson,
Andrew Doz, Thomas Charlton, James Stevenson, John Young,
James Claypoole and Robert Towers: who are to give bond, and be
upon Oath, that they will truly execute the Trust in them reposed.
. . . Tickets are now selling by the said managers, at their respective
Dwelling-houses, William Bradford at the London Coffee-House, and
David Hall, at the Printing-Office, in Market Street.
" N.B. John Reily, of this City, Conveyancer, will insure Tickets
in this Lottery, at a very low Premium."
Five thousand tickets at four dollars each cleared several
thousand dollars, and the next year a lottery scheme of thirty
thousand dollars was put through, which cleared enough to
extinguish the ground rents. The Pennsylvania Gazette of
April 16, 1761, thus calls attention to the second lottery :
" The managers and Congregation of St. Paul's Church, in Phila-
delphia return their most sincere and hearty thanks to the Adven-
turers in the late Lottery, for finishing and completing the said
church; the alacrity and cheerfulness manifested on that Occasion,
by filling that Lottery in less than twenty-days from its Publication,
deserve the most public Acknowledgements. The Application of
great numbers for Tickets, after they were all sold, and their earnest
Desire that another Lottery might be set up, towards exonerating the
land, on Part Whereof that Church is erected, from the Ground rent
wherewith it is chargeable, and for purchasing a Burial place, are
the only Motive that this Lottery is now made, and the further con-
tinuance of the Favours of the Public requested; whereby the
39
^i0tot^ ot &t paursi episcopal C|)ucc|)
Church will be cleared from the Ground Rent, and the Congregation
thereof will have a place for the Interment of their Dead, as they
are the only Society in this City destitute of a burial Ground."^''
At a Vestry Meeting of February 9, 1761, it was "Resolved
to apply to and request such persons as have power to permit
the wheels of blanks and prizes heretofore used in lotteries
[to] be employed for the use of St. Paul's Church." Lot-
teries were frequently used, indeed were the popular means,
to raise money for civic and religious purposes and extensive
public improvements were in the eighteenth century con-
stantly met by this method.^^
37 These lotteries were drawn at a store on Gardner 's Wharf, opposite
37 and 38 South ^Vharves above Walnut Street.
38 Lotteries were employed to raise and equip the ' ' Associated Bat-
tery," near the Old Navy Yard, to build Christ Church steeple, and in
1753 for raising eight hundred and fifty pounds for the Second Presby-
terian Church, then at the Northwest corner of Third and Arch Streets,
which also desired to build a steeple. The present edifice of this congre-
gation is at Twenty-first and Walnut Streets. In 1754, Connecticut
raised thirteen thousand three hundred and thirty-two pounds, by similar
means, to aid in building Princeton College. In 1761 Philadelphia raised
seven thousand four hundred dollars to pave the streets. Trinity Church,
Oxford, of which the Eev. Hugh Neill was Rector, held a lottery
January 20, 1762, to enlarge the church. Shortly after this, the Legis-
lature by an act of February 17, 1762 (1 Smith's Laws, 246), prohibited
lotteries in Pennsylvania as common nuisances, productive of vice, idle-
ness and immorality, under a penalty of 500 pounds sterling. Notwith-
standing this statute, making lotteries a misdemeanor, a later legislature
ignored it and passed additional legislation authorizing them, viz. : an
act of March 27, 1789, for a lottery of $8,000 to erect City Hall on State
House Square, Fifth and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, and for one of
$2,000 for the use of Dickinson College at Carlisle (Statutes at Large of
Penna., vol. 13, pp. '276, 282). By an Act of Assembly, approved by the
governor, April 6, 1790, Manuel Josephson, Solomon Lyon, William
Wistar, John Duffield, Samuel Hayes and Solomon Etting were appointed
Managers of a Lottery to raise the necessary money to liquidate a
mortgage of 800 pounds upon the Synagogue of the Hebrew Congrega-
tion. This is the Congregation Mickve Israel, Hope of Israel, now South-
east corner Broad and York Streets, Philadelphia (ibid., pp. 532-537.) On
40
C5«t:c5 Openeli for tlBot^^ip
The building operation went promptly forward and the
edifice was opened for worship on the Sunday preceding
Christmas-day, 1761. As originally built there was no base-
ment, the outside walls were of brick which
^^'^'^^^f^® have since been plastered. The entrance
for Worship
gates of the church were imported from
England and greatly admired by the town's people. High
back pews, like those of Christ Church and St. Peter's were
installed, as was a sounding board over the pulpit, also an
organ, in 1762, built by Philip Fyring. The whole method of
lighting was by wax candles which it was the duty of the
sexton to snuff as often as they might require it.
The rules of the Vestry prescribed the duty respectively
of the Wardens, Sexton, Clerk, Organist, Bellows Blower and
Chain Carriers, this latter official being unknown to the pres-
ent generation. He "shall attend to the
Rules of Vestry
putting up the chain across Third Street, at
least five minutes previous to the commencement of services
on Sunday morning and afternoon, and shall remove the
same as soon as the congregation are dismissed." As Third
Street was the main artery of travel it deflected traffic to
Second and Fourth Streets.
The sexton's duties are carefully and minutely enumerated
and some of them would surprise the sextons of to-day. He
was told that: "After the services is over he shall take care
to have the chandeliers covered, to keep the
dust from them in winter and flies in sum-
mer. He shall at the time of night service light the church at
the proper time, snuff the candles and, at a later date, trim
the lamps as often as they may require it.
March 13, 1800, the Eoman Catholic Church of St. Augustine raised
by the same means $10,000 for the completion of its church building
(ibid., vol. 16, p. 472).
41
"He shall extinguish at night all fires before he leaves the
church. He shall not contract any debts for the church with-
out the approval of the church wardens. He shall procure
seats for strangers as far as he conveniently can. He shall at-
tend the vestry at their meetings, and see that their room is
kept clean. He shall have all graves dug and ready one hour
before funerals. He shall not suffer goats or other animals
to have access to the burial ground. He shall send the box
money to the Wardens every Monday morning ; keep the keys
of the church, and pay into the hands of the acting warden all
the moneys collected by him once every six months, or oftener
if required."
On April 28, 1767, Messrs. Richard Neave and Son, Lon-
don, merchants, presented to St. Paul's Church, through
Messrs. John Baynton^^ and Wharton, a complete set of
hangings for the pulpit, altar and reading desk and clerk's
desk, "made of the best Crimson Velvet, richly adorned with
Gold Lace, Fringe, Tassels and Embroidery valued at Two
hundred & Fifty Pounds."""
In consideration of the gift, a pew was appropriated by the'
corporation for their use and those of any of their friends who
might happen to be in America at any time. A letter of
thanks was promptly sent to them by "Captain Falconer*^
now under sailing orders for London." Richard Neave was
buried*^ in St. Paul's church-yard, 12 July, 1795.
The records of Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church of
39 Abraham Markoe, first Captain of the Philadelphia City Troop, who
lived at Chestnut and Ninth Streets, on the present site of the Phila-
delphia Eecord and the Philadelphia Post Office, married in 1773, Eliza-
beth, daughter of John Baynton, a foremost merchant and one of the
founders of St. Paul's, q. v. Mrs, Markoe died in 1784, leaving three
children.
40 Pennsylvania Chronicle, May 4, 1767.
*i Lester Falkner, the subscriber to St. Paul's, 24 June, 1760.
42
HatettSt Cj^urcl in t|e probtnce
Wilmington, Delaware, show that: "on October 2nd, 1770,
the hangings of the altar and pulpit were stolen ... at the
same time the Church at Newcastle suffered the same loss,
and soon after St. Paul 's Church in Philadelphia, had its fine
antique hangings stolen." These were doubtless the Neave
hangings.*^
The new Church was the largest in the Province, and in a
few days one thousand sittings had been taken in it. The
formal incorporation as the Minister, Church Wardens and
Vestrymen of the Episcopal Church of St.
Largest Church p^^^ ^^ ^j^^ (.-^ ^^ Philadelphia in the Com-
m the Province
monwealth of Pennsylvania was, as before
stated, not passed by the Legislature until September 23,
1783, and this remained the corporate title up to February 25,
1818, when the word minister was changed to rector. It was
consecrated by Bishop White, January 1, 1831, at which time
the building had been remodeled, both internally and ex-
ternally, which also included re-arrangement of the chancel.
Several of our present city churches, St. Andrew's; Grace;
St. Philip's; Emmanuel, Kensington; St. Matthew's, Francis-
ville; Epiphany and St. Luke's (which latter two have since
consolidated), etc., owe their existence in a
. au s, 0 er i^^„q degree to the zeal and enterprise of the
of many Panshes <= => f
rectors and members of this church. St.
Paul 's directly or indirectly is the mother of them all. There
42 It is interesting to note the cost of and ceremony attendant upon
funerals, as shown by the minutes of the Vestry of April 19, 1762:
Minister attending funerals, six shillings.
Clerk attending funerals, four shillings.
Sexton ringing bell (which was afterwards given
to St. Peter's Church), two shillings, six pence.
Church breaking ground, ten shillings.
To the Church for being buried within the walls
of the house, ten pounds.
*3 Vol. IX, Papers Hist. Society of Delaware (1890), pp. 495-^96.
43
l^i^totv ot fet paursf Cpigicopal €fiutc^
is no other single congregation in Philadelphia which has done
so much for the propagation of the Episcopal Church.
To this list should be added, St. Paul's Cheltenham, now
Ogontz, of which two vestrymen of St. Paul's, John W.
Thomas and Jay Cooke, were among the founders. The
church of the Holy Apostles, Twenty-first and Christian
Streets, Philadelphia, is equally indebted to the son of John
W. Thomas, the late George C. Thomas, one of the city's
most charitable laymen, who acknowledged that his inspiration
as a churchman had come from his home training and from the
Sunday School of St. Paul's, which he had attended in boy-
hood days. The large parish building of the Church of the
Holy Apostles was erected by Mr. Thomas "In Memory of
Rev. Dr. Richard Newton of St. Paul's," the compliment
in recognition of his life and work being all the greater be-
cause the building was erected many years after his death.
His brother, the Rev. Richard Newton Thomas, was named
after Dr. Newton, and the name of Mr. Thomas himself is
enshrined in a church, Fifty-first and Spruce Streets, known
as the George C. Thomas Memorial, the corner-stone of which
was laid October 29, 1916. The Church of the Holy Apostles
now has three chapels : The Mediator, The Holy Communion
and the Chapel of St. Simon the Cyrenian.
Born of the spirit of democracy and the evangelical move-
^ . . , ment, St. Paul's was, at its inception, and
Spirit of f ,
Democracy and ^^^ some time thereafter, a religious storm
Evangelical center and the story is full of human interest.
Movement „,, • . , « , ^, , »
There was a young minister of the Church of
England, Rev. William McClenachan, travelling through the
city of Philadelphia, who preached with great effect at Christ
Church. He was most eloquent, of exemplary
Mr. McClenachan
piety among the people, distinguished for re-
markable industry and indefatigable zeal and had an attractive
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FONT.
9^t, ^tCLUnat^an
personality. He had so much to recommend him and had be-
come so popular, that the rector, vestry and church wardens,
with the assent of the congregation, on June 19, 1759, selected
him as an assistant minister and askedthe Lord Bishop of Lon-
don for his approval. Later on, the third of October, 1759,
Eev. Dr. Jenney and most of the clergy in the Province sent
a counter address, protesting that Mr. McClenachan had
given offense ''by his Railings and Revilings in the Pulpit,"
and that "his extemporaneous Prayers and Preachings were
not agreeable to the Canons." On this account, and because
he had been appointed to take charge of a church in Virginia,
the Bishop of London, without hearing Mr. McClenachan 's de-
fense, refused to license him, and requested Christ Church
to give him no encouragement.
The matter had doubtless been brought to a sudden climax
by Mr. McClenachan 's action in the Convention, or Volun-
tary Meeting of the Episcopal clergy** of Pennsylvania, in
Philadelphia, April 30, 1760. The conven-
Convention of
Episcopal Clergy ^ion, pursuant to adjournment, heard the
in Philadelphia, address prepared by its committee to his
Honor the Lieutenant Governor, James
Hamilton, which was approved by all the members present
except Mr. McClenachan, who said he "could not give any
testimony of the Governor's former administration, as he
knew nothing of the same from his personal knowledge, but
*4 Those present were : The Eev. Dr. Jenney, Dr. William Smith,
Provost of the College of Philadelphia, Mr. Greorge Craig, Missionary at
Chester, Mr. Philip Eeading, Missionary at Apoquinimink, Mr. William
Sturgeon, Assistant Minister and Catechist to the negroes in Philadel-
phia, Mr. Charles Inglis, Missionary at Dover, Mr. Thomas Barton,
Missionary at Lancaster, Mr. William McClenachan, another of the
Assistant Ministers in Christ Church, Philadelphia, Mr. Jacob Duche,
likewise an Assistant Minister at Christ Church. At the same time
appeared Mr. Samuel Cook and Mr. Eobert McKean, two of the society 's
worthy missionaries of New Jersey.
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m0tot]l ot &t paur*^ episcopal Cdutc^
that he had the sincerest regard for his Honor, and offered
up Prayers for his prosperity. ' ' His second reason was that,
"however much connected Religion and Civil Government
might be, he thought it was not absolutely necessary to men-
tion the matter in our present circumstances."
It was during the last days of the convention that the
Bishop of London's final letter, relative to Mr. McClenachan
arrived and was read.*^ His course of reasoning many of the
Christ Church people deemed insufficient, being determined
to maintain and protect their religious rights. Vigorous
protest followed. Eighteen Presbyterian
Presbyterian .
Synod clergymen, then assembled in Synod in Phil-
in Philadelphia, adelphia. May 28, 1760, sent an unsolicited
^^ ° address in behalf of Mr. McClenachan to his
Grace, the Archbishop of Canterbury, written probably by
the Rev. Gilbert Tennant. On the eighteenth of June, fol-
lowing, Mr. McClenachan was, however, denied the further
use of the pulpit of the church. This had been anticipated,
protest became forceful action and four days later a new con-
gregation met in the State House. Nineteen months after-
wards, the congregation, stronger grown, gathered in a stately
building of its own, St. Paul's Church on Third Street, below
"Walnut Street, built, as set forth in the articles of agreement
*5 Sunday evening, May 4, 1760. The convention met pursuant to ad-
journment. A letter to Dr. Jenney from England was read, intimating
the disapprobation upon the part of the Society for Propagating the
Gospel in Foreign Parts against Mr. McClenachan 's conduct in this place
and the disapproval of the Bishop of London. It was the sense of the
meeting that though he could not be allowed longer to remain assistant
minister of Christ Church, he could be allowed to sign the address to the
Bishop of London, or any other papers as a clergyman of the church
and might still sit in Convention. These offers he refused, and desired
that his name might be erased from the papers he had already signed,
after which he withdrew. His name remained on the address to the
Archbishop of Canterbury. (Perry's "Papers Eclating to the History
of the Church in Pennsylvania," 1680-1778, pp. 317-319.)
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FONT WITH SILVER BAPTISMAL BOWL, 1917.
mmttitin
so ably prepared by John Ross, Esq., for this Rev. William
MeClenaehan, the erstwhile censured clergyman.
Rev. Dr. Stephen H. Tyng, in his old age, was authority for
the statement "that St. Paul's Church was erected that
"Whitefield, that Apostle of the Living God, that Angel flying
throughout the World with the everlasting Gospel, might haive
an Episcopal Church in which to preach in Philadelphia. A
tremendous contest had ensued from the refusal of the rector
and Wardens of Christ Church to permit him to preach
within its walls. God raised up an instru-
Whitefield ,. „ , . „
mentality for the defense of the hated and
despised gospel, in the person of Counsellor John Ross, a man
of such position in this community, that he could not be put
down, who in conjunction with others, determined that there
should be one church in Philadelphia wherein nothing should
deter such a man as Whitefield from preaching the unsearch-
able riches of Christ. Thus St. Paul's was erected for the de-
fense of a free gospel and the champion of this principle it had
now continued to be." "No other sound," he believed, "had
ever been heard within its walls than the gospel in its purity
and simplicity." The error in this statement is that, the
church was built for Dr. MeClenaehan and not George White-
field, but as Dr. MeClenaehan maintained the methods of
Whitefield it is, speaking generally, accurate to that extent.
A lengthy account of the convention, together with Me-
Clenaehan's part therein was promptly furnished the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, by Dr. William Smith, Provost of the
Dr Smith' College in Philadelphia, under date of July
Account of 1> 1760, which was certainly neither favor-
Mr. McClenachan's able nor fair to the clergyman. He says in
Followers
part: "The number that followed Mr. Me-
Clenaehan from our Church to his Conventicle are but incon-
siderable: & as they were the tools of the Quaker Party to
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^i^totTf ot ^t ^auV0 episcopal Ci^urcl^
distract and divide we think sucli a purgation a happy inci-
dent. The Church [Christ Church] is as crowded as ever on
Sundays and great numbers are not able to get Pews, And
as for my particular opponents they are now fairly gone.
They are about Building a Place of Worship for Mr. Macclen-
aghan, and still will be hardy enough to sollicit a License for
him, by every misrepresentation of all the regular Clergy both
here & in Boston. But I hope your Grace will think it proper
that such proceedings that tend to destroy all order shall
never have any countenance. The Quakers and their open
adherents are the chief people who contribute to encourage
this schism. One of the oldest Quakers in the Province has
procured the Ground on which the House is to be built so that
by the turn this affair has taken, your Grace has a fresh proof,
were any necessary, that the state I gave of these matters in
all my former representations was just."
Col. William Byrd, second, said, ''The Quakers flocked to
this country in shoals, being averse to going to Heaven the
same way with the Bishops." This, in a humorous way, ex-
pressed the Churchman's view of the Quaker.'*^^
The Quakers and the members of the Church of England
were the aristocratic class. In public life in early Pennsyl-
vania there were two distinct types of men. The first, pro-
gressive, eloquent, earnest, learned and convincing. Thomas
McKean, John B. Gibson, Jeremiah F, Black, William McClen-
achan and Joseph Pilmore represent the first class, although
not of the same faith. The second, equally learned, but sure
.,,., , of their social position, quiet, colorless, re-
Attitude ^ . _
of tiring, modest, insipid, critical and uninter-
Quakers esting. This type dominated Christ Church,
while the spirit and energy of the first animated St. Paul's.
45a He was the aristocratic Virginian of the celebrated plantation
' ' Westover ' ' on the James Eiver, the founder of the Capital City, Eich-
48
Sittit\xne ot ;^uafier0
St. Paul's congregation had no divided allegiance, like some
of the other English Churches in America. Its strength in
this respect was that while loyal to the principles of the estab-
lished Church, in all else, it was thoroughly American, and its
aims, purposes and acts were those which have made the
United States the nation she is today. Many of the ministers
of the Church of England, and some of their congregations, re-
sembled the attitude of the nobles in France, residing at Ver-
sailles in the time of Louis XIV, who were polished, but hard
as granite, and who exacted from the people all the tributes
and duties prescribed by the feudal laws, but who themselves
had long ceased to render any service whatever. They were
a liability instead of an asset to the State. They took all
they could get, in fact everything, and rendered nothing in
return.
In a letter of August 26, to the secretary of the Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, Dr. Smith
said:
" I wrote to you a long letter by Mr. Keene about seven weeks
ago with a full account of everything' concerning MaeClenachan and
a copy of the Minutes of the late meeting of our Clergy together
with an address to His Grace of Canterbury; all of which I hope
have been duly received. MaeClenachan gains no ground in the
U n n Ti ("burch, and we have lost but two or three men
of any note (one of which is John Ross who has
not acted like a member of your body and Son of a regular clergy-
man as he is, being the chief founder of all this trouble in order to
be at the head of a party). The Quakers and their adherents are the
chief support of this schism agreeable to their Maxim Divide et
impera, but we think it will not hold long, especially as that shining
youth Mr. Duche*® is so much more popular than MaeClenachan,
mond, then called * ' Shockoes ' ' and an ancestor of S. Davis Page, Esq., the
President of the Colonial Society of Pennsyvania and a vestryman of St.
Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church, Philadelphia.
46 Eev. Dr. Jacob Duehe, the rector of Christ Church, September, 1775,
resembled the "Vicar of Bray," who was first for King Charles I and
then for Cromwell. His eloquent prayer in Congress at Carpenter's
5 49
^i0tot}f ot fet ^auV0 (Episcopal C|)urc|&
who only draws the lower sort and of these more from the Presby-
terians and Baptists than from us."
Dr. Smith was mistaken in both these latter statements, and
that Ross's influence, position and standing in England was
high is shown, among other things, by the fact that he pro-
cured the dismissal of Rev. "William Sturgeon from Christ
Church in November, 1763.
Mr. Sturgeon's view of St. Paul's congregation is set forth
in his letter of 1762 to the Secretary of the Venerable So-
ciety, viz. :
"Rev^. Sir:
" My endeavors to inculcate truth and virtue in the Minds of Man-
kind have been in some measure successful and at the same time has
increased the Church of England in these parts.
Mr. Sturgeon's ^yj^^^ j arrived here first, Christ Church con-
view or
_^ _, „ tained all the people of our communion, but now
St. Paul's f f _ ' .
Consrepation there are two more created. St. Peter's united
with the old Church and St. Paul's built for Mr.
McClanaghan mostly filled with people to whom I discharged the
duties of a Cateehist and Assistant Minister to the Reverend Dr.
Hall resulted in his election as its chaplain, which position he occu-
pied at the time of the Declaration of Independence in July, 1776. He
resigned when the British Army was advancing to Philadelphia after the
Battle of Brandywine, and, upon its arrival, he as rector, just as
enthusiastically prayed for the King and * ' that he may vanquish and
overcome all his enemies. ' ' General Howe confined him in prison one
night and released him upon his promise to convince Washington and
his fellow rebels of their mistake. He advised Washington to abandon
"the wretched cause," but without avail. As our histories gently record
it : " He retired from Philadelphia when the British evacuated it. ' ' He
subsequently returned to London to straighten himself out with his
English Bishop and to explain that, while Chaplain of Congress he was
at heart loyal to the King and England and believed in the union of
Church and State, but his explanation was not accepted or believed.
When he left the Colony, Pennsylvania judged him by his acts, pro-
claimed him a traitor and confiscated his estate. After some twelve
years of exile he came back to Philadelphia, where he died, January 3,
1798. Both he and his wife, Elizabeth Hopkinson, are buried in St.
Peter's Churchyard.
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Jenney for about ten years and upon his being seized with a palsy
for three years and a half, without any help at all.
*' I am, Rev, Sir, &c.
" William Sturgeon/'
His letter of November 20, 1763, to the Secretary, pays
a tribute to Mr. MeClenachan's eloquence, and comments on
the unfairness of his own dismissal from Christ Church :
"Rev^. Doctor,
" Dr. Jenney was seized with a palsy which continued to his death,
and laid the whole duty of the Parish [Christ Church] on me for
more than five years. This I acquainted the Society with and also
that my family was large and my support very small, and therefore
requested to be removed to some Mission, or that they would increase
my salary. This they were pleased to grant and added £20 a year
to my former £30.
" In this situation things were till the arrival of ^Ir. McClenanehan
who was invdted to preach in our church and soon drew numbers
after him and set the whole congregation on fire (one of the chief of
his partizans was Mr. John Ross, a Member of the Hon'''® Society)
and after some time he was dismissed the Church and went to preach
at the State House, to a large number of people,
„, and Mr. Ross at their head. In the meantime I
Eloquence
did what I could to keep the people together, and
sometimes almost in danger of my life from an incensed Mob and a
few artful Libertines. This I gave an account of to the Society in
my letters from time to time, and also that I expected no favour
from one or two powerful enemies. The chief of these facts Dr.
Smith, if he should be called upon, would testify. At length Dr.
Jenney died and I was elected one of the Ministers of the United
Churches of which I acquainted you, and that the Vestry voted my
Salary from the Hon.'''® Society as part of my living. All this
time I preached twice every Sunday and read prayers and did all
other duties of the parish, and on Wednesdays catechised the white
children, and on every Friday the Negroes, and instructed both in the
sense and purport of each part ; and for more than 17 years preached
every Tuesday at the City Alms House, and once in three weeks
during the Summer season went to a church in the country that has
no Minister, and read prayers and preached and did baptize many.
This has been my constant method from my first arrival to this day
and lo! now I am discharged from the service of one of the most
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^i^:z77 01 SL Paul's episcopal C^arrti
S^aetia » Oe WoHd. mmd mkat a aosf hmwd to hemr. for
'.^Sy to tike megwoes, «Ml hg tite taemms of erne wAo Tms heem
"viaemt of £wiiimy omr ebmrA. He is mmd tms beem lom§
: I §k»ry fo Jhme him m smA tM God is pUmsed to
- J ^an Mr. Jekm fio» of Ais City, who has heem
'vmaOt mms to St. PmmL
-I izi 7 '. &e^
dergy. r : S^Biitli and some : I =a
depaxtare ±r:— z'-^ ^ : ~ r le-
thxtgie, apathr- ^ ^ ^ ^ — ^ .^^
of Ae Onndi : : _ . _"-.-:,::: ^ i.
of England del :!>. l^leC: -i _. i
widi liim at St _ " £ r i
XlUBl its {dole - l_ .' IjS SCI iri. II
preaeti^;
Upo:! Mt : lining of Mr. 'Wliitefiel 7hia in 1763,
SL Paol's opened wide its doon, as . :<f Fhila-
de^iia, nam tlie Univeistv of Tez-i 7 :: — r r :-
lor of Clnist dnnciu Bcr. Bie> 7
kofTPver tte United Coiizr?r5"r: _:^- _ . _ ^:.
€f
Ca^itrtulD ^UcLC^tt at C^nsi C^ucc^
Peter "s, who. by their church wardens, signified that they were
one and all desirous that Mr. "WTiitfield should be invited to
speak in the churches. This request. Dr.
Pie&dies t peters complied with after c-onsultation with
Christ Clmrch, Dr. Duche, Mr. Sturgeon, the Governor and
St, Peter's ^^jj^^ other friends of the church, "who were
St. Paul's ^ unanimously of opmion. says Dr. Peters
™ in a letter to Archbishop Seeker, of Oeto-
ber 17. that such action ''might not only
prevent dissatisfaction & a further disunion among the mem-
bers, who might when displeased go over to Mr. McClenachan,
but might really confirm those that belong to us & perhaps
get us an increase. "*-
This decided gain in spiritual vision was in happy relief to
the narrowness and rancor of the preceding years. The
leaven of St. Paul's was accomplishing its purpose. A de-
parture had been made. St. Paul's, turned aside from the
formalism of Christ Church, for example, where a somewhat
lifeless service was conducted and where sittings were less
than half filled, secured popular and convincing preachers,
with the result that it was crowded to the doors with those
who flocked to hear the word of God and the story of the
Cross told with earnestness and simplicity.
Some shadows there were in the early years of the new
*« A conflict appears in the swtements of Dr. Peter* and Mr. Neil
The former savs, under date of October 17, 1763: "Mr. ^Vhitlield
preached four times in one or the other ehurehes" [Christ Churv.'h. and
St. Peter's]. The latter writes, on October IS. 17ft4: "but the salutary
admonitions of His Grace the Archbishop to the Bector of Christ Churv'h
and St. Peter's has prevented his preaching at this time in either of
them. ■ ' It is possible that ' ' the salutary admonitions * ' were His
Grace's reply to Dr. Peters' letter. ^ Parry's "Papers Belating to the
History of the Church in Pennsylvania, lt>Sl^l77S. ' * pp. 363. 393.)
itr. "^Vhitfield died at Xewburyport, Massachusetts, September 30^
1770, aged fiftv-six vears.
church. From October, 1777, to January, 1781, it had no
regular minister; indeed, the Rev. William "White of Christ
Church was the only Episcopal clergyman in Philadelphia.
Nevertheless, the principles and policies, for which it had
stood in the beginning, continued until after the pastorate of
the Rev. Richard Newton, who was peculiarly successful in
this regard, and St. Paul's reached its high-water mark of
usefulness while he was rector.
The Episcopal Church as an institution did not grow with
the increase of population, as it should have done in this new
country. After the Revolution the Church of England in
America was, as an organization, considered
Lack of Growth of ^^^^ According to Bishop Williams of
Episcopal Church
Connecticut, it was regarded as "a piece of
heavy baggage which the British had left behind them, when
they evacuated Philadelphia, New York and Boston," and
John Marshall, afterwards Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States, a churchman, thought the Church
too far gone to be ever revived.
Many churchmen reluctantly admit that, when peace was
declared, the condition of the church was very discouraging,
there being only about a hundred clergy in the land. It may
seem strange that the church was not stronger, having been
in the country over one hundred and seventy years. There
were, however, four causes which accounted for this : first,
the majority of the colonists were dissenters; second, there
had been no bishops, and therefore no confirmations in the
colonial church; third, because of the difficulty and danger
attending ordination, many earnest young men entered the
ministry of other religious bodies. A fourth reason as-
signed was that there were so many drones in the Church.
To these, two other contributory causes may be added :
First, the attitude of condescension upon the part of many
54
Wita0on0 tot Eacfe of C5totot5 of ^WtC^
rectors towards a large portion of their congregations, an
unsympathetic manner, based largely upon social position.
The divine command was, ' ' Go into all the world, and preach
Reasons for Lack *^^ Gospel to every creature, ' ' the cultivated
of Growth of and uncultivated; whereas the church relied
Church fQj. -^g strength upon the wealthy, the offi-
cial and aristocratic classes. "Every creature," means the
common people, the store keepers, farmers and mechanics.
These were not taught to understand the church, its doctrines,
discipline and worship, or did not have its mission presented
to them in a way to bring them in large numbers within its
fold. Second, high and low church factions in the Church,
which pulled, and still pull from rather than towards unity
of purpose and worship. No organization divided against
itself succeeds. If these factions could compromise their dif-
ferences, unite not divide, the Church would increase by
leaps and bounds. They should also resolve that, in future,
no rivalry in works of charity shall exist. That, ordinarily,
this is a part of Church work and should be administered by
the Church without waste of money or labor and not by out-
side organizations. Then too, strong representative clergy-
men of the various dioceses have time after time been ignored
as unavailable material for bishops. The ecclesiastical ad-
ministration of those selected under such conditions, unsup-
ported by a strongly united church, has, necessarily, been a
series of compromises which pleases none, and accomplishes
little for the future well-being of the Church. Its policy
and management from the standpoint of organization alone
has always been hesitating and weak.
The result therefore is, that this great historic church, with
its splendid opportunity in America, has failed to propagate
the faith "delivered to the Saints," and has
Church ^ ^^^° failed to bring the Gospel overwhelm-
ingly to the masses, as was its mission. In
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^ifitoti^ of &t paur^ (Episcopal Cj^utcj^
1784, by the refusal of Lowth, Bishop of London, to ordain
a few ministers for the missionary movement in the Church
of England, under Rev. John Wesley, conducted in America
by the Revs. Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury, it lost at
least one hundred thousand members, its real bone and sinew,
who formed the Methodist Episcopal Church, at a time the
Church of England in America could ill afford to lose them.
After the organization of the Methodist Church a con-
ference was proposed by Bishop Coke to Bishops Seabury,
White and Madison, on the hypothesis of a possible union of
the two churches which included ordination of its ministers
under proper mutual stipulation,*'* White replied, and
Bishop Madison was in favor of it, but he was unable to con-
vince White and Seabury. Thus the church lost the oppor-
tunity of the century through the incapacity of the old bishops
to comprehend new conditions. They had failed to profit
by the former blunders of the Bishops of the Mother Church,
by which the Church of England had lost respectively the
Puritan, the Presbyterian, and the Quaker through their
unbending strictness. Each one of these religious revivals
constituted a new Church opposed to the establishment in
America, but the experience of the past meant nothing to the
bishops. In our time this folly has been repeated by the
Church of England regarding the Salvation Army. It de-
clined to help or recognize that organization until it had be-
come so large that it was too late.
Conservatism is right, but ultra conservatism, the failure
to understand great opportunities and grasp them, does not
tend to strengthen, build up or even maintain a church or-
ganization, as a principle, it can be carried to the point of frit-
tering away what ought to be natural growth and strength.
Statistics show the result of this want of .policy :
49 Beardsley 's ' ' Life of Seabury, ' ' p. 401.
56
In 1906 in the United States, the Methodist Church had
17%o per cent., or six times the membership of the Episcopal
Church :
The Roman Catholic had 36yio per cent.
e igious ^^^ Presbyterian 5%o per cent.-
The Lutheran 6^10 per cent.
The Disciples 3%o per cent.
The Reformed lYio per cent.
The Congregational 2yio per cent.
The Episcopalian 2%o per cent.
All others 6%o per cent.
The Episcopal Church is almost at the end of the list. The
American Church is small and her life meagre. Why did the
church not spread ? It was planted at Jamestown, Virginia, in
1607 and Virginia and Maryland was her stronghold. Massa-
chusetts and Connecticut had the Congregationalists and Pres-
byterians, Rhode Island the Baptists, while the Pennsylvania
Colonists were principally Quakers.^'' These figures just
quoted are significant. With them before it, ought not the
Episcopal Church of America ask, whether its policies and
administration have been and are not now wrong somewhere ?
If so, be it men or measures, it is not time to find a remedy
and make speedy application thereof?
In the long run numbers not only count, but they spell
progress and success. Much depends on the bishop ; he should
not only be a Churchman of broad views, possessed of great
knowledge, but have a commanding presence and real execu-
tive ability, and, as Dr. McConnell says, ''have sustained en-
thusiasm, the faculty of managing men, a genius for organi-
zation, able to build up and develop his church as a mighty
50 Anderson 's "Hist, of the English Church in the Colonies," vol. 1,
p. 9'9. McConnell's "Hist, of the American Episcopal Church," pp. 11,
12, 13.
57
ecclesiastical empire," along the lines of belief his church
maintains and represents.
It is a mere commonplace to say that our ancestors who at-
tended St. Paul's led, as a rule, plain, simple and unpreten-
tious lives. Family worship took place regularly each day
before breakfast and just before retiring at night. Their
religious life was extended throughout the week, and not con-
_ ,. . ,., , fined to the services in the church on Sun-
Religious Life of
St. Paul's day. They were moral in their conduct.
Parishioners Justice to them presented no difficulties. A
man or a woman either had, or had not, broken the law,
whether mala in se or mala prohibita only. If they had, they
should be punished severely. Temptation, hardship, or ex-
tenuating circumstances they regarded as mere excuses of the
weak and criminal not worthy of consideration. Before each
meal grace was reverently said, and if omitted, the rector of
St. Paul's would likely hear of it because it was apt to cause
remark, if not scandal. Business honor, honesty and sobriety
were high. A man paid his debts, if he failed to do so he
could be imprisoned until as late as 1842, and he lost caste
and position. All of his property was liable for his debts,
as no exemption of $300 existed until 1849. Philadelphia
in 1770 had less population than Chester, Pennsylvania, has
to-day. Every one knew everyone else and their business and
resources, and most people were frugal and industrious and
lived within their means without trying to outshine their
neighbors and friends. The father and mother of the family
were not only honored and respected by
Respect to
Parents their children, but they obeyed them implic-
not Empty itly. The commandment * ' Honor thy Father
ormu a ^^^ ^^^ Mother, that thy days maj^ be long
upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee," was un-
derstood not as an empty formula but to mean what it said.
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HXt^ptct to ^aunt0
The father came home about noon for his dinner which, as
a rule, cooked by his wife, was good and wholesome, although
the statute books at that period were without any pure food
legislation.
Sunday was observed strictly and no unnecessary work per-
mitted. The parlor windows were kept bowed, which ex-
cluded the sunlight and fresh air from its inmates and the
horse-hair furniture, and created what was then considered
the proper religious atmosphere.
This however was but the strictness of sober custom, un-
regulated by law as in early Massachusetts, when it was for-
bidden to run or walk on the Sabbath day except reverently
to meeting, to sweep the house, to cook, or for a man to shave,
or for a woman under penalty of imprisonment to wear cloth-
ing beyond her station in life.^^
The mid-day meal was cooked on Saturday. Whether it
consisted of chicken, beef, veal, mutton, lamb, ham, quail,
wild duck or pheasants, it was served cold after returning
„. ,. .^ from church. The only deviation was pota-
Simphcity "^ ^
of toes, or perhaps peas or lima beans in season,
Home-life which were all boiled together in one large
iron pot with three short legs, hanging upon the crane in the
large open fireplace over blazing oak or hickory logs. The
potatoes were put in the pot first, then the beans and peas in
separate cotton bags securely tied, so as to keep them sep-
arate. If a guest were expected, an extra potato or so was
added, and, in the language of the day, his or her name "was
in the pot."
To the younger members of the family, by reason of its
strict observance, Sunday was a day of unusual gloom. They
51 General Laws of Mass., 1640, printed at Cambridge, 1660, pp. 3, 6,
9-26. The same, revised by Samuel Green, Cambridge, 1672. Laws of
Connecticut, Hartford, 1672, pp. 21, 28, 37. JSTeals and Hutchinson's
"Digests of Ordinances of New England."
69
^i0toti9 ot &t paur-sf (Episcopal Cj^urcj^
repeated a portion of the Catechism, or of a chapter of the
Bible before breakfast and some more of it before supper
and all of it before going to bed. In point of fact they were
instructed as Moses taught the children of Israel to regard
the commandments ''when thou sittest in thine house, and
when thou walkest by the way and when thou liest down and
when thou risest up." Scripture was applied literally in
those days. Saturday night they were asked if they knew
their Sunday School lessons. They were also expected to
take a bath, get out their best clothes, and blacken their shoes
so as to be ready for Sunday. The bath was taken in a wash
tub and the water came from the pump. Bathrooms did not
commence to appear in Philadelphia houses until about 1840.
Sunday School commenced at nine o'clock
Observance
of and lasted until 10:15. At 10:30 they at-
Sunday tended church service which lasted until
12:30 o'clock, at least. Then home to dinner and just before
dessert appeared, which they disliked particularly to be de-
prived of, they were hurried back to Sunday School for the
afternoon session at two o'clock which lasted until church
service began. During Doctor Richard Newton's rectorship,
Sunday School was omitted on the third Sunday of each
month, which was the occasion of the children's sermon, for
which he was so famous, and which was part of the regular
service of the Church.
The elder members of the family frequently attended serv-
ice in the evening. If it so happened that there was no
service at St. Paul's, or if some minister was to preach whom
they did not care to hear, it being not unusual at that time
for rectors to exchange pulpits, they attended the service of
the First Presbyterian Church to hear Rev. Doctor Albert
Barnes, or the Reverend George Cookman of the Methodist
Church, or the Reverend John Chambers of the Presbyterian
60
jSDbsfetbancf ot Sundan
Church, or other great pulpit orators of the time, while the
children, worn out with the religious observance of the day,
went gladly to bed.
Sunday was the great day of the week. To a considerable
extent the church was the social center. Strict churchmen
were not wont to attend the theatre. The times and system
_ , , . of religion were strict, but it produced a
God-feanng ^
Men and strong, rugged, honest, capable, God-fearing
Women p^^g ^f jj^gji and women, who thought that
plain living and high thinking were more important than
money; that mere social position, prestige and pleasure was
not worth the sacrifice of the solid and substantial things of
life.
It was quite customary for the principal families of the
congregation to own their pews. Philadelphians regarded it
as not quite respectable to occupy a rented house or a rented
pew; hence those who could afford it owned
Ownership ^^^ houses in which they lived and the pews
of Pews
they occupied in church. Originally the
latter were bought outright and insured the owner per-
manence of location as well as the right of burial in the
Church. Each owner had his name on a silver plate on the
pew door and paid an annual pew rent smaller in amount
than those who rented.
Subject to the approval of the vestry the owner could rent
or sell. On March 3, 1835, Richard Rowley sold his pew,
numbered fifteen in the middle aisle, to William Cummings,
grandfather of the writer, for one hundred and eighty dollars.
In England each parish church had certain pews which be-
longed to the various nobility and landed gentry by grant from
the ordinary or church wardens, or by prescription, and which,
always reserved for their use, passed under the law to the
heir with the land as appurtenant to the dwelling house.
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Deed for William Cummings Family Pew, 1835.
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I
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH.
53
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hming jMMi ttlAtf Btelar^OatAWfTinK «>ul Fulrymai of St. f aufcCkurcA, ,
imOuatfof Pkaadtlphia,tkt $im 0/^^^ a1c^»l0^<^^^ ^x^<f^^ aC^^
DoUan, (being ikt whole purehut mmiey thtrtof) i$ entitUi in ahtolute ou>ner$hip
to — tkt Pew imm*«Te(!^'^^i:«-«<^ in the taid Church,
tultjeet to ihi termt and eonditioru 0/ $ah, and la the by-lawi 0/ the $aid corpora-
tion, made and to be made pur$utnt to their charter. Trane/erabh with tht eon-
tent 0/ the Teilry only.
WmVeSS the nal of tht eorperalion at Fkiladtlphia, thiiyi^itt^^f
daf oftS^^t'»**<-^'*^t, • JtKM Ihnmxx oat thovMtnd eight kandrtd and <Airly^«e.
^!^^^ c^^aa^
^a*.fi^
rffc/wKr^rsr
53 William Spohn Baker married, May 12, 1853, Eliza Downing,
daughter of Richard and Jane Bartleson Rowley, their daughter Laura
married Henry Whelen, Jr., of Philadelphia. {Fenna. Mag. of Hist, and
Biog., vol. 22, p. 6.)
54 John Farr, Chemist, Powers & Weightman's. J. D. George, father
of Henry George, the single tax advocate.
62
flDtonergfliip of petosf
The pew in England, Massachusetts and Connecticut is real
estate, in Pennsylvania however pews are held personal prop-
erty as to devolution, although strictly speaking an interest
in real estate.^^
At St. Paul's, from the family pews and other sittings, a
succession of happy groups passed singly on to the great be-
yond, while eighteen rectors came and went, the measure of
whose rectorates is largely the history of the parish from 1760
to 1898. The story of these godly men, these sometimes bril-
liant and sometimes lesser lights of the church, is of more
than parochial interest from the fact that, it is in part the his-
tory of the intrusion of the Church of England into Penn's
"Holy Experiment," with the subsequent
Contribution result of the formation of the American
*o Protestant Episcopal Church, to which, as
American ^^^^ ^^ ^° *^^ general religious life and up-
Episcopal lift of Philadelphia, St. Paul's clergy and
Church people contributed no small part from the
time of the adoption of her articles of agreement.
In this connection, the eloquent words of the Rev. Richard
Newton, D.D., at the Centennial Anniversary of St. Paul's,
November 4, 1860, are particularly apposite :
52 Church V. Wells Executors, 24 Penna. State Eeports, 251 (1855);
Commonwealth v. St. Mary's Church, C. B. & R. (Pa.) 508; State v.
Trinity Church, 45 New Jersey Laws, 230; Bess, Pres III Crabb R. P.
1481, Baum Church Laws. The churches in America having no relation
to the state are considered merely as voluntary religious congregations
and are each governed by rules of their own and not by the general laws
of the state. But since there must be supreme authority somewhere to
preside over all interests and that authority must be the state, it must
necessarily exercise its control sometimes even in matters pertaining to
the church. In such cases it generally takes the laws and customs of the
church as its guide, just as between individuals it takes their contracts
and usages, and only for want of them resorts to the general laws and
customs of the land. So it must be in relation to pews in a church. —
Mr. Justice Lowrie in Church v. Wells, supra.
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^i^tovTS of &t. paur^ episcopal CJutc^
" It is now one hundred years ago since the cornerstone of this
sacred edifice was laid. Those who took part in the interesting and
solemn exercises of that day, have all long since passed away. The
generation which took their places has followed them to their last
resting place. But still our ' Hill of Zion ' stands.
" This ' holy and beautiful house ' in which our fathers worshipped,
is yet filled with living worshippers. The voice of prayer and praise
is still heard within these hallowed walls, and the
trumpet of the Gospel still gives the certain
sound here, which, for a century past, it has
always been wont to give.
" What mingling emotions crowd in upon the mind as we stand
here this morning, and look back in imagination over the century
that has passed away. What widening circles of influence for good
have gone out from this church. What solemn impressions have
been produced here. What good resolutions have been formed here.
What restraining power has been exerted here. What seeds of quick-
ing truth have here been sowed. What doubts have here been re-
lieved. What darkness has here been dispelled. What unbelief has
here been overcome. What rebellious wills have here been subdued.
What bitter tears have here been wiped away. What loads of crush-
ing anguish have been lifted off. What broken hearts have been
bound up. What comfort and consolation have been imparted to
God's tempted and sorrowing children. What hungry souls have
been fed with the bread which cometh down from heaven. What
thirsty souls have been here made to drink of the water of life
freely. What naked souls have here been clothed with the garments
of salvation. In a word, what multitudes of souls have been born
again, and made meet for the inheritance of the saints in light,
" And as we dwell on these interesting circumstances, may we not
with propi'iety take up the language of the text and say, in refer-
ences to the saving influences which have emanated from this sanc-
tuary during the century past, Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
hath God shined."
Rectors of St. Paul's Church.
Rev. William McClenachan, June 22, 1760, to October, 1765.
Rev. Hugh Neill, officiated December, 1765, to December,
1766.
Rev. William Stringer, officiated August, 1768, to May, 1773 ;
Rector May, 1773, to October, 1777.
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aeirctorgisipis
Rev. Samuel Magaw, D.D., January, 1781, to February 15,
1804.
Rev. Joseph Pilmore, Assistant, January, 1786, to February,
1794. Rector March, 1804, to February 8, 1821.
Rev. Benjamin Allen, Jr., August 27, 1821,
to January, 1829.
Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, D.D., May 4, 1829, to October, 1833.
Rev. Samuel A. McCoskry, D.D., June, 1834, to June, 1836.
Rev. James May, D.D., October, 1836, to May, 1840.
Rev. Richard Newton, D.D., November, 1840, to April 16,
1862.
Rev. Kingston Goddard, D.D., 1862 to 1866.
Rev. R. Heber Newton, February 18, 1866, to December 9,
1868.
Rev. Robert T. Roche, D.D., October 8, 1869, to October 1,
1872.
Rev. Samuel H. Boyer, D.D., February 4, 1873, to 1879.
Rev. William Adamson, 1879 to 1886.
Rev. Thomas Kittera Conrad, D.D., October, 1886, to May 28,
1893.
Rev. Charles Ellis Stevens, D.D., November 13, 1893, to De-
cember 16, 1894.
Rev. William McGarvey, D.D., June 1, 1897, to October 1,
1898.
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THE RECTORSHIP OF MR. McOLENACHAN
1760-1765
^^^g^HE Rev. William McClenachan, son of James Mc-
/ ^ I Clenaehan by his wife Janet Buchanan, was born
Mil in county Armagh, Ireland, about 1710. In 1734,
^^^^f as a Presbyterian clergyman he was settled at
Georgetown, Maine, and there officiated until
1744,^ when he removed to Chelsea, Massachusetts. In 1745-6,
he was chaplain of General Waldo's command in the expedi-
tion against Louisburg.^ Becoming a member of the Church
1 Greenleaf 's ' ' Sketches of the Ecclesiastical History of Maine, ' ' pp.
75-6; "Portland in the Past," p. 210.
2 Of him, in this relation, the Boston Post Boy of Monday, February
16, 1746, says in part: "Boston. On the eighth instant, arrived here
from Annapolis Koyal, the Rev. Mr. Wm. McClenachan, Chaplain to
Brigadier General Waldo 's Regiment, who contradicts the common report
we have had in town of the death of several officers and many of our
soldiers at Annapolis; but informs us of the death of Lieut. Spencer
Phipps, son of his Honor, our Lieut. Governor, . . . that all the rest of
the officers belonging to Brigadier-General Waldo's Regiment are alive
and well; and but few of the private soldiers dead. That our forces
marched from Annapolis Royal to Minas the beginning of last December,
and were received in the most affectionate manner; and that the inhabi-
tants of that place provided plentifully for them. That Mons. Ramzay
with a small number of French and Indians, being much affrighted,
fled from Minas as soon as he heard of the arrival of our forces at
Annapolis. That all our army at Minas are healthy, .... That Colonel
Noble, who is Commander in Chief of that detachment, has determined
to pursue the Monsieur, and will doubtless soon . . . prevent his return
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Kectot0|)tp ot SS^t* Q^cCItnacfian
of England at Boston, he was, on the recommendation of Gov-
ernor Shirley, ordained deacon and priest in London, in 1755.
Appointed missionary by the venerable Society for the Propa-
gation of the Gospel, he returned to Georgetown, where he had
already married Anne, daughter of Captain Patrick Drum-
mond of that place, by his first wife Ann Bell. She died in
February, 1767. There he remained from May, 1756, to
December, 1758, when he went to a Mission in Virginia, leav-
ing his family in New England. It was on his way back from
Virginia to remove his family there, that he preached at
Christ Church and made the impression which resulted in his
remaining in Philadelphia, first as third assistant at Christ
Church, his salary being paid by private subscription, and
later as rector of St. Paul's.
His brother, Blair McClenachan,^ already- a resident of
Philadelphia, later became one of the city's most opulent
to Canada." See also Collections of the Maine Historical Society, voL
vi, pp. 132-3; "Fort Louisburg, " by Louis Barcroft Eunk, vol. iv
Society of Colonial Wars in Penna., 1911, pp. 1-34.
3 Blair McClenachan, like Robert Morris, was a liberal contributor
to the cause of Independence. In 1780 he contributed £10,000 to the-
Pennsylvania Bank, organized to supply the starving army with pro-
visions, and otherwise supported Congress with his means and credit.
One of the founders of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, he
Crossed the Delaware with Washington and that organization, and was
with it at Trenton, Princeton and Brandywine. When Washington
came to Philadelphia in 1787 to attend the Federal Convention, his
Diary tells that, on Sunday, August 19, he "visited Mr. Blair Mc-
Clenegan," who was then residing at Cliveden, the Chew House,
at Germantown, which in September, 1779, he had purchased from
Benjamin Chew. He retained possession until April, 1797, when he
reconveyed it to Judge Chew. Towards the close of the Revolution he
entered prominently into all the political movements of the time. After-
the war, he was still more prominent; was a member of the Pennsylvania
Assembly, 1790-1795; president of the Democratic Society in 1794 and!
member of Congress, 1797-1799. Disastrous financial reverses foUowecJ
various speculative enterprises, and, like Robert Morris, he spent some
time in the debtor's prison. He married, August 17, 1762, Ana
Darrach of Germantown, by whom he had: 1. Deborah McClenachan,
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^i^tot^f ot &t paur-ei (Episcopal C|^urc|^
merchants and distinguished citizens. He died May 8, 1812,
and was buried in his vault at St. Paul's. It is more than
possible that he was a contributing cause to the settlement of
his reverend brother in Philadelphia.
In his letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, written
shortly after the formation of St. Paul's, William McClen-
achan gives the story of his life and labors to the time of writ-
ing much more succinctly than could otherwise be done after
the lapse of years. He says :
"May it Please your Grace:
" I here present you with a brief Narrative of my Conduct and
Circumstances, since I entered the Gospel Ministry in the Church of
England; with a brief and honest Account of the State of Religion
in the Plantations, so far as I have been acquainted with it.
born June 4, 1763, married April 11, 1781, General Walter Stewart,
•whose descendants are carried down to the present time, through their
•child, Anne, who married Philip Church of New York. General Stew-
.art had the following children: William Stewart, born December 27,
1781, was christened by Eev. Dr. White. His godfathers were General
Washington and J. M. Nesbitt, Esq. His godmother was Mrs. Hayfield
•Conyngham. Lost at sea, summer of 1808. Bobert, born February 14,
1784. Uncle Adam Stewart and Alexander Nesbitt, godfathers. Miss
Patty McClenachan, godmother. Christened by Rev. Dr. White. Died
April 1&, 1906, Canton, China. Anne, born in Londonderry, Ireland,
July 22, 1786, married Philip Church. Walter, born in London, July 6,
1787; died 1807, at Fort Alajon, near Gibraltar. Henry, born December
27, 1788. Christened by Eev. Dr. White. Died 1823 in Mexico. Mary
Ann, their sixth child, born March 3, 1791. Christened by Rev. Dr.
White. Died August 25, 1844, in Philadelphia. Caroline, their seventh
child, was born May 5, 1794. Christened by the Rev. Dr. White. De-
parted this life, December 4, 1795, of a dropsy on her brain. Was
interred in St. Paul's Church burial ground, December 5. Service read
by Bishop White. Washington, their eighth child, born August 24,
1796, at 2 P. M., two months and ten days after his father 's decease, died
April, 1826, at Coquimbo, South America. The father of the above
children died of a bilious fever, June 14, 1796, and was interred in St.
Paul's Burial ground, June 16. Service was read by Bishop White
(Penna. Mag. Hist, and Biog., vol. 22, p. 382).
2. Martha MeClenahan, married John HasseU Huston and had issue, of
vhom Mary Huston married Henry Toland, q. v.
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Witctot0^ip ot 9^u St^cCUnacliatt
" In the year 1755, I went to London for holy Orders, well recom-
mended by [to] many Persons of Distinction, among whom your
Lordship was one. I had the Pleasure of being kindly received, by
many dignified Clergy of our Church. I was ordained Deacon and
Priest, in about a Month after my Arrival, and was appointed an
itinerant Missionary on the Eastern Frontiers of the Massachusetts
Bay in New England. The Spring Ships bound for [New] Eng-
land sailed, before I was ready to take Passage in one of them; by
which means I was detained about four Months in London. Un-
willing to spend my time idly and St. Ann's Church in Lyme house,
wanting a Minister, I cheerfully undertook the Duty; and (blessed
be God) I labored not unsuccessfully. And I was warmly invited
to continue there. But the poor Inhabitants of the Eastern Fron-
tiers in New England wanted me more, and I thought had a better
Title to me; for which Reason I declined settling in that amiable
Church, where Ease, Pleasure, and Profit would have been my Por-
tion; and chose rather, for a Time, to preach the Gospel to the Poor
in the Wilderness, where I knew Dangers and Difficulties would
await and surround me. During my stay in London, I preached in
sixteen Churches and the Rev'd Dr. Beareroft without my Request
certified that my Behaviour in London was worthy the good Char-
acter transmitted from New England.
" I embarked at Gravesend the 8th of August, and arrived at
Boston the 10th of October following.
" I did not think it safe to move my wife and Eight Children, on
the Eve of Winter, to the Wilderness, especially as there was
no Place prepared by the People for my Reception. I therefore
brought my family to Boston and wintered there. During this
Time, I was not forgetful, nor negligent of my Duty as a Clergy-
man of the Church of England; I preached at Stoughton, Needham,
Watertown and Woburn. These Places enjoyed not the public Wor-
ship of God according to our Liturgy; I hope my Labours were not
entirely lost in those Places. I was the first Church of England
Clergyman that had ever preached in Watertown ; and without Van-
ity, I may say, that I was the Instrument of opening up to the
People there the Excellency of our Church Service and bringing them
to be Members of the Church of England. I laid the Foundation;
may God enable the Gentleman that is now settled there faithfully
and successfully to do his Duty.
"As early as I could with Safety, I embarked for Kennebec;
where I was kindly received by the poor Inhabitants; and to their
Service I entirely devoted myself. I preached twice every Sunday,
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and frequently on Week Days. I travelled among the People, visit-
ing them and baptizing their Children, and doing them every good
Office in my Power. The War with the French and Indians becom-
ing very hot, I lived in an old dismantled Fort without Arms, Am-
munition or Soldiers; and there was not an English Inhabitant on
the Western Side of Kennebeck River between me and Quebec.^*
" In this Dangerous Situation I continued, travelling not less than
1000 or 1200 Miles eveiy Year in the Discharge of my sacred Func-
tion. I was allowed £50 Stirling annually from the Society: A
great Part of this Sum I was obliged to spend in maintaining the
Men who rowed me from Place to Place; the Remainder was in no
Ways sufficient [to] support my Family. I frequently wrote to' the
Rev.d Dr. Bearcroft, and begged that my difficult and dangerous
Circumstances might be laid before the Society. I received several
Letters from the Doctor, but no encouragement of being appointed
to any other Place. At length, almost worn out with Fatigue, and
myself and Family being daily in Jeopardy of being killed or capti-
vated by the cruel Enemy, I resolved to take a Tour to the South-
ward, and see what Providence would do for me. I took a Passage
to Virginia and there being many vacant Parishes, I was soon
apiDointed to one, where I performed I believe to the Satisfac-
tion of the People. I found I might be provided for in that Colony,
and had a Prospect of doing Service; and therefore thought it my
duty to hasten to the northward, to deliver my Family from the
Danger of the Common Enemy. I must here beg Leave to inform
your Grace that I received no Sum of Money from the Church where
I preached, to enable me to bring my Family to that Part, nor even
Pay for the Time I served them in the Sacred Office. . . .
" On my Journey to New England, I arrived at the oppulent City
of Philadelphia, where I paid my Compliments to the Rev'd Dr.
Jenney, Minister of Chi-ist Church in that City, and to the Rev'd Mr,
Sturgeon, Catechist to the Negroes. The Doctor for a long Time
has been incapable of doing Duty in the Church; and at that Time
Mr. Sturgeon happened to be indisposed and incapable of doing
Duty. I was invited by the Doctor and Mr. Sturgeon to preach.
3a In 1756, et seq., Samuel Goodwin commanded a militia force on the
Kennebec. His Journal of that year mentions the detaching of a guard,
in October, to accompany Mr. McClenachan on various of his preaching
tours to Georgetown, Eichmond and elsewhere on the Kennebec. Also
an accident to his eldest son John McClenachan, in the Exeter Eiver,
which resulted in his death. Collections of Maine Historical Society,
vol. 24, p. 66, etc.
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and I accordingly preached fore and Afternoon, for which I re-
ceived the Thanks of these Gentlemen. I intended the Tuesday fol-
lowing to have pushed on my Journey but was persuaded to spend
another Sunday with them. According I preached fore and After-
noon again, and Mr, Sturgeon read Prayers. On Monday several
of the Congregation paid me a Visit, and expressed their very warm
Desires, that I should continue for some Time to preach and per-
form the other Duties of my Function, on Probation, with a View to
settle with them; to which I consented, and proceeded according
to an Act of Vestry in my Favour. The 19th of June the Vestry
again met, and with the Advice of the Congregation elected, settled,
established and confirmed me an Assistant Minister to the Rev'd Dr.
Jenney, and voted to address his Lordship the Bishop of London for
his Licence to me to this Church, so being I produced good Testi-
monials of my moral and religious Life in the Places where I had
lived. I produced ample Testimonials of my Christian Behaviour
from the People among whom I had laboured in the Society's
Service, and from many Gentlemen of Distinction, both of the
Church and Presbyterians, who had been acquainted with me for
many Years. These Credentials I laid before the Vestry, who
unanimously approved of them, and accordingly wrote a Letter to
the Bishop of London for me. I likewise wrote a letter to his Lord-
ship, and to Dr. Bearcroft, and I doubted not of being favoured with
a Licence. But alas! While I thought all was well and had no mis-
trust of any Plot or Design against me, then were the crafty em-
ployed, in contriving Means to dissuade his Lordship from sending
me his License. . . . The good Bishop had not thought proper to
answer the honest Letter sent to him by the honest Vestry regularly
assembled, nor to my Letter'. . . . However, the one Party is fa-
voured, and their Request granted, and the other despised and con-
demned without a hearing. His Lordship's Letter discharges all
People from giving any Encouragement to me to live in any Part
of this Province, and charges them to assist in moving me to Vir-
ginia. But before this extraordinary Letter arrived, Dr. Jenney,
and a Majority of his Vestry, assembled, in three Hours from the
Time the Warning was given and dismissed me; declaring that they
were well assured that his Lordship's Letter would be to the same
Purpose. . . .
" One door has been shut against me ; God has opened another.
I was dismissed by the Doctor and Vestry, in Manner aforesaid, on
Wednesday; the Bishop's Letter arrived the Saturday following;
and I read Prayers and preached at the State-House on Sunday, to
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above, perhaps Five Thousand Hearers. The Benefit of assembling,
in this spacious Building, for the public Worship of God, we shall
enjoy, till the Church be built, which will be with all possible
Expedition.
" For this Blow at Christian Liberty makes all good Men Pity
and help us. This alas! will render Prelacy contemptible in this
Part of the World. For a free People will ever esteem it their Privi-
lege, to choose their own Minister; a Right, which they in the Plan-
tations will not care to give up. Let not my Lord imagine, that I
write thus through disregard to our Church. God forbid. I am
grieved at my very Soul, that our holy Church, by such unwarrant-
able Procedure, is thus wounded. Let none imagine, that we are
about to erect a Church separate from the Church of England.
No; we shall strictly adhere to her Liturgy, Doctrines and Discipline.
" Thus I have informed your Grace of my Conduct and Circum-
stances from my entering into the sacerdotal Office of this Day.
" Your Grace fills the highest Office in the Christian Church, and
you are able and likely to do the most good. I have no View but
the Enlargement of my Lord and Master's Kingdom; this, by his
Grace, I shall labor.
" My highest Ambition is and ever shall be, to win Souls to
Christ, I therefore seek Refuge and Protection in your Grace, from
that Contempt and Rage to which I am exposed, and which I have
nndergone, for preaching faithfully the Doctrines of our holy
Church. ... " Your Grace's dutiful Son
" and most obedient Servant,
" Wm. Macclanechan."
So began his charge of St. Paul's, which, after five years
of service, he resigned because of failing health, doubtless
engendered by the hardship of his missionary life on the
Kennebec. He removed to Worcester County, Maryland, in
1765, and was the rector of St. Martin's Church until his death
in 1766. He had several children, who became the progeni-
tors of many well-known Philadelphians, some of whom are
recorded in Keith's Provincial Councillors.*
4 His daughter Isabella, born June, 1746; died August 20, 1815, mar-
ried August 20, 1766, Thomas Robins, only child of Thomas and Leah
(Whalley) Robins, who was born at South Point, Worcester County, Mary-
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Like Whitefield, whom Lord Chesterfield pronounced the
most eloquent man he had ever heard, he was preeminently a
preacher, and St. Paul 's was a sympathetic congregation. He
always preached three times on the Lord 's day. He favored a
strict interpretation of the doctrines of the Thirty-Nine Ar-
ticles ; insisted that the surplice should not be worn at the com-
munion table, and, according to Dr. Johnson, President of King's
College, * * affects to act a part like Whitefield, ' ' which in the lan-
guage of today means no more than that he was of the low
church party. Earnest, eloquent, learned, simple and direct,
an animating spirit without a trace of animosity, he was also
a man of singular courage as is to be learned from Governor
Shirley's recommendation. He was never charged as some
* * Churchmen were with being cold when their neighbors were
at a white heat, or as the exponent of the hard and narrow
churchmanship of the Tory School." He realized that in-
fidelity prevailed and Christianity was reduced to its lowest
level, and he did his utmost to counteract these conditions in
that broader spirit which made it a direct appeal and more
human. He preached faith in God, hope in his salvation and
charity to all mankind. His faith was Catholic, his preaching
evangelistic, his practice not far removed from that of Wil-
liam White, the revered first Bishop of Pennsylvania, whose
attention to the ministry was, it is asserted, the result of a
sermon of Mr. Whitefield 's.
As illustrative of the churchmanship of that time the words
of Bishop Stevens in his memorial sermon **Then and Now,"
land, January 8, 1740. Their son, Edward Kobins, the great-grand-
father of Edward Robins, of Philadelphia, a councillor of the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania and secretary of the University of Pennsylvania,
born at South Point, December 23, 1769, was a member of the Maryland
Legislature and died August 23, 1867, leaving, among others, a son,
Thomas Eobins, who was president of the Philadelphia National Bank
and one of the founders of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, on Eighth
Street above Spruce Street.
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delivered in Christ Church on the centennial of Bishop
White's ordination to the diaconate, are most pertinent.
"Bishop White never bowed at the name of Jesus in the ci'eed,
and even wrote two articles in defence of his not doing so. . . .
He never turned to the east to say the creed or the Gloria Patri.
He never preached in a surplice, but always when not engaged in
Episcopal duties was in the black gown. He never required the
people to rise up as he entered the church and at the close of the
service to remain standing in their pews until he left the chancel.
He never asked the congregation to stand up while he placed the
alms-basins, with the offertory on the Lord's table, or notified the
communicants to continue in their places, after the benediction,
until the clergy had reverently ate and drank what remained of the
consecrated bread and wine. ... He magnified his office, not by
arrogant claims or by extolling unduly its sacred functions, but by a
loving discharge of its duties under the eye of God, in the humility
of a servant and with the fidelity of an Apostle."
In this manner was the service performed at St. Paul's
during Mr. McClenachan's incumbency and as late as 1886.
Dr. McConnell says, ''The Church's theory was catholic, her
methods were denominational." The older people at St.
Paul 's did not bow in the creed and the black gown of Geneva
was always worn in the pulpit.^ The altar was called the
communion table. Its communicants were strenuously op-
posed to "an advanced ritual," or what was called ''high
church practices" and adhered strictly to simplicity of faith
and practice. The Kev. Richard Newton, one of St. Paul's
most eminent rectors, said: "What are ordinarily known as
evangelical truths or the doctrines of grace, are those which
have always been preached here. This pulpit has ever pro-
claimed man's utterly ruined and helpless condition by
nature ; the absolute necessity of the conversion, or new birth
of each individual soul in order to its salvation; God's Holy
5 The Churchman, vol. vi, p. 1046. John 's ' ' Life of Bishop Meade, ' '
pp. 240-1.
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Spirit as the agent, and the truth of His revealed "Word, and
not the Sacraments of the Church, as the chief instrument,
divinely appointed for effecting this great change; an open
Bible alone as man's all sufficient guide in reference to spiri-
tual things, the right of private judgment in the interpreta-
tion of Scripture 'So that whatsoever is not read therein, nor
be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it
should be believed as an article of faith, or be thought neces-
sary to salvation by whomsoever the same may be authorized
and enjoined; the entire freeness of the Gospel, and the full,
perfect and sufficient efficacy of the sacrifice of Christ for the
sins of the whole world; and yet the absolute sovereignty of
God in the dispensing of his grace to men, so that salvation in
its ultimate attainment is not of him that willeth, nor of him
that winneth, but of God who sheweth mercy;' these have
been the type of doctrine always preached in this church."
The vacancy created by Mr. McClenachan was not easy to
fill. By a resolution of the vestry of October 6, 1762, the
Rev. William Romaine, author of ''The Life, Walk and
Triumph of Faith," was appointed assistant minister. He
was recommended by the Rev. George Whitefield for the
vacancy that had now occurred, but Mr. Romaine had just
entered upon his duties at St. Ann's Blackfriars, London,
when the call reached him and he declined it because of that
fact.
There were but few clergy of the Episcopal Church in
America, and these had been duly licensed to the various ap-
pointments they then held. The Stamp Act and the Quarter-
ing Act had brought strained relations to the Mother Country
and her Colonies. The political opposition engendered by
the former had infused itself into the Church, which its
fourth convention held at Shrewsbury, New Jersey, in 1765,
served to emphasize, since if it did not declare for an Amer-
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ican Church, at least considered the advisability of such es-
tablishment. St. Paul's attitude was independent. Mr. Mc-
Clenachan had not been licensed by the Bishop of London,
nor endorsed by the Metropolitan. Its articles of agreement
delegated the choice of his successors to the ballot of the con-
gregation, and it strove to hold fast to the right of presenta-
tion. On these points, the letters of the Rev. Dr. "William
Smith to the Bishop of London are enlightening. Under date
of November 13, 1766, he says:
" Mr. Maeclenachan's or St. Paul's Congregation in this City I
believe will now at last write to your Lordship. ... I know they
will make strong professions of their attachment to the Church as
they do to us here. They will complain that the Missionaries (who
indeed are but thin here and have Business enough of their own)
do not supply them. But while their conduct contradicts their
professions, while they look only to Mr. Whitefield to send them a
Minister and want our Clergy to be Convenient Instruments to keep
them together till they can have a Minister of this stamp to divide
and tear us to pieces, I cannot think we owe them any Service.
They will even profess to your Lordship that they will have no
Minister without your License; but they will try their Minister
first and if they like him then they will ask a Licence. If your
Lordship gives it all will be well; if you refuse it for reasons they
do not think sufficient what will they do then'? I have asked them
the question and they say, would not give their man up, which was
the case with Mr. Macelenachan whom they kept tho' refused a
Licence. . . .
"I think after all they will not ask your Lordship to provide a
minister for them but will still look to the old Quarter tho' I hope
I may be deceived and shall be glad to find it so. They are now
neither numerous nor of much Note but are still worthy to be
brought into the Bosom of our Church if it can be done. Those
among them who were true Churchmen have generally fallen off.
The rest are a mixt sort chiefly for an independent Church of Eng-
land— a strange sort of Church indeed! But the Notion gains too
much Ground here even among the Clergy. I believe your Lordship
6 For account of, see * ' Life and Correspondence of Eev. William
Smith, D.D., First Provost of the College of Philadelphia," vol. i, pp.
384-389.
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REV. WILLIAM SMITH, D.D.
BORN IN SCOTLAND, 1727; DIED IN PHILADELPHIA, 1803,
AN ASSISTANT MINISTER OF CHRIST CHURCH, PHILADELPHIA.
Witttot^'^ip ot 9^u 9i^c€ltnu^&n
will perceive something of this kind not altogether pleasing if the
resolves of a majority of the last Jersey Convention^ should come
before you against Commissaries &c. . . . Mr. Peters attended and
bore his testimony against these Resolves . . . and perhaps he may
give some account of the matter to your Lordship. He was milder,
I believe, than I should have been. . . ."
Dr. Smith in his letter of December 18, 1766, also to the
Bishop of London, continues :
" Your Lordship will give me the leave in all humble Duty to men-
tion an affair by which our Church I fear will suffer a little in the
sight of her adversaries here. One William Dunlap a printer in
this place having also a printing press in Barbadoes having gone to
that Island after his business applied here for recommendations for
orders which we would not give, as he had no education but reading
and writing as well as for other reasons. He did however it seems
procure Letters from some Clergy in Barbadoes, tho' they could not
have known him above a year. No doubt they thought and your
Lordship thought that in the remote and new settled Island a pious
man without the learned languages, &c., might be useful and with
that view we hear your lordship received him. Had he staid there in
the West Indies it might have been all well. But he is now in Phila-
delphia preaching in St. Paul's Church, and in a place where Pres-
byterian preachers have all some learning, where the laity too have
learning and where some things are remembered to his disadvantage
particularly the affair of a Lottery which a few years ago he had
and was like to have been brought into law trouble about it. His
printing Press too he still carries on and it is seldom a ' prophet
has honor in his own country.'
" The man always appeared to me a simple inoffensive man whom
I never could have thought of recommending for Orders tho I knew
no harm of him only I wish he had not come here.
" I mentioned St. Paul's Congregation in my last. No doubt your
Lordship has received their letters. A few days ago Mr. Whitefield
sent them a letter telling them that he had prevailed on a clergyman
(they say Mr. Chapman of Bath and Bradford) to come to them.
Surely he will wait on your Lordship tho some here say not. I have
some acquaintance with him. Mr. Evans after preaching twice to
them declined any further Service and is properly applied to the
business of his own Mission. I have yet little expectation of the
Regularity from that Congregation but I hope I may be deceived.
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" Youi' Lordship's goodness will excuse the freedom I have men-
tioned Mr. Dunlap's affair as it is only to yourself thinking it my
duty to do it, because if any other persons should come without Tes-
timonials from the place where they properly reside and are known,
care may be taken to inquire concerning them. I need not mention
that I would not have any public notice taken of the hints I have
given for Mr. Dunlap was bred under Mr. Franklin now in Eng-
land, in his Printing Office, and married som«} relation of his and his
knowledge of our writing anything now might only make differences.
I hope prejudice will wear off and Mr. Dunlap be useful in some
place tho not in this town.
" I am, your Lordship's most dutiful son and servant,
" Wm. Smith."^
This letter prevented Dunlap being rector of St. Paul's.
In 1768, he became rector of Stratton in King and Queen
County, Virginia,*
7 Perry, vol. ii, pp. 411-5.
8 William Dunlap, a native of Ireland, began printing at Lancaster in
1754, but returned to Philadelphia in 1757, -where, at the "Newest-
Printing-Office, on the South side of the Jersey Market," he did con-
siderable business as a printer, bookseller and stationer. Having en-
gaged in the study of divinity he went to London and obtained ordina-
tion in the Church of England. In 1767 he returned to America, becom-
ing, in the following year, rector of Major Stratton, in King and Queen's
County, Virginia. He printed John Jerman's Almanac in 1757, and
began the publication of Father Abraham's Almanack. When settled
in Virginia, he sold his printing business to his nephew, John Dun-
lap, afterwards fifth captain of the First Troop Philadelphia City
Cavalry, who, in 1771, began the publication of The Pennsylvania Packet
or General Advertiser. In 1784, the Pacl'et was issued as a daily paper,
it being the first daily newspaper in the United States. The North
American is the successor of Mr. Dunlap 's paper. As the public printer,
authorized by Congress, he had the distinction of printing and publishing
for general distribution the Declaration of Independence as well as
Continental currency. Thomas' "History of Printing in America,"
1874, pp. 252, 258, 259. "History of Friendly Sons of St. Patrick,"
1892, p. 109. Also see Vol. 10, Penna. Magaine of Hist. & Biog., pp.
86-217, 322-462 ; vol. II, 98^223, 346-482.
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REV. HUan NEILL
1765-1766
3N consequence of the conditions which followed Mr.
McClenachan's departure, some years intervened
before St. Paul's had a settled rector. Mr, Neill
officiated as early as December, 1765, and from
that time irregularly until his departure, in Oc-
tober, 1766, to the well-established parish of St. Paul's, Queen
Anne County, Maryland.
As missionary of the Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel he was at Christ Church, Dover, Delaware, in 1745,
where he remained until 1759, beginning his connection with
Trinity, Oxford, the following year. The loss of his glebe-
house, by fire, caused his temporary residence at German-
town, from which he wrote to the Secretary of the Society,
May 12, 1760 :
" Very Rev^ and D*" Sir
" It is with the greatest pleasure I can inform you that the Con-
gregation of Oxford, thro' the blessing of God is in a growing Con-
dition; . . . We had 20 Communicants last Easter; the oldest livers
in the place tell me they dont remember such a number to have taken
the Sacrament there before. I wish I could say the same of White-
marsh. The Communicants there were but six altho' the Church is
crowded there every Sunday yet they are chiefly of other persuasions,
the Church people being but few in those parts. I, have an invita-
tion from some of the English people in German Town to preach
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for them as there is no kind of English Worship in the Town except
a Quaker meeting house; and, indeed, this is something extraordinary,
as I don't know a family of the Church of England in Town but one,
altho' it contains 300 houses, but as they are divided into so many
Sects, that no single sect is able to support a Minister, I mean the
English people and as I have offered to preach for them for nothing
Sunday Evenings after Service is over of my other Churches, they
readily embraced the offer. The loan of the Lutheran Church of the
upper end of German Town and of the Calvinist Church in the
Middle of the Town are both offered to me by their respective Minis-
ters and people, as they appear more willing to have a Minister
of the Church of England to preach to their people that understand
English (as most of the young people do) than any other denomi-
nation."^
On June 8, 1761, he adds: "I officiated the chief part of
last Summer Sunday Evenings in German Town, where the
rising generation of the Dutch, that understand English are
well affected to the Church of England. Dr. Smith and my-
self had agreed for a Lot, about an acre, for £75, to build an
English Church and make a Grave Yard for we found the
Dutch Clergy here were not fond of letting me officiate in their
Churches, I suppose imagining their people would fall away
from them and join with the English; but we are obliged to
drop the scheme for the present till a more favorable time on
account of the prejudice of the people against Dr. Smith for
his disputes in politics formerly who would not subscribe, be-
cause they said he had a hand in it. "^
Mr. Neill's letter of December 14, 1765, written from Ox-
ford and addressed to the Secretary,^ bears directly on the
beginning of his association with St. Paul 's. In it he says :
''Revd. Sir,
" After maturely considering the consequence of their invitation
that a door appeared to be now opened for healing the breaches in
1 Perry, vol. ii, pp. 286-8.
2 Ibid., p. 327.
3 Ibid., p. 399.
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that Church, and that such a respectable body of Christians who are
very numerous and declare themselves members of the Church of
England should not be neglected, I concluded upon the whole that it was
my duty to comply with the invitation as far as consistent with the
duty I owed to my own people. I put my resolution into execution,
I consulted my own congregation, and having called a vestry [meet-
ing], a committee from the vestiy of St. Paul's attended and re-
quested it as a favor from my vestry in the name of the congrega-
tion of St. Paul's that I might be permitted to supply them at least
once a month and sometimes in the afternoon when I preached at
Oxford. My vestry in consideration of their own inability to con-
tribute hardly anything these hard times to my support, and the
vestry of St. Paul's, offering to make me grateful acknowledgments
agreed to their request.
" I have since attended according to the agreement,* and must truly
say the people of St. Paul's behave with as much decency and good
order throughout all parts of the service as in any other church I
have seen."^
Once again, Mr. Neill addresses the Secretary of the Ven-
erable Society in relation to St. Paul's. This letter is dated
Queen's Town [Maryland], June 9, 1767:
^'Revd. Sir,
"I have the pleasure of receiving two letters from you; the first
concerning St. Paul's Church in Philadelphia; the second about my
unfortunate nephew, with a donation of Ten Pounds from the Society
for which I beg leave to return them my most hearty thanks. Not-
withstanding there is seldom any provision made in Europe for an
American Missionary yet I make no doubt the Society will be well
pleased to hear that ample provision is made for any of their old
Servants in this country. I have had the satisfaction to acquaint
them that Governor Sharp has been kind enough to grant me an
Induction appointing me Rector of St. Paul's Parish, Queen Ann's
County Maryland, A living worth three hundred pounds per annum
currency which is about two hundred per annum Sterling, and as I
* The Archbishop of Canterbury, in a letter to Eev. Dr. William Smith
of August 2, 1766, says : ' ' Mr. Neill hath been directed not to give hia
assistance any longer to Mr. Macclenathan 's Congregation, as they have
made no application to the Bishop of London."
0 Perry, vol. ii, p. 399.
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have acquired here a considerable landed Estate I hope to be able to
make the Society ample amends for all past favors.
" As to my ofiieiating in St. Paul's Church in Philadelphia I have
made bold to vindicate my conduct to his Grace of Canterbury and
shall only add that the prohibitation of me and of me in particular
has made more noise and given a deeper wound than possibly you
can Imagine to the Church. My license from my Lord Bishop of
London gave me power to preach the Gospel in Pennsylvania. I
made no Schism by preaching to Churches that were unprovided for.
All that I have done is that I have preached the Gospel to a vacant
Church at the earnest solicitation of the Vestry, with the approba-
tion of my own people and when it did not interfere with the duties
of my Mission. If this is criminal it is what I never knew before.
I am sure I have read my Bible and all the Cannons and Constitu-
tions of the Church of England together with all her laws civil and
Ecclesiastical and am so blind hitherto as not to be able to see where
it is forbidden to preach to a vacant Church.
" However if it is a crime it must be so in other Clergymen as
well as in me and why an interdiction was sent to me and not to the
rest is a general question in Pennsylvania but no man can solve it.
The City Clergy and most of the Missionaries preached in St. Paul's
even in the the lifetime of Mr. McClenachan. This I never did till
after his death. Then circular letters were sent from the Vestry to
the Missionaries to supply them in turn. The City Clergy heartily
approved of this measure & spoke to me and others to comply, but
when they found that the invitation was to the missionaries and not
to themselves, they then wanted us to refuse supplying them with-
out they would invite them also. Drs. William Smith and [Jacob]
Duche set all their friends to work to try to get St. Paul's Vestry to
invite them, but all in vain. The Church of St. Paul's had some in-
vinceable reasons against Dr. Smith. Mr. [Richard] Peters has but just
emerged from a life of Politics and pleasure in a continual round as
Secretary to the Governor for many years and Mr. Duche was wholly
bent upon making a powerful party among them, in order to de-
stroy the Church. All the Town Clergy had one point in view and
that was either to aniholate the Church or bring them under the
dominion of Christ Church Vestry; as it seems to be an established
maxim among them, that if Philadelphia was fifty Miles Square and
had two hundred Churches in it, they must be all subject to one
Rector and one Vestry. How consistent this is to the Eccles. Gov-
ernment of the Church in the City of London or anywhere else the
Church is established, I leave to the judgment of my superiors.
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The people of St. Pauls have built them a Church and endowed it
with a handsome revenue and therefore claim and insist upon the
right of presentation. This right Christ Church enjoy without any
claim of his Lordship of London. When St. Paul's becomes vacant
they claim nothing more than the right of presenting some Clergy-
man to the Lord Bishop of London. If his Lordship has any Legal
reason for setting aside their choice, such as would set aside a Clergy-
man in one of his own Courts, they will immediately discharge
him and proceed to the choice of another. All this is they humbly
conceive coming as near to the Eccles. Laws as possible. But to
give his Lordship a right to appoint whom he will is a privilege his
Lordship does not enjoy, or even insist on, from Christ Church and
why he should claim it of them, is more than they can possibly assign
a reason for.
" The opinions of the Philadelphians is such of Dr. Smith that he
has never been able to procure himself to be chosen even as an as-
sistant in any of their Churches. St. Paul's people were alarmed at
the thoughts of giving up the right of presentation to the Lord
Bishop of London as they were afraid Dr. Smith might prevail upon
his Lordship to appoint him and their knowledge of him was as such
that no Clergyman would have been more disagi-eeable.
" These were some of the reasons alleged to me by the people of
St. Paul's and without the least view of Interest, reflecting upon the
whole what might be best for the Church, I thought it my duty to
preach for them sometimes upon the Sunday Evening with the leave
of my own Parish. All the other Missions thought so too and
thought that harsh measures never would make good Churchmen of
them. But their refusal of Dr. Smith was (in his own eyes), an un-
pardonable crime and therefore he was determined to let them feel
the weight of his resentment. Had he been admitted to preach in
St. Paul's, the Society would never have been troubled upon this
head.
" When the Missionaries came in turn to preach at St. Paul's Dr.
Smith threatened them immediately with the resentment of the So-
ciety without he would be taken in amongst the rest. This condi-
tion could not be obtained. Messrs. Peters and Duehe harped upon
the same string but all in vain. What a mortification to find the
reputation of the Missionaries superior to their own. Many of the
Missionaries were afraid and after they came to Town to officiate
went home again witjiout doing it.
"Dr. Smith threatened me in the same manner. I told him he
was neither Bishop, Commissary nor Deputy Agent for a eorrespond-
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ing Society, for one or other of which offices he had been waiting for
many years, consequently he had no power over me & that the
scurility of his language upon that occasion was no mark of his be-
ing qualified for any of the above places. That the Society had
often approved of their ]\Iissionaries preaching occasionally in Pres-
byterian and Baptist meeting houses, consequently could have no ob-
jection to their Missionary preaching in a Church.
" What Dr. Smith and his Philadelphia Brethren have wrote home
upon this occasion I know not nor does it concern me at this time
any otherwise than, as I am heartily sony to find that the Venerable
Body [is] so grossly abused and imposed upon by vile partial mis-
representations which naturally brings them into disrepute in the
Colonies where their lustre should be the most conspicuous.
" When my Lord Arch Bishop of Canterbury signified his dis-
approbation of my preaching in St. Paul's in a Letter to Dr. Smith,
he delivered his Grace's commands with such an arbitrary tone that
I really thought he was going to reinforce them with a Cudgel. I
asked him for a copy of what he had wrote to England that I might
be enabled to make my vindication. This he refused. However I
make no douht he had confined himself as strictly to truth as he did
when he drew up the Memorial of his wonderful services in Penn-
sylvania and got some of the good Bishops in England to sign it and
send it to the University of Oxford in order to obtain his Doctor's
Degree. Facts that were just as true — many of them — as the His-
tory of Don Quixote.
" These intollerable measures prevailed with me at last to accept
of an offer Governor Shai'pe had made me long before of removing
into Mary land where the Church is established and no man can be
ruined by partial information.
" Since I came here the Church of St. Paul's in Philadelphia as a
Testimony of their regard transmitted to me a very handsome piece
of plate with the following inscription neatly engraved — * The Gift
of the Church of St. Paul's in Philadelphia, To the Reverend Mr. Hugh
Neill in gratitude for his disinterested ministerial services to that church
A. D. 1766." I hope my Lord Bishop of London will approve of
my removal and signify his approbation whenever it suits his eon-
veniency. We have here an Excellent Governor which answers all
the ends of a Bishop except in conferring orders and confirmation.
I wish he had this part of the Episcopal authority conferred upon
him. He would make as good a Bishop as we could wish for.
" If there is any inf onnation wanting from this province in order to
assist the Venerable Society in their most benevolent undertakings I
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shall not only be led by duty but I incline at all times to give them
the best accounts I can. If they choose to make use of me, no one
in the world will be more ready to execute their commands or have
a more grateful sense of past favors than
"Revd Sir, &c.,
"Hugh Neill."«
Refusing to accept monetary compensation for his services,
the vestry, on fifteenth of June, 1768, in order to show the
appreciation of the congregation, presented Mr. Neill vv^ith a
silver tankard,^ bearing the inscription mentioned in the fore-
going letter.
" The Gift of St. Paul's Church, in
Philadelphia to the Reverend Hugh Neill,
in Gratitude for his disinterested Min-
isteral Services to that Church, April,
1766."
Strangely enough when Mr. Neill was rector at Oxford he
must have had some similar experience, or perhaps it was his
policy, since on May 2, 1763, he writes: ''This is no country
for a missionary to make his fortune when the only way for
him to increase his congregation is to give up all pretentions
to their subscriptions and to let them know that he preaches
freely among them as the Apostles did without fee or reward. ' '
Though St. Paul's was without a stated rector, it doubtless
had from time to time various clerical supplies. Among these
supplies may be named that of January 9, 1767, when the Rev.
Mr. Alkin preached a charity sermon, the collection at which
time, amounting to seventeen pounds sterling was ' ' for the re-
lief of the poor prisoners in the City goal. ' ' That Mr. Alkin
was persona grata to the church authorities, may be con-
cluded from the fact that he preached, on the following Sun-
days, to the congregations of Christ Church and St. Peter's.*
6 Perry, vol. ii, pp. 417-420.
7 Purchased from John Leacock at a cost of 19 pounds, 10 shillings,
» Pennsylvania Gazette of January 8 and 15, 1767.
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REV. WILLIAM STRINGER
1768-1777
m
R. Stringer arrived in Philadelphia from Eng-
land, August 20, 1768, with a letter of intro-
duction from the Rev. George "VVhitefield.
He officiated as minister-in-charge from that
time until May, 1773, when he was elected
rector, and served as such until October, 1777, shortly after
which he returned to England, where, at Barnet, he died,
June 12, 1799.
Again the private correspondence of the city clergy, with
the Secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel,
and the Bishop of London, affords the best medium to an un-
derstanding of the religious conditions prevailing in Philadel
phia and particularly at St. Paul's.
The indefatigable Provost Smith in his letter of February
22, 1769, to the Secretary, says:
" D0ar and Worthy Sir
" I have no other particular to add ; only to beg, as I cannot by this
ship write to the Bishop of London, that you would wait on his
Lordship to inform him that the congregation of St. Paul's on re-
ceiving a Letter from Mr. Chapman^ that he was coming out with
his Lordship's Licence & telling them that when he shall come
out, Mr. Stringer, whom they now have at St. Paul's cannot con-
1 The Kev. Walter Chapman of Bath and Wells, see p. 77.
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tinue under him & blaming them for employing a man ordained ir-
regularly in London by some Greek or foreign Bishop. I say on
receiving this letter of Chapman's which I think was not blame-
worthy a majority of the Congregation got offended at Chapman &
passed a sort of confused vote to keep Stringer even if Chapman
should come. ... I beg then you may let the Bishop know this
state of the case; & if Mr. Chapman comes, I think he should be
encouraged, as it seems now the only thing that can make a regular
Church & keep it from continuing in a state of separation. I think
the Bishop should see Mr. Chapman before he sends any answer;
only as little use as possible should be made of my name. This
matter deserves serious consideration.
" Mr. Stringer seems a peaceful good man though I am told all
his sermons are in one strain and only in the way of Romaine, Rev.
William Romaine, author of The Life Walk and Triumph of Faith,
q. v., Etc. But were his orders regular I believe he might be made a
useful missionary, and he says he is willing to be employed whenever
he can serve the cause of religion. "2
With St. Paul's it was the old question, the right of presen-
tation, did it rest with the Bishop, or with the Church? Its
Articles of Agreement had placed it with the Church.
Nearly ten months later, December 6, 1769, the Rev, Rich-
ard Peters, D.D., still rector of the United Parishes, Christ
Church and St. Peter's, in a letter to the Bishop of London,
covered some of the same ground as that of Dr. Smith's. He
writes :
" My much Honourd, Lord,
" I am ashamed that I have not all this time answerd your Lord-
ship's Letter of the 25th November last relating to Mr. Stringer, the
present officiating minister of St. Paul's Church in this city. Noth-
ing however has been omitted by me that I could think would do any
Grood to so wilful and self conceited a People. As soon as I received
your Lordship's Letter, I communicated the Contents to Dr. Smith
and Dr. Duche, and conferred with them in what manner to act.
Mr. Stringer notwithstanding the Irregularity of his Introduction
into orders is a quiet inoffensive and good man. He gives constant
attention to his duty which he punctually performs according to the
2 Perry, vol. ii, pp. 437-8.
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Rites and Ceremonies of our Church. He preaches on every Holy
Day and did use to lecture once a week in the Evening besides his
Ordinary Duty. By this commendable Diligence and by never shew-
ing the least Regard to his Worldly Interest or troubling his head
whether the Congregation gives him more or less he had obtained an
universal Esteem. Not only the members of his own Congregation
but all other persuasions expressed a Value for him and thought the
City much favoured by having so quiet and innocent a man at the
head of such a medley as that Congregation consists of. As this was
the case we all thought it best to let Mr. Stringer have the first
Knowledge of the letter, and accordingly it was communicated to him
in a friendly manner by Dr. Smith, Dr. Duche and myself. After
he had read the letter he seemed to be in no wise perplexed, but
frankly owned that your Lordship had given a true Account of
What had passed except that, as he says, your Lordship was mistaken
in saying he promised not to do any Duty under this Greek Orders,
he promised not to do Duty under them till he had your Lordship's
answer, and when he received that answer which was so peremptory
against him, and a total Discouragement for ever making any appli-
cation to the Society he looked on his promise to be no further bind-
ing as there could be no Connection after that between your Lord-
ship and him. He ownd likewise that your Lordship had his orders,
and that from what your Lordship had said about the character of
the Bishop who ordained him, as if he was no real Bishop, he had
got a good Enquiry made into that Fact, and found that he was truly
the Bishop he pretended to be, and therefore he had applied to him
who was then still at Amsterdam to send him Duplicates of his
orders which he did and under these he now acts and thinks he may
rightly act as a Minister of the Gospel; and as his affections are
really in favour of the service and articles of the Church of England
and he thinks he is well warranted to read her Service and do all the
Duty of a Church of England Minister in any congregation that will
please to employ him. That he did not come over to America on
any particular Plan but from the hopes of doing good in any place,
no matter what, for he had no notion of one place more than an-
other. That he came to Philadelphia and was applied to by the Con-
gregation of St. Paul's. • It was they applied to him not he to them,
and that as he is only an occasional Minister to them, as soon as
they please to declare their Desire that he should no longer officiate,
he would as gladly leave them as stay with them, and go to some
other Place. That all Places are alike to him and that he should go
where God directed him : and he said further that as he had from the
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very first given the same account of himself to the Congregation as
your Lordship had done in your letter, we might proceed to lay it
before the Congregation or Vestry in what manner we pleased, for
it would give him no concern whether they would or would not dis-
miss him.
" We then thought it best to desire the Church Wardens to call a
Vestry in order to give me an opportunity of laying your Lordship's
letter before them. They promised to do it, but shuffled from time
to time and at last expressed a total indifference about it, and that
they would be satisfied with their Minister on the foot he was em-
ployed by them notwithstanding your Lordship's letter. They were
told over and over that he was no more a Minister of the Church of
England than any of the Preachers among the other Sectaries and
that his being in any wise employed by the Vestry or Congregation
to do duty as a Minister of the Church of England was expressly
against their Constitution and a total Defection from any English
Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction. This they owned but for all that are de-
termined to go on as they do, and the reason is apparent. It is this.
Some few men do hereby retain their Power and Influence and Reign
Sole Sovereigns of the Congregation, and it will go on as it does
until they quarrel amongst themselves and then they may return to
Order.
" This is a faithful and full and true account of the State of this
Church, and I heartily am sorry that it was not made sooner to your
Lordship. I have no Excuse for my delay; I shall not hereafter
have any Connection with Minister or Congregation of St. Paul's,
who have not only been very undutiful to your Lordship, but have
also been peculiarly ungrateful to me in the manner they have thought
fit to demean themselves as well as in their mannner of representing
what I have done and said in this matter, I am,
"Your Lordship,
" most obedient and
"most humble and dutiful
" Son and Servant,
"Richard Peters."
Mr. Stringer probably never saw or heard of these letters,
and from his general attitude we may conclude they would
have caused him no concern if he had known of them. He
was a man of quiet goodness and gave constant attention to
his duties, which he punctually performed, preaching on
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Holy Days and lecturing once a week in the evening,^ and
was universally esteemed.
He supplied the church until May, 1773, without being
elected rector, owing to some question about the validity of
his ordination by Erasmus, Bishop of Arcadia in the Island
of Crete, as already stated ; but, having returned to England
in 1772, and obtained regular ordination from the Bishop of
London, he was unanimously elected rector on the fourth of
May, 1773.
After Mr. Stringer's departure to London to obtain his
orders the clergy of the United Churches of Christ Church
and St. Peter's interested themselves in the congregation and
officiated during his absence in his church. Upon his return,
church matters were upon a good foundation, and he entered
upon his duties with earnestness and regularity, and labored
with great success until the breaking out of the Revolution,
when his affection for King George and his outspoken interest
in the Royalist cause, rendered him persona non grata to
St. Paul's congregation, and the inevitable open rupture oc-
curred.
At this period, the position of the clergy sent to the Colo-
nies as missionaries by the venerable Society for the Propa-
gation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts was a difficult one. In-
deed, it was not only difficult but perplexing, even dangerous,
3 The evening lectures appear to have been on Tuesdays. At a meeting
of Lodge No. 2, Free and Accepted Masons of Philadelphia, held May
8, 1770, the minutes state: "The Worshipful Master having thought it
ill convenient to meet on Tuesday nights as several of the brethren,
members of St. Paul's Church, being thereby deprived of the evening
lectures, it was balloted whether the same could not without greater
inconveniency be changed. The same was unanimously carried in the
affirmative. It was then put to the ballot what night was most proper,
and it was determined on the second Wednesday of every month, the
Secretary to have notice that he may persue according to these minutes. ' '
(Barratt-Sachse, "Freemasonry in Pennsylvania," vol. i, p. 201, in
fac-simile.)
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and differed widely from that of the laymen of the Church.
By far the greater proportion of the Colonial settlers in
founding homes in a new country had, through the creation
of new interests and the flight of time, severed connection with
the old. Hence there was nothing anomalous in their de-
scendants, "Washington, Patrick Henry, Franklin, Livingston,
Sterling, the Morrises, Jay, Kichard Henry Lee, Madison,
Morgan, the Pendletons, Draytons, Heywards, Pinckneys and
other distinguished adherents of the English State Church,
declaring against England. Not so the Colonial clergy who,
personally and professionally, were not only connected with
the mother country but bound to her as priests of the Estab-
lishment. When ordained they had sworn perpetual allegi-
ance to the King, and the Bishop of London, their ecclesias-
tical superior, had record of their oaths. They, therefore,
found themselves in a most uncomfortable position when Con-
gress appointed July 20, 1775, as a day of fasting and prayer,
a position most graphically set forth in the address to the
Bishop of London of July 20, 1775, signed by Mr. Stringer
and others of the Philadelphia clergy:
Richard Peters, Wm. Smith,
Jacob Duche, Thomas Coombe,
William Stringer, William White.
"Never were men in a more trying or delicate position,"
writes Dr. Smith to the Lord Bishop on July 10. "Now our
people have all taken up Arms and entered into associations
never to submit to the Parliamentary claim of taxing them at
pleasure. We see nothing in our Churches but men in their
uniforms & tho ' they excuse us on Sundays they are now every-
where requesting occasional sermons on the present situation of
things. The case of the poor Missionaries is hard. To com-
ply may offend their protectors and those that support them
in the Parent Countr3^ To refuse would leave them without
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Congregations everywhere; and perhaps it is more the wish
of some that they should refuse than comply. ' '*
On October 6, 1775, the clergy again addressed the Bishop
of London, saying, inter alia, * ' Our Distresses are great ; our
anxiety for the welfare of the whole British Empire still
greater; but in these most trying times we hope to approve
ourselves the hearty and steady friends of the constitution,
both in church and state, and the faithful ministers of the
gospel of peace and love. ' ' This letter, signed by Philip Read-
ing, George Craig, Thomas Barton, Charles Inglis, D[aniel]
Batwelle, Samuel Tingley, Alexander Murray, John Odell,
Sam. Magaw, Wm. Thompson, Geo. Panton, Wm. Frazer,
shows that the writers were as yet unable to realize that the
colonists meant what they said, viz. : that they would no
longer tolerate in the Colony the union of church and state.
The parishioners of St. Paul 's looked solely to the salvation
of their souls. They cared nothing for the Church of Eng-
land as a state church, and saw no inconsistency in using her
Prayer Book, taking up arms against the King, and in re-
fraining from using those prayers for the royal family and
the King, against whom they were fighting. The culminat-
ing event which led to the dissolution of Mr. Stringer's con-
nection with the parish is interesting as showing the tension
and temper of our Revolutionary ancestors.
General William Howe, in command of the English forces,
left New York by sea in August, 1777, to attack and capture
the city of Philadelphia. On September 11, he defeated
Washington and the troops at Brandywine. On September 27,
Philadelphia was captured, although Col. Blathwaite Jones,
Washington's chief engineer officer in 1777-1778, built the
fortification at Billingsport and across the Delaware River to
prevent it.
4 Perry, vol. ii, pp. 472, 475, 480-1.
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Congress left the State House and fled from the city, and
held sessions at Lancaster and at York in Pennsylvania. On
October 4, Washington attacked the British and was defeated
at Germantown. Then Washington's troops on December
19, 1777, went into winter quarters, hutting at Valley Forge,
in Chester County, Pennsylvania, as suggested by General An-
thony Wayne, where they suffered much misery. Many of
the patriotic parishioners of St. Paul's were with Washing-
ton's army, as were their relatives and friends;^ not the least
among them was Colonel Thomas Proctor, Chief of Artillery
who received his commission May 18, 1779. He was in
Wayne's Bergen Neck expedition and was satirized by Major
Andre in the * ' Cowchase ' ' :
" Sons of distant Delaware,
And still remoter Shannon
And Major Lee with horses rare
And Procter with his cannon."
The Sunday after the British captured Philadelphia, one
of the lessons was Ezekiel 20th. The 38th verse is, **I will
purge out the rebels from among you and those that trans-
gress. ' '
The form of prayer for fasting and prayer appointed by
King George III to be read in churches in December, 1776,
on the breaking out of the Revolution, which was called the
'* Prayer for our Enemies," had already caused trouble for
some rectors.
The term "Rebel," being the offensive epithet applied by
the British to the Americans, some of St. Paul 's congregation,
impelled by the violence of their political feelings, charged
Mr. Stringer with designedly selecting this lesson as a public
5 See preface, ' ' Freemasonry in Pennsylvania, ' ' Barratt-Sachse, vol. i,
xii-xiii. Lodge No. 2, F. & A. M. held no meetings from July 21, 1777,
until November 6, 1778, during the British occupation of Philadelphia.
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threat against them, and the excitement produced by it was
so great that it led to an immediate rupture between the pas-
tor and his flock, and the severance of his pastoral relations.
Thus the church was again without a regular pastor for
four years, from October, 1777, to January, 1781, covering
the important part of the war, which was concluded October
19, 1781, by the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, at Yorktown,
Virginia, of his entire army of seven thousand men to Wash-
ington. But there must have been good preaching at St.
Paul's, since John Adams, of Massachusetts, wrote his wife
of visiting the Episcopal Churches and that he heard ''better
prayers, better speaking, softer, sweeter music, and saw gen-
teeler company than elsewhere."®
The clergy who were loyal to the king, in the then state of
the public mind, were afraid to pray for the success of the
King and the Royal arms ; and while they continued to hold
the services they omitted both prayers and dodged the ques-
tion. The result was our ancestors called them traitors,
tories and British emissaries. From the standpoint of the
American who was an Episcopal layman, his church by reason
of the fact that it was in union with the State with which he
was at war, was not equal to the occasion, and was lined up with
his enemies. In consequence thereof the sufferings of the
Royalist clergy were intense. Some were soused in ponds,
mobbed, shot at, robbed, starved, banished, imprisoned. Their
cattle were killed, their churches wrecked and their libraries
burned. Many returned to private life, some to Great
Britain, others to Nova Scotia. The Rev. Dr. McConnell, in
his valuable "History of the American Episcopal Church,"
pages 210-211, gives a list of those clergymen who suffered
and were banished because they remained loyal to the King.
On the other hand, it is to be noted that the patriot clergy
6 Anne H. Wharton 's ' ' Salons Colonial and Eepublican, ' ' p. 28.
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held that their oath of allegiance had been transferred from Ir^''
the de jure to the de facto King, viz., the people ! Hence Ay res ^^y
in his ' * Life of Dr. John Peter Muhlenberg, ' ' relates how that
distinguished clergyman at his Woodstock Church, in Virginia,
having accepted a colonel's commission, took leave of his
parishioners in an eloquent sermon upon the duty of the hour,
exclaiming in conclusion: ** There is a time for all things, a
time to preach and a time to pray ; but there is also a time to
fight, and that time has now come." Pronouncing the bene-
diction, he threw off his clerical gown and stood revealed in a
full military uniform. Proceeding to the door of the church
with a recruiting sergeant 's roll in his hand he enlisted nearly
three hundred of his hearers. Almost immediately he
marched to the relief of Charleston, S. C, where his regiment,
the 8th Virginia, gained a reputation for discipline and brav-
ery. His monument, giving him his highest title of major
general, stands on the south pavement of our City Hall,
Philadelphia, depicting this identical scene.
William White, afterwards first Bishop^ of Pennsylvania,
who, with John Peter Muhlenberg^ and William Braidfoot of
Virginia, had been privately ordained April 23, 1722, at the
King's Chapel, St. James, by the Bishop of London, became
chaplain of the Continental Congress, and took the oath of
allegiance to the United States in 1776.
8 Muhlenberg states in his Journal that the three of them went to the
theatre to see the celebrated Garrick.
7 Consecrated on Sunday, February 4, 1787, by the Archbishop of
Canterbury, in the Chapel of Lambeth Palace.
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THE RECTORSHIP OF DR. MAGAW
1781-1804
HE Reverend Samuel Magaw, D.D., rector from
£ «^ January, 1781, to February 15, 1804, when fail-
A I iiig health compelled his resignation, was born in
^^^^^ Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, about 1735,
and died at Philadelphia, December 1, 1812.
His body was buried in the chancel of St. Paul's, and the
church draped with the emblem of mourning.
Sprung from that sturdy Scotch-Irish stock which gave to
the Colonies many Revolutionary heroes and to the American
Church many eminent divines, Samuel Magaw was a member
of the first class to graduate from the Philadelphia College,
now the University of Pennsylvania, in 1757. Educated for
a tutorship at the suggestion of the college authorities, he
afterward studied theology and was among the last mission-
aries sent to America, in 1767, by the venerable Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Writing to the
Archbishop of Canterbury, November 13, 1766, Dr. William
Smith of the College, said: "Mr. Andrews and Mr. Magaw
were educated and graduated under me, and I hope on Exami-
nation will do credit to our College. Their Letters to Dr.
Barton mention their Destination, viz., Dover and Lewes on
Delaware and their Testimonials to your Lordship will certify
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their moral character." A month later, Dr. Smith again
alludes to the young priests in a letter to the Archbishop and
hopes that, ' ' it will appear to your Lordship that they are well
grounded in their education."^
Sometime previous to this, Mr. Magaw had been associated
with the Rev. Charles Inglis in teaching school at Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, and this association may have led to his even-
tually succeeding Mr. Inglis,^ in 1767, as rector of Christ
Church, Dover, Delaware, upon the latter 's removal to Trin-
ity Church, New York City.
At Dover, his rectorate was preeminently satisfactory.
He finished the church at Duck Creek Cross Roads, now
Smyrna, begun by Mr. Inglis and named St. Peter's, which
was used for the first time on Trinity Sunday, in 1769. In
those two years he had baptized six adults and one hundred
and ninety-eight children, of which latter five were negroes,
1 Perry, vol. ii, pp. 412, 413, 456, 475, 481.
2 Charles Inglis, native of Ireland and son of a clergyman whose father
and grandfather had also been clergymen, was missionary at Dover from
1759 to 1765, and assistant rector and rector of Trinity, New York, 1765
to 1783. When the war came he sided with the mother country and her
government and suffered for his principles. Kequested by Washington to
omit prayers for the King and royal family, he refused so to do, and, fol-
lowing the Declaration of Independence he caused his church to be closed.
In 1777 he became rector of Trinity, and in 1781-2, chaplain to the First
battalion New Jersey volunteers [Tories]. He resigned his rectorship in
1783 and went to Halifax. Consecrated at Lambeth, England, in 1787,
Bishop of Nova Scotia, he had the distinction of being the first colonial
bishop of the Church. King's College, now Columbia, conferred upon
him the degree of A.M. in 1767, and in 1770 he was appointed one of the
governors of that college. He was the author of several religious publica-
tions. In Delaware, in 1764, he married Mary Vining, whose mother,
Mary, widow of Captain Benjamin Vining of New Jersey, afterwards be-
came the wife of Judge Nicholas Eidgley, of Delaware. Bishop Inglis
died at Halifax, February 24, 1816, His son, John Inglis, was also
bishop of Nova Scotia. His grandson. Sir John Eardley Wilmot Inglis,
succeeded to the command at Lucknow, when that place was besieged by
the Sepoys in 1857. Scharf 's "History of Delaware," vol. ii, pp. 1054-
5; Appleton's "Cyclopaedia of American Biography," vol. iii, p. 349.
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and his communicants, at that chapel, numbered ninety-four.
Effective as a preacher, zealous in the promotion of Chris-
tianity within and without the limits of his parish, "of great
urbanity of manners and apparent kindliness of spirit," he
maintained cordial relations with the neighboring clergy.
There is record evidence that, frequently, he administered the
sacraments of baptism and the Holy Communion at Barratt's
Chapel,^ some eleven miles south of Dover. The Rev, Francis
Asbury,* later Bishop Asbury of the Methodist Church, men-
tioned him as preaching an excellent sermon and as being "a
kind, sensible and friendly minister of the Episcopal Church."
His Dover mission included the County of Kent, some
thirty measured miles along the River Delaware, with four
churches,* two of which were thirty-two miles apart, and a
population moderately estimated at about seven thousand
souls, of which one third of those who had religious affiliations
were members of the Church of England. Nevertheless, Mr.
Magaw found time for study and the acceptable discharge of
duties to the community at large.
During the anxiety and hesitancy of the early Revolution-
ary period, he, like William White and some few clergy of
the Episcopal Church, took the American side. This was
3 The paternal ancestors of the writer were of Cecil County, Maryland,
1676; became Delawareans in 1740 and had a plantation of twelve hun-
dred acres in Kent County, below Dover, where Mr. Magaw was a fre-
quent and welcome visitor. Knowledge of him genealogically and his-
torically has come from both paternal and maternal lines, which, while
friendly with him, were unknown to each other at that time.
4 In November, 1780, Dr. Magaw, Bishop Asbury, Caleb B. Pedicord,
Joseph Hartley, Eev. Joseph Cromwell and Rev. Thomas Coke, D.D., met
at Barratt's Chapel and celebrated the first Quarterly Meeting. One
thousand persons were present. Scharf 's ' * History of Delaware, ' ' vol. ii,
p. 1157. "Barratt's Chapel," Norris S. Barratt, Papers His. Soc. of
Delaware, 1911, Ivii, pp. 25-26.
5 Christ Church, Dover; St. Paul's, Smyrna; Christ Church, Mispillion
and St. Paul's, near the Maryland line.
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perhaps to be expected. His brother, Robert Magaw^ of
Carlisle, in June, 1775, was major of the Pennsylvania Bat-
talion of Riflemen, and on January 2, 1776, was chosen
colonel of the Fifth Pennsylvania Line. Another brother,
William Magaw,^ of Mercersburg, was, in June, 1775, surgeon
of the Pennsylvania Battalion of Riflemen, afterward surgeon
of the Fourth Pennsylvania Line and later of the First Penn-
sylvania Line. Both were original members of the Penn-
sylvania State Society of the Cincinnati.
Like his family and parishioners Mr. Magaw desired peace,
but peace with honor. His sermon preached at Christ Church,
Philadelphia, on Sunday, October 8, 1775,* leaves no doubt
that he was keenly alive to the exigencies of the hour, and
his letter to the Bishop of London, a year later, October 7,
1776, graphically sets forth the position of the American
clergy of the English Church, and pathetically shows the
struggle between his own sense of gratitude to established
church order, and his anxiety for the proper adjustment of
the struggle. He says :
" The situation of the Clergymen of the Church of England in Amer-
ica you well know, is at this time particularly delicate and hazard-
6 After the surrender of Fort Washington Colonel Magaw was a
prisoner of war in New York, where he married, April 6, 1779, Marrite
van Brunt, daughter of Kutgers van Brunt, who died August 15, 1803,
aged 49 years, 7 mos., 5 days. — Inscriptions in Eeformed Dutch Church-
yard, Gravesend, L. I.; Egle's "Notes and Queries," Keprint First and
Second Series, vol. i, pp. 468-471.
7 Attended Lafayette when wounded at Brandywine. Pennsylvania
Magazine of History, vol. ix, p. 276.
8 A I Discourse | Preached in Christ Church, | Philadelphia, on Sunday,
October 8th, 1775 | By the Kev. Samuel Magaw A.M. | of Kent County, on
Delaware. | Philadelphia. \ Printed and Sold by Story and Humphreys, I
in Norris's Alley, near Front Street. \ M.DCC, LXXV | 8vo, pp. 14. A
presentation copy of this, now in The Historical Society of Pennsylvania,
bears on the fly leaf the following inscription in Mr. Magaw 's clear
handwriting: "For Mrs. Lucy Magaw from her most loving friend and
affectionate servant," The Author, Dee. 25, 1775.
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ous, inasmuch as we have the welfare of our Holy Religion to
maintain, amidst a variety of difficulties, opposing Interests and
Misconceptions. With regard to myself I hold that it is my duty
for conscience sake and out of gratitude to the venerable Society," in
whose employment I am engaged, to walk at the present Critical junc-
ture with peculiar Caution and Circumspection avoiding every Com-
pliance that I supposed they might disapprove of and availing myself
of such mild persuasive expedients as I thought would have a tend-
ency to preserve peace and good order among the people whose
property, under their direction I am in some degree intrusted with.
Through the whole compass of America I do not believe there can be
anywhere a stronger attachment to the parent counti-y or a more
warm regard for that religion which we jointly profess, than among
the greater number of those among whom I have been appointed to
minister. They ardently wish for peace, they look for reconcilia-
tion, safe, constitutional and permanent."®
Among the incidents of his later career at Dover are two
sermons preached at Christ Church, the first, on Monday,
December, 1779, being the anniversary of St. John the Evan-
;gelist, at the request and before the General Communication
•of Free and Accepted Masons of Delaware State. There are
some political references in it, and the sermon is ** Dedicated
to his Excellency, Caesar Rodney, Esq., Governor, Captain-
General and Commander-in-Chief of the Delaware State, the
friend of his Country and the Lover of all Social Virtues."
In the course of his address, Mr. Magaw named distinguished
Masons "from Jubal and Enoch to Franklin and concluded
with the illustrious Cincinnatus of our age, a Washington."^"
The second sermon, delivered before the same body, on the
following anniversary of St. John the Evangelist, Wednes-
day, December 27, 1780,^^ was dedicated, at the request of the
Masonic fraternity, ' ' To his Excellency General Washington. ' '
9 Perry's "Historical Collections," etc., vol. v, p. 128.
10 Printed in Philadelphia, by John Dunlap, in Market Street [1779],
8vo, pp. 16.
11 Printed, Philadelphia, by David C. Claypoole, MDCCLXXXI, 8vo,
pp. 16.
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In 1779, Mr. Magaw was elected rector of St. Paul's, Phila-
delphia, but did not accept until 1781. Early in his incum-
bency, the church was incorporated under the name and title
of "The Minister Church Wardens and Vestrymen of the
Episcopal Church of St. Paul, in the City Philadelphia, in the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania." The same being enacted
into a law "at Philadelphia, the twenty- third day of Septem-
ber, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and
eighty-three."
Upon his removal to Philadelphia, he built and resided m a
three-story brick mansion on the north side of Market Street
above Eighth, thirty-three feet on Market Street, extending
three hundred and six feet to Filbert Street. It was later
occupied by Paul Beck, Esq., and was regarded as a show
place. At Philadelphia, the man measured up to his opportu-
nities and duties and obtained general esteem for clerical and
administrative ability. From 1782 to 1791 he was Vice Pro-
vost and professor of moral philosophy at the University of
Pennsylvania, which, in 1783, gave hijn the D.D. degree. The
American Philosophical Society, in 1784, elected him to mem-
bership, and he was one of the secretaries thereof from 1785 to
1799, and councillor six years from 1800. He assisted in found-
ing the Academy of the Episcopal Church, which, for a time,
was conducted next to St. Paul's Church at Third and Pear
Streets." He and his father-in-law, Andrew Doz, were among
its first trustees, as was John Baynton and others, of St.
Paul's. For some time after its incorporation in 1792, he was
president of the Academy for Young Ladies, started by John
12 Still owned by the trustees of the Protestant Episcopal Church, deed
dated April 10, 1792. For history of Episcopal Academy, see
Academy v. Taylor, 30 Weekly Notes of Cases. Philadelphia [1892],
p. 529. In 1809, Dr. Monges, the French refugee, and his family occu-
pied it as a residence. Edward S. Sayres, Esq., a member of the Colonial
Society, now has his law office in the building, dear to the heart of the
antiquarian and scholar as the printing house of Kobert Bell, 1768-1784.
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^i^totis of &t pauPiS Ctpi&copal C5utc8
Poor, in Cherry Street, about 1787. The annual eommenee-
ments in the churches, and street parades of this fashionable
institution of learning were occasions of interest in the town.^^
Some of Mr. Magaw's addresses and prayers, then delivered,
have been printed.
Bishop White in his "Memoirs" makes honorable mention
of the part taken by Doctor Magaw in 1784, in the early
movement towards the organization of the Episcopal Church
in the United States. This organization of the Protestant
Episcopal Church is full of interest, and as St. Paul's, in the
persons of her rector and lay delegates, was a factor in the
movement, a brief outline of the constructive steps may be
pertinent.
At the time of the Revolution, Philadelphia had two par-
ishes, Christ Church and St. Peter's which were united, and
St. Paul's. A parish is a component number of Christians
dwelling near together under one rector having the care of the
souls therein. The parish is the ecclesiastical unit. It has no
special legal signification in Pennsylvania and is merely used
in its general sense." The true legal theory is that a parochial
church is a consecrated place, having attached to it the rights
of burial and the administration of the sacraments.^^ Legally,
parishes are incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvania and
that is their civil organization. Their ecclesiastical organiza-
tion commences upon their admission by the diocesan conven-
tion, and they are entitled to three lay deputies to represent
the parish. The parishes elect their clergy. The clergy have
seats in the convention "by right of orders," and represent
themselves. In important matters the vote is taken in the
13 Scharf and Westcott 's ' ' History of Philadelphia, ' ' vol. iii, p. 1923.
" Quigg V. Tracy, 104 Pa, St. Eep., 493-498.
isPawlet V. Clark, 9 Cranch U. S., 292-326; 3d Leg. Ed., 735.
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convention ''by orders," and a majority of the clergy and a
majority of the laity, and, in some cases, the consent of the
bishop, is necessary to the approval of the proposed action.
The recognition of the rights of the laity was, from its organi-
zation, insisted upon by the American Church.
In May, 1783, the Rev. William Smith, D.D., lately provost
of the University of Pennsylvania, and then president of
Washington College, Maryland, called a convention of the
Maryland clergy for the purpose of organizing the American
Protestant Episcopal Church in that State. At the conven-
tion of June following. Dr. Smith was chosen bishop of Mary-
land, but, as the election was not approved by many, nor
endorsed by the General Convention of 1786, he was not ele-
vated to the episcopate. He was, however, a learned theo-
logian and leader of men and of the Southern churches, a dele-
gate to and several times president of the General Conven-
tions. To him is owed the name, Protestant Episcopal
Church.
Agreeable to appointment, the first General Convention met
at Christ Church, on St. Michael's Day, September 27, 1785.
It should have consisted of clerical and lay delegates from the
thirteen United States. Massachusetts, however, sent a letter
but no delegate, and Connecticut declined to participate. Dr.
White was chosen president. Three plans of organization had
previously been considered: the New England idea was the
primitive doctrine and Apostolic order; the Middle Colonies
wanted a national church, "to be to all its members what the
Federal government, then in process of construction, would be
to its citizens ; ' ' Maryland and Virginia desired to secure the
endowments and create an organization which would be
recognized by law in the new government. Doctor White
advocated the Federal plan. The Federal Constitution had
not been formed, but the organization adopted was national
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in its scope, in that it was formed by the States and composed
of two orders, clergy and laity, each State being sovereign as
to its religious affairs. A Triennial Convention was pro-
vided, of which the Bishops should be ex-officio members.
A liturgy was also provided, which was substantially the
English prayer-book modified to conform to the new condi-
tions. The modifications were not radical, generally speak-
ing, but modifications of form, natural omissions relating to
the King and Royal Family, and some small changes in
doctrine.
The Archbishops and Bishops of England, as represent-
ing the Mother Church, were then addressed and requested
to consecrate such Bishops as the Convention might nominate.
This the English authorities refused until after the Conven-
tion held at Wilmington, Delaware, in October, 1786, when,
learning that the power of the laity was not aggressive, that
the Nicene and Apostles' creeds were unchanged, and that
the English prayer-book had not been repudiated, they con-
sented to consecrate as Bishops, William White of Pennsyl-
vania and Samuel Provoost of New York,
The second General Convention of the Episcopal Church
was held at Christ Church, September 14, 1786, and it was
at this time that the Reverend William White was chosen
Bishop. Dr. Magaw and his assistant. Dr. Pilmore, were both
present and voted for him. After consecration in the arch-
episcopal palace chapel, Lambeth, England, February 4, 1787,
Bishop White returned to Philadelphia, where, on May 28,
he held the first ordination in Christ Church, admitting Mr.
Joseph Clarkson to the deaconate. Dr. Magaw preached the
ordination sermon, a printed copy of which is preserved in
the Loganian Library. In the dedication to Bishop White,
the author alluded to the greatness of the occasion which
required its delivery and, in concluding his discourse, said : " a
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BORN 1748
PA. B. A. 1765.
DEACON 1770-1772.
FROM A COPY IN POSSESSION OF N0RRI6 8. BARRATT.
ASSISTANT MINISTER 1772-1779.
RECTOR 1779-1836.
BISHOP OF PENNSYLVANIA 1787-1836.
Witctotfi^ip ot SDr. iSl^asab)
new era hath opened in our church that will be remembered
forever. Our Episcopal system is completed; the first fruits
of so distinguished an event come forward on the present day.
I join with thousands to meet and welcome the blessing."
The General Convention of 1789 — the First General Con-
vention of the United Protestant Episcopal Church — met, for
eight days, in the Assembly Room of Independence Hall, by
the consent of Thomas Miflflin, Esqr., President of the State,
and during its session there, occurred the union of the
churches of New England with those of the Middle and
Southern States. The House of Bishops, as a separate body,
was formed, the first President bishop (Bishop Seabury)
elected, the Constitution of the Church agreed upon, and the
Prayerbook, in its present form, adopted.^^
The first convention of the Episcopal Church in Pennsyl-
vania met at Christ Church, May 23, 1785, and formed an act
of association of the clergy and congregations in the State.
The delegates from St. Paul's were Plunket Fleeson, John
Wood and Andrew Doz. Of the first twenty-nine annual
diocesan conventions, all but one were held in Christ Church,
and that, the Fourth, was held in St. Paul's, 20 May, 1788.
Dr. Magaw, although not a Freemason, was held in high
esteem by that body, so much so that, it printed his sermons
delivered in St. Paul 's before the fraternity, viz. : — on the
anniversary of St. John the Evangelist, December 27, 1783,^^^*
and dedicated to Chevalier de Luzerne, the French Minister
to the United States, as well as that delivered in 1793.
On St. John's Day, Friday, December 27, 1793, Dr. Magaw
preached a charity sermon at St. Paul's Church, his subject
being, ** Things Lovely and of Good Report," before the
Grand and Subordinate Lodges of Freemasons for the pur-
15 See Appendix E, pp. 214-215.
15a Freemasonry in Pennsylvania, Barratt-Sachee, vol. ii, pp. 196, 130,
67-8.
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^tieitor^ ot &t ^aviV0 episcopal C|^urc|
pose of increasing the Relief Fund. There is a well founded
tradition that President Washington was present^®^ upon this
occasion and that he gave ample contribution to this fund.
This latter fact is proven by the following minute in the
' " St. John's Day^ December,
" Grand Lodge 27th, 1793.
''' Resolved, that Bros. [Thomas] Procter and [John] Poor be
requested to wait upon his Excellency, Bro George Washington, with
the Compliments of the Day, and respectful Thanks of the Grand
Lodge for his generous Donation to the Poor."
The following Masonic prayer was made by Rev. Dr. Magaw
before his sermon at St. Paul 's :
" 0 Thou who sittest between the Cherubims ! eternal in excellency !
and builder of all worlds! Wisdom, strength and beauty dwell with
thee ! Thy being we adore ! Thy works we view with wonder ! and in
the midst of these, the pillars of thy Temple, we trace the Stately
footsteps of the Great I Am! May the proportion, order and ar-
rangement, there so brightly visible, convey an assimilating influence
to the temple of human minds!
" Center of Happiness ! from whom we have turned away — " Raise
up, we pray thee, thy power, and come among us." R^new that
sweet attraction, by which we shall again, come near to thee; and
live, and move, and duly act, in the honorable places thou didst
assign us from the beginning.
" Source of Light ! destroy the covering of darkness, cast over so
many faces! Send thy purifying radiance that we may be light in
thee! By the leading of thy truth, as by the kindly star in yonder
16a Ordinarily, when in Philadelphia, Washington attended Christ
Church, though a letter from Bishop White of August 15, 1835, is the
evidence upon which Washington's attendance at St. Peter's clearly
rests. ' ' During the war, ' ' writes the good Bishop, ' ' whenever he was in
this city, and since, having rented a house near my other Church (St.
Peter's) has attended there." "Saint Peter's Sesquicentennial Year
Book," p. xl.
For Bishop White on Washington's religious character, see dedication
of a sermon, from Deut. xxxiii, 27, published Feb., 1795; and sermon
preached Dec, 1799, after Washington's decease; also, Address from
the Episcopal Church to President Washington after his first election,
printed in the Journal; White's "Memoirs "; Wilson's Life of, p. 190
et seq.
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PRAYER,
DELIVERED iir St. PAUL'* CHURCH
PHILADELPHIA,
On WEDNESDAY, 2'jth December^ 1786.
B E 1 N O T H e
Anniverfary of St John the
Evangelist;
AFTER THE PROPER DIVINE SERVICE OP THE DAT,
Aid hfort the SERMON
TO THE HONORABLE FRATERNITY OP
The Free and Accepted Masoks
0/ PENNSYLVANIA.
By Da. M A G A W.
PHILADELPHIA:
Printed by E L E A Z E R OSWALD,
AT THE CoFFEE-HouSE.
M,DCC,LXXXVII.
Facsimile of Title Page of Prayer, 1786.
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A SERMON,
BBLIVSBSP IB
St. Paulas Church, Philaoelphea*
OntheajthofDsesuBss, 1793 s
BE I N o
St. John the Evangelist's Day;
IN THE PAESENCB 09
The^nnitiCoDse of ^rmtfplbsni^
VO VRZCM IS VftEFZxio
A Prayer, befoxe the Sermon*
Futlijhcd ei their Repttfi^
Ftotcd by e.^JftDalU, No. 156, Market-
Street) South, between Fourth & Filth^Strects.
M,DCC,XCIV.
Facsimile of Title Page to Sermon, 1793.
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East, manifest the EVERLASTING WORD! Shew us the bright-
ness of the Father's glory.
"God of Love! who has made it divinely known, that all our do-
ings, without charity, are nothing worth, pour into our hearts that
most perfect gift, the very bond of purified communications, and of
all the virtues ! Impart to us the spirit that should endure ; the graces
that should adorn; the skill that should accomplish workmen^ who
need not be ashamed — Give the generous wish — the feeling heart;
and, when there is opportunity, the liberal hand !
" Father of All! who are no respector of persons — ere long, may
every kindred and people, from the east, and from the west, from
the north and from the south, see thy great salvation ! and be asso-
ciated into one brotherhood — and their symbol, and their name, be
one! Reveal over the whole earth, the mystery hid from ages — the
decree of deliverance through SHILOH, who is come!
" Bountiful sovereign ! bestow furtherance and blessing upon all
who breathe benevolence, and strive to dwell together in unity! Re-
fresh them as with the dew of Hermon! Enrich them as with the gold
of Ophir! Put on them beautiful gannents! and let them be all-
glorious within!
" Infinite of Goodness ! Friend of Man ! Countenance, in particu-
lar, thy servants here present on this occasion — persons of various
orders, and several denominations; yet declaring to consent in this
one business — to love one another, and to do extensive' offices of
kindness^, Preserve unbroken, this ancient bond! Brighten this
chain of venerable friendship! Keep them, from the evil that is in
the world! Suffer them not to touch an unhallowed thing, nor con-
fushion to mar their work! May all the building, fitly framed to-
gether, grow unto an holy temple in the Lord."
" Send them, this day with their companions numerous and true,
as favorable angels, to soften the distress of thy poor; to reach some
clothing to the shivering naked; to deal their bread to the hungry; to
comfort the destitute, the languishing, and the sorrowful; to save
them, from perishing!
" As long as there is one afflicted traveler in the world's wildness,
let there not be wanting many of these good Samaritans !
" And now while we thank thee, 0 liberal Bestower of favors ! that
the voice of gladness and health is restored to so many of our dwell-
ings, we ask these further gifts, to crown our happiness. The tend-
erest feeling of our neighbor's woe; the grace and generosity to
share in others sorrows, as well as joys; the will and the ability to
show we love as brethren!
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" That, as shrines in some venerable sanctuary, every association
among them may be holiness unto the Lord: that these states may
prosper, and all the people praise thee — ^be pleased, thou Lover of
Concord! to continue our National Confederacy: May its glory still
appear: and the goodly fellowship pass along with increasing char-
acter of Millions yet unborn.
"May all that can make great and free, and happy, distinguish
the land we live in! Let it be blessed of the Most High, for the
precious things of the earth, and fulness thereof. Let our men, be
[not] few, nor unacceptable to their brethren! May our sons grow
up as the young plants, and our daughters be as the polished comers
of the Temple !
" May the lamp of Science bum clear in these climes of freedom ;
and our Golden Candlesticks never be removed! May wisdom com-
petent to every exigency, and fortitude superior to danger, may
incurruptible fidelity and care to execute the trust committed to them
inspire our Civil Rulers, and all the Representatives of the people. —
" Finally — That we may remain the objects of thy loving kind-
ness— a People whom the Lord Jehovah will defend and prosper; and
whose posterity he will be in the midst of forever; May pure Reli-
gion and such unblemished manners as will shed a dignity on our
Christian calling, prevail among us! —
" And may the glory of the latter House be greater than the for-
mer; and in this place may the Lord of Hosts give harmony and
peace. — As long as the Sun and Moon shall endure, through our only
mediator and advocate Christ Jesus — "^^
For many years, in Philadelphia, the anniversary of Wash-
ington's birth had been made the occasion of formal demon-
stration by groups of patriotic societies. The city dancing
assembies in 1791, and subsequent years, gave balls, and the
militia paraded and banquetted. Among the last Acts of
Congress vs^hile in Philadelphia, was a resolution recommend-
ing that the Twenty-second of February, 1800, should be
observed throughout the United States, as a day set apart for
exercises to express the popular esteem for the virtues of
Washington. In accordance with this suggestion, as Wash-
ington was a member of the craft, the Freemasons of Phila-
17 "Freemasonry in Pennsylvania," Barratt and Sachse, vol. ii, p. 193.
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delphia, viz.: The French Lodge L'Amenite, No. 73, Bro.
Joseph E. G. M. de la Grange, Master; Philadelphia Lodge,
No. 72, Brother Christian Sheetz, Master; Orange Lodge,
No. 71, Brother William Nelson, Master; Concordia Lodge,
No. 67, Brother Henry Voigt, Master pro tern; Washington
Lodge, No. 59, Brother John Mcllwee, Master; Harmony
Lodge, No. 52, Brother George Springer, Master; Lodge No.
19, Brother Captain John Coyle, Master; Lodge No. 9,
Brother Captain Andrew Nilson, Master; Lodge No. 3,
Brother Colonel John Baker, Master pro tem, and Lodge No.
2, Brother Colonel John Phillips, Master, assembled at their
hall at the State-House on that day, and from there marched
to Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, southeast corner
Fourth and Cherry Streets. An appropriate sermon was
delivered to the fraternity by Mr. Magaw. "The pathetic
and elegant oration" was subsequently printed.
Others of his sermons reached publication, among which
may be mentioned: "A Discourse Occasioned by the mournful
catastrophe through Fire which overwhelmed and Destroyed
Mr. Andrew Brown,^^ his Wife and Three Children Deliv-
ered in St. Paul's Church, Sunday Afternoon February 5,
1797." Printed by Ormrod & Conrad, 41 Chestnut Street, For
the Benefit of the two Young Women,^* Mr. Brown's domes-
tics sufferers by the Fire.^^ Also, A Discourse, Delivered in
Christ Church, on the Decease of Mrs. Mary White, consort of
the Reverend William White, D.D., December 17, 1797. The
subject touching the resurrection of the dead.^^
18 Founder and editor of the Federal Gazette, the only newspaper to
remain in the city during the yellow-fever epidemic of 1793. Mr. Brown
and family were buried in St. Paul 's ground.
18 A copy of this publication is owned by The Historical Society of
Pennsylvania.
20 See Dr. Benjamin Bush's "Memoirs," p. 154, for account of thiB
fire, as well as the appendix to the published sermon.
21 See Elizabeth Drinker 's ' ' Journal, ' ' p. 332.
Ill
Dr. Magaw married before 25 December, 1775, Lucia Doz,
daughter of Andrew Doz, vestryman of St. Paul's, by bis wife
Rebecca Cash. Mrs. Magaw died in July, 1790. The discourse,
at her death, was printed-- at the request of Mr. Magaw.
The death of Dr. Magaw occurred, as before stated, Decem-
ber 1, 1812. His funeral took place from the residence of
Dr. Pilmore, No. 171 South Fifth Street.
22 "A Discourse, Delivered in St. Paul's Church, Philadelphia, Sunday,
July 25, 1790, On Occasion of the Death of Mrs. Lucia Magaw, wife of
the Eev. Samuel Magaw, D.D., and now published at his Bequest, by
Joseph Bend, A.M., Assistant Minister of Christ Church and St. Peter's,
Phila. Printed by William Young, bookseller, at the corner of Second
and Chestnut Streets, 1790. Copy of, to be found in The Historical So-
ciety of Pennsylvania.
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REV. JOSEPH PILMORE, D. D.
BORN ENGLAND, OCTOBER 3. 1733 ;
DIED PHILADELPHIA, JULY 24, 1825, AND BURIED IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCH NEAR THE COMMUNION TABLE.
FROM COPY ID POSSESSION OF NORRIS S. BA
THE RECTORSHIP OF DR. PILMORE
1804-1821
HE Reverend Joseph Pilmore, D.D., assistant min-
d ^ ister, January 17, 1789, to February, 1794 ; rector
■ I from March 5, 1804, to February 5, 1821, was
^^^J/ born October 31, 1739,^ in the village of Tad-
mouth, in Yorkshire, England, and died in Phila-
delphia, July 24, 1825. His parents were members of the
Church of England, but he, as a lad of sixteen, formed the
acquaintance of the Reverend John Wesley, then travelling
through England and was by him eventually drawn into the
ministry.
Educated at Wesley's famous Kingswood School, he was
universally admitted to have been not only a man of consid-
erable learning, but of great force of character. Completing
his studies, he attached himself to the Society of Methodists
for which he was appointed to teach and preach, and did so
in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales for several years.
The narrative of his labors in South Wales, performed partly
in company with John Wesley, in 1767 and 1768, contains a
graphic account of the religious state of that territory, with
notices of ancestral castles and natural curiosities, the whole
illustrative of the early history of Methodism.
1 Appleton 's ' ' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, ' ' vol. v, pp. 20-1.
9 113
At a conference at Leeds, England, in 1769, Richard Board-
man and Joseph Pilmore offered themselves to Wesley for work
as missionaries in America. They landed at Gloucester Point,
New Jersey, October 24, 1769, and Mr. Pilmore preached from
Maine to Georgia at a time when travel was most difficult,
and often only possible by coasting vessels or on horse back.
His objective mission was to establish Methodism in Phila-
delphia. Upon his arrival at Philadelphia, in October, 1769,^
he preached from the state-house steps, from stands in race
fields, rode the circuit with his library in his saddle bags,
held the first Methodist meeting at an inn in Loxley's Court,
and established and dedicated St. George's Methodist Episco-
pal Church, on the east side of Fourth Street near Vine
Street, and had the honor of having been its first pastor. In
1777-1778, when the British army occupied Philadelphia, St.
George's Church was used as a cavalry riding school. From
it has sprung, directly or indirectly, all the Methodist churches
in Philadelphia, and it is, to-day, the oldest Methodist Episco-
pal Church in continuous use in the world.
Mr. Pilmore, affectionately called Father Pilmore, came
upon a mission from Wesley, and it must not be forgotten
that, at this period Methodism was a missionary movement in
the Church of England. It did not become an independent
church until after the celebrated meeting of Thomas Coke and
Francis Asbury, at Barratt's Chapel in Kent County, Dela-
2 Mr. Pilmore wrote from Philadelphia to Mr. Wesley, October 31, 1769,
as follows:
"Eeverend Sir:
"We are safely arrived here after a tedious passage of nine weeks.
I have preached several times and the people flock to hear in multitudes.
Sunday evening I went out on the Common. I had the stage appointed
for the horse-race for my pulpit, and I think, between four and five thou-
sand hearers, who heard with attention, still as night. The people in gen-
eral like to hear the word and seem to have some idea of Salvation by
grace. ' '
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Witctot0^ip ot 2Dr. pilmoce
ware, in November, 1784,^ when the preliminaries were
arranged that were subsequently adopted by the Christmas
conference at Baltimore, under which the Methodist Church
was organized as it exists to-day. By nine months it antedated
the formal organization of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
elsewhere alluded to. The separation was caused by the great
error of Lowth, Bishop of London, who refused Wesley's re-
quest to ordain at least two clergymen who could administer
the sacraments in America, with the result that, the Church of
England lost one hundred thousand of its most active members,
at a time they could be illy spared. One difficulty, perhaps the
greatest, was the union of Church and State, so opposed by
Americans, which made it impossible for the English state
church to ordain those who would not swear allegiance to the
British Crown.
In or about 1774, Mr. Pilmore was appointed by Mr. Wesley
to missionary work in Ireland, with principal charge of the
churches. Having labored there some years he was sent to
Scotland, and while in Scotland came into personal relations
with Samuel Seabury,* then, or about to be. Bishop of Con-
necticut with the result that, he sought orders in the Protes-
tant Episcopal Church, and was ordained deacon by Bishop
Seabury, November 27, 1785, and advanced to the priesthood,
two days later, by the same bishop. Shortly afterward, he be-
came rector of the three united parishes of Trinity, Oxford,
All Saint's, Lower Dublin and St. Thomas, Whitemarsh, in
the vicinity of Philadelphia. A copy of a rare print of him,
engraved by Charles Wilson Peale, in 1787, is here inserted,
together with fac-simile of title page of his Charity Sermon
at St. Paul's, December 27, 1786.
His zeal as a priest and popularity as a preacher led to his
3 Ante, Note 4, p. 98.
*Foulson's American Daily Advertiser, July 30, 1825.
115
appointment as assistant minister at St. Paul's, in January,
1789, in which capacity he remained until February, 1794.
In the latter year he received and accepted a call to Christ
Church, then a new church, in New York City, where he
labored acceptably ten years. At the end of this decade of
service he returned to St. Paul's, to the rectorate of which
he had been elected March 5, 1804. His withdrawal from St.
Paul's to New York was a grief to many. "There were mem-
bers of the Church who had been converted under his early
ministry in his native country and had followed him to this
adopted land ; there were others, who had been brought by his
instrumentality to the knowledge of the truth while he was a
Methodist preacher in this City; besides very many to whom
his word had been made the power of God unto salvation while
he ministered in St. Paul's Church. These circumstances
formed [between pastor and people] the peculiar and most-
tender bond of gospel love."^
At the beginning of his official connection with St. Paul's,
his first residence was near Poole's Bridge, in the upper part
of Second Street. After his marriage he lived in a very plain
three-story brick house, on the east side of Fifth Street mid-
way between Spruce and Pine Streets, and standing back
ten feet from the street line.
While assistant to Dr. Magaw, he passed through the yellow
fever scourge of 1793 with hazard to himself and great use-
fulness to his ministry among the afflicted people. He was
indeed attacked by the disease but recovered.^ Many of St.
Paul's people are known to have died during the epidemic
5 A Sermon, preached at the Consecration of St. Paul 'a Church, Phila-
delphia, January 1, 1831. B7 Stephen H. Tyng, A.M., Eector of said
Church. Published by the Vestry, and printed by WiUiam Stavely, No.
99 South Second Street.
6 Carey 's ' ' Short Account of the Malignant Fever, Lately Prevalent
in Philadelphia," etc., Phila., 1793, pp. 120, Appendix 10.
116
Kfctotjaf^ip of SDt. ^ilmott
of whose burial there is no record. The following received the
rights of sepulcher in its churchyard, with the committal of
its clergy:
Jane Ameran
John Beaty
John Bright 's son
Benjamin Bodger's son
William Cameron
Mr. Coxe's son-in-law
William Gathers
George Claypoole
William Claypoole 's child
Cromwell's wife
James Dogherty's daughter
John Davis
Mrs. Davis
Elizabeth Davis
Richard Davy
Joshua Dawson's child
Mrs. Duplessis
David Elders
Edward Edward's son
Thomas Fenton, Junr.
Mrs. Field
Francis Finley
Mrs, Fox's son
Dr. Peter Glenworth
Mary Godin
Mrs. Holmes
George Hinton
Samuel Johnston, printer
Mathias Keen's dau.
Michael Lewis' son
Edward Langman
Mrs. Lohra
Thomas Lapsley's wife & child
Mrs. Lane
William Morrison
Michael Murphy's daughter
James MoUeneaux's daughter
Mrs. Muskitts
.... Musketts
Francis Marey
Joseph Norman's wife
Matthew Parker and son
Mrs. Parker
Benjamin Pitfield
William Purvis' wife
Abraham Robinson
William Stiles and his appren-
tice, stone-cutters
William Stiles, Jr.
Mrs. Stiles
Ashfield Stevenson
Mrs. Stevenson's daughter
Captain Strong's daughter
Faucis Shafner's wife
Christopher Search
Zachariah Thomas
Zachariah Thorn
Andrew Tennick's wife
John Warton
Joseph Whitehead and child
John Wood, watchmaker
Leighton Wood's wife
Ann Wilson
Joseph Wright's wife
It was at this time that the great philanthropist, Stephen
Girard, distinguished himself in ministering to his stricken
fellow citizens. Girard attended services at St. Paul's occa-
sionally and was there married, June 6, 1777, to Mary Lum.
Situated in the principal residential section of the city, the
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Church had as neighbors during the constructive period of
the nation's history, many of the makers thereof. James
Wilson lived at the southwest corner of Third and Walnut
Streets, called Fort Wilson during the riots of 1779. Alex-
ander Hamilton occupied No. 79, South Third Street, a part
of the present building of the Insurance Company of North
America. Robert Morris dispensed hospitality at Sixth Street
and High, now Market, Street, with Washington next door.
Dr. Edmund Physick practiced his profession from the fine
square building on the east side of Fourth Street near
Spruce, still in the occupancy of a descendant. The Samuel
Powel house, where Washington "dined and drank tea," was
at 244 (new number) South Third Street; and that of Gen-
eral John Cadwalader, ''whose furniture and house exceeded
anything" John Adams had before seen, was on the west
«ide of Second Street below Spruce, opposite Little Dock
Street, in the garden of which, running to Third Street, the
famous Silk Stocking Company was drilled. But the list is
loo long to further enumerate.
.Washington, during the yellow fever period of 1793, lived
in Germantown, on the west side of Main Street opposite
Market Square, and again in the summer of 1794, from July
until late in September.
Dr. Pilmore's second priestly relation and first rectorship
of St. Paul 's was a marked one, ' ' as the popular applause and
the testimony of crowded audiences for many years before his
death loudly proclaimeth. " His bearing was noble and
dignified, his countenance intellectual and benignant, and his
appearance prepossessing. His preaching was fervid and
simple, to which his melodious voice and effective gestures
gave great power.
He knew every member of his congregation personally,
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frequently visited them at their homes and was regarded by
most of them as a member of the family. One of his con-
temporaries said of him:
" Times without number have I have seen him, and very often have
I heard him preach, with an energy peculiar to himself, and seen
him thump his chest and the pulpit cushion vehemently. His ac-
tion was but the outpouring of his spirit. His obvious faihng by
the advance of years and long service made it necessary that an as-
sistant should be provided, and to this end the Reverend Benjamin
Allen was selected.
" Still the old gentleman could not be kept out of the pulpit alto-
gether, and near the close of his useful life, it was said that the
sermon was pretty much the same, no matter what was the text. This
resulted not from want of energy, but from manifest failure of mem-
ory."
The manuscript archives of The Historical Society of Penn-
sylvania contain a thin octavo volume, titled ''Book of Heads
of Sermons with the Application," made by Dr. Pilmore in
181 6. From this, it is possible to know something of the kind
of spiritual food St. Paul's congregation received on "Sunday
afternoon, June 9 " ; * ' Sunday morning, June 30, " or " Wed-
nesday night before the Communion, July 3, ' ' 1816, etc.
A further testimony to his breadth of vision and methodical
habit, is to be found in the care with which he preserved the
list of marriages performed by him, and transcribed the
same into the "Records of St. Paul's," with the preface:
"Wishing to promote order and peace in society, I have
resolved to transcribe from my private register a list of all
the persons whom I have joined in matrimony in Phila-
delphia."^
The greatest service rendered by Dr. Pilmore to St. Paul's
was, perhaps, the creation of its Sunday-school. His spiritual
eyes had caught the vision of the serried host of youth drawn
7 " Pennsylvania Archives," second series, vol. ix, pp. 462-469, 482-494.
120
SERMON,
FREACHED in St. PAULS CHtJRCH
PHILADELPHIA,
On WEDNESDAY, vith^ December^ 172^.
BEING THE
Anniverfary of St. JOHN the
Evangelist :
FOR THE RELIEF OF THE POOR :
BEFORE THE HONOURABLE FRATERNITY OF
The FREE AND ACCEPTE D MASONS
Of PENNSYLJ^ANIA,
By the Rev. JOSEPH PILMORE,
Rfftor of the united Churches of Trinity, St. Thomas, and All-Sainu.
H C>lAAAE/vOrA MEMETfl
N E W -r 0 R K:
PRINTED AND SOLD BY "WILLIAM DUREX.L, AT.
HIS BOOK-STORE AND PRINTING-OFFICE
NO. 19, aUEEN-STREET.
MjDCC,XCin.
Facsimile of Title Page of Sermon, 1786.
121
heavenward by this agency, his spiritual ears had heard the
echoes of the hymns of praise that would resound through its
halls in the coming years, and by faith he furthered with his
strength the effort to begin at this church, the first Episcopal
Sunday-school in Philadelphia, indeed, in this land.^
Possessed of a sympathetic soul and much experience as a
traveller, he was the instrument of helpfulness to many of
his countrymen in Philadelphia, in consideration of which
the Society of the Sons of St. George elected him an honorary
8 Robert Eaikes [1735-1811] a publisher and philanthropist, intro-
duced the first Sunday-school in England at Gloucester in 1780, thirty-
six years before, but Dr. Julius F. Sachse in his learned history "The
Grerman Sectaries of Pennsylvania" [1900], page 308, states that " the
mystics of Cocalico by Brother Obed at Ephrata in Pennsylvania intro-
duced the Sabbath school system forty years before Raikes gathered the
children together in Gloucester,England. The honor of introducing Sunday-
schools in Philadelphia belongs to the Second Presbyterian Congregation,
Northwest corner Third and Arch Streets, Philadelphia, through John P.
Bankson, afterwards of St. Paul 's, and to Grand Master Samuel F. Brad-
ford of the masonic fraternity who was also a member of that congrega-
tion, as shown by the following minute of the Grand Lodge of Pennsyl-
vania, vol. iii, p. 377, under date of March 20, 1815, viz.: The R. W.
Grand Master having made an Address on the Importance of the estab-
lishment of a School for Teaching unlearned Adults to read the Holy
Scriptures, It was On Motion made and Seconded,
Resolved, That the Grand Officers, Samuel F. Bradford, R. W. Grand
Master; Walter Kerr, R. "W. Deputy Grand Master; Bayse Newcomb,
Jr., Senior Grand Warden; Joseph Barnes, R. W. Junior Grand War-
den; George A. Baker, E. W. Grand Secretary; Richard Bache, R. W.
Grand Treasurer, and Four other Members of this Grand Lodge, to be
appointed by the Grand Master, be a Committee to establish in any
Apartment or Apartments of the Building [Chestnut St. Hall], Except-
ing the Grand Lodge room, a Sunday- School for the teaching unlearned
Adults to read the Holy Scripture without Note or commentary, the
Funds, if any should be found necessary, to be raised by Voluntary sub-
scriptions among the Fraternity or other Benevolently disposed persons,
and that said Committee immediately take the necessary steps to carry
this resolution into effect.
The R. W. Grand Master was pleased to Appoint the following
'Brethren to compose, in conjunction with the Grand Officers, the above
mentioned Committee, to wit: Andrew M. Prevost, Peter A. Browne,
Samuel Lippinoott, T. and Thomas Entrikin.
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1810.
THE CATHEDRA. 1916.
Witctot^^ip ot 2DC, piltttote
member, April 23, 1791. A tribute to his memory was deliv-
ered before the Society at Head's Mansion House Hotel,
April 24, 1826, which in part described him as: ''A man of
vigorous and active intellect, . . . and one of the most zealous
advocates of the doctrines and discipline of the Protestant
Episcopal Church. Being a native of England, he uniformly
maintained and cherished an ardent attachment to its gov-
ernment, laws, and established religion; and was ever ready
to assist his countrymen when involved in difficulties, both
with his counsel and purse. . . . Though married, yet having
no children, his domestic expenses were small, and he was
thereby, through the exercise of temperance and frugality,
'that he might give to him who needed,' enabled to
accumulate a very handsome independence, with a consider-
able portion of which he has generously endowed our chari-
table institution."
In this connection it should be said that the good doctor's
will provided for the payment of certain specified legacies,
and that the residue of his estate should be divided into two
parts, one half towards the support of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church in the State of Pennsylvania, to be paid to the
Treasurer for the time being. The other half to the Society
of the Sons of St. George, established in Philadelphia for the
advice and assistance of Englishmen in distress. Richard
North and John Matthews, Esqrs., vestrymen of St. Paul's,
were made executors. Testator and executors are buried at
St. Paul's, the former within the church.
The University of Pennsylvania conferred upon him the
degree of D.D. in 1807. He published The Renovation of
Man. Being the Substance of a Sermon Delivered in St.
Paul's Church (Philadelphia, 1792) ; "Narrative of Labors
in South Wales " (Philadelphia, 1825), and left in manuscript,
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an account of his ''Travels and Trials and Preaching" in vari-
ous American Colonies.
He is said to have been twice married and to have had one
child, a daughter, who died in her minority. About 1790, in
Philadelphia, he married Mary (Benezet) Wood, widow of
Joseph "Wood, formerly of Georgia, and daughter of Daniel
Benezet, Esq., by his wife Elizabeth North. Mrs. Pilmore
was baptized at Christ Church, April 20, 1756, and died at
her country-seat in Oxford township on Friday, July 1,
] 808." She was buried in Christ Church ground.
Dr. Pilmore resigned the rectorate of St. Paul's in 1821,
when the shadows began to lengthen quickly. He died in the
eighty-sixth year of his age, July 24, 1825, honored and loved
by all to whom he was known. His obituary, in the Phila-
delphia press, said in conclusion:
"His labors were blessed to the conversion of many. He
preached the Gospel faithfully, and labored zealously for the
conversion of his fellow sinners; very many of whom look to
him as their spiritual father. He has gone to that Master
whom he remembered when almost every earthly friend was
forgotten, and we doubt not has entered into that rest which
remaineth for the people of God.""
10 Small 's ' ' Genealogical Eecords, ' ' Small, Albright, Latimer, Benezet,
etc., p. 211.
^'i^ Paulson's Daily Advertiser, July 30, 1825.
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1821-1829.
EECTORSHIP OF THE EEV. BENJAMIN ALLEN
1821-1829
^I^M^^^ Keverend Benjamin Allen, Jr., rector from
y ^ I August 27, 1821, to January, 1829, born at
A I Hudson, New York, September 29, 1789, whither
^^^^f his parents had but lately removed from Ehode
Island, died at sea, January 13, 1829. At eleven
years of age he left school and entered his father's store as
a clerk. Subsequently, while pursuing his studies he had
charge of the store connected with the Rensselaer glass fac-
tory, in Berlin, Rensselaer County, near Albany. He entered
the Hudson Academy under Ashbel Strong, and also studied
under the Reverend Samuel Blatchford, D.D.
Originally a Presbyterian, he became a churchman through
Bishop Richard Channing Moore, of Virginia, who licensed
him as a lay reader to Prince William and Stafford Counties,
Virginia, November 25, 1814. Of his visit to the saintly
Reverend William Meade at Milwood, Frederick, now Clarke
County, Virginia, and his resulting labors in Virginia and
elsewhere. Bishop Meade has given a pen picture^ well
worthy of reproduction :
" On Christmas eve, in the year 1814, a little after dark, there en-
tered into my house a gentleman who introduced himself to me as
1 Meade 's * * Old Churches, Ministers, and Families of Virginia, ' ' vol.
ii, pp. 304 et seq.
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m^tot^ ot fet laaurs! (Episcopal CJurcl
Mr. Allen, from New York, with letters of introduction from Bishop
Moore and Dr. Wilmer, certifying that he was a candidate for Or-
ders, and wished employment as a lay-reader. Although the roads
were in their worst condition, much rain having fallen, he had in two
short days walked from Alexandria to my house, about sixty miles.
Carrying him with me to the Old Chapel [the Bishop's parish church]
the next day, we met with Mr. Beverley Whiting and his sister Miss
Betsy, from Jefferson county, who had, as they and others near them
afterward did, come about fifteen miles to church through bad roads.
Into their hands I consigned Mr. Allen, on a horse which I had lent
him. In just two weeks he returned in high spirits. He had itin-
erated through the whole of Jefferson and Berkeley Counties, found
out all the principal families who were still attached to Church, es-
tablished at least twelve places for service, and received a kind invi-
tation from Mr. Whiting and his sister to bring his little family to
their house and make it a home for the present. To Alexandria he
immediately returned, where his wife and infant were, and without
delay, in a spell of bitter cold weather in the month of January,
brought them up in a road-waggon of Mr. Whiting's, on its return
from Alexandria, to which it had carried a load of flour. Mr. Whit-
ing's was his home for a considerable time, — for years indeed; and
even after a parsonage was provided his visits to that abode of hos-
pitality were frequent and long. From this time until the year 1821
with feeble health, the pressure of debt upon him, and a growing fam-
ily, he perhaps rode as great a distance, preached as often, studied his
Bible as much, and prepared as many things for the press as any
man of his day. No one had a better opportunity than myself of
knowing this, for I had often to go the rounds with him, doing more
duty from necessity than I ever did before or have done since.
Sleeping in the room with him, often have I seen him watch the
morning light with his little Bible, and reading it when others were
sleeping. I have travelled with him, and seen that Bible, or some
other book, in his hand on horseback, and during any little spare
time in private hours busy with his pen in preparing something for
the press. While thus itinerating in these counties and also in the
adjoining county in IMaryland, he was conducting a little paper
called the ' Layman's Magazine,' and actually abridged and published
the History of the Reformation, by Burnet, in a small volume, and
compiled a history of the whole Church in two octavo volumes. All
this he did while, like an honest man, he was paying his debts out of
a small salary and the scanty profits of these publications, if indeed
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nectot&^ip ot meb. JBtninmin SLllm
there were any. For nine years he thus labored, contracting his
sphere, though not his diligence, by the introduction of one or two
ministers into some of the numerous places he had taken in charge,
when he was called to St. Paul's Church, Philadelphia, being the
next choice to Bishop Mcllvaine. His labours in such a congrega-
tion and city were of course not diminished. He again issued a re-
ligious magazine, and engaged in every plan for promoting Sunday-
schools, infant schools, Bible classes, missionary societies, and all
such things, being especially interested in Bishop Chase's College in
Ohio. His house was the Bishop's home. The increase of Episcopal
churches in Philadelphia soon attracted his mind. At a time when
a narrow and selfish policy kept ministers and vestries in a state
of fear and trembling whenever a new church was talked of, lest its
establishment might somewhat interfere with their monopoly, his
large soul, disdaining all petty considerations, determined on at least
one other church, under the patronage of St, Paul's. Mr. Bedell
was about leaving North Carolina, and wished some situation in the
North. Mr. Allen, learning this, immediately determined to secure
him for Philadelphia, and proposed it to a few friends. Alarmed
at the thought of so great a work, they shrunk back from it; but
Mr. Allen persevered and succeeded, and St. Andrew's church was
the result. While Mr. Bedell was collecting the congregation and
the house was rising up, Mr. Allen insisted that he should use St.
Paul's during part of each Sabbath. Some of his people and friends
were alarmed, and predicted that the popularity of Bedell would
ruin Mr. Allen's prospects and diminish, if not destroy, St. Paul's
Congregation. But nothing of this kind moved such a man. His
reply was, 'Let me decrease, so the Church increases.' By God's
blessing on such a Christian course, both increased, though Mr
Allen's pulpit talents were only of the moderate order. At length,
under the pressure of mental and bodily labour, his health so failed
that a voyage to Europe was resorted to. But it was only used by
him on his way to England, in England, and on his return, as an
occasion for greater efforts in his Master's cause and for the souls of
men. Providence found work for him in a foreign land, and gave
him favour with the most zealous of the Christian philanthropists
in England. It may be safely affirmed that, within the same short
period, no minister from this country had ever attracted more at-
tention, and had, and zealously used, more opportunities of promot-
ing the welfare of all religious and benevolent societies, than Mr.
Allen.. Even the Society of Quakers felt the influence of his zeal in
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behalf of Sunday-Schools and to this day [1878] speak of him as
'that wonderful man.' After these dying labours, which were like
the last notes of the swan, he returned toward America in a vessel
which, by contrary winds, was detained nearly one hundred days on
the great deep, the crew suffering for provisions. Mr Allen's grave
was the great deep, as though no narrow sepuleher was fit for one
of so large a soul."
In Virginia, he had settled at Charlestown, Jefferson
County, and Shepherdstown, Berkeley County, and had
charge of seven churches. In 1816, while yet a deacon, he
was president of the Benevolent Society of the Parish of St.
Andrews. He was made a priest in 1818, and became rector
of St. Paul's, in Philadelphia, in 1821, the latter fact being
announced by Richard North, John Pechin, John Claxton and
Richard Johnson of the vestry.
To Mr. Allen, Philadelphia meant opportunity to spread
the cause of Christ in the schools, church and secular, by word
of mouth and stroke of pen, and by the multiplying of
churches. As soon as he was "comfortably settled in a house
at the corner of Fourth and Pine Streets," his work began:
"bible classes, lectures, prayer meetings and three services
on Sundays." "Lectures on Sunday, Tuesday and Friday
evenings; with pastoral visits on Wednesday and Thursday
evenings, that is, meet a few neighbors assembled in a private
house in any part of the parish for religious conversation
and prayer, and on Mondays I wait in my study for the calls
of the young people and others."^
He endeavored to break down the middle wall of partition
between the different portions of the church. By his con-
ciliatory manner he so far succeeded that the brethren were
able to act more in unison in the promotion of the common
2 Letter to his brother, the Rev. Thomas G. Allen, who later devoted
over thirty years of his life to the self denying labors of mlssTonary to
Philadelphia's destitute poor.
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cause. For sometime they assembled once a week in each
other's houses. On these occasions they listened to an essay
on some branch of church work.
His Sunday Schools numbered six hundred scholars, with
four to five hundred regular attendants, and required to be
visited every Sunday by himself.
The missionary cause was a foremost object with Mr.
Allen, who was one of the most efficient members of the execu-
tive committee of the Protestant Episcopal Society for
Domestic and Foreign Missions. A contemplated mission to
Africa especially excited his attention.
On May 15, 1822, he asked the Reverend Gregory T. Bedell,
D.D., to preach at St. Paul's, After the service he induced
a few of his friends to sign a call to Mr, Bedell, for one year
at a salary of twelve hundred dollars. ' Shortly after, another
meeting was held, and a new church authorized. This was
the origin of St. Andrew's Church, Eighth Street above
Spruce Street. The Philadelphia Recorder, in announcing the
consecration of St. Andrew's, said editorially: ''The rapidity
with which this structure has been carried up, is remarkable.
The corner-stone was laid in September last. Nine months
ago, the stone which forms part of the fabric, was unquarried
— the bricks were unburnt— the wool, out of which the lining
of the pews has been made, was on the back of the sheep. ' '
He was, on January 17, 1824, appointed by the Select and
Common Councils of the City of Philadelphia, a director of
the public schools, for the education of children at public
expense, for the first section of the first school district of
the State of Pennsylvania, and he served most acceptably
in this position for the years 1825, 1826 and 1827. In the
spring of 1825 he delivered lectures on Scripture History and
Astronomy, which he illustrated with a magic lantern, in the
Lombard Street Public School; each child was eager with
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delight to be first to give a correct answer to his questions.
The children committed to memory, and recited many por-
tions of Scripture, illustrative of the different views pre-
sented to them.
In acknowledgment of his work for Sunday Schools he
received the following graceful testimony from his teachers
thereof :
"Philadelphia, May 31st, 1825
" The Rev. B. Allen —
"Dear Sir: The teachers of St. Paul's Sunday-Schools, as an evi-
dence of their personal regard for you, and also of the high estima-
tion in which they hold your services in the cause of Sunday-schools,
have caused the necessary sum to be paid the Treasurer of the Amer-
ican Sunday-School Union for the purpose of constituting you a life
member of that valuable Institution. Allow me. Sir, to add, it is
with a feeling of no ordinary gratification, that I have undertaken the
pleasing duty of announcing to you this fact; and in the name and
behalf of the Societies, accept Sir, the assurance of our warm at-
tachment and personal regard.
" In behalf of the Sunday-school Teachers,
of St. Paul's Church."
" John rARR,^
On March 10, 1826, Thomas Kittera, Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge, F. & A. M. of Pennsylvania, held an Extra
3 John Farr was a native of London and a chemist of great ability, in
fact the chemist of the great firm of Powers and Weightman of which he
was a partner. He died March 2nd, 1847, at the age of forty years, leav-
ing an estate of over one hundred thousand dollars. Letters of Adminis-
tration upon his estate were granted by the Kegister of Wills of Philadel-
phia County March 8th, 1847 to his widow, Mary J. Farr, and his friend
Samuel N. Davies, No. 151 North 6th Street. Security being first entered
for them in two hundred thousand dollars by Cornelius Stevenson, then
City Treasurer of Philadelphia and A. Kunzi of Spring Mills, Mont-
gomery County, Pennsylvania. Stevenson and Davies were both members
of St. Paul's. John Farr was a Warden and one of the four bible school
teachers of St. Paul's. He married Miss Mary J. McCullough, by whom
he had eight daughters and four sons. His sister-in-law, called affec-
tionately Aunt Sarah McCullough, taught with success in the Sunday-
School for many years.
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Communication, and announced that the Grand Lodge was
called "by virtue of his prerogative, for the purpose of enter-
ing, passing and raising the Reverend Benjamin Allen, rector
of St. Paul's Church of this city, to the Sublime degree of a
Master Mason," which is regarded as a distinguished honor.*
He was subsequently appointed Grand Chaplain of the
Grand Lodge. On December 27, 1827, he delivered an oration
before Phoenix Lodge of Chester County, Pennsylvania, on
the "Great Light of Freemasonry."
Some idea of the growth of Philadelphia since 1827, may
be gathered from some of the facts set forth in Mr. Allen's
letter of November, 1827, to his brother, the Reverend Thomas
Allen,° which suggests that he come and help him at St. Paul's,
and states that "the western part of Philadelphia is rapidly
settling. Broad Street is building up, so are other streets west.
A church will very soon be needed there. No one now exists
in all the west beyond Broad. There might you officiate Sun-
day mornings. Sunday nights it would' be necessary that
you preach in St. Paul's."^
That the prayer-book might be sold cheaply and religious
books put into easy circulation, Mr. Allen opened a book
store called the Church Missionary House, at No. 92 South
4 Minutes of the Grand Lodge, vol. iv, p. 39.
5 His grandson, Allen Childs, who died in January, 1917, was many
years vestryman and warden of Christ Church, manager of the American
Sunday School Union, and overseer of the Philadelphia Divinity School,
He was buried at St. David's, Eadnor, of which his father, Rev. John A.
Childs, D.D., was long the rector.
6 "Memoir | of the | Eev. Benjamin Allen, | late rector of St. Paul's
Church, Philadelphia. By his brother, | the Rev, Thomas G. Allen. | To
which is added | The Funeral Sermon delivered in St. Paul 's Church, for
the improvement of the death of Mr. Allen, by | The Rev. Gregory T.
Bedell, DD. | Also, the History of the | Bible Classes of St. Paul's
Church I which was written by Mr. Allen in England, and there published
since, his death, | for the benefit of his Family. ' ' Philadelphia, Latimer
& Co., No. 13 South Fourth Street, 1832.
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^mot^ of fbt paur^ (EpfjScopal CSurcS
Third Street, in December, 1827. His object was to bring
down the price of the prayer-book and place it within the
reach of all the members of the church. He also designed to
publish the Homilies and other books, and the profits of the
establishment were to be devoted to the support of missions
in the suburbs of Philadelphia. His first agent in the Mis-
sionary House was a clergyman, who also was to act as one
of the missionaries, and he agreed to give him, for his entire
services, six hundred dollars per annum.
The following extract is from the advertisement of the
''Church Missionary House, No. 92 South Third Street,
opposite St. Paul's Church." With a number of Mr. Allen's
publications is listed for sale: ''Doddridge's Rise and Prog-
ress; Henry Milner; Scott's Force of Truth; The Publica-
tions of the American Sunday-school Union, and the Ameri-
can Tract Society, together with a great variety of other
books and tracts. The rule of this establishment will be,
that no credit will be allowed to any one. Its object being
to supply the Church with the Prayer-Book at the lowest
rate, and also with the Homilies, makes this a necessary rule.
Every farthing of the profits of this establishment will be
sacred to the cause of Christ, devoted to the spread of the
Gospel. As the greater part of the profits, it is probable, will
aid missionaries, the name of the establishment is appro-
priate."
His publications, prompted by either purely literary,
patriotic, or religious zeal were: "Miscellaneous Poems on
Moral and Religious Subjects," by Osander (New York,
1811) ; "United We Stand, Divided We Fall," by Juba (New
York, 1812); "Columbia's Naval Triumphs" (New York,
1813) ; "Urania, or the True Use of Poesy," by B. Allen, Jr.
(Philadelphia, 1814) ; "The Phoenix, or the Battle of Valpa-
raiso," by B. Allen, Jr. (New York, 1814) ; "The Death of
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Abdallah," an Eastern tale, founded on the story of Abdallah
and Sabat in Buchanan's Christian Researches (New York,
1814) ; "The Palace of the Comet," a poem. He edited the
Layman's Magazine at Martinsburg, Va., in 1815. In Phila-
delphia, between 1822 and 1828, he published: ** Jesus Christ
and Him Crucified," a volume of sermons; "Living Manners,
or the True Secret of Happiness"; an "Abridgment of
Burnet's History of the Reformation"; "History of the
Church of Christ"; "A Narrative of the Labors, Sufferings
and Final Triumphs of the Rev, William Eldred, late a Mis-
sionary of the Society for the Advancement of Christianity
in Pennsylvania"; "General Stevens, or the Fancy Ball,"
being the third part of "Living Manners"; "The Church in
the Fires of Persecution, or a History of the Sufferings of
the Church from the Days of our Saviour," an abridgment
of the work of the Rev. George Croley, A.M.H.R.L.S., on
the Apocalypse; The Christian Warrior, a weekly magazine,
which had but a short life.'^ He also abridged the work of
the Rev. Edward Irving, minister of the Caledonian Church,
London, on the prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse.
Tall and slender, but muscular, with a frank open counte-
nance, calm and dignified, his restless spirit would at times
assert itself. Indefatigable in pulpit and press, it is related
of him that he could do more work in one day than most per-
sons in a week. Nature however rebelled. In 1828, his
health, never robust, failed, and a European voyage was
arranged with a view to its restoration. Leaving his family
in Philadelphia — he had married at Hudson, New York,
August 6, 1812, Harriet, daughter of John Swift of that place
— he departed for England, where, as told by Bishop Meade,
he still found work for the Master. All that solicitude, grati-
tude and affection could suggest was done by his people to
7 Scharf and Wescott 's ' ' History of Philadelphia, ' ' vol. ii, pp. 1143-4.
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l^igftorg ot fe)t. ^mV0 episcopal C5urc|
assuage the bitterness of separation, and, attended by the
vestry and a large concourse of friends which included mem-
bers of his Bible Class and many of the city clergy, he sailed
down the Delaware to reembark at New Castle on the ship
"Montezuma" for Liverpool, in March, 1828. Returning
homeward on the brig "Edward," Captain Benjamin F.
Libby, from Liverpool, he died on the voyage, January 13,
1829, and was buried at sea the next day at high noon. On
the flooring of St. Paul's Church, a stone is placed and
marked :
" Sacred to the memory of the
Reverend Benjamin Allen,
Rector of this Church seven years
and four months, who departed
this life on the Thirteenth of
January, One Thousand Eight
Hundred and Twenty-nine on his passage
from Liverpool, England,
To Philadelphia, where he had
Gone for the restoration of his
health, aged Thirty-nine years,
three months and fifteen days.
By direction of the Vestry."
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RECTOR OF ST. PAUL'S, 1829-1833.
..' ..^
THE RECTORSHIP QF DR. TYNG
1829-1833
^^M^HE Reverend Stephen Higginson Tyng, D.D.,
/ *j| rector from May 4, 1829, to October, 1833, son of
M I I Dudley Atkins Tyng, by his wife Sarah Hig-
^^^^^ ginson, was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts,
March 1, 1800, and died at Irvington-on-Hudson,
New York, September 4, 1885. Educated at Phillips Andover
Academy, Massachusetts, he was graduated with honors
from Harvard College in 1817 and studied theology under
Bishop Griswold in Bristol, Rhode Island. His first parish
was St. George's, Georgetown, District of Columbia, and the
next. Queen Anne parish, Prince George County, Maryland.
While there he was elected rector of St. Paul's, Philadelphia,
May 4, 1829.
Of this event. Dr. Tyng, speaking many years afterwards,
and on the sorrowful occasion of the death of his eldest and
brilliant son, the Rev. Dudley Atkins Tyng, said: **It pleased
God to remove us all to Philadelphia, to St. Paul's Church,
a church in which we had not a single acquaintance. There
we found many friends, whose love is undying, and whose
kindness to me and mine while we were yet but strangers in
the land has been of incalculable, everlasting worth. ' '
At this period, St. Paul's, only sixty-nine years old, was
one of the most important and influential Episcopal Churches
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^i^tot^ of &t ^anV0 (Episcopal C^wwS
in Philadelphia. Being an active and progressive congre-
gation, it decided to destroy the simple colonial architecture
of the church by so-called modern improvements. Previous
to this the Sunday-schools met at private houses. Now, being
determined to accommodate them in the church, quarters
were obtained by remodeling and destroying the beautiful
interior. High steps were placed in front of the church and
the floor raised midway, so that the Sunday-school could be
accommodated on the first floor. The old high back pews
were taken out and low pews substituted. Two angels, of life
size in wood, by Rush, which stood on each side of the old
organ, as well as the sounding board, were taken down, and
St. Peter's, which ever seems to have had a desire to pre-
serve the classic and artistic beauty of the architecture of
that period, asked for them as well as other furnishings,
which are still used to embellish that church to-day. It is
enough to say that much of the beauty and simplicity of St.
Paul's was destroyed by these changes. While Christ Church
made similar alterations with its pews, it has since taken
them out and re-installed the colonial pews, although not of
the original height. Gothic, now a word of praise, was the
term of reproach Sir Christopher Wren applied to all mediae-
val architecture. In viewing St. Paul's to-day we understand
what Englishmen meant when they, too, said regretfully —
"The Goths and Vandals of our Isle,
Sworn foes to sense and law,
Have burnt to dust a nobler pile.
Than Romans ever saw."
Following the re-modelling, both internally and externally,
the church was consecrated by the venerable Bishop White on
New Year's Day, 1831. The sermon, preached by the rector,
embracing a historical review of the parish as well as the
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practical application of the text, was well received^ and
printed by the Vestry.
Shortly after Dr. Tyng became rector, on the eleventh of
June, 1830, the City Guards of Boston visited Philadelphia.
They arrived in Kensington and were received by an escort
of infantry under command of Colonel James Page. March-
ing to Second and Arch Streets, with companies of the First
Division, under Brigadier-Generals Robert Patterson and
John D. Goodwin, all under the command of Major-General
Thomas Cadwalader, they camped at Broad and Market
Streets on the site of the present City Hall, and were enter-
tained by General Cadwalader at his residence, Arch Street
below Ninth Street. The next day being Sunday, the guards
attended services at St. Paul's Church, accompanied by their
band. Dr. Tyng had formerly been a member of the company,
and he preached to his old comrades from Proverbs, 23d
chapter, 15th verse, *'My Son, if thine heart be wise, my
heart shall rejoice, even mine. ' '
Distinguished for oratory in the pulpit and for able and
efficient temperance and patriotic addresses, he also had the
pen of the ready writer and published numerous volumes of
interest and value. After leaving St. Paul's he became
rector of the Church of the Epiphany,^ in Philadelphia (now
1 Whereas, the publication of the sermon which was preached by the
Eev. Mr. Tyng, rector of the Church, at the Consecration of the Church
on the first instant is calculated in the opinion of the Vestry to promote
true religion, and to increase the peace and harmony of the Episcopal
Church amongst us, and contains certain information exceedingly in-
teresting to the members of our congregation: therefore
Resolved, that Richard Eenshaw, Esq., John W. Odenheimer and Na-
thaniel Holland be appointed a committee to wait on our Eector, and to
request him to furnish them with a copy of the said Sermon for the above
purpose. J. D. George, Secretary.
2 Dudley Atkins Tyng, 1825-1858, eldest son of Dr. Tyng, was, in 1854,
called by the Church of the Epiphany to fill the pulpit his distinguished
father had so adorned.
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^i0tot^ of &t pauI'iS episcopal C^utcl
consolidated with St. Luke's), then at the northwest comer
of Fifteenth and Chestnut Streets, where he served twelve
years, doing most excellent work. In 1861 he resigned and
removed to New York, and became rector of St. George's
Church, where he labored for more than thirty years until
his retirement as rector emeritus in 1878.
For years the leader of that part of the clergy known as
low churchmen,^' he was active in organizing and forward-
ing the Evangelical Knowledge Society, the American
Church Missionary Society, and the Episcopal Education
Society. For some time he was the editor of the Episcopal
Recorder and the Protestant Churchman.
The degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by Jefferson
College, Pennsylvania, in 1832, and by Harvard in 1851.
His first wife, Ann DeWolf Griswold, whom he married Au-
gust 5, 1821, daughter of the Rt. Rev. Alexander W. Griswold,
Bishop of Massachusetts, died at Philadelphia, May 16, 1832,
aged twenty-seven years and seven months, and was buried
in the Church of the Epiphany ground. He married, second,
Susan W. Mitchell of Philadelphia.
Chief among his printed works were: '"the Importance of
Uniting Manual Labor with Intellectual Attainments in a
Preparation for the Ministry," A Discourse preached at the
3 ' ' Thirty-six years ago I was called to the City of Philadelphia, in the
midst of a large population of our Church with whom I sympathized en-
tirely. This exclusive system had never ruled in Pennsylvania. I waa
received with a paternal kindness by Bishop White, which I can never
forget. To him I submitted personally the very questions which are now
discussed. Shall I accept invitations to preach in churches which are not
Episcopal? In what way shall I use our form of prayer on such occa-
sions? Preach for all who invite you, if you can and desire to do it.
Employ the Prayer-Book as much as you can usefully and consistently
with their habits, was the substance of his replies. This I did probably
in more than fifty cases in the Diocese of Pennsylvania." From Open
Letter to Kt, Rev. Horatio Potter, D.D., by Stephen H. Tyng (New York,
1865).
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request of the Episcopal Education Society of Pennsylvania
and printed by their Direction (Philadelphia, 1830) ; "A
Sermon, preached at the Consecration of St. Paul's Church,
Philadelphia, January 1, 1831"; ''Lectures on the Law and
the Gospel" (Philadelphia, 1832) ; ''The Connection between
early Religious Instruction and Mature Piety," A Sermon,
preached in St. Paul's Church, Philadelphia, May 22, 1837;
"The Eighth of a Series of Annual Sermons Preached and
Published at the Request of the Board of Managers of the
American Sunday-school Union," Philadelphia, 1837, "Me-
moir of the Rev. Gregory T. Bedell" (1835); "Sermons
preached in the Church of the Epiphany" (1839), repub-
lished as "The Israel of God" (1854) ; "A Plea for Union,"
a Sermon Preached before the Special Convention of The
Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of Pennsylvania, in
St. Andrew's Church, Philadelphia, September 6, 1844,
Printed by order of the Convention, Philadelphia, 1844; "The
Beloved Physician," A Discourse addressed to Medical Stu-
dents, Delivered in the Church of the Epiphany, Phila-
delphia, February 4, 1844, Printed at the Request of the
Medical Students' Temperance Society, Philadelphia, 1844;
"Recollections of England" (New York, 1847); "Christ in
All," sermons (1852) ; "The Rich Kinsman, the History of
Ruth, the Moabitess" (London, 1856) ; "Washington, an
exemplification of the principles of Free Masonry," "an ora-
tion at the Centennial of the Initiation of George Washing-
ton, November 4, 1852 (New York, 1852) ; "Forty Years'
Experience in Sunday-Schools" (New York, I860); "The
Captive Orphan: Esther, Queen of Persia" (1860); "The
Prayer-Book Illustrated by Scripture" (8 vols., 1863-7);
"The Child of Prayer, a Father's Memorial of D. A. Tyng"
(1866) ; "Address at the installation of the officers of Conti-
nental Lodge, No. 257, F. & A. M., New York, January 2,
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1867" (N. Y., n. d.) ; and "The Office and Duty of a Chris-
tian Pastor" (1874). Both Dr. Tyng and his son, Rev. Dud-
ley Atkins Tyng, published a collection of "Additional
Hymns" for use at lectures and prayer meetings. The son's
collection, bound with "The Prayer-Book Collection" and
Chants and Tunes for the Book of Common Prayer, appeared
as "The Lecture-Room Hymn Book" (Philadelphia, 1855).*
Bishop Bedell of Ohio published an interesting Memorial
of Dr. Tyng (New York, 1860), and his son, Charles Rock-
land Tyng, also prepared a Life of Stephen H. Tyng.
* ' ' The English Hymn, Its Development and Use in Worship, ' * by
Louis F, Benson, D.D., New York, 1915.
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RIGHT REVEREND SAMUEL A. McCOSKREY, D.D.
BISHOP OF MICHIGAN
RECTOR OF ST. PAUL'S 1834-1836.
THE RECTORSHIP OF DR. McCOSKREY
1834-1836
HE Reverend Samuel A, McCoskrey, D.D., rector
/ ^ from June, 1834, to June, 1836, born at Carlisle,
H H Pennsylvania, November 9, 1804; died in New
^^^f York City, August 1, 1886. A cadet at the West
Point Military Academy, he subsequently at-
tended Dickinson College, from which he was graduated in
1825. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and for six
years practiced his profession in his native town. In 1831
he began the study of theology, preparatory to orders in the
Episcopal Church, and was ordained by Bishop Onderdonk as
deacon on the twenty-eighth of March, 1833, and as a priest,
thirteenth December, 1833. His first charge was as rector
of Christ Church, Reading, Pennsylvania. He was called to
St. Paul's, and installed by Bishop White, July 13, 1834, and
remained as rector until his election as first Bishop of Michi-
gan, of which Diocese he was consecrated Bishop, in St. Paul 's
Church, July 7, 1836, by the Right Reverend Bishops Onder-
donk, Doane and Kemper, and, having been rector of St.
Paul's, Detroit, for twenty-seven years, as well as bishop, he
resigned his jurisdiction in March, 1878, on the plea of
feeble health.
While at St. Paul's, Philadelphia, he was most highly
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esteemed, being a man of great force of character, learning
and ability as a preacher. He had been greatly interested in
the Sunday-school, and, unable to be present at its Fiftieth
Anniversary, sent a letter of regret from Detroit, May 19,
1866, of which the following is a copy :
" Reverend and Dear Sir :
" I reached home last evening, after an absence of eight days. I
received your letter and hasten to answer it. I need scarcely say,
that it would have given me the greatest pleasure to be present at
the proposed celebration of the Sunday-school. My recollections of
* Old St. Paul's ' are still fresh in my mind ; and particularly the
kindness I received from its members. I left it with the deepest
regret to go I knew not whither. Do present me most affectionately
to all who once knew me, and tell the dear children (if this letter
reach you in time) not to forget one whose voice was heard years
ago within its sacred walls, pleading with wandering children to
come back to Christ, and telling in the kindest terms that he died to
save the poorest and the meanest of human kind. Tell them that
we have nearly; 1,500 children in our schools in the churches, at
Detroit; five large churches full to overflowing, and room for one
or two more. Truly, God has been gracious to us.
" I trust that God will bless your efforts to impress the children of
the church with a deep sense of their obligations to love and serve
Him who redeemed them with His precious blood.
" Most truly yours,
" Samuel A. MoCoskrey,
'' To Rev. R. Heber Newton."
In recognition of his great learning, Columbia College of
New York, and the University of Pennsylvania conferred upon
him the degree of Doctor of Divinity, in 1837, and the Uni-
versity of Oxford, England, in 1852, conferred upon him the
degree of Doctor of Civil Law.
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REV. JAMES MAY, D.D.
RECTOR OF ST. PAUL'S 1836-1840.
RECTORSHIP OF DR. MAY
1836-1840
^I^^B^ HE Reverend James May, D.D., rector from
/ -^ I October, 1836, to May, 1840, was born in Chester
M I I County, Pennsylvania, October 1, 1805, and died
^^^^^ at Philadelphia, December 18, 1863. He was the
son of Robert May by his wife Ruth Potts.
Educated at Pottstown and at Norristown, Pennsylvania, he,
in 1822, entered Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Pennsyl-
vania, in the senior class, so far advanced was he in his studies,
and there he was graduated with high distinction. For some
months he studied law with Governor Stevens of Maryland, at
Easton, on the Eastern Shore, but concluded not to pursue it,
and turned his attention to the ministry of the Episcopal
Church. His brother Thomas Potts May, also a clergyman,
had been invited to preach in St. Paul's with reference, per-
haps, to being called as rector. At the time, 1819, the yellow
fever was prevailing in Philadelphia. He returned to Norris-
town, and either on the day of his preaching at St. Paul 's, or
on that immediately following, he was stricken with the fever
and died September 20, 1819, as related by Hotchkin in his
"Country Clergy." In October, 1825, James May en-
tered the Theological Seminary at Alexandria, Virginia, and
was admitted to the middle class of that institution.
Ordained in 1826, by Bishop "White in Christ Church,
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Philadelphia, he became rector of St. Stephen's Church in
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in February, 1827, where he
remained until he became rector of St. Paul's, Philadelphia,
in 1836.
Under his ministry the church in Wilkes-Barre, from a
feeble missionary station, grew to be what it has ever since
continued, the largest, strongest, most effective church of the
Protestant Episcopal Communion in central Pennsylvania.
The sentiment of its parishioners in regard to Dr. May may
be gathered from the kind expression of the vestry after he
had declined one of numerous calls. "When you first came
to this people," reads the record, "you found them divided
and broken, burdened with debt and few in number. The
influence of your character and your exertions have healed
these dissentions, have ennabled them to free themselves from
their incumbrances, and have formed them into a respectful
body of attentive hearers."
Dr. May's health failing shortly after his settlement at
St, Paul's, he went abroad for its recovery, and, upon his
return to America, was elected to the chair of Church History
in the Virginia Theological Seminary and remained there
until 1861, when he became a professor in the Philadelphia
Divinity School and held this position at the time of his
decease.
He was a man of great intellectual ability, much beloved by
his parishioners, and in the seminaries with which he had been
connected. His "Life and Letters," prepared by the Rev.
Alexander Shiras, has been published.
In 1829, he married Ellen Stuart, daughter of Captain
Samuel Bowman by his wife Eleanor Ledlie of Wilkes-Barre,
and sister of the Right Reverend Samuel Bowman, Bishop of
Pennsylvania, and died without surviving issue. He was
buried in St. Mary's Churchyard, West Philadelphia,
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REV. RICHARD NEWTON, D. D.
RECTOR OF ST. PAUL'S 1840-1862.
RECTOESHIP OF DR. NEWTON
1840-1862
HE Reverend Richard Newton, D.D., rector from
y#^ November, 1840, to May, 1862, third son and
1 I fifth child of Richard and Elizabeth (Cluett)
^^^^Jr Newton, was born in Liverpool, England, 26
July, 1812, and died at Chestnut Hill, Phila-
delphia, 25 May, 1887. He came to Philadelphia with his
parents August 20, 1824, in the Barque "Fanny," and ob-
tained his early education in Philadelphia and Wilmington,
Delaware. Graduated from the University of Pennsylvania
in the class of 1836, he began his preparation for holy orders
at the General Theological Seminary, New York, from which
he was graduated in 1839. In 1838, in order to raise funds to
pay his tuition in the Seminary he opened a select school in
Wilmington, Delaware, for the sons of friends of Mrs. Bayard.
Her son, the late Thomas F. Bayard (afterward Secre-
tary of State and Ambassador to England), then seven years
old, was one of his scholars. When his friend and adviser,
Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, then Rector of St. Paul's, heard of
his decision, he remarked, "I am surprised at your conduct,
Richard, in going to the New York Seminary, where High
Church teachings prevail. For my part, I would go down
with Jonah and study theology in the whale's belly, before
I would go to the New York Seminary. ' '
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l^tgftotg of &t pauri^ Cpisicopal C5«tc5
Ordained deacon July 4, 1839, at St. John's Church, North-
ern Liberties, Philadelphia, by the Right Reverend Henry U.
Onderdonk, D.D., he was made priest by the same Bishop,
July 26, 1840, in Holy Trinity Church, West Chester,
Pennsylvania, where his ministry had begun, on the first
Sunday in November, 1839, at a salary of four hundred
dollars.
In November, 1840, he was called to St. Paul's. His selec-
tion to this post, which he held for twenty-two years, came
about in this way: In the early autumn of this year Rev.
John A. Clark, then rector of St. Andrew's Church, invited
a noted clergyman, who failed to appear. In this emergency,
Mr. Newton, who happened to be present, preached. A com-
mittee from St. Paul 's, present to hear the appointed preacher,
was so favorably impressed by his sermon that it decided to
call him as Dr. Tyng's successor. His ministry here was
highly successful, his Sunday-school work was famous, and
his sermons to children were widely printed and widely read.
St. Paul's was greatly interested in foreign missions and
spent large sums in supporting them, in the South Sea Islands,
Africa and China. One of them was in Liberia, at Cape
Palmas (1856), called Hoffman. Thomas Jefferson strongly
disapproved of missions, as did many others. His and their
view was that, it was not the duty of the Church to disturb by
missionaries the religion and peace of other countries, nor to
extinguish by fire and fagot the heresies called by the name
of conversions.
The Episcopal Clergy of Philadelphia from 1855 to 1866
were marked men. Alonzo Potter was the great Bishop of the
entire State of Pennsylvania. Dr. Suddards was at Grace
Church with the memories of his past career. Dr. Pratt was
at the Covenant, the church of Dr. Newton's old age. Dr.
Alexander H. Vinton was at the new parish of Holy Trinity ;
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INTERIOR OF ST. PAUL'S IN 1861,
REV. RICHARD NEWTON, D.D., RECTOR.
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Dudley A. Tyng had left his wonderful influence upon the
young men of his day. Kingston Goddard was at the Atone-
ment, at times strangely eloquent. Dr. Neville, with his mys-
terious career, had left a marked impression behind him.
Richard Cardan was electrifying great audiences at the San-
som Street Union Prayer Meetings. Henry Wise, with the
shadow of death upon him, was followed by crowds from
church to church whenever he preached, and Phillips Brooks
was beginning his wonderful career at the little church of the
Advent at Fifth and Buttonwood Streets. Bishop Stevens
had just been made assistant to Bishop Potter. Dr. Oden-
heimer, that indefatigable parish priest and staunch church-
man, was, after twenty years of service at St. Peter's, still the
new Bishop of the adjoining parish of New Jersey. Dr. Dorr
was at Christ Church, well worn in its service. Dr. Mark
Anthony De Wolfe Howe was at St. Luke's. Dr. Hare wa&
still principal at the Episcopal Academy. Dr. Daniel R.
Goodwin was Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, and
the new Episcopal Divinity School was rejoicing in possessing
as its new teacher, the Rev. Clement M. Butler, D.D., of
Washington, D. C.
During Dr. Newton 's pastorate, prayer meetings were regu-
larly held in the Sunday-school room every Saturday even-
ing. A layman would read a chapter from the Bible, and
the rector the prayers. William Alexander, one of the promi-
nent laymen, was sent for by Bishop White, who told him St.
Paul's had no right to hold prayer meetings, as there was no
authority for it; that he strongly disapproved and desired
them discontinued. The Bishop was told, that St. Paul's had
found the meetings most helpful to the laymen ; that it brought
them together and kept them in touch with the work of the
parish, and that St. Paul's declined to discontinue them..
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Many were the parish activities of this rectorate, as the fol-
lowing will in a measure indicate : In 1861, the laymen founded
the Pastoral Aid Association — President, Reverend Richard
Newton, D.D. ; Vice-president, Thomas Latimer; Secretary,
Howard Edwards; Treasurer, J. H, Harman. Its object was
to call out the active lay-agency of the church, in doing good
to the bodies and souls of the destitute, by the use of means
additional to those employed by the Sabbath School Societies,
the Doras Society, the Missionary Society and the other soci-
eties connected with the church.
The Chairmen of Standing Committees for 1861 were:
1. Finance, George C. Thomas, No. 228 N. 5th Street.
2. Tract Distribution, Thomas Latimer, No, 223 German
Street.
3. Devotional Meetings, E, D. Brooks, No. 246 Chestnut
Street.
4. Visiting Sick and Poor, R. Heber Newton, No. 251 S.
13th Street.
5. Strangers in the City, Norris S. Cummings, No. 1120
Pine Street,
6. Church Directory, George C. Thomas, No. 228 N. 5th
Street.
7. Parish Visitation, Thomas Latimer, No. 223 German
Street.
8. Missionary Intelligence, no chairman required.
The vestrymen elected Easter Monday, 1861, were: John
D. George, Jay Cooke, John W. Thomas, Richard F. Loper,
William Cummings, Joseph B. Van Dusen, Richard G. Stotes-
bury Eleazer Fenton, R. S. H. George, Charles B. Durborow,
Henry M. Kimmey, James M. Farr. The Sexton was William
Brown, and the Organist, Joseph J. Redner.
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No part of Dr. Newton's work at St. Paul's, or elsewhere,
was as important as that in the Sunday-schools, indeed that
work stands out as the great beacon light of his career.
Two interesting features in the operations of these schools
were engrafted upon them under Dr. Newton's rectorship.
They afterward became permanent features in the working of
the schools, and have since been very widely adopted in other
schools and churches, with the most beneficial results. One,
was the plan of making a missionary offering by the teachers
and scholars, in connection with the exercises of the anniver-
sary, instead of having books given to them. This plan was
first tried, as a matter of experiment, in the year 1846. The
sum presented in that first offering was $80. The amount of
the offering went on steadily increasing each year, till in 1865,
it reached the large sum of $3,524.
The interest of the school in the offering kept pace with the
increase of the amount raised, and the whole influence was
found to be so happy and salutary, as to afford a striking
practical illustration of the truth of the Saviour's words:
"It is more blessed to give than to receive." During
the twenty years in which this plan was in operation, 1846
to 1866, the offering of the schools amounted to the sum of
$33,500.
The other matter referred to, as introduced by Dr. Newton
while laboring as the head of the schools, was the service
known as the "Children's Church." "While reflecting on
the Saviour's injunction to Peter, 'Feed my Lambs,' " as
the Doctor himself states the matter, "I was led to ask my-
self, What am I doing in public capacity as a minister of
Christ to comply with this injunction? I was compelled in
frankness to say, nothing. Then I made up my mind to have
a service at least once a month, in which the sermon should be
preached with a distinct reference to feeding the lambs. The
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effort soon proved a success, and 'the children's church' be-
came one of the most useful services held in connection with
the church."
This form of service became an integral part of the Sunday-
school work in this church, and it has also been adopted
in many other churches. The influence for good which has
gone out from this single instrumentality, put in motion by
this school, who can estimate ? And may it not be hoped that
the use of this feature of Christian work will spread wider
and wider, till, in all churches, the children, who at their bap-
tism are brought under solemn obligations 'Ho hear ser-
mons, ' ' may at least occasionally have sermons preached unto
them which they can hear and understand.
Spurgeon fittingly called Dr. Newton, ' ' The Prince of Chil-
dren's Preachers." His thought was in line with that after-
wards expressed by Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett who said :
"One generation, one entire generation of all the world of
children, understood as they should be, loved as they ask to
be, and so developed as they might be, would more than bring
in the millennium. " It is now thirty years since his death and
no other one of the clergy has attempted to continue his chil-
dren's sermons. Perhaps his great success has acted as a
deterrent to others, but the field in which he was long pre-
eminent is now neglected and choked with weeds.
During Dr. Newton's rectorship there was a character in
the church named George Lewis, who used to blow the organ,
and tell the boys stories in the gallery. In arranging for a
voyage to England, he took solemn leave of the Sunday-school
and promised to bring home a present for "Missionary
Sunday," which had become an annual event. Arriving
in London he went to the office of the Foreign Missionary
Society and asked for some missionary relic. It happened at
that time that the missionary ship "John Williams" was in
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port, and in the dry dock for repairs. He was given a beam of
the ship, which was being repaired and, on his return to Phila-
delphia, presented it to St. Paul's Sunday-school with great
pomp and ceremony on a certain "Missionary Sunday," to
the intense admiration of the children. Thereupon, Captain
Richard F. Loper, a prominent merchant and vestryman of
St. Paul's, made it into a full-rigged ship, a model of the
"John Williams," named after the martyr missionary to the
South Sea Islands. Annually, on the Anniversary Sundays,
this ship used to make voyages up and down the aisle, until her
deck would be covered with little bags of money offerings,
reserved for that occasion.
Bishop Odenheimer, Bishop Scarborough, Henry George,
the single tax advocate, Edwin Forrest and Owen Fawcett,
the actors, were, at differing periods, among those who at-
tended St. Paul's Sunday-schools.
While rector here. Dr. Newton lived in the red rectory on
York Street, adjoining the graveyard, subsequently sold and
turned into the engine house of the "Hibernia" fire com-
pany, a noted organization of the Philadelphia Volunteer Fire
Department of those days.
On Christmas Day, 1858, Jay Cooke took Dr. Newton to
a cottage with an octagon tower at Chelten Hills, which was
in process of building. After its completion Mr. Cooke sent
the deed for it with the following letter :
" Chelten Hills, Montgomery Co. Pa.
" June 6th, 1859.
"My Dear friend and Pastor: I send herewith a deed for the cot-
tage and lot which you have known for some time was intended
for you. It is now yours, its value or cost fully paid up and re-
ceipted for. And it comes to you as a hearty and sincere offering
of myself and wife, as a small testimony of our gratitude to our God
and Saviour that, in His good providence we have so long enjoyed
your teachings as our pastor, and your intercourse and sympathy as
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a friend. We do indeed feel grateful, for ourselves and for our
children, that God has raised you up as an instrument of so much
good, not only to ourselves but to so many thousands, who have
profited by your untiring efforts and instructions. And we desire,
in making this offering to one whom we feel to be a true servant of
the blessed Master; to realize the fact that in giving to you, we
are giving to Him from whom we receive all things, both spiritual
and temporal. We ask you to accept it in the name and for the sake
of Jesus, and if it will ever add anything to your comfort or health,
or will in any way cheer you onward, or in any way strengthen you
in your confidence and trust in the promises and goodness of God,
let your thanks be entirely given to him alone who owns all things,
and who has put it into our hearts to do thus much as his stewards
to cheer and encourage His Faithful servant.
"It is a matter of regret (although we suppose it was somewhat
unavoidable) that others should here know of this action on our
part for our God knows we desire only to glorify Him. It is indeed
a great blessing thus to have been made His instruments.
" In accepting this testimonial of our love and sympathy we do
not wish you to consider that you come under the slightest obliga-
tions in any way to occupy the new home for a longer or a shorter
period, or to give us or the neighborhood any further advantages
from your occasional or temporary residence there than such as you
will feel is not irksome to give. You need rest and recreation when
you come to the country, and it is far from our thought to even
hint at depriving you of any portion of these hours of relaxation.
" We shall enjoy your society and that of your dear family when
you are near us, and we anticipate, if God so orders it, many a de-
lightful season spent together there.
" Should you be called by God's Holy Spirit, to go elsewhere,
faith will lead us to believe it is all for God's Glory. Under such
or any other circumstances, you are to consider your self as entirely
free to sell or otherwise dispose of the property as seems best to
yourself and family; it is yours, and may God bless to you and your
dear ones this free and gladsome offering of our hearts, is the prayer
of your friends, who love you all for your own sakes, as well as for
Christ's.!
"Truly and sincerely,
" Mr. and Mrs. Jay Cooke.''
1 Subsequently this cottage was occupied for many years by Eev. Eob-
ert J. Parvin, Rector of St. Paul's, Cheltenham.
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In 1862 he was called to the Church of the Epiphany,
Philadelphia, then a large and influential congregation (now
consolidated with St. Luke's), and remained there until Janu-
ary 29, 1881, when he became the rector emeritus until May
22, 1882. He then accepted the rectorship of the Church of
the Covenant, at which post his useful life closed.
During his great career he preached thousands of sermons.
Over fifteen hundred of his written sermons were in his
library at his death all carefully indexed and dated. He
received the degree of D.D. from Kenyon College, Ohio, in
1862, and was from 1869 to 1887 a trustee of the University
of Pennsylvania.
His books for children have never been excelled in their
aptitude to the young, and the pleasing form in which they
convey religious truth. While they are called sermons, and
each paragraph is expository of some passage of Scripture, they
are so simple, so full of striking and apposite illustrations,
that a child will read them with as much curiosity as he,
or she would a narrative of travel or adventure, and certainly
with far more profit. So popular were these books, that they
were translated into no less than eighteen languages — French,
German, Spanish, Italian, Siamese, Hindustanese, Chinese,
Bulgarian, Japanese, Arabic, Armenian, Urdic, Tamil, Dacata,
Zulu, Grebo, Swedish and Dutch. Among his publications in
this field were: ''The Jewel Case," "The Best Things," "The
King's Highway," "The Safe Compass," "Bible Blessings,"
"The Great Pilot," "Bible Jewels," "The Wonder Case,"
"Bible Wonders," "Nature Wonders," "Leaves from the
Tree," "Rills from the Fountain," "The Jewish Taber-
nacle," "Giants and Wonderful Things," "Rays from the
Sun of Righteousness," "The King in His Beauty," "Peb-
bles from the Brook," "Bible Promises," "Bible Warnings,"
' * Covenant Names. ' '
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Among his published sermons were: "Anniversary Oration"
before the University of Pennsylvania, February 22, 1836;
"The Pastor's Offering to His Flock," A funeral Discourse
delivered in St. Paul's Church, March 7, 1847, on the occa-
sion of the death of John Farr, Esq. ; "Sermons" in St. Paul's
Church, First Sundays in Advent, 1847, 1850, 1851 ; "The Age
and its Duties," two Sermons preached in St. Paul's, Decem-
ber 29, 1850, January 4, 1851 ; ' ' Sermon on the death of Rev.
James H. Fowles, "April 9, 1854 ; ' ' Sermon at Centennial Anni-
versary of St. Paul's Church," November 4, 1860; "God's
marvellous doing for the Nation," A Sermon on the day ap-
pointed by the President, in the Church of the Epiphany,
Philadelphia, August 6, 1863; "God's Interest in the Death
of His People, ' ' a Tribute to the memory of the Rev. Robert J.
Parvin of St. Paurs,^ Cheltenham, 1868; "The Abrahamic
Covenant," a Sermon before the Protestant Episcopal Asso-
ciation for the promotion of Christianity among the Jews,
March 30, 1873 ; ' ' The Present Crisis in the Protestant Epis-
copal Church and the duty of Evangelical men in reference to
it," preached in the Church of the Ephiphany, May 31, 1874.
Dr. Newton married, July 31, 1839, Lydia, daughter of
Lawrence Greatorex, of the Brandywine Paper Mills of Wil-
mington, Delaware. Their sons, Richard Heber Newton and
William Wilberforce Newton, became clergymen. Mrs. New-
ton died in April, 1887, and Dr. Newton one month later, in
his seventy-fifth year. Both are buried in Laurel Hill
Cemetery,
The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin of May 26, 1887, speak-
ing editorially, said :
2 St. Paul 's Cheltenham, owes its name and its origin to Old St. Paul 's
and the efforts of Dr. Newton, who preached the Consecration Sermon.
Mr. Parvin was its first rector. A mural tablet in the church testifies to
the affection of the people for him. — Hotchkin's County Clergy of Penn-
sylvania, p. 80.
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" There have been men in the Protestant Episcopal Church whose
fame was greater than that of the late Richard Newton, and whose
talents may have been more briUiant; but there have been very few
whose lives have been purer, more upright, and more in unison with
the true teachings of the Christian faith.
" His death will carry with it more of a sense of loss to the thou-
sands who have come within reach of his ministrations and teachings
than would the death of other divines whose names just now are
more often heard in the church world.
" Dr, Newton was so unlike the majority of men who now fill the
pulpit, and had so many of the fine, old fashioned notions of the dig-
nity and usefulness of his sacred calling that he seemed to be su-
perior to most of the faults and follies which have crept into his
profession. Indeed, we doubt very much whether any one man in
the Episcopal Church in this community, since the time of William
White, has done more, in a comparatively quiet and unobtrusive way,
to strengthen it, and make new believers for it, than did Richard
Newton.
" This influence was due, to a large extent, to the remarkable fac-
ulty which he exercised in conveying truth to the minds of children
and of young people. Even men and women of mature years, whose
education was limited, seemed to understand and appreciate him as
they did few others of his denomination. He did not preach for
the select few, he did not make his sermons refined disquisitions on
points of theological hair-splitting; he did not try to awe or impress
his hearers with displays of the learning which he possessed. His
great purpose in the pulpit always was to make himself understood,
even by auditors of less than ordinary intelligence.
" In doing this there was a simplicity and earnestness in his work
which was beautiful to contemplate, and which went right home to
the hearts of his hearers. The lectures and books which he pre-
pared for the use of children were especially marked by this quality,
and the Protestant Episcopal Church, both in this country and in
England, can count these productions as being one of the sources of
much of its latter day strength.
" In these days, when clergymen look so much to public notoriety
for their reward, and depend so much upon sensational effects
for their popularity, and are so careless about the true dignity of
their sacred office, the example of such a man as Richard Newton
should be set conspicuously before them.
" With his fine scholarship, and his strong powers of mind and
his remarkable energy, he might have been, had he so wished to, a
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greater figure in the eyes of the world. But the vanity of having
his name sounded on the tongues of men never drew him away from
his noble conception of the duties of a minister. His life was for his
church, for his people, for his Master. He loved that church, and
he loved his people ; and the life of his Master was ever before him,
as a daily incentive to real good, and not as a mere model for rhetor-
ical sermons. No scandals hovered over his name. No one could
ever mention that name with flippancy or disrespect.
"Not simply among Christians, but among men who are careless
of spiritual things, his was a career that always commanded the true
respect which the world gratefully accords to an honest Christian
and upright man; and there are not too many clergymen to-day of
whom the same can be honestly said when they pass away."
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THE RECTORSHIP OF DR. GODDARD
1862-1866
0/^^^ HE Reverend Kingston Goddard, D.D., rector from
d '^ I Ju^e, 1862, to January, 1866, son of John God-
M I I dard of Philadelphia, by his wife Mary Beck,
^^^^r was bom at Philadelphia, October 20, 1813, and
died at Richmond, Staten Island, New York,
October 24, 1875. His maternal grandfather, Paul Beck,
Esq.,^ was one of Philadelphia's most eminent public-spirited
citizens as well as an earnest supporter of St. Paul's, and the
grandson, deprived of his mother at an early age, had for
many years the fostering care and example of the blameless
life of his grandsire.
Educated in the schools of Philadelphia and the University
of Pennsylvania, from which latter institution of learning he
was graduated with honors in 1833, he was, in 1836, graduated
at the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church
in New York City. His first charge, while still a deacon, was
that of St. Anna's, Fishkill Landing, New York, 1835-1837,
after which he served acceptably in the parishes of Christ
Church, Brooklyn, Emmanuel Church, Brooklyn, The Atone-
ment, Philadelphia, and Christ Church, Cincinnati, Ohio.
While at Cincinnati, the call came to him from St. Paul's.
1 See sketch of, in Simpson 's ' ' Lives of Eminent Philadelphians, ' ' pp.
37^9.
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REV. KINGSTON GODDARD, D.D.
RECTOR OF ST. PAUL'S 1862-1866.
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In accepting it, Dr. Goddard was but coming to his own — to
a parish that none better understood than he. During his
rectorship at the Atonement, in connection with his words of
tribute at the Memorial Meeting, held to commemorate the
life work and noble death of his friend and fellow-laborer, the
Rev. Dudley Atkins Tyng, he had said of St. Paul 's :
"In May, 1829, his father [Rev. Stephen Tyng] removed to this
city and became the rector of St. Paul's Church. And, my Chris-
tian friends, I desire to pay the tribute of praise to that congrega-
tion, among whom the eminent and venerable Dr. Tyng ministered.
They have had many servants of God, and have always loved and
revered them. They have had the Gospel proclaimed in their pulpit
with a degree of earnestness and fidelity that has never been sur-
passed, and they have always listened to it. They have buried rec-
tors, but, thank God, the disgrace is yet to come upon them of turn-
ing one from their pulpit and closing their doors. It was while the
father was rector of that church, that the son was brought under the
influence of Sunday-school instruction — in the Sunday School of that
church he was first introduced to the knowledge of the truth as it is
in Jesus."
The statement as to the Sunday-school of St. Paul's was
equally true of the speaker, for he too had begun the Christian
life at St. Paul's, where later he was to become a faithful
parish priest and eloquent preacher.
He was elected a member of the American Philosophical
Society in 1857, and Kenyon College conferred upon him the
degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1860. He was also Grand
Chaplain, of the Grand Lodge F. and A. M. of Pennsylvania.
In 1866 he accepted the rectorship of St. Andrew's, Rich-
mond, Staten Island, New York, at which post he died. He
married Matilda Susan, daughter of William Seaman.
Dr. Goddard 's publications were limited to sermons, "by
request," to which requests he acceded with reluctance, feel-
ing that the importance of what was said in the pulpit de-
pended largely upon the manner of its saying: ** Sermon on
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Thanksgiving-day," December 13, 1840, in Christ Church,
Brooklyn; "Address at first Annual exhibition of Ingenuity
and Design, held in Philadelphia by the Pennsylvania Insti-
tute," May 1-9, 1857; "The Freedom granted by Christ," A
sermon preached in the Church of the Atonement, before the
Artillery Corps of "Washington Grays, on Saturday, July 4,
1858; "The Poor in the Keeping of God" (Philadelphia,
1857); "Funeral Sermon on Caldwell B. Mitchell" (Phila-
delphia, 1857); "Sermon on the life and character of Wil-
liam H. Aspinwall, 1807-1875," preached at Clifton, Staten
Island, February 14, 1875.
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REV. R. HEBER NEWTON, D.D.
RECTOR OF ST. PAUL'S 1866-1868.
EECTORSHIP OF DR. NEWTON
1866-1868
HE Reverend Richard Heber Newton, D.D., rector
/^ from February 18, 1866, to December 9, 1868,
M I eldest son of the Reverend Richard Newton,
^^^^J^ D.D., by his wife, Lydia Greatorex, was bom at
Philadelphia, October 31, 1840, and died at
Scarborough, New York, December 19, 1914.
His education was obtained at home and at the University
of Pennsylvania, at which he matriculated in 1857, but was
obliged to leave at the close of his sophomore year. He
entered the Divinity School of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, Philadelphia, from which he was graduated in 1862.
Ill health however had interrupted his studies and threatened
a discontinuance. In this emergency a sea trip was suggested
by his father's friend and vestryman, William Cummings,
Esq., a well-known merchant, who fitted up a cabin on one
of his vessels and sent him on a voyage to Liverpool, England.
The following letter from Mr. Newton explains the incident:
" On Board Ship, Wm. Cummings,
" April 25th, 1861.
"My Kind friend:
" I desire simply to express my sense of gratitude to you for your
thoughtful and generous kindness towards me. My mind had been
uncertain as to what would be the best feasible plan for me to pursue
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in seeking the establishment of my health & strength. My health
has been so much improved of late, by God's blessing on the
means constantly used, that it seemed as though the critical point of
my life, in regard to health had been safely passed & that my con-
stitution had taken a favorable change. Knowing that my constitu-
tion is such, that in human probabilities I may work for vigorous
health, if the present stage of life can be safely passed. I was of
course very anxious to do everything in my power to strengthen
myself. Your kind offer appeared to present the very opening that
was needed, though the thought of a sea trip had not previously been
much in my mind. And I trust that it is the hand of Providence
that has directed my attention in the present summer's trip. & that
through the blessing of my Heavenly Father, I shall return renewed
and established in health & strength.
" I value health as the necessary qualification for usefulness in
the cause to which my energies of mind and body, (Sj my life have
been consecrated.
" It is my earnest desire & prayer that God will make me an in-
strument of doing great good to the souls of men ; & in this work I
wish to spend my whole life.
" But I feel that without strength, I am of little use, and so I re-
joice to have the opportunity of seeking that strength, even though
it is a trial to separate from home & friends. And therefore I
value and esteem your kindness, as enabling me to prepare physically
for God's work.
" I trust that should I be spared to return home again, God will
also fit me in soul for that work & bless me in it to the salvation of
many souls; & that you may have the pleasure of knowing that you
have been instrumental in fitting an humble laborer in the Master's
vineyard for any usefulness he may be granted.
" And may My Saviour & Master reward you as it could never
be in my power to do, by giving you freely of that blessing, ' that
maketh truly rich & addeth no sorrow.'
" Very Respectfully,
"& Sincerely,
"R. Heber Newton.
" William Cummings, Esq.,
" Pine St. Wharf, Phila."i
1 William Cummings, son of George Cummings (1759-1807), and Eliza-
beth Tate (1761-1807), was born Feb. 6, 1806, at No. 28 Plumb St. (now
232 Monroe St.), District of Southwark, Philadelphia. His parents and
grandfather, Simon Cummings, are buried in St. Peter's Church yard.
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Mr. Newton was made a deacon in St. Paul's Church, Phila-
delphia, by Bishop Alonzo Potter in June, 1862, and ordained
priest in the same church in 1863, by the Rt. Rev. William H.
Odenheimer, Bishop of New Jersey, He was an assistant to
his father for two years and subsequently, 1863-1866, rector
of Trinity Church, Sharon Springs, New York.
Elected rector of St. Paul's Church, Philadelphia, upon
motion of John W. Thomas, he served from 1867 to 1870,
resigning to accept the rectorship of the Anthon Memorial
Church in New York, known later as All Soul's Church.
It was during his rectorship that St. Paul's celebrated the
fiftieth anniversary of its Sunday-school.
On the twentieth of February, 1816, a little more than one
hundred years ago, the young men belonging to St. Paul's
met for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety
of forming a society to conduct a Sunday-school. The meet-
He was brought up by his uncle of the same name, and he was married hy
Kev. Dr. Stephen H. Tyng to Emily E. Alexander, daughter of Eichard
Alexander, at St. Paul's Church, June 1, 1831, at five o'clock A.M., so as
to be in time for the stage to Pottsville. Subsequently he returned to
Philadelphia and from 1832 to 1869 was a well known Merchant. He
built and owned the following vessels, Schooners, Kathleen and John Mc-
Crea. Brigs, Baron Stranger, Pennsylvania, Norris Stanley, Delaware,
Joseph Cowperthwait, Emily Cummings, Clara, Huntress and Calvert;
Barques, Mary Irvine, Cora, Linda, Fairmount, Aaron I. Harvey, Ann
Elizabeth, and Margaret Hugg; Ships, Frigate Bird, and William Cum-
mings. He had an extensive trade with the West Indies, Bahia, Eio
Janeiro and Montevideo, South America, as well as Goree, Gambia and
Sierra Leone, Africa; Hong Kong, China, and San Francisco, California.
During the civil war he was an active member of the Union League and
helped to equip the 118 Penna. Volunteers, or Corn Exchange Eegiment
for the field. He was a director of the Girard National Bank, Commer-
cial Exchange Ass'n, Insurance Co. of North America, Huntingdon &
Broad Top E. E. Co., Trustee of City Ice boats, manager of the Howard
Hospital and Merchants Fund of which he was one of the founders,
vestryman of St. Paul's Church, a prominent Mason and a member of
Lodge No. 2 for 63 years preceding his death, December 17, 1889.
He was Master of this Lodge in 1837-38-39 during the Morgan excite-
ment. He is buried in his vault in St. Paul 's Church yard.
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ing, held in the vestry-room of the church, during Dr. Pil-
more's rectorship, was called by John P. Bankson, who had
already established a Sunday-school in connection with the
Second Presbyterian Church, northwest corner of Third and
Arch Streets, that being the first Sunday-school in the city.
St. Paul 's was the second in order, and was the first Sunday-
school organized in connection with any Episcopal Church in
this city, or in this land. The movement was then consid-
ered as of doubtful expediency, but in this, as in many other
religious matters, St. Paul's was a pioneer.
Twenty-one names were enrolled as teachers, and these
teachers were divided into two committees, each committee to
conduct the exercises of the school on alternate Sundays.
The names were as follows : Messrs. John P. Bankson, Richard
Thompson, R. Pigott, J. Bason, J. Golder, Jesse R. Burden,
John C. Pechin, Peter Van Pelt, George Glentworth, John
Lohra, John Toy, Thomas Moore, William Alexander, R.
Body, Lloyd Bankson, A. Claxton, J. M. Adams, John Mur-
ray, William Murdoch, Ezra Dodge, Charles Stockton.
The founder of the female school was Mrs. Susannah B.
Shober, grand-daughter of Col. Blathwaite Jones, a Mother in
Israel, who for many years acted as its superintendent with
great efficiency and success. For the first fifteen years of its
existence the Sunday-schools did not meet in the church, but
at private residences in the neighborhood.
On May 21, 1866, the semi-centenary was celebrated. This
interesting occasion drew together a large number of the
friends of old St. Paul's from all quarters of the city, and
over sixteen hundred persons were present. Many who were
formerly faithful workers there, returned to join in the cele^
bration of the evening; some who had not been within those
walls for years, were drawn to the scene of their early instruc-
tion, and the teachers and scholars of the past mingled
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with those of the present, so that the schools of 1816 and of
1866, the founding and the commemoration, alike were rep-
resented.
A large number of the clergy were present, among whom
were the Rev. Drs. Tyng, Newton, Watson, Spear, Pratt,
Claxton, Thos. G. Allen, Edmund Roberts, George Bring-
hurst, J. Sanders Reed, Robert C. Matlack, Samuel Durborow,
J. R. Moore, Charles Fisher, Snyder B. Symes, W. Erben
and J. P. Fugett.
The subjoined letter of regret was received from the Right
Rev. William H. Odenheimer, of New Jersey, formerly a
scholar in this school:
"Burlington, N. J., June 26, 1866.
"Reverend and Dear Sir:
" I regret that diocesan engagements deprived me of the satisfac-
tion of joining with you, and our friends, in the semi-centennary
solemities of the Sunday-schools of St. Paul's Church, Philadelphia.
I feel that I have a right to share in your joys, for I have the honor
of having been a member of the Sunday-school, and also of the
Bible-class of dear Old St. Paul's; and the pleasant memories of the
men and incidents of those days still live in my heart. My old super-
intendent full of zeal, and my old class teacher a walking cyclopaedia
of catechetical lore! still live to receive my thanks for their loving
care; but the gentle-hearted Parr has gone to his rest. What a
goodly line of pastors guided the flock in those days. The apostolic
Allen; the glowing hearted Tyng, the Saint Paul of our American
Church; the energetic McCoskrey; and the saintly May. I also re-
call the admiration I felt, and which years have deepened, at the
pious works of those christian women, the true Sisters of charity in
old St. Paul's, who, without ostentation, devoted themselves to the
education of the young and the care of the poor and afflicted. God
bless the memory of those who have ' gone before,' God speed those
who still remain to work for Christ, in the persons of little children,
and the poor.
" It is joy to all hearts that the venerable parish seems to increase
in strength with increasing years; and like some grand oak, flings
out new and right noble branches to shelter those who abide under
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its shadow. St. Paul's of the present day is as worthy of commen-
dation as St. Paul's of the olden times.
" God bless you and the congregation.
" Very faithfully yours,
"William H. Odenheimeb.
" Rev. R. Heber Newton."
Letters were also received from the Right Reverend Samuel
Allen MeCoskrey of Michigan and others, regretting their ina-
bility to be present. The Rev. Robert C. Matlack, formerly a
scholar, then a teacher in the schools, subsequently assistant
minister, led the congregation in prayer.
The Rev, John Sanders Reed, formerly superintendent of
the female school, and assistant minister, read the Evening
Lessons.
The rector, Rev. R. Heber Newton, preached an appro-
priate sermon, from which the accompanying statements have
been substantially taken:
Among the good things resulting from this school was the
American Sunday-school Union, one of its offspring, for this
noble institution grew out of the Philadelphia Sunday-school
Union, which was started by John P. Bankson, who was then
the superintendent of St. Paul 's schools.
During the period of fifty years in which these schools
have been in operation at least three thousand scholars have
passed through the schools, under the charge of three hundred
teachers.
If it were possible to follow the history of those three thou-
sand scholars and trace out the influence for good brought to
bear upon them, and by them imparted to others, through the
agency of that faithful band of three hundred teachers, how
deeply interesting it would be! It is impossible to do this
now, but it will be done at last. "The day will declare it."
And, when in the light of that great day of revelation, the
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good thus accomplished, in ten thousand forms, is made
apparent, we shall see and understand what a fountain of
life, what a hill of blessing the schools of this mother of
churches has been.
Since 1830, one thousand persons have been confirmed from
this church ; and as the average proportion of candidates from
the school has been from one half to two thirds of the number,
it is safe to compute that, of the scholars under instruction in
these schools, between five hundred and six hundred have
connected themselves with this church by confirmation since
1830. How many have afterwards united themselves with
other churches we have no means of ascertaining.
The largest accessions from the schools to the church in one
year were in 1831 and 1858, when in the former year, between
fifty and sixty, and in the latter year, between thirty and
forty young persons were confirmed.
The Sunday-schools remained in a prosperous condition,
but during the Civil War, 1861-1866, so many of the young
men from St. Paul 's enlisted in the army of the United States
for the defense of their country, their city and homes, that
the male Bible class had to be discontinued until the end of
the war, when it was resumed with fresh interest.
Of the scholars and teachers of St. Paul's who entered
the ministry previous to the year 1833, there is no record.
Among those who have become clergymen since that period
the following were mentioned :''
Rev. "William C. Russell, now deceased, was a teacher in
the year 1826.
Rev. Charles Emlen Pleasants, deceased, was a teacher in
1832.
Rev. Edmund Roberts, rector of St. Luke 's, Bustleton, was
a scholar in 1832.
2 It must be remembered that the "now," refers to the year 1866.
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Rev. Edward Conway Jones, long the faithful missionary
to the insane in the almshouse, now deceased, was a scholar
in 1833.
Rev. Benjamin Watson, D.D., now rector of the Church of
the Atonement, in this city, was a scholar in 1833.
Rt. Rev. William Henry Odenheimer, D.D., now Bishop of
New Jersey, was a scholar and a teacher in 1834.
Rev. Dudley Atkins Tyng, rector of the Church of the
Epiphany, and then of the Church of the Covenant, and now
deceased, was a scholar in 1833.
Rev. T. Alfred Starkey, D.D., now of Cleveland, Ohio, was
a scholar in 1834.
Rev. William Huckel, of New York, was a scholar in 1840,
and a teacher in 1846, rector of the Church of the Evangelists,
in 1852.
Rev. Henry A. Coit, D.D., now of New Hampshire, was a
teacher in 1846. First Rector of St. Paul's School, at Con-
cord, New Hampshire.'
Rev. George A. Latimer, now rector of Christ Church,
Pottstown, was a scholar in 1836, and a teacher in 1849.
Founder of St. John's Church, Philadelphia.
Rev. Robert C. Matlack, now rector of the Church of the
Nativity, in this city, was a teacher in 1853.
Rev. Robert B. Claxton, D.D., now professor in the Divinity
School, was a teacher in 1836.
Rev. John Martin, now of Washington, D. C, was a teacher
in 1833.
3 Henry Augustus Coit, born January 20, 1830, at Wilmington, Dela-
ware, where his father, Eev. Joseph Howland Coit, DD. was Eector of
St. Andrew's Church. Attended University of Pennsylvania; was pro-
fessor St. James College, Washington County, Maryland; married Miss
Mary Bowman Wheeler, March 27, 1856, in Church of Epiphany, Phila-
delphia, just before he removed to Concord, New Hampshire, to become
first Eector of the celebrated St. Paul's School.
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Rev. Chas. R. Hale, now chaplain in the U. S. Navy, was a
teacher in 1855.
Rev. Henry S. Getz, now of Mahanoy City, was a teacher
in 1852, and superintendent in 1853.
Rev. John Sanders Reed, now rector of Gloria Dei Church,
was superintendent of the female school in 1864.*
The Rev. Samuel Durborow, of the Church of the Evan-
gelists, Philadelphia, was a scholar.
The Rev. Christian Wiltberger, the first rector of Emmanuel
Episcopal Church, Kensington, 1837, was also a teacher. He
died in August, 1855, and was buried in the family vault.
His ancestor of the same name was a communicant, and made
the silver baptismal bowl (1805), and other silver used by
the church, as shown in Appendix C.
The Rev. R. Heber Newton, the present rector [1866] hav-
ing the spiritual charge of the schools, was first a scholar
here, from the infant school to the Bible class, and then a
teacher in 1856.
There are, at this time [1866], four young men, candidates
for the ministry in this diocese, who have been both scholars,
4 Eev. Dr. J. Sanders Reed attended Episcopal Academy and was gradu-
ated at the Philadelphia Divinity School, 1865; was Deacon, 1864; Priest,
1865; Eeetor of Gloria Dei (Old Siwedes), and later Trinity Church,
Watertown, New York. Author of many articles and books, among them :
"The Pedigree of a Preacher," "A Mission's Catechism," "The Bish-
op's Blue Book" (1893), "The Crozier and the Keys" (1895), "Homi-
letical Finger Posts" (1900), "A Missionary Horologe" (1902). He
died February 20, 1910, leaving a widow, Anna G. Everly Reed, of .St.
Luke and the Epiphany Parish, Philadelphia, who is much interested in
the work of the Church and Sunday-school.
5 Rev. William W. Parr, D.D., son of John Farr, was born in November,
1840, in Philadelphia. He abandoned a business career in 1858 for the
ministry. At nineteen he attended Kenyon College, Gambler, Ohio, grad-
uating in 1864. He studied theology at the Philadelphia Divinity School;
was rector of Grace Church, Sandusky, Ohio, 1866, and the Church of
the Saviour, Philadelphia, 1877, untU his death, in 1883. His work in
Sandusky was essentially one of charity, and was by no means confined
to his own parish.. He built Calvary Church, St. John's Chapel, and
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and teachers, in this school. These are William "Wilberforce
Farr,^ 6. Albert Redles, Richard Newton Thomas and Wil-
liam Wilberforce Newton.
"What noble specimens of Christian character have been
associated together here, as teachers, in the carrying on of
the operations of these schools? We think of John P. Bank-
son, the heroic martyr to the cause of African civilization,
of John Farr, of Samuel N. Davies, of John D. George, of
Susannah B. Shober, of Cornelia Cooper, of Ann Jane Carr,
of Christiana Alexander, of Elizabeth Gardner, who have
labored here side by side, in the carrying on of this work.
They were among the excellent of the earth. Their fragrant
memories are cherished still by all who knew them. ' They rest
from their labors and their works do follow them. ' ' '
Thomas Latimer, a well-known member of the Philadelphia
Bar and superintendent of the male school for forty years,
and Miss Almira Pechin were also prominent teachers, but,
as they were alive at the time, their names were omitted.
The late George C. Thomas, who was brought up in St. Paul's,
feeling that those engaged in church and Sunday-school
work in Philadelphia ought to confer about the best method
of carrying it on, organized, in 1869, with the aid of John
Marston, Jr., the Sunday-school Association of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, which has accomplished such excellent
results.
It is interesting to note the amount of money annually col-
lected in St. Paul Sunday-schools. It averaged about two
thousand five hundred dollars, and as the showing of the
year 1866 is typical of how the money was raised and applied
it is appended.
waa the projector of the Good Samaritan Hospital. He married Miss
Lena Haddock, in 1866. One of his daughters, Grace, married Hon. Wil-
liam Wilkins Carr^ Judge of Court of Common Pleas No. 4, of Phila-
delphia.
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From the Female School $930.75
From the Male School 464.93
From the Female Bible Class 174.16
From the Male Bible Class 267.50
From the Infant School 708.62
The Memorial Offering 30.50
Miscellaneous Offerings 32.00
Total $2^608X6
The sum was appropriated as follows :
The Citizens' Volunteer Hospital $25.00
Books for the Episcopal Hospital 50.00
The sufferers by the great fire at Ninth and Wash-
ington Streets 136.64
The Foster Home 26.00
The Ladies' Aid 35.00
The American Sunday-School Union 50.00
The Protestant Episcopal Church at Corry, Penn-
sylvania 60.00
The Home for Soldiers and Sailors* Orphans 100.00
The Dorcas Society 87.00
The Union School and Children's Home 50.00
St. Andrew's Church, West Philadelphia 20.00
Poor Clergymen 220.00
The Sunday-School Association 100.00
City Pastor 30.00
African Mission 75.00
The Southern Home for Friendless Children 34.15
The Church Home 25.00
Expenses of St. Paul's Sunday-Schools 225.00
Libraries of St. Paul's Sunday-Schools 100.00
Parish Library 50.00
Divinity Student 200.00
The Poor 100.00
Anniversary and Fair Express 183.15
The Church Home at Twelfth and Fitzwater
Streets 10.00
The Christian Street Hospital 10.00
The Freedmen and Poor Whites 10.00
Poor Children 33.87
Sunday-School Music 15.00
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Donation through Livingstone class 122.65
Per William Richardson 25.00
Tract Society, Books for Soldiers 50.00
St. Paul's Church 350.00
$2,608.46
It must not be forgotten that this offering of $2,608.46 was
merely a part of St. Paul's contribution. The church itself
gave as much more to worthy objects, particularly to poor
churches and missionaries at home and abroad. No other
church in Philadelphia, had, at this period, so great a record
in this respect.
While other churches, notably St. Peter's, were raising
endowments to insure themselves a happy old age, St. Paul's
declined to do so, upon the ground that, her money was needed
to carry on the more important work then in hand.
An endowment was indeed talked of in 1866, and Dr. New-
ton proposed to the vestry a plan for erecting a row of build-
ings for business purposes on Third Street, and erecting a
new church and parish building in the rear, which would
have secured an annual revenue equal to an endowment for
the support of the old church. The vestry, with the exception
of Jay Cooke and William Cummings, being unwilling to
disturb the family vaults by the side of the present building,
and for other reasons, did not accept the plan. The value of
the church property in 1883 was placed at $85,000.
Dr. Newton attracted attention for the radical liberality of
religious views that he expressed from his pulpit and in his
writings. Union College conferred upon him the degree of
doctor of divinity in 1880. He was select preacher to
Leiand Stanford Jr. University, in 1903, and vice-president
of the Congress of Religion, 1910-11. He married, April 14,
1864, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Charles S. Lewis, of Phila-
delphia. His publications were: "A Good Man and a Just
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REV. ROBERT TIMPANY ROCHE, D. D.
RECTOR OF ST. PAUL'S 1869-1872.
J3iettot0Up ot 2Dr. Btmon
One, A Sermon, Memorial of Robert Pennick King, Esq.,"
preached at St. Paul's Church, Sunday evening, October 18,
1868; ''Children's Church," a Sunday-school hymn and
service-book (New York, 1872); "The Morals of Trade"
(1876) ; "Womanhood" (1880) ; "Studies of Jesus" (1880) ;
"Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible" (1883) ; "The Book
of the Beginnings" (1884) ; "Philistinism" (1885) ; "Social
Studies" (1886); "Church and Creed" (1891); "Christian
Science" (1898); "Parsifal" (1904), besides numerous
magazine papers, addresses and reviews. Some of his works
were republished in England.
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RECTORSHIP OF DR. ROCHE
1869-1872
0/^^g/^ HE Reverend Robert Timpany Roche, D.D,, rector
y ^ I from October 8, 1869, to October 1, 1872, son of
■ I I William Henry Roche by his wife Sarah Marian
^^^^m Timpany, born at Digby, Nova Scotia, February
25, 1823; died at Eatontown, New Jersey, Janu-
ary 18, 1901.
Educated at King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia, and the
General Theological Seminary, New York, he was admitted to
Holy Orders in 1844, and sent as a missionary under the
British "Society for the propagation of the Gospel" to
Crapaud, Prince Edward Island, becoming rector of Trinity
Church, Georgetown, soon afterward.
He came to the United States about 1867, accepting an
election to the rectorship of Christ Church, Riverton, New
Jersey, and two years afterward was elected rector of St.
Paul 's, Philadelphia, remaining there until ill health required
a change of climate. In his long and faithful ministry of
nearly sixty years he was successively rector of Trinity
Church, Georgetown, Prince Edward Island; Christ Church,
Riverton, New Jersey; St. Paul's Church, Philadelphia; St.
Mark's Church, Palatka, Florida; St. Timothy's Church,
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REV. SAMUEL H. BOYER, D.D.
RECTOR OF ST. PAUL'S 1873-1879.
Witctot^'^ip of 2Dr. TBo^n
Philadelphia J Christ Church, Monticello, Florida; and St.
James' Memorial, Eatontown, New Jersey, where, in spite of
failing health, he spent nine years of devoted service to his
beloved Master, and died in 1901. His body lies in the beau-
tiful old churchyard of Christ Church, Shrewsbury, New
Jersey.
EECTORSHIP OF DR. BOYER
1873-1879
^^^■^HE Reverend Samuel Herbert Boyer, D.D,, rector
/^ I from February 4, 1873, to 1879, son of Judge
M I I Samuel Boyer of Elmira, by his wife Elenore
^^^^Jr Simmons, born at Big Flats, Chemung County,
New York, October 20, 1836; entered into rest
January 15, 1916, and was buried in West Laurel Hill, Phila-
delphia.
He entered Kenyon College, Gambler, Ohio, where he was
graduated in 1866, and was ordained by Bishop Mcllvaine at
Columbus, Ohio, in the following year. His early charges
were Christ Church, Xenia, Ohio; Christ Church, Glendale,
Ohio, and St. James' Church, Pittston, Pennsylvania. During
his five years' rectorate at St. Paul's he was fairly success-
ful and most highly regarded. The congregation had at
that time dwindled in numbers, but he faithfully admin-
istered to it, and during his rectorship the attendance at the
church was fair and remained about stationary. Subsequently,
he was rector of St. Peter's, Delaware, Ohio, but returned to
Philadelphia to complete plans for the building of the Church
of the Holy Spirit, Eleventh Street and Snyder Avenue,
where his active services were greatly appreciated by the
people of South Philadelphia. He was indefatigable in his
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work amongst the sick and the afflicted. His zeal for mis-
sionary work, in the latter part of his life, took him at times
to the open pulpit of the streets, where, with a wagon and an
organ, he conducted services in that section known as the
"Neck," in districts inhabited by the very poor, who, he
found, had not been attracted by the regular church services.
He was rector of the Church of the Holy Spirit for nine-
teen years, and retired in 1908 as rector emeritus.
RECTORSHIP OF REV. MR. ADAMSON
1879-1886
'HE Rev. William Swan Adamson, rector from July
/ ^ 2, 1879, to August 31, 1886, a native of Dundee,
fl I Scotland, died at Nice, France, October, 1913,
^^^^^ and is buried in the Caneada Cemetery of that
city. He emigrated to the United States, became
a naturalized citizen and settled in Connecticut, where, at
Torrington, he officiated as a clergyman of the Congregational
Church, and also at Ansonia in that State.
Subsequently the faith and practice of the Protestant
Episcopal Church drew him to her, and he was, after prepara-
tion, made a deacon by the Rt. Rev. Abram Newkirk Little-
john, D.D., Bishop of Long Island, January 25, 1875, and
raised to the priesthood by the same Bishop, December 20,
1875.
He was in charge of St. Thomas's Church, Ravenswood,
Long Island, in 1875, and rector of that parish from 1876 to
1879, when he became rector of St. Paul's on the second of
July of that year. Here he did excellent work and was much
esteemed, but resigned to accept the rectorship of the Amer-
ican Church in Geneva, Switzerland, where he remained for
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REV. WILLIAM ADAMSON.
RECTOR 1880-1886.
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seven years, going from there to the Church of the Holy
Trinity, at Nice, France, which position he held for nineteen
years until his decease, in the rectory of that Church, in 1913.
RECTORSHIP OF DR. CONRAD
1886-1893
^^^M^HE Eeverend Thomas Kittera Conrad, D.D., rector
V^ I from October, 1886, to May 28, 1893, son of
■ I I Harry I. Conrad by his wife Hannah S. Kay,
^^^^f was born at Philadelphia, January 19, 1836, and
died at Wayne, Pennsylvania, 28 May, 1893.
Obtaining his earlier education at Dr. Samuel Crawford's
school, Fourth Street below Arch Street, he entered the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania and was graduated bachelor of arts
in 1855, and pursued his theological studies under Bishop
Alonzo Potter, by whom he was ordained January 19, 1860,
in St. Mark's Church, Philadelphia. He received his master's
degree from the University of Pennsylvania, 1858, and that of
doctor of divinity from Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, in
1868. His first charge was All Saint's Church, Philadelphia,
and he was the first rector of Calvary Church, Germantown,
which he was instrumental in building. He was also rector
of St. John's Church, Clifton, Staten Island, New York;
assistant minister of the Church of the Heavenly Rest, New
York, under the Rev, Dr. Rowland; rector of the Church of
the Transfiguration, Philadelphia, which he erected on his
return from Europe, whither he had gone to be treated for
an affection of the throat. Resigning in 1884 he again went
abroad. On his return to Philadelphia in 1886, he was elected
rector of St. Paul's Church, in October of that year, which
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position he held at the time of his death in connection with
St. Mary's Memorial Church, Wayne, of which he had been
invited to take charge in October, 1888.
Prior to this there had been no church building at "Wayne,
the members of the congregation worshipping in a hall, as
an organization had been effected a few years before. Shortly
after his second return from Europe, Dr. Conrad signified his
desire of building a church in memory of his parents. The
church was built during 1889 and 1890; the corner-stone
being laid June 27, 1889, and church consecrated April 17,
1890. While engaged in one of his most pleasant self-imposed
tasks, that of ringing the church chimes. Dr. Conrad became
overheated and thus contracted a cold, which resulted in his
confinement to the house, during which a special even-song
service was held in the church. To hear the music of this
service, he sat by an open window, took additional cold which
developed into pneumonia and ended fatally.
He married, May 10, 1882, Anne, daughter of John Fries
Eraser, LL.D., vice-provost and professor of natural philos-
ophy and chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania. Mrs.
Conrad was a communicant of St. Luke's and The Epiphany
and much interested in parish work until her death, which
occurred recently. Dr. Conrad was a trustee of the Drexel
Institute, Philadelphia. Possessed of ample means his acts of
charity were as countless as they were unostentatious. His
publications were: "Prayer"; essays, occasional sermons and
contributions to current literature.
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REV. THOMAS KITTERA CONRAD, D.D.
RECTOR OF ST. PAUL'S 1886-1893.
llXtctttt^'^ip ot SDt. f^tebtn^
EECTORSHIP OF DR. STEVENS
1893-1894
'HE Reverend Charles Ellis Stevens, LL.D,, D.C.L.,
£ ^ rector from November 13, 1893, to December 16,
A I 1894, son of James Edward Poole Stevens by his
^^^^Jr wife Mary Pitkin Abrahams, was born at Boston,
Massachusetts, July 5, 1853, and died at Brook-
lyn, August 28, 1906.
Entering the University of Pennsylvania in 1871, he studied
at Yale College in 1872-73, and was graduated from the
Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Connecticut, in 1875.
His first appointment was as assistant at Grace Church,
Brooklyn, New York, 1876-77; after which he was rector of
the Church of the Ascension, Brooklyn, 1877-1880; arch-
deacon of Brooklyn, 1887-1891, and rector of Christ Church,
Philadelphia, 1891 to 1905, when he was succeeded by the
Rev. Louis C. Washburn, S.T.D., the present rector.
As many of the old families affiliated with and communi-
cants of St. Paul's, had ceased to be regular attendants by
reason of their removal to distant parts of the city and sub-
urbs, and as business houses had largely supplanted the one-
time dwelling houses, those who came to worship within its
walls endeared by hallowed association, did so at a disad-.
vantage to themselves and to the continuance of parochial life.
Hence, while Dr. Stevens did excellent work here in connec-
tion with his Christ Church parish, the field was not one of
encouragement. He however held regular services during 1894.
He was special lecturer on, and later professor of, constitu-
tional law and civil polity at the University of the City of
New York and other colleges. Fellow of the Royal Geograph-
ical Society, a member of the Society of Antiquarians of
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Edinburgh, and, of other learned as well as hereditary-patriotic
societies, in which latter he took a deep interest. The Uni-
versity of Wooster, Ohio, conferred upon him the degree of
LL.D, in 1888, and King 's College, Canada, in the same year,
the D.C.L. degree, and Yale, that of Ph.D.
He married Ella Monteith, daughter of Walter Monteith
Aikman, Brooklyn, New York, and had issue.
His publications embraced many reviews, pamphlets and
sermons, as well as several books, the most important being:
"The Sources of the Constitution of the United States"
(1894), published in England, and translated into French
(1897) ; "The Romance of Arensfels, and Other tales of the
Rhine" (1897). For some years he was an associate editor of
The Living Church.
RECTORSHIP OF DR. McGARVEY
1897-1898
^^^j^HE Reverend William I. McGarvey, D.D., rector
/ ^\ June 1, 1897, to October 1, 1898, son of Alex-
■ I I ander McGarvey by his wife Mary Jane Col-
^^^^r well, was born at Philadelphia, August 14,
1861.
Educated in the public schools of Philadelphia and by pri-
vate tutors, he entered the General Theological Seminary in
New York, was graduated with the bachelor's degree in
1887, and ordained priest, August 22, 1886, becoming
curate of the Church of the Evangelists, Philadelphia, 1886
to 1896, and rector of St. Paul's the following year. He later
was rector of St. Elizabeth's Church, Philadelphia, Master
of the Companions of the Holy Saviour, and Chaplain-
General of the Sisterhood of St. Mary in the United States.
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REV. CHARLES ELLIS STEVENS.
RECTOR OF ST. PAUL'S 1893-1894.
Wiettot0^ip ot m* 9?c(Bati)eg
Nashotah Seminary, Wisconsin, conferred upon him the D.D.
degree in 1904. He was a high churchman, and having
the courage of his beliefs and convictions he subsequently
seceded from the Protestant Episcopal Church and entered
the priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church, May 27, 1908.
He is now doing most efficient work, in his new field of activ-
ity, charged as he is, especially to visit the sick and suffering,
at the Philadelphia Hospital, University Hospital and Presby-
terian Hospital. As an Assistant to Reverend I. C. Monahan,
Rector of St. James Roman Catholic Church, Southeast corner
of Thirty-eighth and Chestnut Streets, West Philadelphia, and
he is highly regarded by the clergy, and loved and respected
by his parishioners. Among his publications were : * ' The Cere-
monies of a Low Celebration" (1891) ; ''Catechetical Instruc-
tion" (1893) ; ''The Council of Nicaea" (1894) ; "Liturgiae
Americanea" (1895), a valuable work on the liturgy of the
American Episcopal Church.
On the fourteenth of March, 1901, the rector, church war-
dens, and vestrymen of St. Paul's Church, by Thomas Mc-
Cully, accounting warden, and Frederick Metettal, secretary,
presented a petition to the Court of Common Pleas No, 5 of
Philadelphia County, praying that the corporation be dis-
solved and setting forth that, upon the completion of the
church building, the Church of St. Paul entered upon a long
period of usefulness, was attended by large congregations and
supported by a membership of persons of substantial means
and so continued for more than a century, successfully accom-
plishing the purposes for which it was organized. When,
however, the neighborhood ceased to be desirable as a place of
residence and the members moved to other parts of the city,
the attendance greatly decreased, and through subsequent
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years continued to decrease, until those who were able to rent
sittings and otherwise contribute to the support of the parish
became so reduced in number, that the resources of the church
ceased to be sufficient for the employment of a rector and the
maintenance of regular services.
Contending with the difficulties arising from these condi-
tions the vestry have for many years made every effort to
continue public worship in the church, sustain the other duties
of the parish and maintain the property, seeking financial aid
from others not members of this church, and the ministrations
of the clergy of other parishes; but it has long since become
apparent that the parish cannot be sustained by the occasional
aids of those upon whom it has no claim, and having no en-
dowment or other reserve fund, the petitioner is compelled to
the decision to terminate the corporate existence of the church
^and dispose of its property.
That the only disposition of the property practicable, and
"at the same time accordant with the intentions of those by
whom it was acquired and devoted to religious uses, is to
transfer it to another church of the same faith and denominar
tion willing to accept it and to endeavor to continue tne
services.
Therefore, the petitioner has requested St. Peter's Church,
incorporated, as "The Rector, Church Wardens and Vestry-
men of St. Peter's Church in the City of Philadelphia," to
take over the property for the religious and charitable uses
of that church corporation, and it has agreed so to do.
St. Peter's Church is situated near St, Paul's, at the south-
west corner of Third and Pine Streets, is of the communion
of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and in its usages and
practices conforms in all essential particulars to those of St.
Paul 's, and to the requirements set forth in the Agreement of
the Contributors and in the Charter.
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REV. WILLIAM L McGARVEY, D.D.
RECTOR OF ST. PAUL'S 1897-1898.
petition to 2Di00oIbe Cotpotation
In accepting the offer of this church, it was stipulated on
the part of St. Peter's Church, and agreed to by the peti-
tioner, that the property shall be conveyed free of all con-
ditions, restrictions and trusts so far as the petitioner is
enabled so to convey or shall be empowered by the court;
satisfied that the application of the property to the religious
and charitable purposes of the corporation of St, Peter's
Church sufficiently protects the intentions of the founders
and the petitioner.
That, as the continuance of the corporate existence of this
church cannot serve any useful purpose after the conveyance
of its property, it desires to surrender its charter and be
dissolved.
That all the matters above mentioned having been duly
considered at a meeting of the members of the Church of St.
Paul, at which a majority were present, held on the twenty-
eighth of February, and seventh day of March, A. D. 1901,
after notice publicly given at morning service on the twenty-
fourth day of February, A. D. 1901, the following resolu-
tions were then agreed upon and passed unanimously :
Whereas, at a meeting of the Church Wardens and Vesti*ymen of
the Church of St. Paul (the office of Rector being then and at the
present time vacant), held on the seventeenth day of December, 1900,
and subsequently at a meeting of the members of the church, held
on the twenty-ninth day of December, 1900, after notice duly given,
it was decided that the interests of this Church will be best advanced
by transferring all its property to St. Peter's Church, and that the
necessary steps be taken to that end.
And Whereas : at a conference of the vestries of the two churches
all matters necessary to be understood and agreed upon have been
considered and settled, to the effect that this church corporation
shall sell, transfer and convey all its property real and personal to
the corporation of St. Peter's Church, in consideration of one dollar,
and for the religious and charitable purposes of the corporation of
St. Peter's Church; and that at the same time the corporate existence
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of the Church of St. Paul shall cease and by proper process be dis-
solved.
And Whereas in the judgment of this meeting the present con-
ditions and future prospects of the Church are such that it will not
be possible to continue and maintain regular public worship and
services; and it is our belief that the uses and purposes for which
the church property was acquired and held, will be more nearly ful-
filled by transferring it to St. Peter's Church than by any other use
of the same that can now be made;
And Whereas it is the desire of St. Peter's Church that in the
transfer of the property no condition, restriction, or trust shall be
reserved or imposed, and so far as we are enabled or may be em-
powered by the Court we approve and agree to that stipulation;
Now Therefore Resolved:
I. That the action of the Vestry as above mentioned is approved
and confirmed and this meeting requests and authorizes the " Rector,
Church Wardens, and Vestrymen of the Episcopal Church of St.
Paul in the City of Philadelphia, in the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania" to transfer and convey all property real and personal of
the Church of St. Paul to the Rector, Church Wardens and Vestry-
men of St. Peter's Church in the City of Philadelphia, its successors
and assigns; and that application be made by the Vestry to the
Court of Common Pleas for leave to make and perfect such sale
and conveyance,
II. Resolved, That the Charter of the Corporation of the Church
of St. Paul be surrendered and that proceedings for dissolution be
taken in the proper Court.
III. Resolved, That a certain charge of Seventy-five dollars per
annum upon the land late of Lydia Delany, deceased in Delaware
County, Pennsylvania, created by her will for "a scholarship in
St. Paul's Church, Philadelphia" further secured by a bond and
mortgage redeemable upon the payment of fifteen hundred dollars,
made by Mary McClure shall pass and endure to the benefit of St.
Peter's Church for the purposes set forth in said will, bond and
mortgage; and that a petition be presented to the proper Court for
leave to assign such yearly charge and mortgage, and for the sub-
stitution of St. Peter's Church as Trustee, in place of this Church.
And Thereupon^ at a meeting of the Vestry held immediately
after the meeting of the members of the church, the following was
unanimously passed:
Whereas^ the members of this church have at a meeting duly con-
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petition to M00ol\it Corpotatton
vened, passed a resolution confirming the action heretofore taken
by this Vestry:
I. Resolved: That the "Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrjanen
of the Episcopal Church of St. Paul in the City of Philadelphia in
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania" acting by its Wardens and
Vestrymen, when empowered by the order of the proper Court, do
transfer and convey all its property real and personal of every
kind and description to " The Rector, Church Wardens and Vestry-
men of St. Peter's Church in the City of Philadelphia" its Succes-
sors and Assigns.
II. Resolved: That this corporation shall surrender its Charter
and be dissolved.
III. Resolved: That a petition be prepared and presented to the
Court of Common Pleas of the City and County of Philadelphia for
leave and authority to make conveyance as aforesaid and for leave
to dissolve.
IV. That the accounting Warden be authorized to attach the seal
of the corporation, to be attested by him and the Secretary of this
meeting, to the said Petition and to all deeds, conveyances, and as-
surances necessary or proper to be made and executed for the trans-
fer and delivery of the property of this Church to the Rector,
Church Wardens and Vestrymen of St. Peter's Church in the City
of Philadelphia its successors and assigns.
V. Resolved, That a petition be prepared with the seal of this cor-
poration attached and attested as aforesaid, and presented to the
Orphans' Court of Delaware County for the discharge of this Church
as Trustee under the will of Lydia Delany, late of Delaware County,
Pennsylvania, of a charge of seventy-five dollars per annum for a
scholarship in St. Paul's Church, Philadelphia and for the substi-
tution in its place of the Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen
of St. Peter's Church in the City of Philadelphia, and for leave to
assign the mortgage made by Mary McClure as a further security
for said charge.
President Judge J. Willis Martin, after the usual notice by adver-
tisement and there being no objection entered the following decree:
In the Court of Common Pleas No. 5, for the County of Philadel-
phia, March Term, 1901, No. 160.
In the matter of the Petition of the Rector, Church Wardens and
Vestrymen of the Episcopal Church of St. Paul in the City of
Philadelphia in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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Decree
And Now April 1st, 1901, on motion of W. M. Lansdale, Esq.,
upon hearing the Petition of the Rector, Church Wardens and
Vestrymen of the Episcopal Church of St. Paul in the City of
Philadelphia, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for leave to sell
and convey all the property of said Church corporation to the Rec-
tor, Church "Wardens and Vestrymen of St. Peter's Church in the
City of Philadelphia; and for leave to surrender its Charter and be
dissolved the prayers of the said Petition are granted and: —
It is Ordered and Decreed I. That the Rector, Church War-
dens and Vestrymen of the Episcopal Church of St. Paul in the City
of Philadelphia in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania be authorized
and empowered to sell for the consideration of one dollar, and grant,
assign and convey by proper deed or deeds of conveyance to the
Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of St. Peter's Church in the
City of Philadelphia, its successors and assigns, all its lots or pieces
of ground with the buildings thereon erected situate on the East side
of Third Street between Walnut and Spruce Street in the City of
Philadelphia as in the said Petition more particularly described;
And Also the burial lots in Mount Moriah Cemetery conveyed to
the Petitioner by deed dated June 23rd, A. D. 1855, being Section
numbered forty-seven as described in said petition.
II. And it Appearing that due notice of the application of the
Petitioner for leave to dissolve has been given by publication in two
daily newspapers of the City of Philadelphia, and the legal Intelli-
gencer once a week for three weeks and it further appearing the
prayer of said petitioner may be granted without prejudice to the
public welfare or interests of the corporators and members of said
church: IT IS FURTHER ORDERED AND DECREED that the
said corporation the Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of the
Episcopal Church of St. Paul in the City of Philadelphia, in the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, be and the same is hereby dissolved
and all and singular its powers, franchises and privileges be and
the same are hereby extinguished and determined ; provided that this
Decree shall not go into effect until a certified copy thereof be filed
and recorded in the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth.
J. Willis Martin^
President Judge.
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This decree dissolved St. Paul's Cliiirch corporation
and authorized the transfer of its real estate to the cor-
poration of St. Peter's Church, Third and Pine Streets,
of the same faith and denomination, which latter cor-
poration was willing to accept the same and to con-
tinue the church services. Accordingly this was done,
as the Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of the
Episcopal Church of St. Paul conveyed to the Rector,
Church Wardens and Vestrymen of St. Peter's Church,
by deed dated April 10, 1901, recorded at Philadelphia
in Deed Book J. V. No. 204, page 519, the church
and burial ground, viz. (No. 1) situate on the east
side of Third Street between Walnut and Spruce
Streets (being the northernmost part of two lots pur-
chased by Samuel Powell of Thomas Parsons and as-
signed to Anthony Morris), containing in front on
Third Street 73 feet and in depth eastward 105 feet.
(2) Situate east side of Third Street between Walnut
and Spruce Streets (being the southernmost part of
two lots aforesaid purchased by Samuel Powell of
Thomas Parsons and assigned to Israel Morris).
Front 30 feet, depth 195 feet. The Rector, Church
Wardens and Vestrymen of St. Peter's Church subse-
quently on April 16, 1904, reconveyed said church and
burial ground to the trustees of the Protestant Episco-
pal Church in the Diocese of Pennsylvania, by deed
recorded at Philadelphia in Deed Book W. S. V. No.
284, page 350.
This last deed recites that the Rector, Church War-
dens and Vestry of St. Peter's Church, desiring to con-
tinue the use for religious purposes of the church build-
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ing owned by them, known as St. Paul's Churcli on
Third Street, have offered to convey it to the trustees
of the Diocese, to hold for the Philadelphia Protestant
Episcopal City Mission so long as that body should con-
tinue to use it for the purposes of their organization and
keep and maintain the property and ground in suitable
order and condition, and, in the event of the City Mis-
sion no longer making use of it, to hold for such other
purposes and objects without restrictions as the Bishop
and Standing Committee of the Diocese of Pennsylvania
may direct. The legal title to the lot of St. Paul's
Church appears, therefore, to be vested today in the
trustees of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the
Diocese of Pennsylvania. The assessed value of the
land and building on the tax books of the city of Phila-
delphia is $50,000, although, as a church, it is, under the
law, exempt from taxation.
While there is no reference to the subject in the de-
cree of President Judge Martin above quoted, it is clear
that St. Peter's Church corporation only acquired the
legal title, subject to the condition that it would con-
tinue services and protect the intention of the founders ;
and subject also to the further trust and restriction
that it is a church and graveyard and can be devoted to
no other purpose. The trustees are without power in
law to divert it from the uses for which it is impressed
without the consent of a court having jurisdiction over
trusts. And this is also the law upon the dissolution of
a charitable corporation. Its property, upon sale, will
be appropriated by the Court to the purpose most
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nearly akin to the intent of the donors and will not be
distributed to the donors (In Re Centennial and
Memorial Association of Valley Forge, 235 Pa. St.
Rep., p. 206. Young's Estate, 224 Pa. St., p. 570;
Young's Estate, 20 Penna. Dist. Rep., p. 686 (1911).
Gummey, J.) As was stated by the court of Lehigh
County by Albright, President Judge in Zion German
Reformed Congregation's appeal, 1 Monaghan, page
635, ''whether a profit can be made by removing the
bodies and selling the ground cannot enter into the in-
quiry. There is no law, and it is to be hoped that
there never will be, permitting the dead to be exhumed
and carried from one burying-ground to another when-
ever a cheaper place to deposit the remains can be
found." See Methodist Cemetery case, 39 Pa. Co. Ct.
Rep., page 17. If the trustees of the Diocese conclude
to sell St. Paul's, before its sale, the permission of the
Court of Common Pleas of this County is required to be
first obtained, after hearing all parties in interest, under
the Act of May 23, 1887. This Act also requires that
each body to be removed shall be separately reinterred
in some suitable burial ground and each grave be
marked by headstones, et cetera, and there is the fur-
ther provision that no such petition shall be granted by
the court, except upon condition set forth in the decree
requiring the petitioners to purchase the rights of all
lot-holders in such burial grounds, and to secure the
consent in writing of the near relatives of the deceased,
whenever such relatives shall appear as parties to such
proceedings. The trustees of the Diocese hold the
title subject to like trusts and limitations, to which has
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been added the further trust by St. Peter's that it shall
be held for the benefit of the City Mission. As long as
the City Mission continues to occupy the old Sunday
School for its business offices and continues the church
services no one has any objection. But an interesting
legal question would arise if it were attempted to sell
Old St. Paul's Church and burial ground after exhum-
ing the dead, recoffining them, buying a new ground,
and marking each grave with headstones and purchas-
ing the rights of all lot-holders, and give the proceeds,
if there were any, to the City Mission. The right of
St. Peter's corporation to add a trust in favor of the
City Mission upon the other subsisting trusts then ex-
isting is not clear in law and is probably ultra vires.
Under section 7 of the Act of April 26, 1855, P. L.
328, it has been held by the Supreme Court: ''This
legislation in most unequivocal terms confirms to every
religious society, incorporated or unincorporated, the
absolute ownership of its property subject only to the
condition that it shall not divert it from the uses and
purposes and trusts to which it may have been lawfully
dedicated. It expresses the settled policy of the State
with respect to the tenure of property held by religious
societies that has been steadily observed without ques-
tion for now more than half a century." Krauczunas
V. Hogan, 221 Pa. St. Eep., 213. The terms of the Act
of Assembly are imperative. St. Paul's Church, Chest-
nut Hill, 30 Pa. St. Reps., 152; Louther M. E. Church,
40 Pa. Co. Ci, p. 615.
Under this statute it is difficult to see how St. Peter's
corporation, as trustee of St. Paul's real estate con-
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veyed to it for the nominal consideration of one dollar,
even if the deed erroneously states it to be in fee simple,
could make a valid trust in favor of the City Mission,
which would entitle the City Mission to the proceeds of
the sale of the real estate, because that would be di-
verting it from the uses, purposes and trusts to which it
had been lawfully delegated. And this no court would
permit. See Krauczunas v. Hogan, 221 Pa. St. Eeps.,
213 (1908), Stewart, J.; Phillips v. Westminster
Church, 225 Pa. St. Reps., 62 (1909), Sulzberger, P.
J.; Mazaika v. Krauczunas, 233 Pa. St. Reps., 138
(1911), Stewart, J.
This question, however, is not important at this time.
It is proper to say that the City Mission has faithfully
held noonday services in Old St. Paul's Church since
that time and still continues them and ought to continue
them. Many churchmen, having regard to the history
of Old St. Paul's, and doubtless aware of the legal
status of the land, are of opinion that the services at the
church should be continued and not abandoned, and that
those buried there have rights which should be respected.
"We must not forget that, primarily, we are dealing
merely with property rights which are regulated by law.
Some few churchmen, ignorant both of the facts and
the law of trusts as applicable to the title to the real
estate, not having had the matter brought to their at-
tention, affect to believe that Old St. Paul's is merely
an asset to which the trustees of the Diocese have a
title in fee simple, from which money can be obtained
for the prosecution and extension of other church work
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to be determined by them, without leave of the court.
As to this, they may find themselves mistaken. In
their commercial view it is no longer a consecrated
place, but a piece of ground having a money value, in-
cumbered by a useless building and some old bones, to-
gether with slabs of marble, that ought to be sold and
devoted to business purposes, that the work of the
church may be extended through the City Mission in
some other location, without the allegation or sugges-
tion that St. Paul's is a nuisance, dilapidated or out
of repair, which cannot truthfully be said, because it is
in good order and condition.
This desire to make money out of the dead, by the
sale of ground dedicated to its use, is not a new prop-
osition. Unhappily, there are some people to whom
it seems right to traffic over a grave and the sacred
ashes of the dead, if money can be obtained. In March,
1889, two auctioneers sold in the City of Washington,
D. C, a tract of land, including the grave of Mary, the
mother of General George Washington, at Fredericks-
burg, Virginia, but the Supreme Court of that State re-
fused to permit it (Colbert vs. Kirtly and Shepherd,
89 Virginia Reports, p. 401, 1892).
Another recent attempt to disturb the repose of the
dead was in the Legislature of Pennsylvania by House
Bill No. 591, Session of 1917, authorizing the Court of
Quarter Sessions to make orders and decrees for the
removal of bodies interred in burial grounds or ceme-
teries in or adjacent to cities, which passed both houses
but Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh on July 6, 1917,
very properly vetoed it, stating:
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" The Bill does not indicate whose oversight shall be invoked to
care for those sacred quantities of Christian dust when once they are
removed. The Bill does not indicate from what source shall come the
funds for the removal of these bodies, nor does it provide any means
of payment for ground to which they are transferred.
" Especially is the Bill lacking in any provision to hint even as to
the ownership of the abandoned burial ground after the bodies are
removed. Whose ground is it? The act is silent. There is in' this
silence the portent of the conceivable purpose of the Bill. Some one
may want this ground. These neglected bodies are in the way. This
Bill would remove them and make easy the acquisition by some one of
this ground. It is evident that such ground becomes very valuable.
This value should be secured to all the people. This Bill would secure
it against the people.
" For these : easons this Bill is not approved."
To the writer, it seems not only a fallacy to measure
the value of a slirine in money as an asset, but when it
includes the remains of one's ancestors it is abhorrent.
Let us hope the trustees of the Diocese will so deter-
mine, and take up the question how to best preserve
Old St. Paul's for posterity, and decide it in a way that
will meet with the approval, not only of those inter-
ested in St. Paul's, the church at large and its history,
but of a court of equity, if it has to be submitted to a
court, in order to give a good title to the property or
for any other cause, and not by selling it to some his-
torical corporation or Society as has been suggested,
which would be discreditable alike to the trustees of the
Diocese and the Protestant Episcopal Church itself.
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Hppenbfr
1111
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AETICLES OF AGREEMENT,^ ETC.
Certain agreements, concessions and constitutions, made, concluded,
and agreed upon, by and between the subscribers and contributors,
for raising a sum of money for purchasing or renting one or more
lots of ground, and building a church, in the city of Philadelphia,
the twenty-fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thou-
sand seven hundred and sixty.
WHEREAS the Reverend William Macelenachan, a minister of
the established church of England, travelling through the city of
Philadelphia, was, after experience of his religious abilities, and
ardent zeal for the promotion of Christianity, prevailed on to exer-
cise the office and duties of a minister, by a large number of the
reputable, religious, and well disposed part of the congregation of
Christ's church, in Philadelphia, and accordingly was admitted, pro-
nounced, and declared, at the instance, and request, and with the as-
sent of the said congregation, by the rector, vestry and church-war-
dens of the said church, an assistant minister to the said rector, and
by them recommended to the Lord Bishop of London, for his licence
for that purpose. And whereas, notwithstanding the said Reverend
William Macelenachan did, before his said admission, procure the
most ample testimonials as well of his moral as religious life and
conversation, and hath since behaved himself, in his said office, with
exemplary piety among the people, exerting himself in the cause of
Christianity with remarkable industry, and indefatigable zeal; and
notwithstanding the strong and earnest desire of the congregation to
enjoy the advantage of the ministry of the said Rev. William Mac-
elenachan, arising from the great benefit they have received from his
1 Articles | of | Agreement, &c. | for raising a sum of money, | to pur-
chase I a lot of ground, | and erecting thereon | a church, | (since known
by the name of St. Paul's Church.) | In the city of Philadelphia. |
and for vesting the same, with the lot on which | it is constructed, in cer-
tain trustees. | To which is added, | The Act, with a Supplement to | th«
Act for Incorporating | St. Paul 's Church, | in the city of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia: | Printed by Jesper Harding | 1818. |
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doctrines and examples; and notwithstanding their said recommen-
dation to the bishop, the said rector, vestry and church-wardens,
without any good and sufficient cause or reason, or ever hearing the
said Reverend William Macclenachan, in defence of any charge of
misbehaviour, they had to alledge against him, have dismissed from
his said office of an assistant minister, and refused him the use of
the pulpit of the said church. And whereas a number of well dis-
posed persons having had experience of the said Reverend William
Macclenachan's religious and exemplary deportment and sound prin-
ciples of Christianity, and being resolved, as far as in them lies, to
support and maintain their religious rights and privileges have sub-
scribed and agreed to contribute a large sum of money for the pur-
chasing or taking on ground rent one or more lots of ground, within
the city of Philadelphia, and for building and erecting thereon a
commodious house for the worship of GOD; which house, when cov-
ered in, is forever to be and to remain to and for the several uses,
and subject to the several trusts, concessions, agreements, and con-
stitutions herein after mentioned and expressed, and to and for no
other use, intent, or purpose whatsoever.
Now know all Christian People, whom it may concern. That we,
the under named subscribers and contributors, have conceded to, con-
cluded and agreed on, and by these presents do concede to, conclude
and agree on the following fundamental articles, rules, concessions
and constitutions, for erecting, building, future support and govern-
ment of the said church, the true intent and meaning whereof are
not to be hereafter altered, changed, impaired, or diminished, but
shall remain in full force and virtue, and inviolable forever: —
First, That all sums of money already subscribed or contributed^
or that hereafter shall be subscribed or contributed, for the purpose
aforesaid, shall be laid out, paid and expended in purchasing or tak-
ing on ground rent, some convenient lot or lots of ground within
the city of Philadelphia, and in building, erecting, and completely
finishing thereon, a large commodious house; which house, when
built, shall be used and employed as a house of public worship for-
ever, wherein shall be read, performed, and taught the liturgy, rites,
ceremonies, doctrines, and true principles of the established church of
England, according to the plain, literal and grammatical sense of the
thirty-nine articles of the said church, and no other whatsoever, and
the same house is hereby agreed forever hereafter to be stiled and
called by the name of Saint Paul's Church,
Secondly, That the lot or lots of ground so to be purchased, or
taken on ground rent, together with the buildings and improvements
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thereon to be erected and made as aforesaid, shall be conveyed unto,
and vested in fourteen such persons and their heirs forever, as the
subscribers and contributors, professing members of the church of
England, or a majority of them by way of ballot, shall choose,
nominate and elect in trust; nevertheless, that they and the survivors
and survivor of them, and their heirs, to such survivors, shall, and
do, at all times hereafter, at the reasonable request, cost and charge
of the congregation of the said church, or of a majority of them,
signified in writing, under the hands of the vestry, for the time
being, grant and convey the same unto such person and persons his
and their heirs, as shall be nominated and appointed for that pur-
pose, by the said members and congregation, or by a majority of
them, to be determined by way of ballot, at any annual election of
the officers of the said church, in trust; nevertheless, and to, for,
and upon such and the uses, intents, trusts, and purposes, as are
before, or hereafter in these presents mentioned, expressed, directed,
or appointed, and no other, provided that the trustees, for the time
being, be first well and sufficiently saved harmless and indemnified
of and from all annuities, rent or charges, which they shall covenant
or undertake to pay for the lot or lots of ground aforesaid.
Thirdly, That the Reverend William Macclenachan aforesaid, shall
be, and is hereby nominated, constituted, elected, and chosen the
minister of the said church, to do and perform all the offices and
duties to his said office pertaining, during his good behaviour, moral
and religious life and conversation, and that upon the disease or the
removal of the said Reverend William Macclenachan, a successor
shall be chosen and appointed, by way of ballot, and in no other way
or manner, by the members of the said church, or congregation, or
a majority of them assembled for that purpose; which successor
shall hold and enjoy his said office during his good behaviour, moral
and religious life and conversation, and in such way, manner, and
form, and no otherways, from time to time forever hereafter, shall
all succeeding ministers be elected and chosen, which congregation
shall be, and are hereby declared to be, such only as are professing
members of the church of England, and contributors to the support
and maintenance of the said church, and its minister or ministers,
and having and paying for a setting in the said church, and of
full age.
Fourthly, That an assistant or assistants to the Reverend William
Maeelenaehan, or to any of his successors, ministers in the said
church, shall and may, as often as deemed necessary, be elected and
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chosen' by the said congregation, or a majority of them, by way of
ballot, and in no other way whatsoever, who shall hold the said
office of assistant to the minister for the time being, during his good
behaviour, moral and religious life and conversation; provided
always, that every such minister and assistant, appointed and chosen
as aforesaid, shall have first obtained the orders of a priest of the
established church of England, and be duly ordained by the bishop of
the said church, in Great Britain or Ireland, and shall, by the con-
gregation, or a majority of them, be adjudged sound in his prin-
ciples, according to the plain, literal and grammatical sense of the
thirty-nine articles of the said church; of a moral and religious life
and conversation, well acquainted with vital and experimental piety.
Fifthly, That for the better management and economy of the said
church, and for repairing and preserving the same, and the inclosures
of the church yard and burial ground, from decay, there shall be
elected and chosen, at or in the said church, by ballot, and in no
other way, under the direction of the former vestry and church-
wardens, or as many as shall assemble on Easter Monday, in every
year, a new vestry, consisting of twenty sober reputable and religious
persons of the said congregation, who shall superintend and take
care of and repair the said church and inclosures, and do and per-
form all and every other thing and duty there appertaining; also,
that on the same day there shall be chosen and elected two church-
wardens by and out of the vestry aforesaid, by way of ballot, which
wardens shall be and are hereby made subject to the orders and
directions of the vestry, and shall have no other or further power
and authority than is hereby given and granted unto the vestry.
Sixthly, That the vestry, for the time being, shall hire or rent out
the pews, collect and receive the pew money, box money, and all the
other revenues and incomes of the said church, (surplice fees ex-
cepted) and shall from time to time, appropriate, pay and dispose
in the following order:
First, the annuities or rent charges which shall be issuing out of
or chargeable on the lot or lots of ground, so to be procured as afore-
said. Secondly, the salaries of the clerk and sexton of the said
church, the reparations and amendments thereof, and of the church
yard and burial ground, with the other incidental charges and ex-
penses of the said church. And lastly, the overplus, or clear residue
and remainder of such pew money, box money, and revenues and
incomes of the said church, shall be paid into the hands of the min-
ister of the said church, and his assistant, for the time being, in such
parts, portions and dividends as the congregation, or a majority of
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them, by way of ballot, as aforesaid, when assembled for that pur-
pose, shall limit, direct or appoint.
Seventhly, That the minister of the said church, for the time being,
shall or may, so often as he shall think proper, ask and invite any
orthodox minister of the church of England occasionally to officiate
for him in the said church, and in case any objection be made
thereto by a majority of the said congregation or vestry, for the
time being, after once hearing the minister so invited, shall be no
more asked or admitted to that service; provided always, that noth-
ing herein contained shall be deemed or construed to extend to
authorize or impower any minister, or vestry or church-wardens of
the said church, to nominate and appoint, elect or establish, any
minister or ministers in the said church, contrary to the true intent
and meaning of these present constitutions; also, all elections, votes,
determinations and appointments shall be had, given, and made by
the congregation and vestry, or a majority of them, by way of ballot,
and in no other way or manner whatsoever.
AN ACT
Incorporating St. Paul's Church,
in the city op philadelphia.
Section I. WHEREAS divers members of the Episcopal church,
formerly in communion with the church of England, did many years
ago, at a very considerable expense, erect and build an house for
the public worship of God in the city of Phila-
delphia, which they nominated and stiled St.
Paul's Church, by certain constitutions and a special agreement vest-
ing the same church, together with the lot of ground on which it is
constructed, in certain persons in trust: And whereas the survivors
of the said trustees, together with the present vestrymen of the
above named church, have set forth and represented the disadvan-
tages which they have sustained, and yet experience, from the want
of legal power and consideration as a politic and corporate body;
and also have petitioned that they, the said survivors together with
the other members of the religious society who assemble in the said
church, may be incorporated, and furnished with the due and cus-
tomary privileges in this behalf, and that they may have perpetual
succession: And whereas it is just and proper, and perfectly con-
sistent with the true intention and spirit of the constitution, that
the prayer of their said petition be granted.
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Section II. Be it therefore enacted, and it is hereby enacted by
the Representatives of the Freemen of the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania, in General Assembly met, and by the authority of the same,
That the Rev. Samuel Magaw, Doctor of divinity, rector or minister
of the said church, John Wood^ and Lambert
Wilmer^ the present wardens, and Plunket Fleeson,
John Young, Andrew Boz, George Goodwin, John
Campbell,* George Ord, Blair M'Clenachan, Wm. Graham, George
Glentworth,^ Joseph Bullock,'^ Saml. Penrose,"^ George Nelson, Richard
Renshaw, Joseph Turner, John Keble,^ John Bates, James Dough-
2 John Wood, an original subscriber and twenty-four years church
warden, was the well-known clock and watch-maker of "The Sign of the
Dial," Front and Chestnut Streets, q. v.
3 Lambert Wilmer, son of Simon Wilmer of Shrewsbury Parish, Kent
County, Maryland, by his wife Mary Price, was born there, June 8, 1747,
and died at Philadelphia, March 9, 1825; married at St. Paul's, October
12, 1770, Mary Barker. He was a vestryman in 1772 and 1773.
♦ John Campbell, tea merchant at 1 South Front Street and 14 High
Street, and member of the Hibernian Society; married November 2, 1771,
Mary Wood. He, his wife and son, Dr. John Campbell were interred in
St. Paul's ground.
0 George Glentworth, M.D., son of Thomas Glentworth, a prominent sea-
captain of Philadelphia, was born there in July, 1735. He began the
Btudy of medicine imder his brother-in-law. Dr. Peter Sonmans and com-
pleted it in Europe, receiving the M.D. degree from the University of
Edinburgh in 1758. After serving as an assistant surgeon in the British
army during the French and Indian War, he practised his profession in
his native city. In 1773 he established a private hospital and from 1777
until 1780, and possibly later, was a senior surgeon in the hospitals of the
American Army, and, it is said, extracted the ball which wounded Gen-
eral Lafayette at the battle of Brandywine. He was a signer of the
Non-Importation Eesolutions; a founder of the Fishing Company of
Fort St. Davids, which merged into the Fishing Company of the State in
Schuylkill; a founder of the Medical Society of Pennsylvania; a mem-
ber of the American Philosophical Society; an incorporator of the Society
of Sons of St. George, and a founder of the College of Physicians of
Philadelphia, of which he was one of its twelve Senior Fellows. He died
at Philadelphia, 4 November, 1792, and was buried in the Glentworth
vault in St. Paul 's churchyard, his funeral being ' ' attended by the great-
est concourse of respectable citizens ever assembled in Philadelphia on a
similar occasion." A portrait of Dr. Glentworth, by John Singleton
Copley, is in Independence Hall. He married, 29 Nov., 1764, Margaret,
daughter of John Linton by his wife Martha Bankson. His sons, Drs.
Peter Sonmans Glentworth and Plunket Fleeson Glentworth were gradu-
ates of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. The
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erty and Benjamin Towne, grocer, present vestrymen of the said
church, and their successors, duly elected and nominated in their
place and stead, be, and they are hereby made and constituted a cor-
poration, and body politic in law and in fact, to have continuance for
ever, by the name and title of '' The Minister Church Wardens and
Vestrymen of the Episcopal Church of St. Paul, in the city of
Philadelphia, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania."
former was a martyr to his profession, and died in 1793, in the yellow
fever epidemic of that year. The other son, Dr. Plunket Fleeson Glent-
worth, was secretary of the University of Pennsylvania in 1791; a Fel-
low of the College of Physicians ; a founder of the Academy of Fine Arts,
and a trustee of the Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church for the
Advancement of Christianity in Pennsylvania. During the residence of
General Washington in Philadelphia, he was attended by Dr. Glentworth,
who is thus mentioned by Washington in a letter, under date of 20 April,
1797 : ' ' Thanks to the kind attention of my esteemed friend Doctor
Glentworth . . . than whom no nobler man or skillful physician ever
lived, I am now restored to my usual state of health. ' '
6 Joseph Bullock was one of the two surviving children of George
Bullock, who died in 1758, the other being Elizabeth, wife of Peter Bayn-
ton, Esq., Treasurer and Adjutant General of Pennsylvania, whose sis-
ter, Esther Baynton, he had married and by whom he had children:
Joseph Bullock, Sophia Bullock, Anna Maria Bullock, who d.s.p., and
Eebecca Bullock, who married 15 Dec, 1803, Charles J. Wister.
7 Samuel Penrose, son of Thomas Penrose by his wife Sarah Coats,
born at Philadelphia, 14 Nov., 1742; died there in 1796, was a member
of the Provincial Convention which met in Philadelphia, 23 January,
1775; one of the founders of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry,
of which organization he was quart«rmaster-sergeant in 1777 and served
as such until the close of the Eevolution, his name being placed on the
honorary roll in 1786; an organizer of the Pennsylvania Bank in 1780,
and a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly of 1781-2-3. He married
1st., 3 AprU, 1766, Ann. daughter of Plunket Fleeson Esq., q.v.; 2d.,
30 September, 1780, Sarah Moulder, and had issue by both marriages. —
See "History of the Penrose Family," by J. Granville Leach, pp. 25,
50-1.
8 John Keble, a native of England, was some years a vestryman and a
considerable benefactor of St. Paul's. In April, 1806, he presented the
baptismal font, and, by wiU of 24 Sept., 1807, bequeathed his house and
lot on north side of Pearson's Court for the use of aged mdows of the
Church, with an additional legacy of one thousand dollars, of which one-
fourth was for repairs on said house, one-fourth towards purchase of an
organ, one-fourth towards cupola for church, and one-fourth towards the
purchase of a bell for the church. He married 17 Oct., 1771, Abigail
Spicer, and died 29 Sept., 1807, aed sixty-three years, q.v.
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Section III. And he it further enacted by the authority afore-
said, That the said minister, church-wardens and vestrymen, and
their successors, by the name and title aforesaid, shall forever here-
after be persons able and capable in law to pur-
Corporation may ^^^se, have, receive, take, hold and enjoy, in fee
purchase and simple, or of any lesser estate or estates, any
hold land, &c. lands, tenements, rents, annuities, liberties, fran-
chises and other hereditaments, by the gift, grant,
bargain, sale, alienation, enfeoffment, release, confirmation or devise
of any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable to
make the same; and further, that the said corporation may take and
receive any sum or sums of money, and any kind, manner or por-
tion of goods and chattels, that shall be given or bequeathed to the
said minister, church-wardens and vestrymen, and their successors,
by any person or persons, bodies politic and corporate, capable to
make a gift or bequest thereof, such money, goods and chattels to be
laid out by them in a purchase or purchases of lands, tenements,
messuages, houses, rents, annuities or hereditaments, to them and
their successors forever.
Section IV. And he it further enacted hy the authority afore-
said, That the rents and revenues, profits and interests of the said
church and corporation shall, by the said minister, church-wardens
and vestrymen, and their successors from time to
Manner of time, be appointed for the maintenance and sup-
applying the pQj^ q£ ^.jjg minister or ministers, and ofl&cers of
^ the said church, and for the necessary repairs of
the said church, burial ground, church yard, par-
sonage house or houses, and other tenements, which do now or here-
after may or shall belong to the said church and corporation, and
to no other use or purpose whatsoever.
Section V. And he it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,
That the said minister, church-wardens and vestrymen, and their
successors, shall and may grant, alien, or otherwise
Corporation may ^igpogg of ^^y messuages, houses, lands, tenements
J! J.Z. X X o_ or hereditaments, other than the scite of the
of the estate, &c.
house of public worship or church aforesaid, and
the burial ground or grounds which they do now or may hereafter
possess, as to them may seem meet and proper.
Section VI. Provided always, and he it further enacted hy the
authority aforesaid, That in the disposition, sale or alienation of such
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messuages, houses, lands, tenements and hereditaments, the consent
and concurrence of two-thirds of the vestry shall
^°" " be had and obtained, and also the monies arising
tliG V6stry
from the said disposition or sale shall be appro-
consenting. . 1 , . , . ,
priated to the purchasmg and procuring other
more convenient messuages, houses, lands or tenements, as the afore-
said majority of vestry may deem proper and expedient, and to no
other purpose or purposes whatsoever.
Section VII. And be it further enacted by the authority afore-
said, That the said minister, church-wardens and vestrymen, and
their successors, or a majority of them, shall and may convene from
time to time, to make rules, by-laws and ordi-
^ '^ * ^ nances, and to transact every thing requisite for
. ' the good government and support of the said
church: Provided always, That the said rules, by-
laws and ordinances be not repugnant to the laws and statutes in
force within this commonwealth, and that they be consonant to the
usages and customs of the skid church.
Section VIII. And be it further enacted by the authority afore-
said. That the said minister, church-wardens and vestrymen, shall
Corporation to have full power and authority to make, have
use one common and use one common seal, with such device or
seal. devices and inscription, as they shall think proper,
and the same to change, break, alter and renew at their pleasure.
Section IX. And be it further enacted by the authority afore-
said. That the said minister, church wardens and vestrymen, and
their successors, by the name before mentioned, shall be able and
capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be
^ impleaded, in any court or courts, before any
Judge or Judges, Justice or Justices, in all and
all manner of suits, complaints, causes, matters and demands, of
whatsoever kind, nature or form they be; and all and every other
matter and thing therein to do, in as full and effectual a manner
as any other person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, in this
commonwealth, in the like cases may or can do.
Section X. And be it further enacted by the authority afore-
said, That the vestry of the said church shall always consist of
twenty persons, members of the said church, of which number the
church wardens are always to be two; and that
um er o ^j^^ election of such vestry shall be made every
' * year on Easter Monday, or some day in the same
week, (of which the said congregation shall have notice,) by a ma-
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jority of such members of the said church, as shall appear by the
vestry books to be contributors to the support and maintenance of
the said church, having and paying for a pew, or a part of a pew,
sufficient for one person at the least, and to be of full age, who only
shall have a right to vote for the vestrymen of the said church.
Section XI. And be it further enacted hy the authority afore-
said, That the said vestry so elected shall have full power to elect
and choose annually and every year, two of their number to be
church wardens of the said church: Provided
Vestry to choose always nevertheless, That in case of the death or
war ens annua y. j-gu^Qy^l of the rector or principal minister of
_ . the said church, from the death or removal of
Proviso. .
such minister, and until another minister shall be
duly appointed and approved for the said church, agreeably to former
method and usage, the church wardens for the time being, with the
consent of the major part of the vestrymen, in vestry met, shall have
the same powers and authorities relating to the disposition of the
rents and revenues of the said corporation, as is herein before vested
in the minister, church-wardens and vestrymen.
Section XII. And be it further enacted by the authority afore-
said, That certain " agreements, concessions and constitutions, made,
concluded and agreed on, by and between the subscribers and con-
tributors" to the church above named, which
Certain agree- agreements and constitution bear date on the
, , , ■ twenty-fourth day of June, in the year of our
declared to be ^ , -^ ^, ^ t, j j j • .
£ £ M £ m. Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty, are
of full force, &c. „ <, „ „ , . ^
and shall be of full force and operation, except
so far as there is provision otherwise appointed and made special
by this act, and except the restricting clause relative to the ordina-
tion of the minister, or assistant minister or ministers, by a bishop
of the church of England, in Great Britain or Ireland.
Section XIII. And be it further enacted by the authority afore-
said. That the clear yearly value of the messuages, houses, lands,
tenements, rents, annuities, or other hereditaments, and real estate
of the said corporation, shall not exceed the sum
imi a ion o ^^ ^^^ thousand pounds lawful money of the state
of Pennsylvania, exclusive of the monies arising
from the letting of the pews belonging to the said church, and also
exclusive of the monies arising from the opening of the ground for
burials in the church yard, belonging to the said church; which said
monies shall, as they are now, be received and disposed of by the
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churcli wardens, and vestrymen for the time being, for the purposes
hereinbefore mentioned and directed.
Signed by order of the House,
Frederick A. Muhlenberg,
Speaker.
Enacted into a law at Philadelphia, on Tuesday, the twenty-third
day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven
hundred and eighty-three,
Peter Z. Lloyd,
Clerk of the General Assembly.
Pennsylvania, ss.
Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Harrisburg, December 15th, 1818.
In testimony that the foregoing is a true and correct copy from
the original law, remaining on the files of this office, I have here-
unto set my hand and seal the day and year above written.
Thomas Sergeant,
Secretary.
Pennsylvania, ss.
In the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania, WILLIAM FINDLAY, governor of the said Common-
wealth, To all to whom these presents shall come, sends greeting:
Know ye, that Thomas Sergeant, esq. whose name is subscribed to
the instrument of writing hereunto annexed was at the time of sub-
scribing the same secretary of the said Commonwealth; duly ap-
pointed and commissioned : And full faith and credit is and ought to
be given to his official acts accordingly.
Given under my hand and the great seal of the state, at Harrisburg,
this sixteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thou-
sand eight hundred and eighteen, and of the Commonwealth the
forty-second.
By the Governor.
Thomas Sergeant,
Secretary.
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Corporation for the Year 1818.
Reverend Joseph Pilmore, D.D. Rector.
CHURCH WARDENS.
P. F. Glentworth,
John Claxton.
VESTRYMEN.
Levi Hollingsworth,
John Matthews,
Christian Wiltberger,
Thomas Palmer,
Richard Johnson,
John Turner,
Edward Rowley,
Arthur Stotesbury,
Joseph Norman,
John Phile,
John Pechin,
Thomas T. Stiles,
James King, Junr,
Cornelius Stevenson,
John Wharton,
Richard North,
Samuel J. Robbins,
John Toy.
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ABSTRACTS OF TITLE DEEDS FOR ST. PAUL'S
CHUBOH, 1760-1904
DEED BOOK H, NO. 9, PAGE 295. October 5, 1758.
Samuel Rhoads, Hugh Roberts and Jacob Lewis, partition under
Will of Samuel Powell deed. Pursuant to the direction of his last
will.
(1) To Samuel Morris, lot of ground purchased by Joan Forrest
being in front on Third Street 82 ft. or thereabouts and in depth
47 ft. 3 in.
(2) To Anthony Morris and his heirs, A certain Lot of Ground
situate on the east side of 3rd Street, front 73 ft. depth 195 feet
more or less.
(3) To Israel Morris and his heirs, Lot of Ground situate on east
side of 3d street, front 30 ft. depth 195 ft., more or less.
(4) To Sarah Morris and her heirs, A Certain Lot of Ground
situate east side of 3d street 31 ft. depth 195 ft. more or less.
Recorded December 8, 1758,
DEED BOOK D, NO. 54, PAGE 363. Dated Sept. 16, 1760.
Anthony Moms to Thomas Leech, John Ross, John Baynton,
Walter Goodman, Thomas Campbell, John Ord, John Palmer, Plun-
ket Fleeson, Ephraim Benham, John Benezet, John KJiowles, An-
drew Bankson, Andrew Doz and Thomas Charlton. Lot of Ground
situate east side of 3d street front 23 ft. depth 195 ft. Reserved
yearly Ground Rent 27 Spanish Pistoles consideration 540 Spanish
Pistoles. Recorded May 16, 1776.
DEED BOOK D, NO. 54, PAGE 367. Dated January 16, 1772.
Anthony Morris to John Ross, John Baynton, Walter Goodman,
John Ord, John Palmer, Plunket Fleeson, Ephraim Benham, James
Benezet, John Knowles, Andrew Bankson, Andrew Doz, Thomas
Charlton, Thomas Leech and Thomas Campbell being dead. He the
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said Anthony Morris, his heirs, executors, administrators and as-
signs do covenant, promise and agree with the said John Ross,
John Baj'nton, Walter Goodman, John Ord, John Palmer, Plunket
rieeson, Ephraim Benham, James Benezet, John Knowles, Andrew
Bankson, Andrew Doz and Thomas Charlton their heirs and assigns
and every of them by these presents in manner following that is to
say the sum of 8 pistoles per annum shall forever hereafter abate be
extinct out of the within Yearly Rent charge of 27 pistoles.
Recorded May 16, 1776.
DEED BOOK D, NO. 60, PAGE 415. Dated April 19, 1762.
Israel Morris to John Ross, John Baynton, Walter Goodman,
Thomas Campbell, John Knowles, John Ord, John Palmer, Plunket
Fleeson, Andrew Doz, Andrew Bankson, Ephraim Benham, James
Benezet, Thomas Charlton and William Shute. Premises situate
on east side of 3d street the southernmost part of two lots purchased
by Samuel Powell of Thomas Parsons front 3d street 30 feet depth
195 ft. more or less. Reserved Ground Rent of 11 Spanish Pistoles
and 1/9 part of a pistole, consideration 222 Spanish pistoles and 2/9
part of a pistole. Recorded April 7, 1797.
DEED BOOK D, NO. 60, PAGE 1121. Dated October 14, 1796.
John Palmer to Minister Church Wardens and Vestrymen of the
Episcopal Church of St. Paul.
Premises situate on east side of 3d street in city of Philadelphia
front 73 feet depth 105 feet, Subject to ground rent of 19 Spanish
Pistoles. Recorded April 7, 1797.
DEED BOOK NO. 62, PAGE 396. Dated December 22, 1796.
John Palmer, surviving trustee to Minister Church Wardens and
Vestrymen of Episcopal Church of St. Paul. Premises situate east
side of 3d street front 30 ft. depth 195 ft. Subject to ground rent of
11.1/9 Spanish pistoles to Israel Morris. Recorded April 7, 1797.
DEED BOOK M. R, NO. 8, PAGE 487. Dated February 1, 1797.
Ministers Church Warden and Vestrymen of the Episcopal Church
of St. Paul to Israel Morris — securing to Israel Morris the payment
of ground rent of 11.1/9 Spanish Pistoles on account of the original
being lost or mislaid so that the same cannot be found. The above
ground rent made between Israel Morris and John Rose, John Bayn-
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ton, Walter Goodman, Thomas Campbell, John Knowles, John Ord,
John Palmer, Plunket Fleeson, Andrew Doz, Andrew Bankson,
Ephraim Benham, James Benezet, Thomas Charlton and William
Shute. Recorded June 18, 1816.
DEED BOOK L. C, NO. 9, PAGE 462. Dated April 18, 1810.
Samuel Morris to the Minister Church Wardens and Vestrymen of
the Episcopal Church of St. Paul's Extinguished ground rent 19
Spanish pistoles payable out of lot east side of 3d street, front 73
feet depth 195 feet. Recorded April 20, 1810.
DEED BOOK M. R, NO. 8, PAGE 490. Dated April 24, 1816.
Joseph P. Menniek, Sur. Assignee of Estate of William Buckley
1st part William Buckley and Sarah his wife.
2nd part Ministers Church Wardens and Vestrymen of Episcopal
Church of St. Paul.
Extinguishment of ground rent 11.1/9 Spanish pistoles.
Recorded April 18, 1816.
DEED BOOK J. V, NO. 204, PAGE 519. Dated April 10, 1901.
The Rectors Church Wardens and Vestrymen of the Episcopal
Church of St. Paul to the Rector Church Warden and Vestrymen
of St. Peter's Church.
(1) Situate on the east side of 3d street between Walnut and
Spruce Streets (being northernmost parts of two lots purchased by
Samuel Powell of Thomas Parsons and assigned to Anthony Mor-
ris) front street 73 feet depth 105 feet.
(2) Situate east side of 3d street between Walnut and Spruce
streets (being the southernmost part of 2 lots aforesaid purchased
by Samuel Powell to Thomas Parsons and assigned to Israel Morris
front 30 ft. depth 195 feet. Recorded April 10, 1901.
DEED BOOK W. S. V, NO. 284, PAGE 350. Dated April 16,
1904.
The Rector Church Warden and Vestrymen of St. Peter's Church
to the Trustees of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of
Pennsylvania.
(1) All That certain Lot or piece of ground with the Church
Edifice erected thereon and known as the Episcopal Church of St.
Paul. Situate east side of 3d street between Walnut and Spruce
streets front 73 feet depth 195 feet.
Recorded April 30, 1904.
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This last Deed recites that, the rector, church wardens and vestry
of St. Peter's Church, desiring to continue the use for religious pur-
poses of the church building owned by them, known as St. Paul's
Church, on Third Street, have offered to convey it to the trustees of
the Diocese, to hold it for the Philadelphia Protestant Episcopal City
Mission so long as that body shall continue to use it for the purpose
of such organization and keep and maintain the property and ground
in proper order and condition, and, in the event of the City Mission
no longer making such use of it, to hold the same for such other pur-
poses and objects, with restrictions, as the Bishop and standing
committee of the Diocese of Pennsylvania may direct.
The legal title to the lot of St. Paul's Church appears, therefore,
to be vested, today, in the Trustees of the Protestant Episcopal
church in the Diocese of Pennsylvania. The assessed value of the
corporation on the tax-books of the city is $50,000, although as a
church it is, under the law, exempt from taxation.
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THE CHUECH PLATE
The Sacramental Silver consists of thirteen pieces, described as
follows :
Two Chalices. — At a Meeting of the Trustees held 16 March, 1761,
it was " Ordered that Messrs. Plunket Fleeson and Thomas Charlton
be a Committee to employ proper persons to make, and with all
expedition prepare two silver chalices for the use of St. Paul's
Church." These Chalices are the oldest pieces of Silver belonging to
the Church. They have a bell shaped body, the stem with moulded
knop and moulded base, and are inscribed " St. Paul's Church."
They have no hall mark.
Dimensions, Height 8 9/16 in. Diameter of mouth 3 15/16 in. and
of the base 4 9/16 in.
Two Patens. — One made by John David of Philadelphia, having a
fluted edge and floriated border, engraved with leaves and birds. It
has no inscription. Maker's mark " I. D." in a shield with a fleur-de-
lis, for John David.
Dimensions, Diameter 10 1/16 in.
The other, having moulded edge, with three moulded feet.
Dimensions, Diameter of top 11 in., of base 8 7/8 in., height 1 1/16
in'. No maker's mark. It is inscribed, " St. Paul's Church, Phila-
delphia, 1829."
Two Flagons. — One made by John David, and presented by Mrs.
Rebecca Doz and her daughter, Mrs. Martha Flower in 1792, and in-
scribed, " Belonging | to the | Altar ] of St. Paul's Church." Maker's
mark "David."
Another made by Christian Wiltberger of Philadelphia, and in-
scribed, " The Gift | of | Mrs. Ann Cannon | to the | Altar | of | St.
Paul's Church." Maker's mark " C. Weltberger." These flagons
have a plain "bellied" body, and moulded base, the thumb piece a
plain arch with a plain flat shield on handle end.
Dimensions. Height 9 3/8 in. Diameter of mouth, 4 1/2 in.
and of the base 4 9/16 in.
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One Baptismal Bowl. — Made by Christian Wiltberger, and in-
scribed, « The Gift of a Friend to St. Paul's Church, Philad^., Dec'.
25*'^. 1805."
A plain oval bowl, the body being divided into eight sections,
above which a flat band, the edge being go-drooned, the base is octag-
onal.
Dimensions, 7 1/2 in. by 6 1/2 in., height 5 1/2 in.
Maker's mark " C. Wiltberger." Weight 21 oz. 4 dwt.
When used for Baptism it stands on an octagonal mahogany pedes-
tal, having a cover with a gilt flame finial, when not in use.
Two Alms Basins. — Made by Joseph Lower of Philadelphia and
inscribed, "Belonging | to the | Altar | of | St. Paul's Church |
Joseph Pilmore, D.D., Rector. | 1820." They have grooved rims
and curved bases and weigh 19 oz. 19 dwt.
Dimensions: One 2 7/8 in. high; Base 5 in. by 3 9/16 in.; Top
9 3/8 in. by 7 5/16 in. The other, 2 13/16 in. high. Base 5 in. by
3 3/4 in. Top 9 9/16 in. by 7 9/16 in.
Maker's mark " Lovter."
One Alms Basin. — Made by R. & W. Wilson of Philadelphia, and
inscribed, "Communion Table. St. Paul's Church. Richard New-
ton. Rector. Easter 1848."
Dimensions 2 7/8 in high. Base 5 in', by 3 3/4 in. Top 9 5/16
in. by 7 7/16 in. Maker's mark " R. & W. Wilson."
Pattern same as the two described above.
Three Alms Basins. — No inscriptions and no maker's marks.
Dimensions and pattern same as last described.
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THE CHURCH REGISTERS
BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES, BURIALS, AND RECORD OF
INTERMENTS
I. One Leather bound Book with label on the front cover, "Rec-
ords of St. Paul's Church from 1760 to 1835."
The first 38 pages contain minutes of the Vestry from June 24,
1760, to April 23, 1764, and the remaining entries are of Baptisms,
Marriages and Burials.
Baptisms from Nov. 3, 1782, to Nov. 11, 1802
Oct. 31, 1784, to Oct. 4, 1829
July 22, 1834, to Jan. 28, 1835
Marriages from Sept. 14, 1759, to July 25, 1765
Sept. 8, 1768, to Sept. 20, 1778
Sept. 29, 1781, to May 1, 1804
Dec. 20, 1834, to Jan. 15, 1835
Burials from Jan. 14, 1790, to March 8, 1805
II. One small paper cover bound book, being the Private Register
of the Rev. Joseph Pilmore, D.D., Rector, contains:
Marriages from March 20, 1786, to March 16, 1813
III. One small paper cover bound book, containing:
Baptisms from Nov. 8, 1821, to May 25, 1829
Marriages from Dec. 20, 1821, to April 14, 1829
Burials from Nov. 15, 1821, to May 16, 1829
IV. One small black leather bound Book containing:
Baptisms from June 17, 1829, to June 18, 1865, entered in
alphabetical order.
Marriages from July 28, 1829, to April 11, 1865
Burials from June 11, 1829, to March 25, 1865
V. A book with cloth binding, leather back and corners, containing :
Baptisms from March 30, 1866, to May 6, 1888
Marriages from March 15, 1866, to June 12, 1888
Burials from March 6, 1866, to Feb. 28, 1888
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VI. A Register of Interments. Leather bound Book, containing
record of burials in the Church Yard from June 9, 1811, to April
5, 1851.
VII. A Register of Interments. Containing record of burials in
the Church Yard from April 7, 1852, to Oct. 8, 1855, and from Jan.
1, 1856, to July 7, 1869.
VIII. One book containing:
Baptisms from April 6, 1890, to July 11, 1897
M-arriages from Oct. 15, 1890, to Sept. 21, 1897
Burials from Apl. 17, 1890, to Feb. 8, 1897
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EXCERPTS FROM THE MINUTES OF THE
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH,
PHILADELPHIA
JOURNAL 1789, PAGE 94.
Christ Church, Thursday, October 1, 1789.
" The Meeting in Christ Church being found inconvenient to the
members in several respects.
" On motion, Resolved, That the Rev. Dr. "William Smith and the
Hon. Mr. Secretary Hopkinson, be appointed to wait upon his Ex-
'Cellency, Thomas Mifflin Esq., the President of the State, and to re-
quest leave for the Convention to hold their Meeting in some con-
venient apartment in the State House."
" The Rev. Dr. William Smith and Hon. Mr, Hopkinson, reported
that the President of the State had very politely given permission to
the Convention to hold their meeting at the State House, in the apart-
ments of the General Assembly, until they shall be wanted for the
public service.
" Adjourned to meet at the State House tomorrow morning."
The Minutes of the following day, Friday, October 2, are headed
as follows:
State House, in the City of Philadelphia,
Friday, October, 2, 1789.
(It was at this session that Bishop Samuel Seabury subscribed to
the Constitution and his Deputies took their seats.)
The following day, Saturday, October 3, the Convention again met
in a joint session in the State House and thereafter the two Houses
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(now being fully organized for separate sessions) met separately in
the State House until October 10.
In the Minutes of Saturday, October 10th, in the State House,
there is a statement — " It having been notified that the public service
of the State of Pennsylvania would require the use of the State
House during the present week. Adjourned to meet at Christ
Church on Monday morning next."
This undoubtedly meant; required the immediate use, so as to get
ready the State House for use during the following week.
On October 12, the Convention met in Christ Church and " it being
represented that convenient apartments might be had in the College
of Philadelphia for the Meeting of both Houses of Convention, dur-
ing the remainder of the present session.
" Adjourned to meet at the College immediately."
The formal opening of the House was held that morning in the
College of Philadelphia and all subsequent Meetings were held In
that building.
These excerpts from the Minutes show how the Church, the Na-
tion and University of Pennsylvania were intimately connected in
the events of those days when history was made. Bishop Seabury
evidently declined to meet in Christ Church, hence the State House
was selected. For an account of his life, election as Bishop, consecra-
tion, toryism, manner, and ehurchmanship see "History of the
American Episcopal Church," by Rev. S. D. McConnell, D.C.L.
(1904) ; pp. 200, 207, 208, 218, 237, 249, 257, 290, 227, 229, 234,
255, 260, 262, 289, 319.
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INSCRIPTIONS ON TOMBSTONES AND VAULTS
IN THE CHURCH AND CHURCHYARD.
Largely a Reprint from the Publications of The Genealogical
Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, pp. 303-339.
Interments in the Church
Rev^ Joseph Pilmore D.D. /Rector of this Church/ 16 years & 8
months /Died July 24^^ 1825 /Aged 85 Years
B
Rev* Samuel Magaw. D.D. /Rector of this Church/ 23 years/
Died Dec' l** 1812/ Aged 77 years
a
Sacred /To the Memory of the /Rev. Benjamin Allen /Rector of
this Church 7 years 4 months /Who departed this life on the 13*^
January 1829 / on his passage from Liverpool Eng^ to Philadelphia /
where he had gone for the restoration of his health /Aged 39 years
3 months 15 days /By direction of the Vestry.
D
Sacred /To the Memory of /John Ross Esq"" / Counsellor at Law
/who departed this Life /May 5^^ 1776 /Aged 61 Years /And of/
Elizabeth his Wife /who departed this Life /October 7'^ 1776/
Aged 62 Years / And also of / Catharine Gumey / Daughter of the
above /John & Elizabeth Ross /who departed this Life /August
27*'^ 1782 /Aged 34 Years.
The three inscriptions (A, B, D) are on stones over the graves
in what is now the basement of the Church, while those of Dr.
Magaw and Dr. Pilmore, are on what was the floor of the chancel
before the alterations were made in 1829. The inscription on stone
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C is a memorial placed by the Vestry. Rev. Benjamin Allen was
buried at sea.
On the North Side of the front part of the Churchyard from the
East
1
In /Memory of /Mrs. Mary Rimer /wife of /Thomas Rimer/
Who departed this life /June 17^^ 1818 /Aged 73 Years /Also of/
M" Elizabeth Row /Wife of /Cap* Edward Row /And Daughter
of/j^rs Mary Rimer /who departed this life /January 20*^^ 1819/
Aged 48 years
3
In /Memory of /Ann the daughter of /David &i Catharine / Irv-
ing/Who departed this Life/Ocf 18*1' x. D. 1793 /Aged 7 Years
& 4 months /Also of Catharine. Wife of /David Irving /who de-
parted this life /August 19*'' 179 /Aged 41 years /And of John
their Son /who departed this life /Aged 19 Years
3
In /Memory of /Ann Wife of /Thomas Palmers/who departed
this life /December 23^ 1811 /Aged 52 years
4
In /Memory /of /Samuel Johnston /who departed this Life /on
the 19 Septem"' 1793 /Aged 33
5
In Memory of/Elenor Cathers/who departed / October 4 1800
/Aged 7 weeks
6
^ Hannah Olyphant / Died the 4*^' Febr'y 1782 / Aged 59 Years
On the West Front of the Churchyard from the North
1 Thomas Palmer, "gunsmith," by will dated Nov. 7, 1811, proved
Mar. 9, 1812, made bequests to wife Ann, who as above, pre-deceased
Mm; to brother Jonathan, and children Asher, William, John and
Elizabeth Shaw. Of the latter, the United States Gazette of Aug. 10,
1798, records: "Married last evening by the Eev. Bishop "White, Captain
Shaw of Baltimore, to the amiable Miss Eliza Palmer, daughter of Mr.
Thomas Palmer, of this City."
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7
John Pechin's / Family Vault/ 1826
Interments in this vault were as follows :
August 6, 1809, Mr. Pechin's Grandchild.
March 10, 1841, Mrs. Pechin.
November 4, 1860, John Pechin.
July 2, 1891, Almira Pechin.
8
Tho* Mitchell's / Family Vault /Here are deposited the remains
of /Mary Cowell / of Trenton N. J. /who departed this life /March
15 1831 /also of /Mary Frances / daughter of /Thomas and Maria
M. Mitchell /who departed this life/ July 29**' 1838 /Aged 30 Years
Interments in this vault were as follows :
August 24, 1835, James Mitchell.
June 18, 1839, Thomas Kittera.^'
March 25, 1849, Thomas Mitchell.
9
Beneath this Stone /lies the Body of /John Wood of this City/
Clock & Watchmaker / and upwards of 24 Years /a Warden of S*
Paul's Church / He departed this Life / October the 9'*' 1793 / Aged
57 Years /Ann the wife of /Anthony Van Mannierck / Merchant /
Late M"" J°° Woods widow /Bom the 17**1 ]y[ay 1750 /and died the
Wtii Feb 1796 /Mrs. Elizabeth LedlieV^ho departed this life Oct.
29, 1819 / Aged 75 years
10
Here /are deposited the Remains /of John Campbell Merch*/
Who died in the 69 year of his age /on the 14*1^ day of Nov' 1795/
Firm in his religious Prof ession / Honest in his Principle / Diligent
in Btisiness / Peacable in Demeanour / He left / To each of his
/ Acquaintance / especially to his fellow worshippers / a lesson / of
instruction and Hope /Also of /Doctor John Campbell /Son of
John & Mary Campbell /who departed this life Dec. 9, 1804 /Aged
2 Son of Hon. Thomas Wilkes Kittera by his wife Ann Moore, b.
Lancaster Co., Pa., Mar. 21, 1789 ; d. Phila. June 16, 1839. Dept. Atty.
Gen. Penna., 1817-18; Dept. Atty-Gen. Phila., 1824-1826; M. C,
1826-27; Mem. Select Council, Phila., and its Pres., 1824-26; Bt.
Worshipful Grand Master Grand Lodge, A. Y. M.
3 Elizabeth Ledlie was a daughter of John Wood, and married William
Ledlie January 12, 1775. (St. Paul's Eegister.)
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ln^ctiption& on ^omb^tone^ anH {?auU0
25 years & 8 months / Likewise / M" Mary Campbell / wife of John
Campbell Merch*/who departed this life Jan 12 1813 /Aged 71
years
11
Here lie the Remains of / John Keble / a native of England / who
departed this life the 29'** / September / in the year of our Lord/
1807 / Aged 63 years and 25 days / Let no one move his Bones.
13
The Vault /of /Blair M^'Clenachan Esq.
Interments in this vault were as follows:
Blair Macclenachan.
July 12, 1824, [Robert] Child of Mr. H. Toland.
May 7, 1827, Mrs. Mary Toland.
October 30, 1831, John Smith.
February 3, 1836, John Huston.
October 5, 1837, Mary Macclenachan.
March 1, 1841, Ann Weston.
January 26, 1863, Henry Toland.*
October 26, 1880, George Toland.
March 7, 1881, Blair M. Toland.
June 13, 1887, Mary H. Toland.
On the South Side of the Churchward from the West.
13
Stotesbury
The remains in this vault were removed to Woodland Cemetery
May 26, 1884 by Edward C. Stotesbury, Esq., and are in his lot. This
4 Henry Toland, Jr., of the firm of Henry Toland and Son, grocers at
14 North Third Street, born 1785, son of Henry and Sarah (Barnhill)
Toland; died as above; married Nov. 27, 1816, Mary Huston, who died
May 7, 1827, daughter of John Hasell Huston, and grand-daughter
of Blair McClenachan; was a promdnent Philadelphia merchant, a
director of the Bank of the United States and member of the Hibernian
Society of Philadelphia. Four of his seven children are buried in the
McClenachan vault; the others died unmarried after reaching maturity.
His brother, Robert Toland, was a founder and one of the directors of
the Franklin Fire Insurance Company, a director of the Farmers and
Mechanics Bank, the Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives
and Granting Annuities, the Girard National Bank, th» Montreal As-
surance Company, and one of the organizers of the Pennsylvania Eail-
road.
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lot contains the following: Arthur Stotesbury,^ Mary Stotes-
bury and William Stotesbury, who, the records show, were buried at
St. Paul's; Thomas P. Stotesbury, bom April 25, 1843, died Janu-
ary 8, 1888; Martha P. Stotesbury, bom October 13, 1823, died
May 30, 1889 ; Helen L. Stotesbury, died September 9, 1874 ; Fannie
Butcher Stotesbury, died November 7, 1881, aged 31 years; S.
Louise Stotesbury, born May 24, 1854, died July 4, 1908.
14
John Leamy's / Family Vault
Interments in this vault were as follows:
August 23, 1823, Mrs. Leamy.
September 19, 1823, Ann Leamy.
February 2, 1835, John Leamy.
December 5, 1839, John Leamy.
September 5, 1845, Mrs. Elizabeth Leamy.
15
"William Cmnmings / Family Vault.^ / Emily A. Cummings/Bom
January 5. 1805 /Died September 16. 1847 /Mary Irvine Barratt
/Bom December 12 1832. /Died July 14 1869 /Emily A Cummings
/ Bora Febraary 12 1840 / Died November 18 1876 / Cora M. Cum-
6 Arthur Stotesbury was a sea captain residing at No. 401 South
Front Street in 1817, and at No. 59 Almond Street in 1843. He was
prominent in St. Paul's for many years as were other members of his
family. He was a vestryman from 1810 to 1821. Richard G. Stotes-
bury was also prominent and a vestryman from the year 1840 to 1876.
In the latter part of his life he resided at Locust Street and Twentieth
Street, Philadelphia.
6 Mary Irvine Cummings appears in the records of St. Paul 's. She
was baptized, confirmed, married by Rev. Dr. Richard Newton and
buried there. She married James Barratt, Jr., on May 16th, 1855, and
attended services with her husband, their pew being in the middle aisle
across from her father's until 1865, when St. Luke's Church being
nearer to her residence, No. 1304 Pine Street, she and her husband took
a pew at St. Luke 's. James Barratt, Jr., represented the Seventh Ward
in Common Council, Philadelphia, 1862-1865; January 12, 1865, com-
missioner to distribute bounties to volunteers, and distributed over twelve
million dollars; May 25, 1865, Port Warden; 1867; Vice-President
Philadelphia Corn Exchange; Member Company D, First Regiment;
First Lieutenant emergency regiment, called Corn Exchange Guard, in
September, 1862; member of Phoenix Hose Company; Lodge 51 F. and
A. M., and the Union League, Philadelphia. He is buried at Barratt 's
Chapel, Kent County, Delaware.
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In^ttiption^ on ^omh^tont^ anli Wault^
mings/Born December 7. 1836 /Died May 14 1882 William
Cummings/Bom February 6. 1806 Died December 17. 1889 /Mary
A. Cummings/Bom May 6. 1811 /Died June 8. 1891. Rachel F.
Alexander Born March 17. 1814 Died Sept 30 1896
16
Family Vault of / Edwin Forrest
William Forrest /Bom 1758 Died 1819 /Rebecca Forrest /Bom
1763 Died 1847 /also the children of William & Rebecca Forrest
/Lorman Forrest /Bom 1796 Died in S. America / William For-
rest/Bom 1800 Died 1834 Henrietta Forrest /Bom 1798 Died
1863 / Caroline Forrest /Bom 1802 Died 1869/Elenora Forrest/
Bom 1808 Died 1871 / Edwin Forrest^ / Bom March 9, 1806 Died
Dec. 12 1872
17
Joseph R. A. SkerrettsV Family Vault / 1833 / Joseph R. A.
Skerrett / died November 27 1839 in / the 48 year of his age / Eliza-
beth wife of Charles /M Rivelly/Bom February 3^ 1824 Died/
March 1 1855 /Rebecca S. Hood /wife of Francis Hood /Bom
August 1. A. D. 1827 Died /April 27 A. D. 1867 /Her end was
peace, and / assurance forever
The remains of Sarah Morrison were interred in this Vault April
4, 1876.
18
Jacob Earnests / Family Vault
Interments in this vault were as follows:
October 24, 1834, Mr. Shinkle's child.
January 1, 1841, George W. Earnest.
Febraary 6, 1845, Mrs. Esther Earnest.
June 28, 1848, Elizabeth Eamest.
October 26, 1852, Edward Duff.
April 27, 1855, Julia R. Shinkle.
July 30, 1859, Eliza D. Earnest.
February 28, 1866, Sarah Copper.
October 3, 1868, James Eamest.
April 20, 1872, Hester Earnest.
19
J. Farrs/ Family Vault
Interments in this vault were as follows:
7 Edwin Forrest, the great tragedian.
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August 20, 1823, Edward Farr.
April 6, 1835, Miss E. MeCoskry.
April 15, 1835, Mr. John Parr's child.
August 20, 1845, Edward Farr.
March 4, 1847, John Farr.^
March 6, 1865, Mr. Moffett.
29
George Feinours / Family Vault / Margaret Feinour/Died Janu-
ary 5^^ 1833 /Aged 15 years /George Feinour/Died May 25 1831
Aged 45 years /Ann Feinour/Died June 2 1835 Aged 18 years
February 2, 1845, William Feinour.
July 27, 1847, George T. Feinour.
April, 1855, Mrs. Campion.
May 10, 1864, Margaret Campion. ") , , „ •, t, ^
Catharine Campion |da"ghters of J. B. Campion
21
Mark T. Jones /Family Vault.
Interments in this vault were as follows:
May 11, 1855, Susannah Jones.
December 15, 1856, Mark T. Jones.
August 22, 1859, Mrs. Susannah Conway.
October 22, 1862, Mrs. Elizabeth E. Marple.
22
William Davis /Family Vault.
Interments in this vault were as follows:
January 16, 1833, William Davis.
March 14, 1834, Perry Davis.
June 24, 1835, Mrs. Davis.
September 25, 1855, William Davis.
March 30, 1870, Justinian F. Davis.
8 ' * The Pastor 's Offering to his Flock. A funeral Discourse, delivered
in St. Paul's Church, Philadelphia, March 7, 1847, on the occasion of
the death of John Farr, Esq., Senior Warden of this Church. This
Memorial of one who was known so long and loved so well, is affec-
tionately presented as a Pastor's offering to the Members of St. Paul's
Church by their servant for Jesus ' sake, the Author. ' ' Richard Newton
(Philadelphia, 1847). Mr. Farr was a teacher in St. Paul's Sunday
Schools thirty years. Eight of his children were communicants and in
1860, three were teachers in the Sunday School, as their father had been.
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JniSctiptionief on %omh&tt>nt0 anH l^aulW
23
No 2 /Mary Marshall / and / Elizabeth Walker's / Family Vault/
Here lies the remains of /Amor Marshall /who died August 1«*
1816 / and his Daughter / Frances Matilda, who died / NoV 28 1831
Interments in this vault were as follows:
April 5, 1853, Mrs. Mary Marshall.
March 7, 1859, Ann Elizabeth Marshall.
May, 1859, Joseph Y. Marshall.
24
No. 3 /Samuel N. Davies / Family Vault.
Interments in this vault were as follows:
April 25, 1855, Mrs. Rebecca Davies.
July 25, 1855, Samuel N. Davies.
January 22, 1863, Herbert S. Davies.
February 10, 1863, Samuel N. Davies.
June 27, 1868, Elizabeth B. Davies.
October 21, 1870, Charles Edward Davies.
25
Receiving Vault.
26
R. F. Lopers / Family Vault.
Interments in this vault were as follows:
November 9, 1880, Richard Fanning Loper.
William F. Loper.
Emily Weaver Loper.
Josephine Kirkpatrick Loper.
September 16, 1868, Elizabeth Spooner McMurtrie.
June 3, 1869, Mrs. Josephine Spooner Kirkpatrick.
January 29, 1866, Catherine Mercer Baird Spooner.**
[ William Kirkpatrick.
\ August 24, 1864, Marie L. Loper.
27
In /memory of /Ann A. Rose /wife of David Rose /who de-
parted this life /on the 2* day of November 1794 /Aged 35 years
8a Alvin Mercer Parker and Joseph Brooks Bloodgood Parker, members
of the Colonial Society, are great grandsons.
223
^i0tot}f ot &t ^a\iV0 episcopal C|utc|^
/also Mary their daughter /who departed this life /on the 27'ii day
of August 1790 /in the 37'^'^ year of her age /also Rebecca their
daughter /who departed this life /on the 8*^^ day of September
1790 /Aged 10 months /also Samuel their son /who departed this
life /on the 22"^ day of June 1794 /in the 9^*^ year of his age /also
Thomas their son /who departed this life /on the lO'^'^ day of Sep-
tember 1798 /Aged 3 years /also Ann S. Rose wife of /David
Rose / who departed this life / on the 13'^ day of September 1833 /
in the 67''* year of her age /and in memory of /David Rose /Who
departed this life / the 17'i* day of April 1837
28
Sacred /To the Memory / of / David Rose /who died Aug 3''^
1798 /Aged 68 years / Also / Abigail his wife /who died Septem-
ber 19*^ 1809 /Aged 79 years /The righteous shall be had in ever-
lasting remembrance.
29
In /Memory of /Samuel Rose /who departed this life /March
le'** A. D. 1786. /Aged 20 years
30
In Memory of /Sarah Dilworth / Who departed this Life /Nov*"
the 13*" 1790 /Aged 56 years
31
Sacred /to the Memory of /Mary A, Snyder /who died March
24"* 1832 /Aged 67 years /The righteous shall be had in everlast-
ing/remembrance Ps 112. V, 6. /Their works of Piety and love/
Remain before the Lord /Honour on earth and joy above /Shall be
their sure reward /Also her mother /Ann Cromwell /who died in
March 1818 /Aged 75 years / Blessed are the dead which die in the
Lord that they may rest from their labours & their works do follow
them. Rev 11 v. 5. / Also Mary Ann daughter of / George & Mary
A Guerin who died / Ocf^ 21^' 1788. Aged 2 years & 2 mos
32
Here /lies the body of/ Susannah DeBray bom Auber/Wife of
Daniel DeBray / Member of the Worshipful Russia Company. In-
corporated in London / She departed this Life after long suf / f ering
Patience and meek Resignation / the M*** of March 1786 Aged 34
Years / Also / To the Memory of James Auber/her brother Mid-
224
ln0ctivtion& on f^omb0tont0 anH miiit^
shipman who depart / ed this Life on board his Britannick / Majes-
ty's Ship Isis in the Mozambique / Channel next Madagascar on the
23'-d/of August 1781 /Aged 19 years
33
Sacred /to the memory of /John Matthews /who departed this
life /the 23'-'i November 1833 /in the 76'"^ year of his age /Mary
Matthews /his Widow / departed this life /October 2'^'* 1817/
Matthew Matthews / their eldest son /departed this life /August 1^*
1819.
34
In /Memory of Sarali/wife of /James Ellis /who departed this
life/Feby 25 1816 /in the SOti^ year of her age
35
George Glentworth M. D./ Departed this Life November l^V
1792 / Aged 57 years
Interments in this vault were as follows:
June 27, 1813, George Glentworth.
November 2, 1815, Margaret Glentworth.
June 19, 1818, Mrs. Mackey.
September 11, 1823, A Glentworth.
March 15, 1826, Walter Glentworth.
March 2, 1831, Mrs. George Glentworth.
January 19, 1833, Plunket Fleeson Glentworth, M.D.
August 5, 1836, Mr. Glentworth's child.
February 2, 1848, George P. Glentworth.
October 24, 1834, Mrs. Harriet Glentworth.
September 14, 1845, Alfred Glentworth.
July 30, 1856, Hannah L. Glentworth.
February 16, 1858, Edward H. Glentworth, M.D.
1860, Mrs. Glentworth.
November 5, 1863, John L. Glentworth.
December 26, 1864, Harvey Glentworth.
August 20, 1866, George Glentworth.
July 13, 1867, Theodore Glentworth.
36
Rowley's /Family Vault /Edward Rowley /Died the 27^1' of Jan-
uary A. D. 1820 /in the 63^ year of his age /Anthony Myers Died
Dec' 27*^^ 1828 /Aged 44 Years / Richard Rowley son of Edward/
i6 225
and Ann Rowley died / Nov. / 9'^^ 1836 / in the IQ^i' year of his age /
Horatio G. Rowley / departed this life April 18. 1810 /in the 18
year of his age /Ann wife of /Edward Rowley /who departed this
Life /Sept 231 1803 /in the 48 year of her age /also 3 of their
children / Richard died May 28^^ 1787 /Aged 16 months / Ellen
Ann died Jan^ 18*1* 1797 /Aged 2 months/ John died Oet° —1799/
in the 17'*^ year of his age / Edw"* Rowley Jun*" died August 8^^ 1815
/in the 21^* year of his age /Anthony Myers son of /Anthony &
Isabella Rowley Myers /Bom Jan — 1815 Died 27 Feb 1817/
Isabella Rowley Myers /Relict of Anthony Myers /Born May 4*''
1790/DiedAugt 6th 1848
Interments in this vault were as follows :
July 16, 1832, Mr. Rowley's child.
August 26, 1862, Mr. Millett.
February 17, 1871, Marian Alexandra Livingston.
37
In Memory of / Ann wife of / Christian Wiltberger / who de-
parted this life /May 12*1^ 1813 /Aged 42 years 6 months & 20
days /also of / Hetty / Second Wife of Christian Wiltberger / who
died Oct 7^^ 1851 /Aged 79 years & 3 months /also of /Christian
Wiltberger / who died Oct. 16*'* 1851 /Aged 81 years 11 months &
6 days
Interments in this vault were as follows :
September 24, 1819. Mountford (G'ehild of C. W.).
April 6, 1824, Christian Wiltberger.
May 1, 1828, Edward Wiltberger.
April 13, 1830, Child of William M. Evans.
May 21, 1830, George Wiltberger.
May 29, 1831, Elizabeth C. Evans.
December 26, 1834, Mr. Evans' child.
March 2, 1843, Mr. Wiltberger's child.
August 16, 1855, Rev. Christian Wiltberger.
December 29, 1858, Mrs. Maria S. Wiltberger. <
38
In this Vault rest the remains of /Peter Miercken Potter /son of
Rich* Si Catharine Potter /who departed this life /the 31^* ]V[ay
1816 Aged 22 years / also / Richard Cheslyn Potter / Father of the
above born September 27**^ 1759 /died September 29^^^ 1828 Aged
69 years & 2 days / also / Catharine Miercken/ widow of Rich* C.
226
JniaicnptiongJ on ^omb^tont^ anli iPauUsi
Potter /died in Alabama August 1831 /in the 61^^ year of her age
/and reinterred / beneath this slab inV February 1853 /"Let her
memory be blessed "
39
In this Vault / lie the remains of Sarah S North wife of / Stephen
North & daughter of the late / John Bartram M. D. who died Dec''
11. 1813 / in the 27 year of her age & their son / Richard who died
July 17 1810 in his 7*'^ year / also Alfred Augustus son of / Stephen
& Mary North /who died Dec ll**^ 1821 /Stephen North who de-
parted this life / Sept. 1^ 1826 in the U'^ year of his age.
Williams
Mary North/ of his age/Lydia,
daughter of John Bartram & Phoebe North/
Aug' 18. 1833. / Aged 7 weeks. / Also their son / James Bar-
tram / who died Feb. 4. 1835 / Aged 6 months / In the City of Wash-
ington/On the 3^ of October 1851 /Phoebe H. Wife of J. Bartram
North / Aged 40 Years /
Beneath this stone / are deposited the remains of / Richard son of
Richard & Mary North /who died Feb^ 21^' lygg Aged 8 weeks/
and Mary Ann daughter of /Richard & Mary North /who died
March 29'^ 1797 / in the 4^'^ year of her age / also / Catharine Jor-
dan/who died July 24*'^ 1802 /Aged 48 years /Mary wife of
Richard North / departed this life DeC 12 1827 /in the 78ti> year
of her age /Richard North / departed this life June 6^^ 1837 /in
the 83'"^ year of his age /Phoebe Emma North /Died at Washing-
ton City April 21 1844 / in the 5^^ year of her age
Interments in this vault were as follows :
October 8, 1827, William North.
May 4, 1839, Dr. Green's child.
June 25, 1854, William North.
40
Here lie inteiTed / Ann Simpson bom 19 October 1787 / died 30'^
July 1789 / William Simpson born 8*'^ Jan^ 1796 / died 17 July 1797
/Eleanor Simpson bom 3^ Ocf 1798 /died 11'^ August 1799/
Samuel Simpson bom 17 March 1785 /died 2°* December 1806/
Day Simpson bom 2°^ May 1794 / died 5^11 September 1808 / George
Simpson born 23"-'^ August 1786 /died 8'^ January 1818 / Gustavus
Simpson born 8^^ Febmary 1792 /died 11'^ April 1822 /George
©Catharine Miercken Potter interred February 8, 1853 [Church
Eegisters].
227
Simpson for many years Cashier /of the first Bank United States/
Born 12th December 1759 /Died 30^^ November 1822
Interments in this vault were as follows :
April 6, 1818, Mrs. Esther Hughes.
May 11, 1825, Stephen Day Simpson.
December 1, 1836, Mrs. Simpson.
March 19, 1841, Eleanor Day Simpson.
June 28, 1849, George Simpson.
August 19, 1854, Stephen Simpson.
March 26, 1856, Mrs. Stephen Simpson.
March 25, 1868," Henry Simpson.
September 13, 1869, Julianna Simpson.
April 22, 1873, Emeline Simpson.
41
C[omelius] Stevenson's Family Vault / William Stevenson Sen^
/Died May 16*^ A. D. 1817 aged 69 years and 3 months /Ann
Stevenson his Wife /Died January 3'"'^ A. D. 1805 aged 45 years
and 5 months /Also their Children / Robert died April 17**^ 1818
aged 36 years & 5 mos/ William died August 27^^ 1813 aged 26
years & 7 mos /Peter died September 9'^^ 1795 aged 6 years & 2
mos /Ann, Wife of Thomas Lake Bom May 31, 1784 /Died Jan'y
10 Compiler of "The Lives of Eminent Philadelphians now Deceased."
11 William Stevenson, born February 17, 1748; married Ann, daughter
tof Lucas Dokoe Groebe, of St. Eustache, Surinam, by his wife, Aletta
Heylinger, and arrived in Philadelphia May 13, 1784. Their son, Cor-
nelius Stevenson, born on the Demarara Eiver, British Guiana, February
20, 1779; died at Philadelphia, April 24, 1860; married Mary, daughter
of Adam and Catharine (Diehl) May, born December 14, 1786; died
Philadelphia, January 29, 1860; Member of the Carpenters Company in
1809, was Major of First Eegiment, Penna. Volunteer Artillery in
War of 1812; like his father many years vestryman of St. Paul's; City
Treasurer in 1831; member of State in Schuylkill of which his son
William Stevenson was Governor; manager of the Protestant Episcopal
Sunday School Society of Philadelphia in 1831. He became a member
of Montgomery Lodge F. & A. M., April 5, 1810; charter member of
Industry Lodge, No. 31, June 22, 1811, of which he was Junior Warden,
Senior Warden and Master in 1812; Member of Philadelphia Lodge
No. 72, February 9, 1832; Grand Treasurer, 1832, and Grand Master of
Pennsylvania, 1843; City Treasurer of Philadelphia, 1830-1850; one of
the founders and Senior Warden of St. Andrew's Church. His great
grandson, Stevenson Hockley Walsh, Esq., is a councillor of the Colonial
Society of Pennsylvania.
228
1779-CORNELIUS STEVENSON-1860
:tn0ctiption0 on Tlomb^tone^ anb i^avilt^
2, 1873 / Margaretta Daughter of William Stevenson Sr. /Bom
July 1. 1796. Died December 3, 1876.
Interments in this vault were as follows :
November 22, 1820, Ann Stevenson.
August 8, 1823, Eloise Salaignac.
June 2, 1825, Caroline Lake.
The following inscriptions are in the rear of the church beginning
from the North.
A-1
This stone /was Erected by /Elizabeth Manning / consort of R.
H. Manning /of the County of Wicklow / Ireland / [son of]/
Robert H. Manning /who departed this life /March 11^^ 1830/
Aged 41 Years /Also his children / Grizelda died Aug 12 1827/
Aged 1 year 8 months & 24 days / Robinina Hayes January 1827 /
aged 2 years / Robert Hayes August 1827 / [aged] 8 months
12 days
A-2
In / Memory / of / William H. Hayward/Who departed this life
/May 18*1^ 1825 /Aged 27 years
Mourn not for me Eliza dear
I am not dead but sleeping here
And as I am so must you be
Prepare yourself to follow me
A-3
In /Memory of /Matthew Spillard/who departed this life/
March llt'^ 1804 /Aged 49 Years / also / of Mary wife of /Mat-
thew Spillard/who departed this life /April 4*1* 1801 Aged 53
Years
A-4
In Memory of /James Alexander & Mary Ann /The Twin Chil-
dren of /Mat. & Mary Spillard/who died July the lO^i^ 1789/
Aged 10 Weeks. / Beneath this sod harmless Babes repose/
releas'd / / /Also Maria
Spillard/who died June 20**' 1791 /aged 6 months /and Elizabeth
who died /Aug* 9^^ 1791 Aged 4 Years
A-5
In / memory / of / John Sperry/who departed this life /Decem-
ber llti' 1822 / aged 17 Years.
229
^i0totil ot &t paurjEi episcopal C|^utc|^
A-6, Altar Tomb
Beneath this stone are buried /the remains of Andrew Brown
late of /the city of Philadelphia Printer /Aged 52 years /and
Elizabeth his Wife aged years / and of Mary. George & Elizabeth,
their children /A fire which broke out in their / dwelling house on
the 27*1^ of Jan^ 1797 / destroyed them all, the mother and the/
children perished in the flames, the father languished a few days
and followed after
A-7
Here lie the remains of Parry Hall /Obit. October 30 1793/
aged 38 years
His faith and patience love and zeal
Do make his memory dear
And Lord do thou the prayers fulfil
He offered for us here
also/M" Mary HalP^ wife of the Eev^ Rich^ D, Hall /Nat May
7. 1786. ob. Feb. 5. 1817 / Also / Parry Pilmore Hall their son/
nat Oct 17. 1816. ob. Dec 27 1821 /Rev Richard Drayson Hall/
Bom 1 May 1789 Died 28 July 1873.
AS
In memory of /Margaret James bom Feb^ 22"* 1793 / departed
this life July 15*1* 1794 /Mary McGlathery bom Nov 13. 1797 /de-
parted this life Oct 24 1798 /Richard bom Feb 26. 1796 /lost at
sea Sept 12 1816 /Thomas bora July 27. 1799 / departed this life
Sept 12. 1820 /James bom Aug 28 1794 / departed this life March
31. 1828 / Ferguson bom Sept 16 1801 / departed this life July 24
1834 /Children of Richard & Mary Robinett / Also / Mary wife of
/ Richard Robinett bom Sept 2 1770 / departed this life July 4 1834
/Richard Robinett / departed this life /on the 1^^ of July A. D.
1835 /in the 64^^ year of his age /Robert W. C. Robinett /son of
Richard Robinett / died April 8^^ 1836 /in the 30ti» year of his age
A-9, Altar Tomb
Beneath /this stone are Entombed the Remains / of / Elizabeth
Ryerson / daughter of Thomas and Mary Ryerson/who died the
6^^ day of March A. D. 1818 /In the 18ti» year of her age /the
flower f adeth for the wind passeth / over it and it is gone / Also / of
izEichard Drayson Hall m. Mary Douglass, April 5, 1818. St. Paul's
Registers.
230
1765-NORRIS STANLEY-1851
FROM FRENCH MINIATURE IN POSSESSION OF
NORRIS S. BARRATT.
Infittivtion^ on 7lomb0tont0 anti f^ault^
/Thomas Ryerson/who died the 2°'^ day of Oct"'' A. D. 1835 /In
the 82°'* year of his age /Also of /Mary Ryerson/wife of Thomas
Ryerson/who died the 23'-'i day of Dec"- A. D. 1846 /in the TS'J*
year of her age
A-10, Altar Tomb
The Memory of the just is blessed Psa X 7 / Sarah, the daugh-
ter of /Joseph & Elizabeth Turner / departed this life May 21^*
1798 Aged 19 years /And Elizabeth the wife of /the Rev Joseph
Turner/ June 17ti» i818 Aged 73 years /The righteous shall be had
in everlasting / remembrance Psal exii, 6. /Also to the Memory of
/Joseph M. Turner who died at Alabama /on the 5^^ of September
1818 /in the 31^* year of his age /Also to the memory of the /Rev
Joseph Turner a Native of Devonshire England / some time Rector
of S' Martins Marcus Hook and Assistant / to the Rector of the
Sweedish Churches in the State / on the 26'^ day of July A. D. 1821
/he ceased from his labours and entered into rest /in the 79'^ year
of his age /They that turn many to righteousness / shall shine as
the stars for /ever and ever Dan xii. 3 /also to the memory of
Eliza daughter of /Joseph & Elizabeth Turner /Bom February IS***
1775 / Died March 3''^ 1868 / Also to the Memory of Esther daugh-
ter of /Joseph & Elizabeth Turner /Bom Nov 18^^ 1781 /Died
March 13'^ 1868
A-11, Altar Tomb
Sacred /to the memory of /Mary /Wife of Norris Stanley /who
departed this life / on the 26*^^ of November 1823 / in the 48^^ year
of her Age / also / in memory of / Rolanda S. Swain / who died in'
the Havana /on the 6*" of May 1824 /in the 22^ year of his Age/
And /to the memory of/Norris^^ Stanley /Bom November 10*^
1765 /Died May 8^^ 1851 /in the 86ti» year of his age /Blessed are
the dead who die in the Lord
13 Norris Stanley was in early life a master mariner and commanded
ships sailing to foreign ports. Later he became a ship owner and mer-
chant, and an associate of Stephen Girard, William Cummings, Com-
modores Bainbridge and Barry, Mayor Wharton and Captain Thomas
Hayes of John Moss's ship "Tontine" and many other well-known
Philadelphians. In 1810 he was an Inspector of the Philadelphia County
Prisons. He took a deep interest in Masonry, was Warden of Lodge
No. 2, in 1809, and Senior Master of Ceremonies in 1816. During his
lifetime he gave his wealth to the poor and distressed, especially Masons,
and by his will, of which WUliam Cummings and Horace Binney, Jr.,
were executors, he remembered in a substantial way many of the
charities of St. Paul 's, of which he was sometime a vestryman, q. v.
231
A-12
In memory of /M""^ Margaret Leech/ (relict of Capf^ Tho^ Leech)
/who died DeC ISt'^ A. D. 1822 aged 80. / years / Endued with an
excellent understanding — was / Generous, Benevolent & Charitable;
In all the /Domestic & Social relations, as a Wife. Mother /Friend
& Neighbor. Her conduct was exempla/ry; with Fortitude &
Pious resignation she bore /many & Severe afflictions; Her rela-
tives humbly / trust, she now stands near the Throne of God, /
among those who came out of great tribulation, / & have washed
their robes & made them white /in the blood of the Lamb /Also of
/ Charlotte Leech daughter of / Tho^ & Margaret Leech / who died
May 31 A. D. 1792 aged / 20 years
Youth, Innocence & Beauty join'd
With Elegance & Taste refined
Lo! Here in humble ruin lies
Till the last Trumpets voice shall make
Heaven Earth & Hells foundation shake
Then in Immortal Beauty rise.
A-13
In /memory of /Miss Mary Ann C. A. Allen /the second daugh-
ter of the /Rev Benjamin Allen / formerly Rector /of this Church/
She died Oef 30^1^ 1841 /in the 21^^ year of her age /Mary hath
chosen that /good part which shall not /be taken away from her/
42 v/Also in memory of the /Third Brother of Mary /Benjamin
Allen / He died Jan^ 31^* 1852 / in the 30^^^ year of bis age
A-14
In memory of /Emmanuel Josiah/who departed this Life/ June
4th 1779 /Aged 84 Years / also / Ann his wife / Departed this life
/May 28**' 1767 /Aged 47 Years
A-15
A stone with no inscription.
A-16, Altar Tomb
Sacred /to the memory of /Richard Renshaw/who died /No-
vember 27"» 1835 /Aged 63 years / also / Mary Erwin his Widow
/who died / September 25^11 1838/ Aged 58 years /Also their daugh-
ter/Alice Johnston Neill/who died /July 29*1^ 1856 /Aged 37
232
In0ctiption& on ^omb^tone^ anti Pault^
years / also / Richard Renshaw/who died July 5^^ 1865 /Aged 56
years
A-17
Here lie /The Bodies of /Richard Renshaw/who died Oct 20
1806 / Aged 1 month & 9 days / and / Mary J. Renshaw / who died
Feb 11. 1807 Aged / 4 years 4 months & 9 days / children of / Rich-
ard & Mary E. Renshaw
A-18, Altar Tomb
Sacred to the Memory of /Richard Renshaw/who died the IS'''
of March 1799 /Aged 89 years / Also / His children / Charles who
died the lO'** of Dec/ 1775 Aged 5 months /and William who died
the 9ti» of Sept/ 1782 Aged 2 months & 20 Days / also / His Grand-
children/Mary Ann R«nshaw/who died the 21^* of Aug 1798./
Aged 3 years and 9 days /and Edward Renshaw Thomson /who
died the IS'^i of May 1799 / Aged 1 year and 9 months / also / Ann
his Wife /who died the 21«t of August 1822 /aged 75 Years 3
months and 24 Days
Believe in Christ, his sacred Laws obey
And Live in Hope of an Eternal Day.
A-19
E E[?] Thomson / In / Memory of /Ann R Thomson / daughter
of / / who died / July 1805 [ ?] / Aged years
B-1
In Memory of /John the Son of /John & Sarah Johnston /who
died Feby 2^ 1788 / Aged 12 Weeks
B-2
In /memory of /Eleanor daughter of /John and Sarah John-
ston/who departed this life /May lO*'' 1805 /aged 22 years
B-3
In /Memory of /Catharine Daughter of /John & Sarah Johnston
/ who departed this life / May 4^'' 1801 / Aged 16 years
Go fair example of untainted youth
Of modest wisdom and pacific truth
Great without pride humble yet not mean
Quiet in affliction and in death serene.
233
a
In /memory of /Robert C. Seaborn /who departed this life/
March IV^ 180 /Aged 43 years /also of / Elizabeth. Wife of/
Peter Freburger / and daughter of /Rob* C. Seaborn /who de-
parted this life/Novf 22°^ 1825 /in the 26t>> year of her age /also
EUzabeth Wife /of Robert C. Seaborn /Who died Sepf 6^^ 1830/
in the 85*^^ year of her age
B-5
In /Memory of /John Moffet/who departed this Life /Novem-
ber/in the Year of our Lord/ 1798 /in the Sixty year /of his
age /Also of /Rachel Moffet/who was bom April m^ 1802 /and
died June the 25ti» 1803
B-6
In /Memory of /Sarah Moffet/who departed this Life /June
the 27'»> 1802 /in the 67*"^ year of her age /Also of/ John Martin
Moffet/was bom October the 26*^ 1808 /and departed this life/
May the 8''» 1809 / aged 6 months and 18 days
B-7
In Memory/ of /M" Sarah Currie/Wife of/Docf William
Currie / & Daughter of / John Morton Esq. / who departed this Life
/ Ocf 25*'^ A. D. 1794. Though here in dust her Relicks lie / Her
Spirit shall flourish in immortal life.^*
B-8
A flat stone with no inscription.
B-9
A flat stone, showing marks for pedestals for an altar tomb. The
Church Records indicate this spot as the burial place of Peter le
Barbier du Plessis.^**
14 Doctor Currie, a well-known and highly esteemed physician, who
rendered most efficient service during an epidemic of yellow fever, was
the eldest son of Eev. Dr. William Currie, Missionary of the Eadnor
Parish, which included Old St. David's, Radnor, St. Peter's, Great
Valley, and St. James, Perkiomen. William Currie Wilson, Esq., a
member of this family and Assistant City Solicitor of Philadelphia, is
also a member of the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania. C. Howard
Colket, Esq., Registrar of the Colonial Society, is likewise a descendant
of the Rev. William Currie, D.D.
na Peter le Barbier Du Plessis was a conveyancer, scrivener, notary
public, and sworn interpreter of foreign languages, and in 1791 he
234
in0ctipUon0 on Tlomb^tontfi anti mult^
B-IO
To the Memory of / William Macpherson / formerly Brigadier
General in the / service of the United States /who departed this life
/ November 5. 1813 Aged 58 years
I am the Eessurection and the Life saith the Lord
He that believeth in me though he were dead yet
Shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth
on me shall never die.
B-U
Caused to be Erected by the Widow /Cap* John Macpherson / to
whose Memory and / that of their Daughter / Eliza Gates this Tomb
/John Macpherson /a Native of Scotland / born in /the City of
Edinburgh / in the Year of our Lord 1726 / departed this life
Sep'" 6*^^ 1792 /aged 66 years Eliza Gates Mac-
pherson/Bom August 21^' 1782 /Died Sep"" 1787 /Aged 5
Years & 1 Month.
B-12
Sacred / to the memory of / Richard Alexander / Bom 1780 Died
1823 /Ann C. Alexander / Born 1779 Died 1858
B-13
In /Memory of /Richard C Alexander / Son of /Richard & Ann
Alexander /Born Febmary 22"* 1809 /Died March U^^ 1809/
resided at No. 86 Chestnut Street, which is the site of the present Jayne
Building on the south side, below Third Street. He was a native of
France, and came to Philadelphia after the American Eevolution. He
took quite an interest in St. Paul's Church, and also in Freemasonry
from 1790 vmtil his death in 1815. In the latter he was Grand Secretary
from 1790 to 1794, and Deputy Grand Master from 1808 to 1813. He
was admitted to Montgomery Lodge, No, 19, of Philadelphia, on Jan-
uary 13, 1787, and was Worshipful Master in June, 1790. He joined
Harmony Lodge, No. 52, December 28, 1791, from which he withdrew on
Jime 9, 1792, and became Warrant Master of a new French Lodge in
Philadelphia, St. Louis, No. 53, formed by French Emigr&s. On June 7,
1806, he became a member of Columbia Lodge, No. 91, of which he re-
mained a member untU his death on November 8, 1815. In his wUl he
mentioned a son George, daughter Helena and daughter Sophia, wife of
John DuBarry, his son-in-law, from whose house, No. 11 North 8th
Street, he was buried in St. Paul 's Churchyard with Masonic ceremonies.
235
Christiana /Alexander /Bom 1866 Died 1859 /Richard J. Alexan-
der / Bom 1846. Died 1878
B-14
In memory of /Edward Young /Who Died / November 20 1787/
Aged 33 Years
B-15
JOHN" B. YOUNG /son of /Charles and Laetitia / died Sepf 28.
1784 /Aged 20 Months.
B-16
In Memory of / M" Ann Young. Wife of / Charles Young of this
City /She died November 7^1^ 1776 /Aged 27 Years /An affectionate
Wife /A tender Parent and /sincere Friend
B-17
Here Lie / the Bodies of / Ann Renshaw / who died April 30, 1809 /
Aged 4 years 6 months /and 9 days / And / Francis J. Renshaw/
died Nov. 23. 1811 /Aged 7 years 10 months /& 18 days. Children
of Richard & Mary E. Renshaw
B-18
In Memory / of / John Young /who departed this Life /June 26
1790 /Aged 76 Years
His Comfort was the precious plea
Jesus has liv'd and died for me.
B-19, Altar Tomb
In Memory of/M"^ Deborah Palmer /wife of /John Palmer/
Who died July 8 1783 /Aged 64 Years / also / John Pahner/Who
died /April 8^^ 1797 /Aged 80 years /John Palmer /Son of John
& Deborah Palmer /who departed this Life /March 27 /also/
Alice M. Palmer /wife of John R Palmer /who departed this life/
January 19. 1838 /Aged 72 years 3 months & 11 days /Also in
Memory of / Josiah W. Kirk who departed this life / on the 1^* day
of May 1850 in the 52°^ year of his age
B-20
Sacred /to the memory of /John Palmer Kirk /Son of /Eli and
Elizabeth M. Kirk /who died April ll*'* 1833 /Aged 3 years and 1
month
2*36
In0ctiption0 on 7lomb0tont0 anti PauItiEt
B-21
In /memory of /Francis Procter Sen'' /who departed this life/
March 12 1792 aged 87 years /Gen^ Thomas Procter /departed this
life /March 16. 1807 Aged 67 years / Also / Anna Maria wife of/
Tho^ Procter / departed this life / June 1^* 1789 aged years / Rob-
ert Charlton / departed this life / Jan^ 31^*^ 1787 aged 36 years
B-22, Altar Tomb
Sacred /to the Memory of /Isaac Fitzrandolph / who departed
this Life October 14*1^ A. D. 1804 /In the Fifty seventh year of his
age
The voice from Heaven declares
To those in Christ who die
Eeleas'd from all their Earthly cares
They reign with him on high
B-23
In Memory of /William P. Johnston / died March 6"^^ 1816 /in
the 79'^ year of his age
C-1
In Memory of /Hester Wife of/Eman^ Rinedollar / who de-
parted this life/Nov"^ 25'*^ 1799 /in the ^0^^ Year /of her age
C-2
Sacred /to the memory of /Joseph Beaks /who departed this
life /April 6'^ 1772 Aged 46 years /also Jane his wife /who de-
parted this life /October 2^ 1777 Aged 41 years / Also / Captain
Joseph Beaks /who died at Sea July 1795 /aged 80 years & 3
months / also Elizabeth his daughter / who died at sea with her
father /Aged 6 years /Also Sarah Beaks who departed / this life
September 24^^ 1795 / Aged 30 years / also
C-3
Sacred / to / the memory of /Jane Beaks /who departed this life
/October 16*1^ 1837 /Aged 14 years / also / Elizabeth / Widow of
the late Cap* Lewis Mory/who departed this Life /October 12*^^
1847 /Aged 79 years
C^
Here /Lies the Body of /Mary Murdick / Daughter of /John
& Hannah Murdick/ Who departed this Life/ July 17"^ 1787 /Aged
1 Year and 10 Months
237
^i^tot^ of &t paurjS (episcopal C|utc|
C-5
In /Memory of /Ann Daughter of William / and Mary Ander-
son/who departed this Lite/ 15^^ Jan'^' 1790 /Aged 12 Years &
17 Days /Much esteemed when living for /her amiable vertiues
by all who / had the pleasure of an acquaintance / with her.
C-6
In Memory of / Elizabeth / the wife of /James Ferguson / Who
departed this Life /August ll'^'^ 1797 /Aged 47 years / Also / Eliza-
beth / daughter of E & A / Grand daughter of J & E. Ferguson
/who departed this life Feb. 6*'^ 1845 /Aged 2 years 6 months /&
15 days
C-7
Sacred /to the memory of /Margaret Laskey / daughter of /Ed-
ward and Catharine / Laskey / who was born April 24**^ 1783 /and
departed this Life /January 11*^^ 1809 /Aged 25 years 8 months &
25 days
C-8
In Memory of / Edward Laskey / who departed this Life / May
6^^ 1800 /Aged 52 years 8 months /and 21 Days
No pomp ■ nor grandeur swell 'd/his humble name
The honest Man will reap/immortal fame
Also / Catharine Laskey / Who departed this Life / December the
27t'i 1810 /Aged 59 Years 10 Months /and 3 Days
C-9
Sacred / to the memory of / Catharine Boyd / wife of / Jamies
Boyd /who departed this Life / February 8 1808 /aged 32 years &
2 months / and 8 days
C-10
In Memory of / Mary the Wife of / Richard Hunt / who departed
this Life / May 1^* 1793 / Aged 34 Years
C-11
Here lie the remains of /Jane Wife of /Edward Moyston/of
this City /Who departed this Life /on the 23-^ of March A. D. 1791
/Aged 34 Years / likewise their two children
C-12
In Memory of /Mary, Daughter of /John & Margaret / Webb,
Departed / this Life June 17th / 1774 / Aged 5 Years & 1 Mo./
Transitory World / Farewell, Jesus calls /With Him to Dwell.
238
In0ctiption0 on ^omb^tone^ anb l^auUjsf
C-13
In Memory of /Abraham George Copper /who died March 20^''
/ 1790 /Aged 14 Years & 6 Months /Son of Norris & Elizabeth
Copper /Cap* Norris Copper /was lost at Sea /in January 1778/
Aged 50 Years.
C-14
Beneath this Stone /Repose the remains / of / Cap* John Dona-
ven / who departed this life / on the 16'"'' day of / December 1814 /
in the SS*"^ year of his age /in the same grave are deposited /the
remains of his daughter Mary /who followed her Father /the 17*^
day of March 1815 / aged 5 months and 17 days / Near to this spot /
lie buried the remains of/M""^ Elizabeth Barger / sister to Cap*
Donaven who died on the IS"* July 1796 / Aged 18 years.
C-15
A flat stone, inscription of which is entirely obliterated. This is
the place of interment of Plunket Fleeson, who died August 21, 1791.
He was born in Philadelphia in 1712, was Ensign of Second Com-
pany o^ Associators in 1749, and a Founder of the Hibemia Engine
Company in 1752. A justice of the City Court, 1780, and a Direc-
tor of the Pennsylvania Hospital.
C-16
In Memory of /Matthias Sadler /who departed this Life the 18*'"
of /April 1798 /Aged 42 Years 9 Months & 14 days /Also of/
Eleanor Wife of /Matthias Sadler /who departed this life /April
24th 1826 aged 74 years /I know in whom I have believed / Also of
/Elizabeth Tallman^sa / Born A. D. 1777 /Died A. D. 1861 /Aged
84 years
C-17, Altar Tomb
In memory of /George HeyP^/who departed this life /on the
25*^ January 1815 /aged 75 years /Also of/Dorathea Wife of/
15a The great aunt of Mrs. Arthur H. Lea, of Philadelphia.
15 George Heyl, son of George Thomas Heyl, who, born August 2,
1702, married April 27, 1728, Susanna Sternheim, and shortly thereafter
came from Baden, Germany, and settled in Philadelphia, where he died,
October 31, 1760. His sons, Philip and George, were Eevolutionary
soldiers from Philadelphia. The latter, born 1740, executed his will
June 10, 1812, and named therein, wife Dorothea, children George, Wil-
liam, Mary Clapier, Elizabeth Johnson and Susanna Harman. He
married Dorothea Phile, and with her was party to deed of January 20.
1787, from Dr. Frederick Phile and Elizabeth, his wife, of Philadelphia,
239
George Heyl/Who departed this life /on the 30^^ September/
Aged 74 years
C-18
Sacred /to the memory of /Susannah Harman / Consort of/
Jacob Harman / who departed this Life August / 23'"'i 1844 Aged 49
years/ 11 months and 16 days / Also / Jacob Harman Sen'"/who
departed this life / Dec'" IS^i* 1857 / in the 94*1* year of his age
C-19
Sacred /to the memory of /Frances Sophia / Daughter of /Rich-
ard and Elizabeth Johnson /Died May 25**1 1805 /aged 8 months
and 24 days / Also / Frederick Seeger/son of /Richard and Eliza-
beth Johnson /Died July 8^^ 1808 /aged 11 days / Also / Richard
Johnson /Died August 2<i / 1816 / Aged 75 years and 9 months/
Also /Elizabeth /Wife of /Richard Johnson /Died August 22^
1843 / aged 79 years 4 months / and 12 days
C-20
Sacred /to the memory of /Mary Vanderhalt / who departed this
life / December 7'*^ 1847 / in the 84 year of her age
C-21, Small Altar Tomb
In Memory / of / Margaret Butler /who departed this Life/ June
1764 /Aged years /Also her friend /Ann Cannon^^/Who
died Sept 20 1809 Aged 85 years
C-22
In Memory of /Robert Son of /Rob* & Elizabeth Carson /who
departed this Life /June 2^ 1796 /in the 22^ Year /of his age/
Transitory world /Jesus Call'd with him to dwell / Also / Elizabeth
yeaton Carson / his Mother / who died May 1. 1816. / Bom Sept 17.
1739.
D-1
In /memory of /Benjamin Robbins/who departed this life /Jan
31^* 1834 /In the ^5^^ year of /his age / Also / Ruth Daughter of/
for three hundred and eighty-four acres of land, called " Philesburg,"
on East Allegheny Elver, in Westmoreland County, Penna. George
Heyl was a well-known merchant of his day ; Dr. Phile was Naval Officer
at the Port of Philadelphia 1777-1791 and a distinguished surgeon in
the Revolution, George A. Heyl, Esq., long a member of the Colonial
Society, is a great grandson.
icMrs. Ann Cannon was a benefactor of St. Paul's Church, having
presented one of the two silver flagons to the Church marked ' ' The Gift
of Mrs. Ann Cannon to the Altar of St. Paul's Church."
240
In0ctivtion^ on 7lomb^tont0 anti l^anlt^
Benjamin & Susan Robbins/Who died Sept le'i* 1822 /Aged 8
months and 2 days
D-2
Q
Sacred to the memory of /John Robbins/who died February 24.
1808 / aged 59 years 9 months & 12 days / Elizabeth / Wife of John
Robbins/who died February 17 1819 /aged 66 years 1 month & 7
days / Catharine / Daughter of /John & Elizabeth Robbins/who
died October 13. 1798 /aged 19 years 2 months & 26 days /John/
Son of /John & Elizabeth Robbins/who died July 24 1842 /aged
70 years 1 month & 28 days
D-3
In /memory of /The Son and Daughter /of John & Elizabeth/
Robbins / Alexander Departed / this Life 1778 /Aged 10
Months & 2 Weeks/ Day /Susannah Departed / this Life Oct
1783
D^
Q
Elizabeth Robbins /Died Sep'" 30^11 1850 /in the 76*^ year of her
age
D-5
Sacred /to the memory of /Enoch Wheaton/who departed this
life/Sep"- 9'^ 1825 aged 48 /years 11 months & 18 days
Dear mourn not for me
We soon shall again united be.
D-6
Sacred / to the memory of / Martha Read / wife of / Francis Read /
who died Sep®"" 22"^ 1840 /aged 83 years and two /months
My flesh shall slumber in / the ground
Till the last trumpets joy / ful sound
Then burst my bonds wi / th sweet surprise
And in my Saviour 's image / rise
Also /Francis Read /husband of Martha Read / departed this
life /August 16*'^ 1848 /aged 93 years
17 241
D-7
In /Memory of /Mary Stuart / Daughter of /John & Martha
Stuart /who departed this Life /August 30^^ 1799 /Aged 16 Years
11 Months /& 7 Days
D-8
In Memory of /John Clark / who departed this Life / 29 June 1792
/Aged 28 Years.
D-9
In Memory of / Mary Ann daughter of / George & Martha Hall /
who departed this Life / February 16'i» 1802 / aged 1 Year / 1 Month
& 24 days
Fresh in the morn the summer's rose
Hangs wither 'd e'er t'is noon
We scarce enjoy the balmy gift
But mourn the pleasures gone
D-10
In /memory of Elizabeth M^Kay/wife of Thomas M'^Kay/who
departed this life /August 17^^^ 1826 /aged 65 years and 9 days/
Also in memory of / Thomas & Elizabeth / Son & Daughter of /
Thomas and Elizabeth M'=Kay/Tho« departed this life/Dec'" 7*-^
1813 /aged 17 years and 10 months /And Elizabeth June 29^^ 1802
/aged 4 years 1 month and 1 day /Also Thomas M^'Kay Sen'"/who
departed this life / June 4'^i» 1850 / in the 70''' year of his age
D-11
In /Memory of /Ann Doughty / Daughter of James &/ Margaret
Doughty /was Bom June 23'"'^ 1782 /and departed this Life /Sept
22°d 1786 /Aged 4 Years & 3 Months
D-12
In Memory of /M""^ Mary Biggs /Relict of/M"" Ephraim Biggs
Dec^ / formerly a Merchant /of this city /who departed this Life/
the 22'^ Day of Oct' 1794 /in the 73 year of her Age
D-13
Sacred / to the memory / of / Susannah Goodwin / Wife of John
Goodwin /who departed this Life /April SO*'* 1806 /aged 40 years
& 10 months
242
:in^ctiption0 on TLomh^tontiS anti multfi
D-14
Here lieth the /of /Richard Neave*^/ /London/
Merchant / who / Departed this Life /in /the /1795
Aged 84 Years / Richard^s [Neave] / [four lines illegible]
18 R. N. died Feb'' 23, 1809.
D-15
James Norris Copper /Died March 19*i» 1833 /aged 23 years/
Annie Sayles Copper / Died March lO*** 184 / aged 29 years
In Memory of /John Barker Jun'/who died June 16*^/1773/
Aged 13 Months
D-16, Altar Tomb
In memory of /Charles Kirkham/who departed this life /July
5*^^ 1810 /In the 55*1^ year of his age / Also / Deborah Kirkham/
his widow / who departed this life / July 18t»» 1814 / in the 60^^^ year
of her age
D-17
Born / the 14^^* November 17 and / Departed this
life the day/ 177 Years/ /
Wife/ 17 /and Departed this Life/
1771 [?] [17 lines illegible]
[This is probably Tomb of Thos. Edward Wallace.]
D-18 ~~
In /Memory of /Mary Daughter of /Doctor William & Mary/
Claypoole/of Wilmington / N° Carolina /who departed this Life/
October ll^i* 1793 Aged 3 Years / and 6 Months.
D-19
In Memory of/M" Mary Yorke/Wife of/Capt° Peter Yorke
/who departed this Life/Feb^ 26*1^ 1797 /in the 24t»» Year /of her
Age
D-20
In Memory of /George Claypoole / Who departed this Life /Oc-
tober 4'^ 1793 /Aged 60 years /Also Catharine Claypoole / Who
departed this Life / March 31^* 1770 / Aged 33 years
Jesus can make a dying Bed
Feel soft as downy pillows are
While on his Breast I lean my head
And breathe my Life out sweetly there
IT Church Records say that Richard Neave was buried July 12, 1795.
243
^i0totif of &t ^mV^ episcopal CJutcJ
D-21, Altar Tomb
In memory of /Mary wife of Jeffrey Clark /who departed this
life /March IS^^^ 1778 /aged 69 years / Also / Jeffrey Clark^^b / ^j^q
departed this life / Jan? 20**^ 1782 / aged 79 years / Also / John Tur-
ner/who departed this life /May 23'^ 1825 /in the 78*^ year of his
age / Also / Mary wife of John Turner /who departed this life/
October 20*^ 1833 / in the 86''^ year of her age
D-22
Abigail Lowry/Died Feb. 25 1851 /aged 85 years / Also / Mar-
garet Lowry/Died April 25. 1851 /aged 81 years
D-23
In Memory of /Thomas & Ellen Muskett/Who Departed this
Life October /l"! 1793. She Aged 44 Years /He October 7*
1793 Aged Years / Also their other children who died / Young. /
(4 lines)
D-24
Sacred / to the memory of / Mary Curtis / who departed this life /
on the S*-^ day of March 1821 / in the 28^^ year of her age / Also in
memory of / Abigail Curtis / who departed this life / on the IS*** day
of April 1828 /in the 28'*^ year of her age /Daughter of John and
Elizabeth Curtis
D-25
Sacred / to the memory of / Jacob B Curtis / Son of John H. &
Sarah 0 Curtis /who departed this life /on the 1^' day of January
1821 /in the 7''' year of his age /Also of John Curtis /who de-
parted this life /on the 27^1^ day of September 1820 /in the 65*'*
year of his age /And of Elizabeth Curtis /Wife of John Curtis/
who departed this life /on the 30*1^ day of July 1831 /in the 68t'»
year of her age
D-26, Altar Tomb
In Memory of /William Cameron /who departed this life /Sep-
tember 29ti> 1793 / aged 29 years
I saw him faint! I saw him sink to rest
Another victim midst the dying throng
But resignation oalm'd his gentle breast
And heav'nly accents breathed upon his
17b Jeffrey Clark, great, great, great, great grandfather of L. Irving
Reichner, of the Philadelphia bar, a member of the Colonial Society.
244
lnfictiption0 on ^omHtone^ anb f^aultfi
Also / In memory of / James Cameron / who departed this life /
August 17^^ 1825 / in the 64'^ year of his age
E-1
Hear/Lieth the Body of /Jacob Vanseiver Moore /the son of/
John & Hannah Moore /Who Departed this Life August 20^** in
the Year of our /Lord 1794 Aged 1 Year &/5 Months 3 Weeks
5 Days
Death hath Leas'd Our Babe And
Tore Him from our Arms in Earth*
Cold Bosom. Now he Lies With
All his Smiling Infant Charms.
E-2
In / Memory / of / Matthias Keen /who died / February 21 1784
/aged 73 years / Also / Mary Keen /who died /July 12 1791 aged
75 years
E-3
In / Memory / of / Matthias V. Keen^^ / who died / October 20*'*
1806 /aged 59 years / Also / Elizabeth Keen /who died /May 10'*»-
1830 aged 80 years
E^
Sacred /to the memory of /Sarah Morrison / Wife of William
Morrison /who departed this life/ June 26^^ 1832 /in the 80*'' year
of her age
E-5
Sacred / to the memoiy of / Robert Bayne / who departed this
transitory / life on the le*** April 1815 /in the 40*** year of his age
How serious is the summoning of death
Solemn the moment man resigns his breath
Awful! that verge of dread eternity
Tio which we hasten and whence none can fly
Great God! our leader and our guardian be
And take us when from time we go to thee.
Also of / Samuel P. Bayne / who departed this life / Sep' 26*'»
1821 /Aged 15 years 6 months & 10 days
E-6
In Memory of / Joseph Wright / Son of Anthony & Hannah
Wright / who was born Sept 6 1769 / and departed this Life Sept
19 Matthias Valentine Keen, vestryman 1794-1804, and Elizabeth
Hood, his wife. For further particulars, see Descendants of Joran Kyn
of New Sweden, by Gregory Bernard Keen, LL.D.
245
^mot^ ot fet pauriS epWcopal CfiurcS
13/ 1779 /Aged 10 years & 7 days /In Memory of /John W.
Wright /who was Born April 16^'» 1776 /and departed this Life
May llti»/ 1794 /Aged 18 years & 25 days/ Children in
thee /In Hopes we /In Christ divine
E-7
In Memory of /Joseph Son of John & Mary Miller/ who Died
4"» July 1796 /Aged 8 Months
E-8
In Memory of /Mary Smith /the Wife of/Jonithin Smith /&
Daughter of /John Hyde /Who departed this Life /January the
24^'' 1793 /Aged 22 Years.
E-9
In Memory of/Worsley Ernes Esq^^/A Member of the Cincin-
nati/who departed this Life /July the 27ti» 1802 /Aged 62 Years
E-10
In /Memory of /Sarah Hicks /Wife of William Hicks /Daugh-
'ter of Adam &/ Elizabeth Keller /who departed this Life /the ll***
of September / Anno Domini 1803 /Aged 24 Years 9 months /and
:20 days
In midst of Health & Blooming youth
How sudden Death O Death did come
Her days of sickness were her
And then lay silent in the tomb
E-11
In Memory of/Reachel Barnes/ Who departed this Life /Oc-
tober 19'»» 1772 /Aged /I Year/ 6 Months
E-12
In Memory of/M" Elizabeth Beard /Wife of/Capt° Will™
Beard /who departed this life /October 11*^ 1796 /Aged 46 Years
E-13
In / memory of / Hannah / daughter of / Thomas and Mary /
Stiles / who departed this life / June the 22°^ 1803 / Aged 10 months
/ and 22 days.
246
Inactiptionfi on Tlomhfitontfi anH l?auU0
E-14
In Memory of /William Son of /William & Mary Lane /who
departed this Life /October the IS*'* 1801 /aged 1 year 2 months/
and 4 days / [4 lines]
E-15
/ Mary Daught / of John / Mary ™<=Nilans.
/ Deceaced June y® / 1773 / Aged 7 years & 4 mon
E-16
In memory / of / M""^ Mary Rose /who departed this life /on the
13*^^ day of April / 1803 / Aged 63 Years/ [5 lines]
E-17
In Memory of /William Nelson /who departed this Life /the
8^^ of January 1781 /Aged 82 Years / also / Ann his Wife /who
died June 25*1* 178 / Aged 62 Years
E-18
Gulyann Molier / departed this Life the 2 Year of /her Age /in
the Year of our Lord 1797/ Esther Molier / departed this Life the
3 Year of / her Age in the Year of our Lord 179
Here Here they lie O could I once more view
These dear remains take one more fond Adieu
Where friendly Angels for their guidance given,
Now leads them through the Courts of Heaven.
E-19
In Memory of / W™ Potter Benson / Son of P. & Jane Benson /
who departed this life /June 6*'* 1800 /aged 16 months/ Also
Frederick / Son of the above /who died /June 18''> 1800 /aged 2
Y" & 11 Months.
E-20
In Memory of/ Jane P Benson / Daughter of / Peter & Jane /
Benson who / departed this life / August 7*^ 1794 / Aged 20 months.
E-21
Sacred/ to the memory of /William Stokes /who departed this
life / February 9^^ 1803 /aged 46 years/ Also /Mary Stokes /his
relict /who fell asleep in Jesus /Dec"" 18*'* 1828 /aged 72 years
247
l^i&totjf ot &t paur0 Ctvi0copsi\ Cj^utc]^
E-22
Thomas Wright Armat/Bom June 14 1776 /Died July 30 1806
E-23
Here lies /the Body of /M" Jane Babb/who departed this Life
/October the 8^^ 1783 /In the 29^1' Year /of her Age/ [5 lines]
E-24
In Memory of /Matthew Parker /Who departed this life Sep-
tember/the 9^^ 1793 in the 40'*^ year of /his Age / Likewise / Cath-
arine his Wife Who died / September the 12ti» 1793 j^ ^he 42°^/
Year of her Age /Also of 5 of their children / John Aged 2 Years
and 6 Months / Joseph Aged 3 Years and 3 Months / Samuel Aged
1 Year and 7 Months /Lydia Aged 1 Year and 1 Month /And
Joseph Pilmore Who /Departed this Life September the 25/1793
Aged 2 Years 5 Months & 12 Days
E-25
Here lieth the Body /of Benjamin Town /May 20 1790 /Aged 41
Years /and 5 Months
E-26
In /memory of/M"" Benj. Holland /who departed this Life/
Ocf 29^^/ 1796 /aged 43 years
E-27
In memory/ of /W™ & Eliza Matilda /Son & daughter of/W™
& Eliza Gartley/1806
F-l
[West side] In memory /of /Benjamin Masden Esq^'/who de-
parted / this life / April 6'*^ 1836 / aged 65 years / and 7 months
[South side] In memory/ of /M" Prudence Masden /wife of/
Benjamin Masden /who departed / this life / September lO*'' 1818/
aged 59 years
[East side] In memory of /Benjamin Masden Jun^'/son of/
Benjamin & Hannah Masden /who departed this life /March 26*^*
1837 /aged 6 years & 21 days /also of /Ann S Masden / daughter
of /Benjamin (Sj Hannah Masden /who departed this life /March
27th 1837 / aged 15 years & 11 days
248
In0ctiption0 on ^omb0tont0 anti f^mlt0
F-2
In Memory of / Rachel / the wife of /Thomas Webb /who de-
parted this Life / December the 23'-^ 1795 /Aged 27 Years
By ministerial Spirits convy'd
Lodg'd in the garner of the Sky
She rests in Abraham's bosom laid
She lives with God no more to Die
F-3
In Memory of /John Webb /who departed this Life /Oct
1773 Aged/ Years
F-4
Sacred /to the memory of /Mary wife of /James Wilson /who
departed this life / October 14 1835 / aged 38 years & 10 days /
Also / Edward her son / who departed this life / October 1821. /
aged 20 years 3 months & 6 days
F-5
In /Memory of /Thomas and William /Sons of Thomas and
Mary Fenton / William departed this Life /June 19'^ 1793 /Aged
3 Years 2 Months & 25 Days / Thomas departed this Life / Septem-
ber 4^'^ 1793 /Aged 18 Years & 6 Months / Also / Mary Fenton/
Who departed this life /May 6'^ 1800 /Aged 4 Years
F-6
In /Memory of /James P. Carteret /son of /Daniel & Emily
Carteret / who Departed this Life / October aged 17 Years
/9 Months & 9 Days/ [8 Lines]
F-7
In Memory of / Thomas Flower / Son of / Tho^ & Hannah Flower
/who departed this life /March 7^^^ 1801 /aged 3 years & 6 months
/ and 27 days
F-8
In Memory of /George McPherson / Son of /Daniel and Ann/
McPherson / who departed this /life on the 17*'^ DeC / 1801 / Aged
7 Years & 11 Months
F-9
In Memory of /Ann Maria McPherson / daughter of /Daniel and
Ann / McPherson / who departed this /life Dec-" 24'i» 1801 /Aged 2
Years & 15 days
249
l^iiStotp of &t paurjei Cpfjeicopal C^utcS
F-IO
In Memory of / Daniel / the Son of Daniel & Ann McPherson/
who departed this Life / June the 3^^ 1796 / Aged 8 Months / Also
W™ McPherson / who departed this Life 14 Oct./ 1798. Aged 5
weeks.
F-11
[West side] Beneath this Stone /was deposited / the Body of/
Catharine / Wife of /William Thackara Sen^'/who departed this
life /on the 13t»» day of/ July A. D. 1780 /aged 35 years /Under
this Stone lies /the remains of /William Thackara Sen^'/who de-
parted this life / on the 10'^ day of / April A. D. 1817 / aged 79 years
Sacred / to the memory of / deceased Parents
r-12
To the Memory of/Rosannah Wright /who departed this Life
/ Oct"- 7 1793 / Aged 28 Years
F-13
Sacred /to the memory of /Joseph Wright /who departed this
life / Febn\ary 10"^ 1810 / aged 40 years 6 months / & 10 days
Adieu dear friends I take my leave
Farewell my loving wife
Our children shall your guardian's be
And bless your widow 'd life
When from this world you are releas'd
It's sorrows toils and cares
In everlasting joy we '11 meet
To sing our Makers praise
r-14
Sacred/ to the Memory of /John Meer Sen'^o/who was bom at/
Wolverhampton England / February 9^^ 1756 /& died July 29'^
20 John Meer, Sr., was an artist and lived at No. 4 South 7th Street,
below Market Street. He married a widow, Mary Grould West. She is
buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Her first husband, Captain Josiah West,
was a jeweler on Second Street below Market Street and he was a com-
municant. He is buried in Trinity Church Yard, New York City. A
daughter, Caroline West, attended St. Paul's until 1845. She married
Joseph C. Eandall, a well-known and highly respected merchant of this
city, and among her descendants are numbered Edmund Eandall, Esq.,
of the Philadelphia Bar, and Caroline Eandall Deaver, the wife of the
distinguished American" surgeon. Dr. John B. Deaver, of Philadelphia.
250
9n0cription0 on '^omb^tont^ anH mixlt^
1831 /For 41 years a Citizen /of Philadelphia / An honest man is
the /noblest work of God.
F-15
In /memory of / Elizabeth / wife of James Matthews who /de-
parted this life May 5*'* 1794 /aged 19 years /Also of /James
Matthews / Husband of the above named / Elizabeth Matthews/
who departed this life the / 16'i> July 1812 aged 64 years / & 4 months
F-16
In /memory of /John n/who departed this Life / September
14* 1811 /Aged /and 10 months
r-17
A stone undecipherable.
F-18
In /memory of/Odell Fennell/who departed this Life /March
1793 /in the 39 year of his age /Also of Edmund Fennell/
Son of/Odell & Margaret Fennell/who died April 13'^ 1818 /in
the 26'^ year of his age /In memory of /John Vallance/ (a native
of Glasgow.) /who died June 14*^ 1823 /aged 53 years
F-19
In Memory / of Margaret / of / /
also of /Margaret Vallance/ /who died /Feb-
ruary 8. 1827 / aged 44 years.
F-20
In / memory / of / Conrad Seyfert/who departed this life /July
the 8*^ 1822 /Aged 33 years /He was an affectionate husband/
Kind parent and a friend to / his country and all mankind [6 lines
illegible]
Also of/ Elizabeth Seyfert/his Wife /Who departed this life on
/ the 17th day of September 1840 / In the 72"^ year of her age
F-21
In /memory of /George Halberstadt / who departed this life/
May 23^ 1812 /Aged 44 years 6 months /and 27 days /And also/
Anne relict of /George Halberstadt / who departed this life /on
the 4'»» day of April 1846. / in the 72°^ year of her age [2 lines]
251
^i&totif of &t ^a\xV0 CpiiSfcopal CJutcS
F-22
In /memory of / Frances / Daughter of /Thomas & Ann Youngs
/who departed this Life /July 7^^ 1805 /aged 3 years 2 months/
and 7 days
F-23
In Memory of /Richard Son of/Thos & Ruth Watkins/Who
died/Dec"- 31^* 1796 /Aged 2 Years/ 10 Months & 20 days.
F-24
In Memory of / William Son of / Tho^ & Ruth Watkins / who died
/Dec"- 29'!' 1796./ Aged 8 Months /& 19 Days.
F-25
In /memory of /Ann Halberstadt / who departed this life /April
6*^ 1812 /Aged 16 years 6 months /and 14 days [8 lines illegible]
F-26
In Memory of /Ann Wife of /John Cromwell /who departed
this Life /Oct 15 1793 /in the Year of her Age /Also of /Mary
their daughter /who died 18 1793 /Aged Days [4
lines illegible]
F-27
Mary Armat/Died July 22 1780
F-28
In Memory of /Margaret Cromwell / Wife of /John Cromwell/
Who departed this Life /October the 15^11 1798 /Aged 34 Years &
9 Months
Eest here in hope O Sacred dust
To awake and shine
Also of John Cromwell / Died June 7*-^ 1828 /in the 60''* year
of his age
F-29
In /Memory of /Mary Richards / Wife of John Richards /who
departed this Life / the 18^^ of Sepf 1800 / aged 59 years
F-30
Sacred /To the Memory of /Ann Dawson /Wife of Joshua Daw-
son/who departed this Life /the 24'*' of March 179 /Aged 2r
years [2 lines illegible]
252
JnjEfcnptionsi on ^^omb&tont^ anti mixlt^
Also /In Memory of their infant / daughter Sarah who died the
18^11 of September 1793 / aged 3 days
G-1
In Memory of /Deborah "Wife of /Francis Shaffner/who de-
parted this Life Ocf llti" 1793 / Aged 28 Years 9 months
G^2
In Memory of /James Forder^i/who departed this Life /Sept
1794. / [other lines illegible]
G-3
A Stone illegible.
G-4
In Memory of /Ann Wife of /Cap* Edward Spain /who de-
parted this Life /Oct' 18^^^ 1794 /Aged 60 Years /&' 6 Months [4
lines illegible]
G-5
In Memory of /Daniel Drais/who departed this Life /Jan
1791 in the 38ti» Year of his Age/ [4 lines iUegible]
G^
In /memory of /James Harris /who died April 17*^* 1815 /aged
77 years
G^7
Sarah Nelson / "Wife of George Nelson / Departed this Life / June
15. 1782.
G^8
In /Memory of/M""^ Margaret Norman /"Wife of/ /
who departed this Life / Oct° 7^^ 1793 / [4 lines illegible]
G-9
In Memory of / George Hinton / "Who Died 11^*^ Oct" 1793 / Aged
30 Years. Also his son.
G-10
In/ memory of /George Hinton /who died October 11 1793 /And
of his widow / Barbary Hinton / who died November 17*'' 1816
21 James Forder, died Sept. 29, 1794,
253
^iHtot^ ot fet pauPiSf dpi^copal C^utcS
G-ll
In Memory of /George, son of/Capt° James Snell/and Eliza
his Wife /who departed this Life /April 13*'' 1801 /Aged 11
Months.
"Here rests the fairest bud of hope / That e'er to fondest wish was
giv'n /
Oh would'st thou know its happier state /Repent & seek the
flow'r in heav'n."
0^12
In /memory of /William Alexander / Bom July l^' 1772 /Died
Nov*- 17. 1806 /Also of his Mother / Rachel Alexander / who died
March IG*'' 1818 /Aged 77 years
G-13
In /Memory of James /Son of /James & Rachel / Alexander /
who departed this Life /July 29*'' 1775 Aged /I Year & 6 Months
0^14
In Memory of / Elizabeth / Wife of /James Alexander / who de-
parted this Life / January 24*»» 1771 / Aged 30 Years
0^15
In Memory of /James Alexander^^ / who departed this Life/
22 James Alexander, born in Belfast, Ireland, May 1, 1726, came to
America prior to 1750 and settled in Philadelphia, where he was a sea
captain, residing at No. 10 Spruce Street, between Front and Second
Streets, from before 1761 to 1785 when he removed to Southwark. In
sympathy with the American cause he was a signer of the Non-Importa-
tion Eesolutions of 1765, and served in Captain Eichard Barrett's Com-
pany of Guards for Southwark January 3 to February 3, 1777. On
July 17, 1771, he married Eachel Craven of Gloucester County, New
Jersey, by whom he had four children. An ardent Mason, he was an
original member and Secretary of Lodge No. 2, and his descendants have
continued this interest. William Alexander, his eldest son, member of
the Philadelphia bar, was made a Master Mason in Lodge No. 3, March
21, 1797. Another son, Eichard Alexander, 1780-1823, was a member
of Lodge No. 2, and Junior Warden at the time of his decease. A grand-
son, John C. Alexander, 1821-1885, was made a Master Mason, November'
1853, and Worshipful Master, 1865. William Cummings, 1806-1889, a
prominent merchant of the Port of Philadelphia, who married his grand-
daughter, Emily Eichardet Alexander, in 1831, was Worshipful Master
of Lodge No. 2, 1837-39, during the Morgan excitement and prevented
254
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;\^/f:Vl^-,r>r 4.-^
a:^.--
/-/x
A LEAF FROM THE RECEIPT BOOK OF JAMES ALEXANDER SHOWING THE PAYMENT
OF PEW RENT TO ST. PAUL'S IN 1773, OVER 143 YEARS AGO, TO JOHN WOOD
AND THOMAS GORDON OF THE VESTRY. WOOD WAS A WATCHMAKER AND IS
BURIED IN FRONT OF THE CHURCH. JAMES ALEXANDER BECAME A MEMBER
OF ST. PAUL'S IN 1761.
In^ctiption^ on tlTomiiisitonfsf anli l^auIW
[illegible] / Aged 66 Years [James Alexander was buried 1 Jami-
ary 1795.
a-16
In /memory of /Margaret Alexander / Wife of /James Alexan-
der / who departed this Life / June 1811 / / aged /
and / [stone much worn.] [Mrs. Alexander buried June 9.
1811]
G-17
In /memory of /James Alexander / who departed this life/Feb^
lyti^ 1829 /Aged 53 years & 11 months /and 27 days
G-18
In /memory of /Rebecca Robinson /Who departed this Life/
April 18. 1775. /Aged years.
G-19
Robert /Bartram/ died May 27. / 1775 / Aged 14 Months.
G-20
In /memory of /Maria C Cox /Daughter of /Captain John and
/Martha Cox /who departed this life /March 3. 1803 /aged 3 Years
/ and 17 days
G-21
Samuel Adam Shaw /[born] June 7. 1801 /died in
July 17. 1802 / Aged 1 year 1 month 9 days & 6 hours / A patient
Sufferer/ [The greater part of this stone illegible]
G^22
In /memory of /James Barbazett/who departed this life /Janu-
ary 28**' 1818 /aged 29 years 9 months /and 1 day.
Departed here in hope face
To meet the Saviour of the human .
the Lodge from surrendering its charter. His great-great-grandson,
Norris Stanley Barratt, was made a Master Mason in 1886, and Wor-
shipful Master in 1895, and is the present Representative of Lodge No.
2 in the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, serving as a member of the
Committee on Library; is also a member of the Supreme Council of the
thirty-third and last degree of freemasonry. James Barratt, a great-
great-grandson is also a member of Lodge No. 2.
255
G-23
In /memory of /Daniel Gosner^'^ / who departed this life /May
20. 1796./ aged /Also of / Rebecca / his wife /who died Oc-
tober 15. 1820 / aged 68 years & 6 months / and — days.
GK-24
In /Memory of/M" Elizabeth Wife of /Robert Fitzgerald/
who departed this Life/ November 26^11 1770 /in the 28*1' Year of
her Age / Also of / Robert Mary & Kaziah / Children of / Robert &
Kaziah Fitzgerald / who Died in Childhood / M" Ann Bell / aged 63
years
G-25
In / memory of / Robert Fitzgerald / who departed this life / April
1^' 1813 Aged 73 years [6 lines indistinct]
And of /Elizabeth daughter of /Robert and Lydia Fitzgerald/
who died August 17. 1790 /Aged 1 year and 3 months
G-26
Sacred /to the memory of /Lydia Fitzgerald / Relict of /Robert
Fitzgerald /Bom Feb 19 1737 /and departed this life Feb 4. 1830
[8 lines indistinct]
Rebecca A Bell /Died July IS^h 1849 aged 33 years /Robert F
Bell /Died August 16'»» 1850 aged 39 years
G-27
In /memory of /Anthony Fannen/who departed this life May
the 2^ 1827/ Aged 76 years
G-28, Altar Tomb
Sacred/ to the memory of/ Harriet H. Consort /of Geo. W. Gill
/who departed this life July ll*!' 1830 /aged 22 yrs 9 mos & 16
days / Also / George Andrew Son/ Harriet/ July
7. 1830 / aged 9 mos 10 days [8 lines]
23 Daniel Gosoer, son of Captain Peter Gosner, of the Pennsylvania
Continental Line, married August 1, 1782, Eebecca Tybout, born April
7, 1752 daughter of James and Comfort (Kollock) Tybout. Children:
Peter Gosner; James T. Gosner, died at New Orleans, Sept. 21, 1804, in
ninetieth year; Ann Gosner; Hester Gosner, married Thomas Whitecar,
of Philadelphia, and had issue.
£56
ln0ctiptionfi on ^omh^tom^ anb Wultfi
GK-29
In / memory of / Francis C / son of / James S. and Esther / Nally /
Aged 2 years 7 /months and 28 days.
G^-SO
In /memory of /Elizabeth wife of /Garrett Hulsekamp / who de-
parted this Life / September the 14*^ 1807 /aged 72 years and 9
months
GK-31
In /memory of /Garrett Hulsekamp / who departed this life/
March 16 1812 /In the 96^^^ year of his age /In him was the kind
Husband a tender /and affectionate Father & sincere friend /to the
Afflicted and Distressed / Also / Mary / Daughter of G. Hulsekamp
/Who died June 23 1841 /aged 71 years
H-1
In Memory of /Thomas Bowen/who departed this Life /Sep-
tember 4ti> 1797 / Aged 48 Years
rrom painful days and restless nights
Now death has set me free
And
I shaU
H-2
In Memory of /David Bowen/who departed this Life /August
29^b 1797 /Aged 15 Years [4 lines illegible]
H-3
In Memory of / Mrs. Penelope Bowen / wife of Tho^ B'owen / who
departed this Life /April 9'^ 1795 /Aged 34 Years [4 lines]
H^
In Memory of/Cap*^ George Bridges /who departed this Life/
October 9^^^ 1769 /Aged 55 Years /Also three of his sons /Alexan-
der Robert & George / who died in their infancy [12 lines indistinct]
H-5
In /Memory of /Juliet Ann wife of /William Rankin /Who de-
parted this life / September 19"> 1807 / Aged 21 years
18 257
H-6
John on [probably Wilson] /who dep /August
/ aged / Mary W [illegible]
H-7
Sacred / To the memory of / John V Shade / who died by the acci-
dental / discharge of a gun / on the 19^** May 1823 / in the 25 Year
of his age
(Six lines of verse undecipherable.)
Susan, wife of Peter Shade /and daughter of Margaret Warner/
Died October 10*^ 1829 /in the 60'^ year of her age /Margaret
Warner /Died Feb 25'»i 1826 in her 80*1^ year /Susan Shade Jones
/Died August 11*'^ 1820 /aged 2 years and 11 months /Ann Maria
aged 16 Months /John, aged 24 hours /John Fergusa aged 11
months/ Susan, aged 2 Years &| 4 Months /John Colem, aged 3
days. / Children' of Thomas and Maria W. Jones.
H-8
Here lieth the Body of /John Simes Pritehard / Son of Joseph
and / Elizabeth Pritehard / Who Departed this Life/ SOt**
1793 / Aged 9 Years. Also in Memory of / Samuel Coulty / who de-
parted / Sep'- 29ti» 1794 Aged 38 years
H-9
In /Memory of /Christy departed this life January 11, 1812/
aged 1 Year, 2 months and 25 days.
H-10
In /memory of /M" Rebecca Christy /wife of /Robert Christy/
who departed this life / October the 4^"^ 1800 / aged years / Like-
wise their three children / William departed this life March /the
17th 279 aged one year / Seven months and 13 days / Robert Jun*"
departed this life March /the 28 1801 aged one year /and 10
months /James Christy / departed this life /the 6'** of May 1806./
16 days.
H-11
In / memory of / Thomas Wigmore / who departed this life / Sepf
25*'^ 1803 / Aged 41 years / Also of Susannah wife of / Thomas Wig-
more / who died Sepf 4''^ 1803 / Aged 22 years
258
ln^cti9tioniS on Tlombfitont^ anH l^ault^
H-12, Altar Tomb
Here lieth the body of /Jane /wife of Isaac Hozey/who de-
parted this life / the 23 August 1803 / aged 27 years & 10 months
H-13
In Memory of / George Peehin Son of / Christopher ^ Christiana
/Pechin/who departed this Life /March the 31«t 1778
H-14
In / memory of / Christiana Peehin / Relict of / Christopher
Peehin/ who died January 7'^* 1835 /in the 88*^ year of her age
[This Stone has been recut to read " Bom 12. 1747 Died Jan
7. 1835]
H-15
In Memory of / Christopher Peehin / who departed this Life / Oc-
tober the 26^1^ 1779 /Aged 42 Years/ [4 lines] [This stone has
been recut to read "Bom in France 1737 Died October 26. 1779]
H-16
/WilUam /Aged 14/1790 [illegible]
H-17
In memory / of / Andrew Spence / who departed this life / Oc-
tober 7^^ 1805 / aged 43 years / Also / Mary wife of Andrew Spence
/who departed this life / December 22°"^ 1821 /aged 53 years
H-18
Robinson [illegible]
H-19
Mary Robinson
H-20
In /memory of /Rebecca Connelly / wife of Isaac Connelly / for-
merly widow of Henry Robinson / She departed this life / 20*^ day
of February 1785 / aged 39 years
H-21
Henry Robinson
259
H-22
Benj. Robinson
H-23
In memory / of / Samuel Robinson / who departed this life / the
20t'» of January 1824 /in the 56'i» year of his age / And / Judith
his Wife /Who departed this life / December 12*^' 1841 in the 75«»
year of her age.
H-24
In Memory of / Henry Robinson / who departed this Life / April
IS'i^ 1776 /Aged Years
H-25
Michel Long /departed this Life / December 3''«i 1773 /Aged 38
Years.
H-26
In Memory of /Joseph Son of /Samuel and /Ruth Robinson/
who departed this /life Aug 17 /Aged Months/
Weeks
H-27
Sacred /To the memory of/M" Mary Foot /who departed this
life /the 13*'' of Feh^ 1812 /aged 78 years
H-28
In / Memory of / George Gillighan / who departed this life / Janu-
ary 22°"^ 1818. /aged 63 years / Also / Mary Wife of /George Gil-
lighan/who departed this life / February 18'^ 1820 /aged 67 years
H-29
Sacred / to the memory of / Two Sons and a Daughter of / John'
and Margaret Wharton /John Wharton Jun'" / departed this life
Aug 30 1820 /in the 20^^^ year of his age /William Wharton /de-
parted this life Aug 30 1820 / in the 14*^*^ year of his age / Margaret
Wharton /departed this life Aug 31. 1820 /in the 17'»^ year of her
age [6 lines]
H-30
Sacred /to the memory of /Isabella Price /Relict of George
Price /who departed this life /October 2^ 1808 /Aged 70 years &
8 days / Also / Isabella Price Davis / daughter of /Andrew & Eliza-
beth Davis /who departed this life /in August 1799 /Aged 3 years
& 2 months / Also / Mary Davis / daughter of /Andrew & Elizabeth
260
Jtifictiption^ on ^omi)0tontfi anb I9mltfi
Davis /who departed this life /in October 1802 /Aged 1 year & 2
months
H-31
In /Memory of /William Price /Son of /Andrew & Elizabeth
Davis /died August 1^' 1816 /aged 21 years & 11 months /Also/
Elizabeth / Widow of Andrew Davis /died May 15ti» 1829 /aged 64
years & 5 months
H-32, Altar Tomb
In memory of /James Moyes/who departed this life/Sepf 25^
1833 /in the 80*^ year of his age /Also /of Mary his wife /who
departed this life /April 11*^ 1850 /in the 96*^ year of her age
H-33, Altar Tomb
In Memory of Ann /ye wife of John Moyes/who Departed this
Life August/ 18'^ 1762 in ye 44 Year /of Her Age
I-l
Sacred / to / the memory of /Virginia Elmslie / Daughter of/
Louis and Susan Elmslie /Who departed this life /On the 5th day
of March A. D. 1857 /Aged 9 years 2 mos & 20 days
1-2
In /Memory of /Cathrane the wife of /Thomas Cave: who /De-
parted this Life September / the 23^ 1795 Aged 31 Years /And three
months / Also four of their children / May they rest in peace
1-3
In /Memory of /Maria Bennet/who died August 6"^ 1825/
aged 80 Years
1-4, Altar Tomb
In Memory of /Margaret Beck /Wife of /Paul Beck Jun'/
Died lot** April 1797 /Aged 36 Years /This Vault also contains/
the Remains of /Mary Goddard/Wife of John Goddard/and/
Daughter of Paul & Margaret Beck /who died 7*'* April 1825/
Aged 36 years and 9 days /Mary Harvey Beck /wife of /Paul
Beck JVDied. Dec 3* 1810 /The Remains of /Paul Beck Junior/
and of /Mary Harvey Beck /were removed April 12*^* 1851 /from
this Vault to Laurel Hill Cemetery
[On the North side] Mrs. Susannah Clayton /died 25''* January
1787 / Aged 45 years
261
[On the South side] William Currie Beck /Bom 1796
Died 1828 /M"- Richard Parker /died 9^^ November 1769 /Aged
38 years
1-5
In / memory of / M""^ Susan P Lammor / Consort of Daniel Lam-
mor/who departed this life/ 31 December 1817 /Aged 52 years 1
month & 2 days
1-8
In Memory / of / Mary Gunary/who departed this Life /No-
vember 16/ 1763 /Aged 28 Years.
1-7
Mary Pidgeon / Departed This Life /October 1793 /Aged 50
Years & 9 Months
Silent Tomb I lye
yonder
Husband Children mind
And 'II meet me in endless day.
1-8
In /Memory of /John Huckel/the son of /William and Susanna
/Huckel/Who departed this Life /April 20. 1797 /Aged Years
1 month / and Days
1-9
In' Memory / of / William Wisdom2*/who departed this Life/
August [rest illegible]
I-IO
In /memory of / departed this life/ 1800 [rest
illegible]
I-ll
In Memory of / Catharine Wife / James Spriggs / who departed
this life /January le''' 1802 /Aged 79 years /and 2 months/ [2
lines illegible]
M' James Spriggs /who departed this life /January lO''^ 1806/
Aged 60 years [lines] [stone sunk]
1-12
Here Rest / in peace / the mortal remains of / Margaret Desilver /
who died the 15'^^ of July 1835 / aged 55 years 2 months & 15 days /
24 William Wisdom buried Aug. 28, 1798.
262
InHctiptionfi on 7!Lomb0tont0 anti ^anlt^
Also /Robert Desilver/who died September IS^** 1837 /aged 58
years 5 months <Si 4 days / Ann / Daughter of Margaret / and Robert
Desilver/who died February 7'^ 1820 /aged 15 years 1 month &
23 days
Tis Heaven's high will we must to dust return
At 'eve at noon day or in the blooming morn
But small the difference when the summons given
If w'ere prepared to tread the Courts of Heaven.
1-13
In Memory of / Joseph Pringle / who died / Nov*" 12'^* 1790 / aged
11 Months
1-14
Sacred / to the memory of / Thomas Broome / who departed this
life / January 11. 1818 / aged 64 years / [2 lines illegible]
Also /in memory of/Letitia Broome /his wife /who departed
this life/ September 22'^ 1820 /aged 63 years/ [4 lines]
Also Hannah Broom/ daughter of / Tho^ & Margaret Broom / who
died August 29 1828 /aged 50 years
1-15
[A stone broken and illegible.]
1-16
In / memory of / Catharine wife of / William Delavau / who de-
parted this life /August 17 1828 aged/ 29 Years /Also
of /Catharine Amanda / daughter of William &/ Catharine De-
lavau / was bom 1828 / died Feb 1829 aged / 7 months
& 13 days /Also of /William Delavau /who departed this life/
May 20"^ 1832 Aged/ 44 years 6 months /and 16 days
1-17
In Memory of /Susannah Kennedy / Daughter of /James & Su-
sannah/Black, who departed / this Life Ocf 2^ 1774 /aged 23
years.
1-18
In Memory of /James Black / Departed this /July
/Also /Susan /Departed / 1776
Aged Years / Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord.
263
1-19
Sacred /to the memory of /James Thomson /who departed this
life /April l«t 1829 /aged 37 years & 26 days /And /of his Brother
/John Thomson
1-20
In /Memory of /Jacob Thomson /who departed this life /Dec
24*'' 1808 /in the SO^'^ year of his age / Also / Mary / his wife who
died July/13ti» 1839 in the 79 year /of her age [Foot-stone of
George Gillighans against this.]
1-21
In /memory of /William Blair /who departed this life /Novem-
ber IT*'' 1823 / in the 57'*' year of his age / And / his widow / Sarah
Blair /who departed this life /June 28*^ 1824 /in the SS'** year of
her age / also of / Samuel Blair / Son of / William and Sarah Blair /
who departed this life / December 14*^ 1823 / in the 44^'' year of his
age
1-22
In Memory of /Amy wife of Anthony Lougeay / departed this
Life / September 26^^ 1799 /in the 68 Year of her Age /also of her
children
1-23
In /memory of /Anthony Lougeay /who departed this life /the
30 day of October 1808 /in the SO*'' year of his age
Farewell lamented friend may Angels guide
Thy weary Spirit to the realms of rest
Where pain can never come nor death's cold hand
Chill the pure of celestial life
Where happy souls of life serene
Raise to their great Creator hymns of joy
Here we must remain to mjourn and
Perhaps for years the adverse of life
Yet should we suffer pain or bliss enjoy
Till time shall lay us with the silent dead
The sweet remembrance of thy genuine worth
Shall fill our bosoms with a pensive joy.
Departed this life /March 19ti» 1849/Phebe Wife of Anthony
Lougeay /in her 83^ Year
My body I resign with these in the dust to sleep
I hope my soul with them will with Jesus meet.
264
In0ctivtionfi on <^omb0tont0 anti t^aixlt^
j-i
Erected /to the memory of /Mary Louisa /wife of Elias Marsh/
who departed this life /March IS'** A. D. 1839 /aged 41 years 5
months /and 20 days
J-2
In /Memory of /Nancy Rushton/who departed this life/
August 8*-^ 1820 /aged 57 years / Also / Edward Rushton/who de-
parted this life /June 4*^ 1824 /aged 37 years / And / William
Rushton/Son of Edward /and Jane Rushton/who died May 4^
1818 / aged 9 months
J-3
Sacred /to the memory of /M" Mary Caskey/who departed this
life /February 5^'^ A D. 1823 /in the 53^ year of her age
The soul of our Mother ia gone
To tighten the triumph above
Exalted to Jesus 's throne
And clasped in the arms of his love
Also Hannah /Wife of Robert S. Wood /and Daughter of /Rob-
ert & Mary Caskey/who departed this life /June 30^11 1816 /The
remains of /M" Mary Caskey/were removed /to Woodlands Ceme-
tery/October 17. 1859
J-4
Stephen Randolph / Died June the 5t»> / 1763 / Aged 23 Years &
10 Months.
J-3
In /Memory of /Cornelius KoUock^" / Who Departed this /life
July 1. 1798 / Aged 37 Years / and 3 Months.
J-0
Sacred /to the memory of /Hans Jaeobson/who departed thia
life /February 3^ 1810 /aged 67 years
Farewell my wife and children dear
I am not dead but sleeping here
My debt is paid
Prepare yourselves to follow me
25 Probably son of Lieutenant Jacob Kollock, Jr., Collector for ti«
Port of Lewes, Delaware, by his wife Mary Leech, and he who married.
May 23, 1789, Mary Eogerson. See ' ' Genealogy of the Kollock Family
of Sussex County, Delaware, 1657-1897, by Edwin Jaquett Sellers, Esq.
265
3-1
In Memory of/Barbary wife of /Peter Field /who departed
this life/1^' Sept 1793 /Aged Years /May she rest in Peace
J-S
In /memory of /Elizabeth Parker Farr / youngest daughter of/
W°» & Elizabeth Farr /who died August 9^^ 1806 /Aged 1 month &
21 days /Also of /William Farr /Father of the above /who died
August 22nd 1807 / Aged 33 years
J-9
In /memory of /John Hook /who departed this life /May 7*''
1812 / aged 67 years 1 month and 19 days
Near where these sad memorials rise
The husband friend and father Ilea
A breast within whose holy cell
The Christian virtues lov'd to dwell
Jl-10
Ann lann / departed this life /July the 29*1' 1778 /Aged 10
Months / and 2 days
Jr-n
Here /Lies the Body /of /John Graham /who departed this/
Life Aug* 6. 1794 /Aged 15 Years.
J-12
In memory of /Alice Eccles/Wife of /James Eecles/Who de-
parted this life /October 2^ 1806 /Aged 20 years/ [4 lines illeg-
ible]
J-13
In Memory of /John and Mary /Son and Daughter of /Henry
& Sarah Butler /John died April 27 1769 /Aged 3 years /Mary
died May 21. 1765 /Aged 3 Months
J-14
In Memory / of / Grace Raworth / Who Departed this Life / July
17 Aged/ 23 Years [illegible]
J-15
In Memory of/Neomai O.Neaill / Wife of /Daniel O.Neaill/
who died Sep' 17 1769 /Aged 52 Years /also Ann his Daughter/
who died Novem' 18 1764 /Aged 18 Months
266
In^ctiption^ on ^omh0tont0 anti f^mltfi
J-18
In Memory of Daniel O.Neill*/who departed this Life /March
6''> 1790 Aged 40 ( ?) Years
My flesh shall slumber in the ground
till the trumpets
then burst
And in my Saviours image rise
Jr-17
In Memory of /John Johnson/ Life/ 96 [illeg-
ible] [Church Registers record that John Johnson was buried 7 June
1796.]
J-18, Altar Tomb
lhTs.
24 Sept 1793 /Elizabeth Wife of I. Wood J^late of Virginia/
She was an affectionate Wife / Mother and faithful Friend
JV-19
Sacred /to the memory of /Elizabeth Reynolds /who departed
this life / June 1^ 1816 / in the 78''» year of her age
Corruption Earth and worms
Shall but refine this flesh
Till my Redeemer bid me come
To put it on afresh
J-20
In /Memory of/Josiah Cohoon/who departed this Life/NoV
lOtii 1795 Aged/ 35 Years (&| 9 Days /Also 4 of his Children /My
flesh shall slumber in the Ground Till the joyfull sound
K-1
P. Evans /a worthy man /who died December 11 1806 /Aged
76 years
K-2
In / memory of / Martha Nichols / wife of James / who departed
this life / November 27 A D 1823 / aged years / Also of her hus-
band/James Nichols /who departed this life /May 14*'» A. D.
1824 /aged 61 years
267
In' the History of the First Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry,
published 1917, there is the following statement, which the writer
has been unable to verify:
"William Forrest (No. 139 on register) was a son of Captain
William Forrest, who commanded a six-gun battery at Trenton. In
the Philadelphia Minerva of July 28, 1798, are to be found elegiac
verses in memory of the young man — the page beautifully printed
and ornamented by wood cuts as headings and tail pieces. He was
buried in St. Paul's Churchyard, Third Street, south of Walnut
Street."
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LIST OF VESTRYMEN, 1762-1830; 1835-1876^
Abbott, Edward 1827
Alexander, William 1865-1866
Anderson, James B 1873
B'ankson, Andrew 1763
Bartram, Alexander 1771 ; 1773-74
Bartram, George 1769-1771; 1773
Bates, John 1783
Baynton, John 1763
Beall, T. L 1873
Beaty, John 1824-1828
Beere, Jonathan 1773-74
Benezet, James^ 1762-63
Benezet, Philips 1762-63
Benner, Henry D., M.D 1870-76
Bickerton, George 1799-1813
Biggs, Thomas 1797-1803
Bonham, Ephraim 1762-3 ; 1770-74
Briggs, John 1824-27
Broome, Thomas 1795-96
Bullock, Joseph 1783
Cadwalader, Charles Evert, M.D 1874-76
Campbell, John 1793-95
Carleton, Thomas 1762-63
Carradine, Thomas 1792-94
1 The minutes of the Vestry from April 24, 1829, until April 12, 1862,
twenty-three years, are missing. So this list of Vestrymen is not com-
plete as to that period which covers the rectorships of Drs. Tyng, Mc-
Coskrey, and May and twelve years of Dr. Eichard Newton's. The min-
utes, beginning April 12, 1852, to October, 1876, cover the last ten years
of Dr. Newton's incumbency.
2 Died in Bucks Co., Penna., May 16, 1794.
3 Died Oct. 13, 1791; buried Christ Church grounds, Philadelphia.
269
Clark, William H., M.D 1870-76
Claxton, John8» 1797-1805; 1808-28
Claypoole, George 1770-73
Claypoole, James* 1762-69
Conway, William 1869-76
Corry, William 1795
Cooke, Jay*"^ 1852-62
3a Ship Chandler No : 19 Arch Street.
4 James Claypoole, born Jan. 22, 1720, was ensign in Capt. Charles
Willing 's Company of Pennsylvania Associators, organized for protection
against the Indians, Dec. 29, 1747, and High Sheriff of Philadelphia
County, 1777-1780. He married, first, Eebecca White; second, Mary
Chambers. Of his five children, all by the second marriage, Elizabeth
Claypoole, married, first, Capt. Norris Copper, second, Timothy Matlack
of Revolutionary fame; Mary Claypoole married James Peale; Abraham
George Claypoole (1756-1827), oflEtcer in the Pennsylvania Line, and an
original member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati, married,
first, Elizabeth Popplewell Falconer, second, Elizabeth Steele; a number
of his descendants reached distinction; David Chambers Claypoole,
Lieutenant in the Pennsylvania Militia during the Revolution; member in
the First Troop Philadelphia Cavalry and participated in the Whiskey
Insurrection and the Fries Rebellion, was also a leading journalist,
being one of the proprietors of the Pennsylvania Paclcet and Daily Ad-
vertiser, later Poulson's Daily Advertiser and now The North American.
It was in this paper that Washington 's ' ' Farewell Address ' ' first ap-
peared, the original manuscript in Washington's handwriting having
been presented to Mr. Claypoole by the President.
4a Jay Cooke born in Sandusky, Ohio, August 10, 1821, son of the Hon.
Eleutheros Cooke, lawyer and member of Congress from 1831 to 1833.
Cooke entered the banking house of E. W. Clark & Co., Philadelphia, in
1839, became a partner in 1842 and retired in January, 1858. For three
years he negotiated railway securities on his own account. While he was
with the firm of E. W. Clark & Co., they sold a large portion of the
government loans to carry on the Mexican War, and this experience no
doubt served to prepare Mr. Cooke for the greater work of floating the
loan required for prosecuting the War for the Union. January 1, 1861,
Mr. Cooke resumed the banking business with William G. Moorhead, and
Hugh McCulloch, afterwards Secretary of the Treasury, having branch
houses in New York, Washington and London. This continued until the
panic of 1873 when the firm suspended. Mr. Cooke subsequently re-
turned to business and completely restored his fortune. Mr. Cooke's
reputation and place in history rests upon his work of successfully negoti-
ating the government war loans. At the outbreak of hostilities in 1861
the national treasury was empty, and the public credit so low that
270
fLifit ot l?f0ttgttun
Cox, James 1852-56
Cummings, William 1837-72
Curtis, John H 1827-28
Cuthbert, Thomas^ 1763
Darlington, Joseph G 1867
Davies, Samuel N 1852-55
it could only borrow money at the rate of twelve per cent, per an-
num. The enormous demands of the war immediately dwarfed into
insignificance all previous American experiences, and all ordinary in-
strumentalities in the way of raising money. The needs of the treasury
for military erpenditure speedily reached one million dollars daily, and
before the end came, with an army of a million men in the field, the
demand reached the colossal volume of three million dollars every twenty-
four hours. Each successive Secretary of the Treasury — Chase, Fessenden,
McCulloeh — first exhausted all known means for selling the war loans
directly by the government and through the cooperation of the national
banking system which had been devised largely as an aid to the govern-
ment finances; but each in succession was compelled by failure to call
Mr. Cooke to his side, and to him, as sole fiscal agent of the government,
was intrusted the direct responsibility of providing the money for carry-
ing forward to a victorious issue the then greatest war of history. All
competent writers on the War for the Union, both American and foreign,
agree that the signal and sustained ability with which the financial
credit of the nation was built up and maintained in the midst of the
war, and with which the money-raising power of the people was stimu-
lated, guided, and upheld, was not second as a factor in military success
to the skill of generals and the courage of troops in the field. General
Grant expressed this common conviction when, at the close of the war, he
sent from City Point to Mr. Cooke, with his thanks, the assurance that to
his efforts the nation was largely indebted for the means that had rendered
military success possible. The loans negotiated by Mr. Cooke, chiefly
through an enthusiastic, confident, persistent and skilful appeal to the
patriotism of the people, reached an aggregate of two thousand million
dollars, and the compensation for this service, an average of three-eighths
of one per cent., out of which came all expenses and commissions to sub-
agents, left to the fiscal agent as a reward little besides the prestige and
satisfaction of a great success in support of a noble cause.
5 Thomas Cuthbert, born in England, 1713, died in Philadelphia Jan.
11, 1781, and interred in Christ Church grounds, was a member of the
Philadelphia Committee of Correspondence in 1775 and a delegate to the
Provincial Convention of January, 1775; later a vestryman of Christ
Church. He married May 19, 1744, Ann, daughter of Anthony and
Elizabeth Wilkinson, and had issue, through whom he became the ancestor
of many eminent Philadelphians,
271
^mov]f of fet paurj* (Cjpiieicopal C^utcS
Deacon, Gilbert 1764r-70
Delavau, Joseph 1795-99
Dougherty, James 1783
Dowers, John 1794r-99; 1806-7
Doz, Andrew 1762-64, 1783
Duffield, Abraham 1799-1800
Dunlap, William 1764-66
Dupuy, Daniel« 1764-7; 1771
Durborow, C. B 1852-61
Emes, Worsley7 1792-1800
Emory, Charles 1856-59
Farr, James M 1860-64
Farr, John 1824-28
Farr, William A 1871-2; 1874r-76
Fearon, Joseph 1800-1809
Fenton, Eleazer 1852-1876
Fitzgerald, Robert 1805
Fitzrandolph, Isaac 1795-98; 1800-3
Fleeson, Plunket 1762-69 ; 1773-74, 1783
Ford, Philip 1874-76
Greorge, John D 1827-31
George, John D 1835-63
George, R. S. H 1852-69
Glentworth, George 1774; 1783
Glentworth, Peter Sonmans 1793
Glentworth, Plunket Fleeson 1792; 1801-19
Godfrey, John W 1799-1802
Goodman, Walter 1762-3
Goodwin, George 1764-74; 1783; 1792-4
Gowen, James'^* 1828
6 Son of Dr. John Ihipuy, was a noted gold and silversmith ; died at his
residence "Clover Hill," near Gray's Ferry, Aug. 30, 1807, aged eighty-
eight years, four months; buried in Christ Church grounds.
7 Captain of Pennsylvania Artillery, Continental Line, and original
member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati.
7a James Gowen was a grocer at the southeast corner of Third and
Dock Streets in 1823 and the site of his store between the Philadelphia
Exchange and Dock Street, still remains. Later he purchased the farm of
Chief Justice William Allen at Mt. Airy. He had two sons, both distin-
guished members of the Philadelphia Bar. Franklin B. Gowen, born
February 9, 1836, died December 14, 1889, who was elected President of
the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company in 1870, which position he
272
%i0t ot i^t0tt^mm
Graham, Thomas 1871-6
Graham, William 1783
Green, Edward A 1868
Groves, John 1803^
Gurling, Abram 1799-1800
Hall, David 1772-74
Hall, PaiTy 1793
Holland, Nathaniel 1822; 1824-31
Hollingsworth, Heniy 1820; 1822-27
Hollingsworth, Levi* 1792, 1794; 1801-19
Holman, Andrew Jackson 1868-76
Holson, Charles 1873
Hook, John 1796-1809
held until he resigned in 1884. He was not only a lawyer of great ability,
but as a financier and railroad manager, Mr. Gowen stands preeminent
among his cotemporaries. He destroyed the Molly Maguires in the
Schuylkill County coal region in 1876. He also took a prominent part in
and helped to form the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1872. His brother,
James Gowen, was among the leaders of the Philadelphia Bar for many
years, and was regarded as an authority upon corporation law. His son,
Francis I. Gowen, General Counsel of the Pennsylvania Kailroad Com-
pany, ably maintains the reputation of his family at the Philadelphia
Bar today.
8 Levi Hollingsworth, son of Judge Zebulon Hollingsworth, of Cecil
County, Md., by his first wife, Ann Mauldin, was born at Elkton, Nov.
29, 1739. In or about 1760, he established himself in Philadelphia, where
he died Mar. 24, 1824, having become not only a successful merchant
but an aggressive man of affairs; was a founder and later first quarter-
master of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, a member of the
Schuylkill Fishing Company and of the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club,
of notable usefulness during the yellow fever epidemic of 1793, and one
of the leaders of the Federal party. He married Hannah, daughter of
Stephen PaschaU and had eight children, of whom but three lived to
maturity and marriage, viz., PaschaU Hollingsworth, who married Mary,
daughter of James Wilson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence;
Mary Hollingsworth, who became the wife of Israel Wistar Morris and
has many descendants who have been and are leaders in their respective
fields of usefulness; Henry Hollingsworth, the St. Paul's vestryman, suc-
cessful merchant and first treasurer of the Western Savings Fund,
married Sarah, daughter of Joshua Humphreys, the famous Philadelphia
shipbuilder and the actual father of the American navy; among his
descendants may be mentioned the Hon. Hampton Lawrence Carson
of Philadelphia, formerly Attorney General of Pennsylvania.
19 273
Howard, John 1764-1771
Jackson, William 1774
Johnson, John 1796-98
Johnson, Richard 1799-1803; 1813-16
Johnson, Richard 1818-22 ; 1825 ; 1827-28
Jones, Blathwaite 1763-71
Josiah, Emanuel 1764^74
Keble, John 1783; 1792-94, 1803
Keen, Mathias Valentine 1795-1804
Kennedy, William 1869-72; 1874r-76
Kerr, Walter 1813-16
Kimmey, Henry M 1852-65
King, James, Jr 1814-18
King, Robert Pennick" 1852-53 ; 1868
Kirkham, Charles 1794-1807
Kirkham, William 1820-24
Knowles, John 1762-64
Lane, William 1797-1800
Latimer, Thomas 1863-76
Leech, Thomas 1764^74
Leevers, Robert 1769-70
9 Eobert Penniek King, born in Philadelphia, April 2, 1805, died there
in October, 1867, his funeral sermon being preached in St. Paul 's Churcli,
Sunday evening, October 18, of that year, by the Eev. E. Heber Newton.
Mr. King was the senior partner of the firm of King and Baird, English
and German Book and Job Printers, No. 9 Sansom Street. The firm
possessed rare facilities for printing in foreign languages and issued a
hymn book in Cherokee, numerous works in Swedish, some in Norwegian,
a stereotyped Episcopal prayer book in the Grebo language and a dic-
tionary of the Grebo dialects. It also published numberless almanacs,
the Banner of the Cross, a weekly Episcopal newspaper, the Legal In-
telligencer and Episcopal Prayer Books, "at lower prices than they can
be purchased elsewhere." At the time of his decease Mr. King was
president of the Philadelphia Fire Insurance Company, the Sullivan
County Land Company, the N orris Park Gold Mining Company of Colo-
rado, the board of managers of the Mt. Moriah Cemetery Association,
a director in the Union Pacific Eailroad Company, was Past Master of
Franklin Lodge, No. 134, and for eighteen years a member of the Grand
Lodge Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania. Daniel J. King was
also a member of the firm. His son, Leroy N. King, is a well known mem-
ber of the Philadelphia bar.
274
fli0t of W0ttismtn
Lohra, Johiii" 1820-25
Loper, Richard Fanning 1856-68 I
MeClenaehan, Blair 1774, 1783.i
Masden, Richard 1826
Matthews, James, Jr 1810-12
Matthews, John 1795-1828
Moore, John 1795-1807
Moyes, James 1793^; 1801; 1823-28
Moyes, John 1764-69, 1772
Musgrave, James 1805-15
Nelson, George 1783 ; 1792-95
Norman, Joseph 1812, 1816, 1818, 1820
North, Richard 1793-98, 1805-13, 1817-28
Odenheimer, John W.^^ 1827-31
Ord, George 1792
Ord, Johniia 1762-3, 1783
Palmer, John 1762-71, 1773-4
Pahner, John Bankson 1805-13, 1815, 1818
Palmer, Thomas 1804-5, 1807-18
Parker, Matthew 1792-3
Paul, William 1797-8
Payne, James 1764-70
Pechin, Christopher 1771-74
Pechin, John 1814-22, 1824-28
Penrose, Samuel 1783
Perry, James 1873
Phile, John 1814-19
Pidgeon, David 1825-26
Potter, George W 1866-69
10 John Lohra, born Philadelphia, Nov. 26, 1759 ; died at his home,
Spruce Street above Sixth Street, 222 old number, Aug. 27, 1834, was a
Eevolutionary soklier in Philadelphia Company of Foot, under Capt.
Ezekiel Letts, 1777, and sTibsequently many years an iron merchant, of
the firm Lohra and Carlisle; a pew holder at St. Paul's from about
1800; married Sept. 2, 1790, Mary, daughter of John Knorr; of his
children Catharine Souclc Lohra, married James L. Franeine and Sarah
Ann Lohra, married Thomas Hardy AUen.
11 John W. Odenheimer, father of the Et. Kev. William Henry Oden-
heimer, D.D., bishop of New Jersey.
iia Justice of the Peace for Mulberry Ward of City of Philadelphia
1777. Took the oath of Allegiance of Francis Hopkinson. Scharf &
Westcott. Vol. I, p. 338.
275
^igftotg of ^t paur0 Cpisicopal Cgutcf)
Poyntell, William^^ -Ljg^
Pullin, Robert 1826-27
RandoliDb, Benjamin 1764-67
Randolph, Isaac 1794
Read, John 1764^67, 1769
Renshaw, Richard 1770-74, 1783, 1792-4
Renshaw, Richard, Jr.^^ 1820-31
Rhinehard, Martin 1865
Riley, John 1804-10
Robbins, John 1808-18
Robbing, Samuel, Jr 1818-22
Robinson, Daniel 1768-71
Robinson, Samuel 1796-1805, 1821-23
Robinson, William 1828
Ross, John 1762-3, 1774
Rowley, Edward 1799, 1818-19
Sadler, Matthias 1792-94
Savidge, John 1796
Shea, Walter 1762-63
Shute, William 1762-3, 1770-1, 1773-74
Smethurst, Richard 1866
Smith, William 1764-66, 1768
Standley, William" 1765-67, 1770, 1774
Stanley, Norris 1824-26, 1828-1847
Stanley, William 1766-69, 1771, 1773
Stevenson, Cornelius 1816-1820, 1822
12 William Poyntell, Esq., born Oxfordshire, England, Mar. 23, 1756,
died Sept. 10, 1811, was at his death, vestryman of the United Churches
of Christ Church and St. Peter's, and was buried in the churchyard of
the latter. He was * ' distinguished as an honorable and useful citizen
of Philadelphia for more than forty years. ' '
13 Richard Renshaw, Jr., was a justice of the peace and notary public
and resided 302 South Second Street, 1823.
14 William Standley in his will of June 11, 1807, described himself as
far advanced in years, and made bequests to grandchildren, William,
Richard and Hugh, children of his late son, Richard Standley, deceased ;
to Maria and Sarah, children of Michael and Margaret Slyhoof; to
daughter Sarah Twells, and to grandchildren Godfrey and Elizabeth
Twells, and friends, the Rev. Joseph Pilmore and Lawrence Seckle. He
married at Christ Church, Sept. 17, 1748, Elizabeth Fulton, who died
Feby. 10, 1793. He died Aug. 9, 1807, in his eighty-second year and was
buried in Christ Church grounds.
276
Eigit ot m^tt^mtn
Stevenson, James 1762
Stevenson, William 1792-96, 1801-04
Stewart, Aaron 1795-98
Stewart, Samuel M 1827-28
Stiles, Thomas T 1814-5, 1817-25, 1828
Stockton, Charles 1826
Stoddard, John 1806-10
Stotesbury, Arthur 1810-21
Stotesbury, Richard G.^^ 1840-76
Stretch, Isaac 1764-68
Sturgis, Peter 1808-09
Swanwick, John^e 1792-93
Taylor, James N .1800-02, 1804
Thackara, Samuel 1819-27
Thomas, John W.^^ 1836-70
isEichard G. Stotesbury, father of James M. Stotesbury of the
Stotesbury and Leeds Kubber Company of Chester, Penna., and of Mary
Ann Stotesbury, who married Lewis Crozer of Uplands, Delaware
County, Pennsylvania. See also Appendix F, pages 219, 220.
16 ' ' John Swanwick, late member of Congress, was buried at St. Peter 's
Church, Aug. 2, 1798," records Jacob Hiltzheimer. He was aged fifty-
eight years and had for a long time been the junior partner of Willing,
Morris and Swanwick,
17 George Clifford Thomas, banker, philanthropist and churchman,
born October 28, 1839, died April 21, 1909, was a vestryman in fact, for
many years, if not in name. His father, John W. Thomas, one of Phila-
delphia's most prominent merchants, was a vestryman over thirty-six
years, and for twenty years accounting warden of Old St. Paul's. The
son was a graduate of the Episcopal Academy. He commenced business
with his father, was subsequently employed by Jay Cooke & Company,
and in 1862 became a member of that firm.
In 1863, and throughout the period of the Civil War, when the great
financial operations of the government were conducted by the firm, George
C. Thomas was one of its active partners. He took a prominent part in
the work accomplished by the firm, which strengthened the finances of
the government so that it was enabled to carry on with success a war
which cost from $300,000,000 to $800,000,000 a year. The great part
which Jay Cooke & Co. took in popularizing the government loans has
never been fully told. Mr. Thomas was actively instrumental with Mr.
Cooke in promoting and carrying on the largest and most successful
money operations that any government had ever undertaken to that time.
Upon the failure of the firm of Jay Cooke & Co. in September, 1873,
Mr. Thomas for several months was compelled to give his personal
277
l^ijStorp of &t paurgi d^pisicopal CfjurcS
Thomson, Edward 1806-13
Thomson, Jacob 1805-00
attention to the work of straightening out the firm 's affairs. Undaunted
by his experience, he began business anew before the close of the same
year. With the late Joseph M. Shoemaker, he established the firm of
Thomas & Shoemaker, which in a few years gained influential clientage.
It was not long before Mr. Thomas repaired his fortune in his new
business, and in 1883 he was invited by Anthony J. Drexel to become
a partner in his firm. Since that time there have been few large finan-
cial transactions in this city in which Mr. Thomas has not figured. He
was concerned in the Beading and Northern Pacific reorganizations and
all the big operations of the Drexel and Morgan firms before his retire-
ment. For twenty-one years he was among the first of Philadelphia's
international bankers. Because of ill health he retired from business
in January, 1905.
He married Miss Ada E. Moorhead, daughter of J. Barlow Moorhead,
a prominent ironmaster, who, since her husband's death, has without
ostentation helped in a substantial manner the church, as well as the
many religious activities with which Mr. Thomas was connected. Por
many years Mr. Thomas was superintendent of the Holy Apostles Mission.
His private library included many rare books, among them almost every
known early rare edition of the Bible. One is the volume with which
the English Bible began its history. It is the first complete English
Bible, printed at Antwerp in 1535, by Miles Coverdale, and with it is
Tyndale's New Testament, printed at Worms, and the first sheets of an
issue of the Bible authorized by Thomas Cromwell, and printed in Paris.
Also the first Bible printed in America, the Eliot Indian Bible, with the
New Testament. This is the Ives copy, and one of the very few perfect
ones in existence. Near this rarity is the primer of Henry VIII, the
Appleton copy; Queen Elizabeth's prayer-book and the later primer,
and a prayer-book used by Martha Washington, and having on its fly-
leaf an inscription from her declaring this. The famous Mark Baskett
Bible, over which scholars disputed for years, is also in the Thomas
library.
His collection of autographs is also notable. It includes the original
libretto of Die Meistersinger, penned in the small, cramped hand of
Eichard Wagner. It also includes the major part of the autographs of
the signers of the Declaration of Independence, the originals of Grant's
dispatches announcing Lee's surrender, and the letters of Lincoln to
General Hooker. These autographs are in volumes, carefully classified,
and include those from the hands of every sovereign of England. All
the sovereigns of France are represented, as well as many of the world's
famous musicians and artists, and many men of letters. An expense
account of Marie Antoinette challenges a piquant interest, since its items
278
%i0t ot i^t&tt^nxtn
Thompson, Richard 1792-96
Towers, Robert 1762-73
Towne, Benjamin 1783
Toy, John 1818-21
Turner, John 1810-11, 1818, 1820, 1822
Turner, Joseph 1772-73, 1783
Twells, Godfreyis 1794-99
Vallance, John 1804-15, 1819-20
Van Dusen, Joseph B 1852-54
Wallace, William 1828
Weaver, Matthew 1795-1807
West, Collins 1862-1876
West, Thomas 1770
Wharton, John 1816-20, 1822-26
are most amazingly frank and equally as extravagant. In the autographs
of musicians are those of Beethoven, Gluek, Handel, Hayden, Wagner,
Jenny Lind, Schubert and Mozart.
The patriotic appeal is in the twelve letters of George Washington,
among which is his letter to Clinton announcing the Treaty of Peace,
and the letters of William Penn, which fully describe the last hours of
Charles II, and Penn's dealings with the Indians. Another document of
great historical import is Eobert E. Lee's letter surrendering his com-
mission in the Army of the United States at the outbreak of the Civil
War. Of similar appeal is the letter written by Jefferson Davis, as
Secretary of War, promoting U. S. Grant to the rank of captain in the
Fourth United States Infantry, August 9, 1853.
At the time of his death Mr. Thomas was a member of the Stock
Exchange, director of the Farmers' and Mechanics' National Bank, and
the Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting An-
nuities, manager of the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society and active in
various other financial institutions. He was a member of the Union
League, Art, Corinthian Yacht, Merion Cricket, Germantown Cricket,
Philadelphia County, Eacquet and Church clubs.
18 Godfrey Twells, of Eoyston, Cambridgeshire, England, died at
Philadelphia, Jan. 19, 1802, in fifty-ninth year. His wife, Sarah,
daughter of William Standley, born Apr. 23, 1752 died July 13, 1829,
and was buried beside him in Christ Church grounds. A member of the
firm of Hare and Twells, brewers at Callowhill and New Market Streets,
both he and his partner, Eobert Hare, founder of the family of his
surname in Philadelphia, were early members of the First Troop, Phila-
delphia City Cavalry. The children who survived him were: Elizabeth,
who married Dr. Edward Lowber, Godfrey, Standley, Edward, who
married Sarah Wharton Chancellor, and Eichard.
279
^i<itotif of &t paur-s (Cpijsfcopal CJutcS
White, John 1821-22
White, Joseph 1824^26
Wilkinson, John 1768-71
Williams, John 1764-67, 1769
Wilmer, Lambert 1772-73
Wiltberger, Christian 1800-20, 1822, 1828
Wood, John 1767-74, 1792-93
Wood, Thomas 1811-13
Wright, Thomas 1796-98, 1802-04, 1808-09
Young, John 1762-74, 1783
Young, John, Jr 1771-74
Young, Samuel 1794-95
Young, Thomas 1822-26
280
INDEX TO SUBJECTS.
Abraham, Father, his Almanack, Alexander, Eicbardj notice of, 119,
ref. to, 78
Acrelius, "History of New
Sweden," ref. to, 27
Act, an, incorporating St. Paul's
Church, 198 seq.
Adams, John, his diary, ref. to, 29
John, mention of, 118
John, letter to wife^ 94
Adamson, Rev. Wm. S., rectorship
of 176, 177
Rev. Wm., portrait of, facing
p. 176
Advent Church, 5th and Button-
wood, mentioned, 147
Agnew, Daniel, on Sacredne?s of
Burial Grounds, 13-15
Agreement, Articles of, 194 seq.
Articles of, full text of. Ap-
pendix A, 194 seq.
Article of, Signers to, 29-34
by whom prepared, 47
ref. to, 63, 87
Alexander, Jas., mention of, 3, 149
James, account of, 254, 255
Rachel Craven, notice of, 254
AVm., notice of, 254
Richard, notice of, 254
John C, notice of 254
Emily Richardet, notice of,
254
Rachael Francis, note on, 149
Richard, mention of, 3
149, 163
Richard, portrait of, facing p,
149
Wm., in re prayer meetings at
St. Paul's, 147
Richard J., notice of, 149
Alexandria Theological Seminary,
mentioned, 143
Alkin, Rev., his charity sermon at
St. Paul's, 85
Rev., preaches at Christ
Church and St. Peters, 85
Allen, Rev. Benjamin, Jr., note on,
120
Rev. Benjamin, rectorship of,
125-134
Rev. Benjamin, portrait of,
facing p. 125
Rev. Benjamin, his Sunday
school and missionary work,
129
Rev. Benjamin, appointed
Public School director, 129
Rev. Benjamin, becomes Mas-
ter Mason, 131
Rev. Benjamin, publications
of, 132, 133
Rev. Thos. G., note on, 128,
131
Rev. Thos. G., "Memoir of
the Rev. Benjamin Allen,"
ref. to, 131
281
Snliex to ^ubiectiS.
Allen, Harriet Swift, note on, 133
Thos. Hardy, note on, 275
Sarah Ann Lohra, note on,
275
Wm., note on, 272
Allison, Joseph, opinion in re re-
moval ot interred, 10
All Saints', Lower Dublin, men-
tion, 115, 121
Saints ', PhiladelpMa, men-
tioned, 177
Souls', New York, mentioned,
163
America, Patriotic Order Sons of,
ref. to, 22
American Church Missionary Soc,
mentioned, 135
Church, Geneva, mentioned,
176
Episcopal Church, formation
of, in relation to St. Paul's,
63
Episcopal Church, liturgy of,
ref. to, 181
Philosophical Soc, mentioned,
199
Philosophical Society, ref. to,
30, 33, 101, 159
Sunday-School Union, men-
tioned, 130, 131. 139, 166,
171
American Law Times, ref. to, 12
Anderson, "Hist, of the English
Church in the Colonies,"
ref. to, 57
Anderson 's ' ' Colonial Church, ' '
ref. to, 28
Andre, Major, his "Cowchase, "
ref. to, 93
Apostles' preaching, ref. to, 85
Appleton's "Cyclopaedia of Am.
Biog.," ref. to, 97, 113
Asbury, Eev. Francis, mention of,
56, 114
Eev. Francis, opinion of, on
Dr. Magaw, 98
Ascension, Church of the, ref. to,
286
Church of the, location of, 3
Church of the, Brooklyn, men-
tioned, 179
Assembly, Acts of, in re Burial
Grounds, 12, 13
Act of, as to Ee-interment, 17,
18, 189
Act of, as to State House title,
29, 30
of Pa., ref. to, 30, 36, 198
seq., 40, 67
"Associated Battery," where lo-
cated, 40
Associators, Second Company of,
mentioned, 239
Capt. Chas. Willing 's Co. of
Penna., mentioned, 270
Atonement Church, mentioned, 147,
158, 159, 160, 168
Autographs, notable, in the
Thomas Collection, 278, 279
Ayres, "Life of Br. John P.
Muhlenberg," ref. to, 95
Bainbridge, Commodore, mention
of, 231
Baker, Col". John, mention of, 111
"Wm. S., notice of, 62
Eliza D., notice of, 62
Bankson, Andrew, account of, 32
Jacob, notice of, 32
Sarah AUen, notice of, 32
John, notice of, 32
John P., note on, 122, 164,
166, 170
Baptists, ref. to, 50, 57, 84
Barnes, Eev. Dr. Albert, mention
of, 60
Barratt, Jas., Jr., account of, 220
Mary Irvine, account of, 220
Norris Stanley, notice of,
255, 286
James, note on, 255
Mary Irvine, mention of, 4
282
J^i&totv ot §)t ^auV0 CEpigicopal Ci^utcl,
Barratt, Xorris Stanley, ancestors
of, ref. to, 98
Xorris Stanley, ' ' Barratt 's
Chapel," ref. to, 98
Philip, notice of, 27
Philip, Jr., notice of, 27
Barratt 's Chapel, mention of, 28,
114, 115, 220
Chapel, Dr. Magaw adminis-
ters sacraments there, 98
Barratt-Sachse, ' ' Freemasonry in
Pennsylvania," ref. to, 90,
93, 105, 110
Barrett, Capt. Eiehard, his Com-
pany of Guards, mentioned,
3i "
Capt. Richard, ref. to, 254
Barry, Commodore, mention of,
231
Bates. John, mention of, 36
Baynton, John, account of, 30
John, mention of, 42, 101
John, Jr., note on, 30
Peter, note on, 30
Beach, Edmund, notice of, 33, 34
Beardsley's "Life of Seabury,"
ref. to, 56
Beck, Paul, mention of, 101
Paul, notice of, 158
Bedell, Rev. Dr. Gregory T., no-
tice of, 127, 129, 131, 139
Beethoven, autograph of, ref. to,
279
Bell, Robert, printing house of, ref.
to, 101
Bend, Rev. Joseph, mention of,
112
Benezet, Daniel, note on, 124
Elizabeth Xorth, note on, 124
Major Jas., account of, 31
Ann HaseU, notice of, 31
Capt. Samuel, note on, 31
James, note on, 269
Philip, note on, 269
Benson, Rev, Dr. Louis P., "The
English Hymn, Its Develop-
ment and use in "Worship,"
ref. to, 140
Bergen Xeck expedition, ref. to,
93
Berkeley Divinity School, men-
tioned, 179
Bible, early and rare editions of,
referred to, 278
Bniingsport, fortifications at, 23,
92
Binney, Horace, Jr., mention of,
231
Boardman, Richard, mention of,
114
Bodies and Monuments, removal
of, 10, 11
Bond, Capt., his Company, ref. to,
30
Bonham, Ephraim, account of, 31
Boston City Guards, mention of,
137
Boston Post Boy, in ref. to Rev.
Wm. McClenaehan, 66
Bowman, Capt. Samuel, mention
of, 144
Eleanor Ledlie, mention of,
144
Rt. Rev. Samuel, mention of,
144
Boyer, Rev. Dr. Samuel H., rector-
ship of, 175, 176
Rev. Dr. Samuel H., portrait
of, facing p. 175
Bradford, Samuel F., note on, 122
Braidfoot, Rev, mention of, 95
Brandywine, Battle of, ref. to, oQ
67, 92, 99, 199
Bray, Dr., " Visitations," ref. to,
27
Brown, Andrew, sad fate of, ref.
to. 111
Mr. Justice, opinion in re
Pearsall r. Great Northern
R. R. Co., 9
Brumbaugh, Martin G., veto of, in
283
3nlie;E to ^ubitct^.
re removal of bodies, 192,
193
Bulletin, PMladelphia Evening,
the, quoted, 156, 157
Bullock, Joseph, account of, 200
Joseph, mention of, 36
Burial Grounds, Acts of Assembly
in re, 12, 13
Grounds, Sacredness of, 13-15
Places, excepted from being
appropriated, 13
Places safeguarded, 18
lot, owner of, not entitled to
compensation, 11
and Eemoval of Bodies, Legal
Opinions on, 12
Burnet's "History of the Eefor-
mation," ref. to, 126, 133
Burnett, Mrs. Frances H., quoted,
151
Byrd, Col. Wm., second, ref. to,
48, 49
Cadwalader, Gen. John, notice of,
118
Calvary Church, mentioned, 169,
177
Calvinist Church, Germantown, ref.
to, 80
Campbell, John, mention of, 36
John, notice of, 199
Capt. Thos., note on, 31
Cannon, Ann, notice of, 240
Carey's "Short Account of the
Malignant Fever, Lately
Prevalent in Philadelphia,"
ref. to, 116
Carpenter's Company, The, men-
tioned, 228
Company, ref. to, 22
Hall', ref. to, 49
Carson, Hampton Lawrence, note
on, 273
Cathedra, The, picture of, facing
p. 123
Cathedral Cemetery, ref. to, 15
Centennial Anniversary, St. Paul's,
Eev. Dr. Richard Newton
on, 63, 64
Chad's Ford, ref. to, 22
Chain Carriers, their duty, 41
Chambers, Eev. John, mention of,
60
Chancellor, Sarah Wharton, men-
tion of, 279
Charles I., mention of, 49
IL, last hours of, ref. to, 279
II., his Charter to Penn, ref.
to, 27
Charlton, Thos., note on, 33
Chase, mention of, 271
Chevaux-de-frise, ref. to, 23, 92
Childs, Allen, notice of, 131
Eev. Dr. John A., note on, 131
Christ Church, mention of, 7, 9, 30,
31, 32, 33, 34, 41, 44, 45, 46,
47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 67, 70,
74, 82, 83, 85, 105, 106, 111,
124, 131, 136, 143, 147, 179,
194, 214, 215, 269, 271, 272,
276, 279
Church, beginning of, 25
Church, united with St.
Peter's, 26, 51
Church, "Year Book and Ee-
membrances of," ref. to, 27
Church, in relation to St.
Paul's, 28
Church, illustr. of, facing p.
29
Church, Dr. Magaw's sermon
at, 99, 100
Church, first Gen'l Convention
meets at, 103
Church, do, 2d Gen'l Conv.,
104
Church, 1st ordination at, 104
Church, Brooklyn, mentioned,
158, 160
Church, Cincinnati, O., men-
tioned, 158
284
l^igftorp 0t §»t paursi episcopal CJurc^.
Christ Church, Dover, Del., ref. to,
79, 97, 98, 100
Church, Glendale, 0., men-
tioned, 175
Church, Mispillion, ref. to, 98
Church, Monticello, Fla., men-
tioned, 175
Church, New York City, men-
tioned, 116
Church, Pottstown, mentioned,
168
Church, Shrewsbury, N. J.,
mentioned, 175
Church, Eeading, Pa., men-
tioned, 141
Eiverton, N. J., mentioned,
174
Church, Upper Merlon, ref. to,
26
Church, Xenia, 0., mentioned,
175
Christian Street Hospital, men-
tioned, 171
Church and State, the latter must
exercise its control some-
times in matters of the
former, 63
and State, union of, no longer
tolerated, 92, 115
Churchman, The, ref. to, 74
Chiirch Missionary House, ref. to,
131, 132
Churchmen, "good, harsh meas-
ures would never make, ' ' 83
distinguished American, 91
Cincinnati, Society of the, men-
tioned, 246, 270, 272, 286
Society of the, appeal of, 8
Pa. Soc. of the, ref. to, 21,
22, 32, 99
Oincinnatus, the illustrious, of our
lage, Washington, ref. to,
100
Citizens Volunteer Hosp., men-
tioned, 171
City Alms House, ref. to, 51
City Hall or State House Square,
ref. to, 40
Hall, Broad and Market Sts.,
ref. to, 95
Mission, Diocesan House for
the, ref. to, 286
Troop, monument of, to Capt.
€has. Eoss, 15
Troop, ref. to, 424
Civil War, ref. to, 167
Civil War, ref. to, 167, 270, 271,
277, 279
Clark, E. W., & Co., mention of,
270
Clarkson, Joseph, admitted to
diaconate, 104
Claxton, John, note on, 270
Claypoole, James, account of, 270
Eebecca White, note, 270
Mary Chambers, note, 270
Elizabeth, note, 270
Mary, note, 270
Abraham George, note, 270
Elizabeth P. Falconer, note,
270
Elizabeth Steele, note, 270
David Chambers, note, 270
Clayton, Eev. Thos., sent to Phila.,
26
his strange epithet, 27
where he died, 28
Clergy, position of, at the breaking
out of the Eevolution, 90
seq.
Eoyalist, sufferings of, in-
tense, 94, 97
Clergymen, poor, aided, 171
Clinton, letter to, by Washington,
ref. to, 279
Coats, John, note on, 33
Sarah Penrose, note on, 33
Coit, Eev. Dr. Henry A., notice of,
168
Mary B. Wheeler, notice of,
168
285
3intie% to fe>utJi«t0.
Coke, Eev. Dr. Thos., mention of, Conrad, Eev. Dr. Thos. K., rector-
98, 114 ship of, 177, 178
Et. Eev., proposes conference, Eev. Dr., portrait of, facing
56 p. 179
Colket, C. Howard, mention of, 234 Consecrated Places City's greatest
College of Philadelphia, mentioned, Asset, 20
29, 45, 47, 52 Continental Congress, ref. to, 22,
Colonial Churches, Grants of the
Crown to, 9
Churches, no confirmations in,
54
architecture, ref. to, 136
Dames, Societies of, in Pa.,
ref. to, 22
Dames of America, mention
of, 286
settlers, ref. to, 91 seq.
Society, mention of, 223, 228,
234, 244, 286
Society, officers and members
of the, 281-284
49, 67, 78
Congress appoints day of fast-
ing and prayer, 91
Congress leaves State House,
93
Congress, resolution of, in ref.
to Washington 's birthday,
110
Cooke, Jay, notice of, 44, 172, 270,
271
Jay, letter of, to Eev. Dr.
Eichard Newton, 152, 153
Jay, account of, 270, '271, 277
Eleutheros, mention of, 270
Society, publications of the, Cookman, Eev. Geo., mention of,
285, 286 60
Society of Pa., ref. to, 21, 49, Coombe, Eev. Thos., mention of, 91
101
Society, Swedish, mentioned,
285
Wars, Soc. of, in Pa., ref. to,
22, 67
Columbia College, N. Y., men-
tioned, 142
Commercial Exchange Ass'n, men-
tioned, 163
Common Pleas, Court of, in re "Re-
movals, 17, 19
Pleas, Court of, ref. to, 30,
170, 181, 185, 189
Compton, Henry, Bishop of Lon- Coyle, Capt. John, mention of. 111
don, mention of, 26 Cromwell, Thomas, mention of, 278
his foresight, 27 Crozer, Lewis, notice of, 277
Congregational Church, ref. to, 57, Mary A. Stotesbury, notice of,
176 277
Congress of Eeligion, ref. to, 172 Cummings, Emily E. Alexander,
Connecticut, Laws of, ref. to, 59 notice of, 163
Conrad, Anne Eraser, notice of, Wm., mention of, 3, 61, 161,
178 172
286
Copper, Capt. Norris, mention of,
270
Elizabeth Claypoole, mention
of, 270
Corn Exchange Guard, mentioned,
220
Exchange Eegiment, men-
tioned, 163
Cornwallis, Lord, surrender of,
94
Covenant Church, ref. to, 146, 154,
168
Coverdale, Miles, mention of, 278
m0tiit^ ot ^t pauri^ episcopal C^utcJ.
Cummings, Wm.j Family Vault, il-
lustr.j 5
Wm., Family Pew, deed for,
62
Wm., portrait of, facing p.
162
Wm., account of, 162, 163
Wm., mention of, 231
Wm., notice of, 254
Emily R. A., notice of, 254
Currie, Wm., M.D., notice of, 234
Eev. Dr. Wm., notice of, 234
Cuthbert, Thomas, account of, 271
Ann Wilkinson, notice of, 271
Dartmouth College, ref. to, 9
Davis, Jefferson, letter of, to
Grant, ref. to, 279
Dead, Rights of the, 9, 191
Removal of, 12, 13, 189, 192
Desecration of^ 16
Deaver, Caroline Randall, notice
of, 250
Dr. John B., notice of, 250
Debtor's Prison, ref. to, 67
Debts, property liable for, 58
De la Grange, Joseph E. G. M.,
mention of. 111
Delaicare Historiccl Soc, Papers
of, ref. to, 28
River channel obstructed, 23,
92
Democratic Society, ref. to, 67
Descendants, Rights of, 4
Dickinson College, Carlisle, ref. to,
40, 41
Diocesan House, building of, con-
sidered, 3, 17
Disciples, ref. to, 57
Disinterment, a misdemeanor, 11
Dissenters, ref. to, 54
Don Quixote, History of, alluded
to, 84
Dorcas Society, mentioned, 171
Dorr's "History of Christ
Church," ref. to, 26, 28
Dougherty, James, mention of, 36
Doz, Andrew, account of, 32, 33
Andrew, mention of, 36, 101,
105, 112, 119
Rebecca Cash, notice of, 32,
112
Lucia, notice of, 32, 112
Drexel, Anthony J., mention of,
278
Institute, mentioned, 178
Drinker, Elizabeth, * ' Journal, ' '
ref. to. 111
Du Barry, John, notice of, 235
Sophia Du Plessis, note on,
235
Duehe, Anthony, note on, 33
Sarah Coats, note on, 33
Elizabeth H., note on, 50
Rev. Dr. Jacob, mention of,
45, 53, 82, 83, 87, 88, 91
Rev., account of, 49, 50
Dunlap, John, notice of, 78, 100
Wm., notice of, 77, 78
Wm., preaches at St. Paul's,
77
Wm., prevented being rector
of St. Paul's, 78
Wm., account of, 78
Du Plessis, Peter le Barbier, ac-
count of, 234, 235
Geo., note on, 235
Helena, note on, 235
Sophia, note on, 235
Dupuy, Daniel, notice of, 272
Dr. John, notice of, 272
Dutch Churchyard, Ref., Grave-
send, inscriptions in, ref. to,
99
i. e., Germans, well affected to
the Church of England, 80
Edinburgh, University of, men-
tioned, 199
Egle's "Notes and Queries," ref.
to, 99
Eliot Indian Bible, notice of, 278
287
3lnli« to ^i\b]tct0.
Elizabeth, Queen, her prayer-book,
ref. to, 278
Emanuel Church, New Castle, Del.,
mention of, 29
Emes, Worsley, notice of, 272
Emmanuel Church, Brooklyn, men-
tioned, 158
Church, Kensington, note on,
43, 169
Enoch, in masonic connection, ref.
to, 100
Epiphany Church, note on, 43, 137,
138, 139, 154, 155, 168, 169,
178
Episcopal Church, ref. to, 15, 23,
47, 57, 98, 138, 141, 143
Church, propagation of the,
ref. to, 44
Church, lack of growth of, 54
Church, reasons thereof, 55
Church, American, formation
of, in relation to St. Paul's,
63
Church, Academy of the, ref.
to, 101
Church, organization of, in U.
S., 102
Divinity School, ref. to, 147
Education Soc, mentioned,
138
Becorder, the, mentioned, 138
Academy, ref. to, 277
Clergy, convention of, in
Philadelphia, 45
Sunday-school, the first, in
Philadelphia, 122
Clergy of Philadelphia, ref.
to, 146
Hospital, mentioned, 171
Erasmus, Bishop of Arcadia, Crete,
mention of, 90
Evangelical Knowledge Soc, men-
tioned, 138
Evangelists, Church of the, men-
tioned, 168, 169, 180
Ezekiel, 20, 38, quoted, 93
Falconer, Capt., see Ealkner, Les-
ter
Falkner, Lester, notice of, 33, 42
Sarah Coats, notice of, 33
Farmers and Mechanics Bank,
mentioned, 219, 279
Farr, John, notice of, 222
John, notice of, 62, 130, 165,
170
Mary J., notice of, 130
Lena Haddock, notice of, 170
Grace, notice of, 170
Eev. Dr. Wm. W., account of,
169, 170
Federal Gazette, by whom founded,
111
Fessenden, mention of, 271
Feudal Laws, ref. to, 49
Fine Arts, Academy of, mentioned,
200
Fire, the great, at 9th and Wash-
ington Sts., mentioned, 171
First Troop City Cavalry, mention
of, 4, 15, 23, 31, 67, 78
Troop City Cavalry, history
of, ref. to, 4
Fleeson, Plunket, account of, 30,
31, 239
Plunket, mention of, 36, 105
Foreign Missionary Soc, London,
mentioned, 151
Forrest, Edwin, note on, 221
Wm., notice of, 268
Capt. Wm., notice of, 268
Edwin, Family Vault, Illustr.
of, 6
Fort St. David's, Fishing Co. of,
ref. to, 31, 34
St. David's Fishing Co., men-
tioned, 199
Wilson, note on, 118
Foster Home, mentioned, 171
F. & A. Masons, Del., Gen'l Com-
munication of, ref. to, 100
Franklin, Benjamin, notice of, 33,
78, 91, 100
288
m^tot^ ot git paurgi episcopal Cfiuccfi.
Franklin Fire Ins. Co., mentioned,
219
Francine, James L., note on, 275
Catharine H. Lohra, note on,
275
Freemasons, mention of, 105, 106
seq., 121
Free Society of Traders, ref. to, 25
French, and Indian War, ref. to,
52, 70
and Indian War, mention of,
199
Friendless Children, So. Home for,
mentioned, 171
Fries Eebellion, ref. to, 270
Funerals, cost of, ref. to, 43
Gardner's Wharf, where located,
40
Garrick, mention of, 95
Genealogical Society of Pa., The
mention of, 23, 216, 2S6
General Theological Seminary, N.
Y., 145, 158, 174, 180
George, J. D., note on, 62
Henry, note on, 62
III, mention of, 90, 93
German E. C. Holy Trinity Burial
Ground, ref. to, 18
Germantown, no kind of English
Worship there, 79, 80
Gibbons, Eev. Dr. Hughes O., ob-
jects to Sale Pine St. Presb.
Church, 15, 16
Girard, Stephen, mention of, 231
National Bank, mentioned,
219
Mary Lum, notice of, 117
Stephen, mentioned, 12
Stephen, ministers to fellow
citizens, 117
National Bank, mentioned,
163
Glentworth, Dr. Geo., where buried,
4,
Dr. Geo., mention of, 23, 36
20 289
Glentworth, Dr. Geo., account of,
199, 200
Dr. Peter S., a martyr to his
profession, 200
Dr. Plunket Fleeson, account
of, 200
Gloria Dei, Swedes Church, ref.
to, 26, 32, 169
Gluck, autograph of, ref. to, 279
Goddard, Eev. Dr. Kingston, rec-
torship of, 158-160
portrait of, facing p. 158
God-fearing men and women, note
on, 61
Goodman, Capt. Walter, notice of,
31
Good Samaritan Hospital, men-
tioned, 170
Goodwin, Geo., mention of, 36
Samuel, note on, 70
Gosner, Daniel, account of, 256
Capt. Peter, notice of, 256
Eebecca T., notice of, 256
Gowen, James, account of, 272
Franklin B., notice of, 272
James, notice of, 273
Francis I., notice of, 273
Grace Church, note on, 43, 146
Church, Sandusky, mentioned,
169
Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., men-
tioned, 179
Graham, Wm., mention of, 36
Grand Lodge, A. Y. M., mentioned,
218
Lodge, F. and A. M. of Pa.,
distinguished members of, 4
Lodge, F. and A. M. of Pa.,
distinguished members of, 23
Lodge, F. and A. M. of Pa.,
ref. to, 34, 106 seq., 122,
130, 131, 159
Grant, Gen. Ulysses Simpson, men-
tioned, 271, 278, 279
Greenleaf's ''Sketches of the Ee-
Sntiej to g»ul)|fct0.
clesiastical Hist, of Maine, ' '
ref. to, 66
Greenleaf's "Portland in the
Past," ref. to, 66
Griswold, Et. Eev. Alex. W., no-
tice of, 138
Groebe, Lucas Dokoe, notice of,
228
Ann, notice of, 228
Aletta Heylinger, notice of,
228
Hall, David, account of, 33
David, Jr., notice of, 3
Wm., notice of, 33
Eev. Eichard Drayson, note
on, 230
Mary Douglass, note on, 230
Capt. David, member of the
Grand Lodge, 4
Capt. David, where buried, 4
Capt. David, mention of, 23
Hamilton, Alexander, note on, 118
Jas., mention of, 45
Handel, autograph of, ref. to, 279
Hare, Eobert, mention of, 279
& T wells, ref. to, 279
Harvard College, mentioned, 135,
138
Hasell, Samuel, notice of, 31
Hawkins ' ' ' Missions of the Church
of England in the Colo-
nies," ref. to, 28
Hawk's "Ecclesiastical Contribu-
tions," ref. to, 27
Haydn, autograph of, ref. to, 279
Hayes, Capt. Thos., mention of,
231
Hazzard's "Eegister of Pa.," ref.
to, 27
Heavenly Eest, Church of the, men-
tioned, 177
Henry VIIL, primer of, men-
tioned, 278
Heyl, Geo., account of, 239, 240
Geo. Thos., notice of, 239
Heyl, Susanna S., notice of, 239
Philip, notice of, 239
Dorothea PhUe, notice of, 239
Geo., mention of, 239, 240
Wm., mention of, 239
Geo. A., notice of, 240
Heylinger, Aletta, notice of, 228
Hibernia Fire Co., note on, 152
Engine Co., mentioned, 239
Hibernian Society, mentioned, 199,
219
Hiltzheimer, Jacob, quoted, 277
Jacob, his Diary, ref. to, 32
Hist. Society of Delaivare, Papers,
ref. to, 43, 98
Historical Society of Pa., mention
of, 23, 38, 73, 99, 111, 112,
120
Society, Memoirs of the, ref.
to, 27, 28
Historical Society of Pa., disap-
proval of, in re sale of Old
St. Paul's, 286
Ploly Apostles, Church of the, note
on, 44
Apostles, its three chapels, 44
Apostles Mission, mention of,
278
Trinity, Nice, France, men-
tioned, 177
Saviour, Companions of the,
mentioned, 180
Spirit Church, mentioned, 175,
176
Trinity, Philadelphia, men-
tioned, 146
Trinity Church, West Chester,
mentioned, 146
Trinity (Old Swedes) Church,
Wilmington, ref. to, 42, 43
Hollingsworth, Levi, account of,
273
Zebulon, notice of, 273
Ann Mauldin, notice of, 273
Hannah Pasehall, notice of,
273
290
l^iiStotg ot git paur0 episcopal CSutc^.
Hollingsworth, Paschall, notice of,
273
Mary Wilson, notice of, 273
Mary, notice of, 273
Henry, notice of, 273
Sarah Humplireys, notice of,
273
Home-life, simplicity of, 59
Hooker, Gen'l, mention of, 278
Hopkinson, Francis, notice of, 275
Hotehkin, "Country Clergy," ref.
to, 143, 155
Howard, John, note on, 33
Hospital, mentioned, 163
Howe, Gen. Wm., note on, 50
Gen., defeats Washington at
Brandywine, 92
Humphreys, Joshua, notice of, 273
Huntingdon & Broad Top E. E.
Co., mentioned, 163
Huston, John Hasell, notice of, '219
John H., note on, 68
Martha M., note on, 68
Mary, note on, 68
Independence Bell, ref. to, 29
cause of, contributors to, 67
Declaration of, ref. to, 29,
50, 78, 97, 273, 278
Hall, note on, 199
Hall, ref. to, 28, 29, 30
Hall, First Gen. Conv. United
P. E. Church meets at, 105
Indians, Penn's dealings with the
ref. to, 279
Inglis, John, notice of, 97
Sir John E. W., notice of, 97
Eev. Chas., account of, 97
Mary Vining, notice of, 97
Ins. Co. of North Am., mention of,
118, 163
Intelligencer, Legal, mentioned, 186
Jay Cooke & Co., referred to, 277
Jayne Bldg., note on, 235
Jefferson College, Pa., mentioned,
138, 143
Jenney, Eev. Dr., moves building
St. Peter's, 25, 26
Eev. Dr., his protest concern-
ing Eev. MeiClenachan, 45
Eev. Dr., letter to, in re Eev.
MeiClenachan, 46
Eev. Dr., ref. to, 51, 70, 71
Jerman, John, his Almanac, ref.
to, 78
John, 11, 25, 26, quoted, 235
John's "Life of Bishop Meade,"
ref. to, 74
Jones, Capt. Gibbs, account of, 23
Col. Blathwaite, member of
the Grand Lodge, 4
Col., where buried, 4
Col., mention of, 22, 164
Col., portrait of, facing p. 23
Col., account of, 23
Col. Washington 's chief engi-
neer officer, 92
Jordan, Dr. John W., mention of,
38
Jubal, in masonic connection, ref.
to, 100
Keble, John, mention of, 36
John, account of, 200
Keen, Matthias Valentine, note on,
245
Elizabeth Hood, note on, 245
Gregory Bernard, L.L.D.,
"Descendants of Joran
Kyn of New Sweden," ref.
to, 23, 245
Keith's Provincial Councillors, ref.
to, 72
Kenyon College, Ohio, mentioned,
154, 159, 169, 175
King, Eobert Pennick, account of,
274
Daniel J., notice of, 274
Leroy N., notice of, 274
& Baird, notice of, 274
King's College, mention of, 97
College, N. S., mentioned, 174
291
Unhct to ^ubiectiS.
King's College, Canada, mentioned, Letts, Capt. Ezekiel, notice of, 275
Lewis, Geo., anecdote of, 151, 152
Liberty Bell, sale of, authorized, 8
Lincoln, Abraham, letters of, to
Gen'l Hooker, ref. to, '278
Lind, Jenny, autograph of, ref. to,
279
Living Church, The, mentioned,
180
Lodge, Concordia, No. 67, men-
tioned, 111
Continental, No. 257, F. & A.
M., mentioned, 139
Franklin, No. 134, mentioned,
274
51 F. and A. M., mentioned,
220
No. 2, ref. to, 231, 254, 255
No. 3, ref. to, 254
The Grand, of Pa., mentioned,
255, 274
Harmony, No. 52, m_entioned,
111
L'Amenite, No. 73, men-
tioned, 111
Montgomery, F. & A. M., men-
tioned, 228
Montgomery, No. 19, ref. to,
235
Industry, No. 31, mentioned,
228
Philadelphia, No. 72, men-
tioned, 111, 228
St. Louis, No. 53, ref. to, 235
Columbia, No. 91, ref. to,
235
No. 2, F. and A. Masons of
Pa., the Mother Lodge of
the State, 4
No. 2, mention of, 23, 31, 33,
34
No. 2, Ancient York Masons,
ref. to, 31
No. 2, F. and A. M. of Phila-
delphia, extract from min-
180
Kittera, Thos., mention of, 8, 130
Thos., notice of, 218
Knorr, John, notice of, 275
Mary, notice of, 275
Knowles, John, notice of, 31
KoUock, Cornelius, note on, 265
Lieut. Jacob, Jr., notice of,
265
Mary Leech, notice of, 265
Mary Eogerson, notice of, 265
Kunzi, A., note on, 130
Kyn, Joran, descendants of, ref.
to, 23
Ladies' Aid Society, mentioned,
171
Lafayette, Marquis de, wounded at
Brandywine, by whom at-
tended, 99
Laity, rights of the, recognition
of, insisted upon, 103
Latimer, Thos., mention of, 170
Laurel Hill, ref. to, 15, 16, 155,
175
Hill Cemetery, mentioned, 250,
261
Layman's Magazine, The, ref. to,
126, 133
Lea, Mrs. Arthur H., mention of,
239
Leach, J. Granville, "History of
the Penrose Family, ' ' ref.
to, 200
Ledlie, Elizabeth Wood, notice of,
218
Lee, Gen'l Robert Edward, sur-
render of, ref. to, 278
surrenders commission in U.
S. army, ref. to, 279
Major, satirized by Major
Andre, 93
Leech, Thos., account of, 29
Thos., ref. to, 36
Leland Stanford Jr. University,
mentioned, 172
292
I^igftot? ot S)t paur0 episcopal Cfiurc^.
utes of, in ref. to members
of St. Paul's, 90
Lodge No. 2, meetings of, sus-
pended, 93
No. 2, mentioned. 111, 163
No. 3, mention of, 23, 33, 34,
111
No. 9, mention of, 111
No. 19, mention of, 23, 111
Orange, No. 71, mentioned,
111
Phoenix, Chester Co., Pa.,
mentioned, 131
Washington, No 59, men-
tioned, 111
Loganian Library, ref. to, 104
Lohra, John, account of, 275
Mary Knorr, notice of, 275
& Carlisle, mention of, 275
Lombard St. Public School, men-
tioned, 129
Loper, Capt. Eichard P., men-
tioned, 152
Lot-holders, summary of law rela-
tive to, 10, 11
ref. to, 17, 189
Lotteries frequently used to raise
money for civic and re-
ligious purposes, 40
employed to build Christ
Church steeple, 40
to raise money for the Sec-
ond Presbyterian Church,
40
prohibited in Pa., 40
Lottery to erect City Hall, 40
in re Wm. Dunlap, 77
Louther M. E. Church, ref. to, 190
Lowber, Dr. Edward, mention of,
279
Elizabeth Twells, mentioned,
279
Lowth, Et. Eev., consequence of
his refusal of ordination,
56, 115
Lueknow, siege of, ref. to, 97
Lutheran Church, ref. to, 57, 80
Luzerne, Chevalier de, mention of,
105
Macpherson, Capt. John, mention
of, 22
Brig. Gen'l Wm., mention of,
23
Madison, Et. Eev. mention of, 56
Magaw, Dr. Wm., notice of, 99
Lucia Doz, notice of, 32, 99,
112
Major Eobert, notice of, 99
Marrite van Brunt, notice of,
99
Eev. Dr. Samuel, notice of, 32,
36, 116, 119
Eev. Dr. Samuel, rectorship
of, 96-112
Eev. Dr. Samuel, Dover mis-
sion of, 98
Eev. Dr. Samuel, desired
peace with honour, 99
Eev. Dr. Samuel, his discourse
preached in Christ Church,
Philadelphia, ref. to, 99
Eev. Dr. Samuel, elected rec-
tor, 101
Eev. Dr. Samuel, esteemed by
Masonic Fraternity, 105
Eev. Dr. Samuel, Masonic
prayer by, 106 seq.
Maine Historical Soc., Collections
of the, ref. to, 67, 70
Marie Antoinette, mention of, 278,
279
Mark Baskett Bible, note on, 278
Markoe, Capt. Abraham, notice of,
30, 42
Elizabeth Baynton, notice of,
30, 42
Marshall, John, mention of, 54
Marston, John, Jr., aids in organi-
zation of Sunday-school
Ass'n P. E. Church, 170
Martin, John Hill, warning of, 9
293
3nlif5E to ^\xbittt&.
J. Willis, decree of, in re dis-
solution of 6t. Paul's, 186,
188
Mass., General Laws of, ref. to, 59
Matlack, Timothy, note on, 270
Elizabeth Claypoole, note on,
270
Matthews, John, note on, 123
May, Adam, notice of, 228
Catharine Diehl, notice of,
228
Ellen Stuart Bowman, notice
of, 144
Rev. Dr., mentioned, 269
Rev. Dr. Jas., Rectorship of,
143, 144
Rev. Dr. Jas., portrait of, fac-
ing p. 143
Rev. Thos. Potts, notice of,
143
McClenachan, Blair, mention of,
4, 36
Blair, account of, 67, 68
where buried, 4, 68
Isabella, notice of, 72
John, note on, 70
Rev. Dr. Wm., his sermon on
Thos. Leech, ref. to, 29
jef. to, 35, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49,
51, 52, 53, 79, 82
Teetorship of, 66-78
Rev. Dr. Wm., his eloquence
and piety, 44
invited to preach at Christ
Church, 70, 71
elected as assistant to Rev.
Dr. Jenney, 71
dismissed by the same, 71
preaches at State House, 71,
72
Martha, note on, 68
MoConnell, Dr., quoted, 57, 74
Rev. Dr., S.D., "History of
the American Episcopal
Church," ref. to, 35, 57, 94,
215
McCoskrey, Rev. Dr., mentioned,
269
Rev. Dr. Samuel A., rector-
ship of, 141, 142
portrait of, facing p. 141
McCulloch, Hugh, mention of, 270,
271
McCuUough, Mary J., notice of,
130
iSarah, notice of, 130
McGarvey, Rev. Dr. Wm. L, rec-
torship of, 180, 181
Rev. Dr. Wm. I., portrait of,
facing p. 182
Mcllvaine, Rt. Rev., notice of, 127
Mcllwee, John, mention of, 111
Meade, Rt. Rev. Wm., ''Old
Churches, Ministers, and
Families of Virginia, ' '
quoted in ref. to Rev. Ben-
jamin Allen, 125 seq.
Rt. Rev. Wm., note on, 133
Medical Soc. of Pa., mentioned,
199
Meer, John, Sr., account of, 250
Mary Gould West, notice of,
250
Memorial Ass. Valley Forge, men-
tioned, 8
Memorials of the Past, Preserva-
tion of, 7
Merchants Fund, mentioned, 163
Methodist Church, organized, 56,
115
Church, ref. to, 98, 113
Cemetery case, ref. to, 189
Mexican War, referred to, 270
Mickve Israel, ref. to, 40
MiMn, Thos., mention of, 105
Mitchell, Jas. T., opinion of, 8
Molly Maguires, mention of, 273
Monges, Dr., notice of, 101
Montreal Assurance Co., men-
tioned, 219
Monuments and Bodies, removal
of, 10, 11
294
^i&totTg of felt paurgi €pi0copal CfjurcS.
Moorhead, J. Barlow, notice of,
278
Ada E., notice of, 278
Wm, G., mention of, 270
Morgan, Col. Geo., notice of, 30
Mary Baynton, notice of, 30
Morris, Anthony, Jr., mention of,
35, 36
Israel, mention of, 36
Appeal, ref . to, 4
Israel Wistar, notice of, 273
Mary Hollingsworth, notice of,
273
Robert, note on, 118
Moslem, piety of, ref. to, 15
Moss, John, mention of, 231
Mozart, autograph of, ref. to, 279
Mt. Moriah Cemetery Ass'n, men-
tioned, 274
removals to, 7
lot in, owned by St. Paul's,
ref. to, 37, 186
Muhlenberg, Dr. John P., mention
of, 95
Nashotah Seminary, "Wis., men-
tioned, 181
Nativity, Church of the, men-
tioned, 168
Neals and Hutchinson's "Digests
of Ordinances of New Eng-
land," ref. to, 59
Neave, Richard, and son, their
gift to St. Paul 's, 42
Negroes in Philadelphia, note on,
45, 51, 52, 70
Neill, Rev. Hugh, notice of, 40
Rev. Hugh, rectorship of, 79-
85
Rev. Hugh, lauds people of
St. Paul's, 81
Rev. Hugh, directed not to
give assistance to Mr. Mac-
clenathan's Congreg., 81
Rev. Hugh, vindicates his con-
duct as to officiating in St.
Paul's, 82
Nelson, Geo., mention of, 36
Wm., mention of, 111
Newcastle, Del., Church at, note
on, 43
Newton, Lydia Greatorex, notice
of, 155, 161
Mary E. Lewis, note on, 172
Rev. R, Heber, mentioned, 274
Rev. Dr. Richard, mentioned,
269
Rev. Dr. Richard, "The Pas-
tor 's Offering to his Flock, ' '
ref. to, 222
Rev. Dr. Richard, his memory
honored, 44
Rev. Dr. Richard, peculiarly
successful, 54
Rev. Dr. Richard, famous for
children's sermons, 60, 154,
156
Rev. Dr. Richard, eloquent
words of, at St. Paul's Cen-
tennial Anniversary, 63, 64
Rev. Dr. Richard, on evangel-
ical truths, 74, 75
Rev. Dr. Richard, Rectorship
of, 145-157
Rev. Dr. Richard, portrait of,
facing p. 145
Rev. Dr. Richard, letter to, by
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Cooke,
152, 153
Rev. Dr. R. Heber, letter to,
in ref. to Fiftieth Anniv.
St. Paul 's Sunday-school,
142
Rev. Dr. R. Heber, rectorship
of, 161-173
Rev. Dr. R. Heber, portrait of,
facing p. 161
Nicholson, Gov., mention of, 27
Nilson, Capt. Andrew, mention of,
111
Non-Importation Resolutions, ref.
to, 30, 31, 33, 199, 254
North American, The, note on, 78
295
Sntitj to ^nhittt^.
North American, Tlie, mentioned,
270
North, Eichard, note on, 123, 128
Obed, Brother, note on, 122
Odenheimer, John W., note on,
275
Et. Eev. Dr. Wm. Hy., note
on, 275
Et. Eev. Dr. Wm. H., letter of,
in rel. to St. Paul 's Sunday-
school, 165, 166
Et. Eev. Dr. Wm. H., mention
of, 168
Old South Church, Boston, ref. to,
20, 21
Old Swedes, see Gloria Dei.
Onderdonk, Et. Eev. Dr. Hy. U,,
mention of, 141, 146
Ord, Geo., mention of, 36
John, notice of, 275
John, account of, 31
Ann Mason, note on, 31
Ordination, difficult and dan-
gerous, 54
its refusal and consequence
thereof, 56
of Eev. Wm. Stringer, 90
Orphans, Home for Soldiers' and
Sailors', mentioned, 171
Court, Del, Co., ref. to, 185
Oxford Congregation, 52, 85
UDiversity of, in re Degree
for Dr. Smith, 84
University of, ref. to, 142
Page, S. Davis, note on, 49
Palmer, John, notice of, 32, 36
Deborah Bankson, notice of,
32
Thos,, notice of, 217
Parish has no special legal signifi-
cance in Pa., 102
Parker, Alvin Mercer, note on, 223
Joseph Brooks Bloodgood,
note on, 223
Parvin, Eev. Eobert J., note on,
155
Pastoral Aid Association founded,
148
Patriotic Order Sons of America
save historic shrine, 8
Societies in rel. to St. Paul's
Dead, 22, 23
Paxson, Mr. Justice, opinion by,
13
Peale, James, note on, 270
Mary Claypoole, note on, 270
Pechin, Almira, mention of, 170
Penn, Wm., letters of, ref. to, 279
Wm., landing of, ref. to, 285
Wm., Black-Letter Days in
the Life of, ref. to, 285
Estate, ref. to, 30
Penn-Logan Correspondence, ref.
to, 28
Penns, Memorial to the, ref. to,
26, 28
"Penna. Archives," ref. to, 120
Pennsylvania Assembly, ref. to,
200
Bank, mentioned, 200
Bank, ref. to, 67
Battalion Eiflemen, ref. to, 99
Line, the First, ref. to, 99
Line, the fourth, ref. to, 99
Penna. Chronicle, ref. to, 42
Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg,
mentioned, 177
Co. for Ins. on Lives and
Granting Annuities, men-
tioned, 219, 279
History of, by Gabriel
Thomas, ref. to, 27
Hospital, mentioned, 239
Penna. Gazette, The, ref. to, 29,
- 31, 32, 33, 34, 38, 39, 85
Pennsylvania Hospital, ref. to, 30,
32, 34
Institute, mentioned, 160
Journal, ref. to, 39
296
I9i0totg ot ^t pauPsi epigfcopal C^uccJ.
Pa. Ifa^. o/ ffisL and Biog., ref.
to, 8, 30, 62, 68, 78, 99
Penna. Facket, The, note on, 78
Penna. Pacl'et and Daily Adver-
tiser, mentioned, 270
Pennsylvania E. E., mentioned,
219, 273
State Eeports, ref. to, 4, 5, 8,
10, 12, 13, 63, 102 infra,
189, 190, 191
Volunteer Artillery, 1st Eeg't,
mentioned, 228
Penrose, Capt. Thos., note on, 33
Samuel, note on, 31
Ann Fleeson, note on, 31
Samuel, account of, 200
Samuel, mention of, 36
Perry, referred to, 52, 78, 80, 81,
85, 87, 92, 97
"Historical Collections Eelat-
ing to tlie American Colo-
nial Church," ref. to, 27,
28, 100
"Papers Eelating to the His-
tory of the Church in
Penna.," ref. to, 46, 53
Peters, Eev. Dr. Eichard, mention
of, 52, 53, 83, 87, 88, 91
Eev. Dr. Eichard, "has but
just emerged from a life of
Polities and jjleasure, " 82
Eev. Dr. Eichard, severs con-
nection with St. Paul's, 89
Pew-owners, rights of, 11
Pews, ownership of, 61
ref. to, 63, 119
Philadelphia & Eeading E. E. Co.,
mentioned, 272
City Cavalry, First Troop,
mentioned, 200, 270
City Cavalry, 273, 279
City Cavalry, History of the,
ref. to, 268
College of, ref. to, 215
College of, mentioned, 29, 45,
96
Philadelphia Divinity School, men-
tioned, 131, 144, 161, 168,
169
College of Physicians of, men-
tioned, 199, 200
Corn Exchange, mentioned, 220
County Prisons, ref. to, 231
Minerva, ref, to, 268
Dispensary, ref. to, 33
Hospital, ref. to, 181
Humane Soc, ref. to, 33
Eegister of Wills, ref. to, 33
Fire Ins. Co., mentioned, 274
Militia of the City and Liber-
ties of, ref. to, 22
population of, in 1760, '25
original city of, 25
when consolidated, 25
evacuated by the British, 54
"if it was 50 miles square
and had 200 churches in it,"
what then? 82
City Gaol (jail), poor pris-
oners in, aided by St.
Paul's, 85
captured by Gen'l Howe, 92,
93
National Bank, mention of, 73
P. E. City Mission, ref. to,
209
Post Office, note on, 42
Sa'sang Fund Soc, ref. to, 279
Sunday-school Union, by whom
instituted, 166
Philada. Eecord, notice of, 42
PJiila. Eecorder, The, quoted in
ref. to consecration of St.
Andrew's, 129
Philadelphians, well known, where
buried, 5-7
well known, ref. to, 158
opinions of, in regard to Dr.
Smith, 83
Phile, Dr. Frederick, notice of,
239, 240
Elizabeth, notice of, 239
297
Snticj to &uDject!2i.
Phillips Andover Academy, men-
tioned, 135
Phillips, Col. John, mention of,
111
Phoenix Hose Co., mentioned, 220
Physick, Dr. Edmund, note on, 118
Pilmore, Mary (Benezet) Wood,
note on, 124
Eev. Joseph, mention of, 276
Eev. Dr. Joseph, portrait of,
facing p. 113
Eev. Dr. Joseph, Eectorship
of, 113-124
Eev. Dr. Joseph, appointed
assist. minister at St.
Paul's, 116
Eev. Dr. Joseph, preaching of,
118, 120
Eev. Dt. Joseph, his breadth
of vision, 120
Eev. Dr. Joseph, creator of St.
Paul's Sunday-school, 120,
164
Eev. Dr. Joseph, publications
of, 123
Poor, John, educator, ref. to, 101,
102, 106
Potter, Et. Eev. Dr. Horatio, letter
to, by Stephen H. Tyng,
ref. to, 138
Poulson's Am. Daily Advertiser,
ref. to, 115, 124
Poulson's Daily Advertiser, men-
tioned, 270
Poyntell, Wm., account of, 276
Prendergast, Eev. Edmond F., his
appeal, 15
Presbyterian Church, Pine St.,
Sale of, prevented, 15
Hospital, mentioned, 181
Church, Third, ref. to, 33
Church, Second, where lo-
cated, 40, 164
Synod in Philadelphia, 46
Congreg., the Second, note on,
122
Presbyterians, ref. to, 50, 56, 57,
71, 77, 84
Presentation, right of, rests with
the Church, 87
Princeton, ref. to, 67
College, ref. to, 40
Proctor, Col. Thos., member of the
Grand Lodge, 4, 106
Col. Thos., where buried, 4
Col. Thos., account of, 22
Col. Thos., ref. to, 23, 106
Col. Thos., satirized by Major
Andre, 93
Protestant Churchman, the, men-
tioned, 138
Protestant Episcopal Academy,
ref. to, 32, 147, 169
Episcopal Church, ref. to, 28,
32, 34, 123, 144, 156, 176,
181, 182, 187, 193
Epicsopal Church organiza-
tion of, 102, 103, 115
Episcopal Church, its name, to
whom owed, 103
Episcopal Church, 1st Gen'l
Conv. of, 105
Episcopal Church, at Corry,
Pa., mentioned, 171
Episcopal Church, Diocese Pa.,
Trustees of, ref. to, 208,
209, 286
Episcopal Church, Philadel-
phia, excerpts from the
minutes of the, 214, 215
Episcopal City Mission, men-
tion of, 3, 17, 188, 190, 191,
192
Episcopal City Mission, effi-
cient relief work of, 4
Episcopal Soc. for Domestic
and Foreign Missions, men-
tioned, 129
Episcopal Sunday School Soe.
of Philadelphia, mentioned,
228
Proverbs xxiii, 15, quoted, 137
298
l^ijStorg of S)t paur^ Cpisfcopal C8urc5.
Provincial Conventioii, ref. to, 200
Provoost, Eev. Samuel, consecrated
as Bishop of N. Y 104
Psalm 92 : 6, ref. to, 16
Psalm, 112, V, 6, quoted, 224, 231
Psalm, 10, V. 7, quoted, 231
Pulpit and Communion Silver, il-
lustr. of, facing p. 210
Puritans, ref. to, 56
Quakers, ref. to, 26, 47, 48, 49, 56,
57, 80, 127
Quarry, Col., mention of, 27
Quarterly Meeting, the first, ^'hen
and where celebrated, 98
Queen Anne Parish, mentioned,
135
Radnor Parish, mentioned, 234
Eeichner, L. Irving, notice of, '244
Eandall, Joseph C, notice of, 250
Caroline West, notice of, 250
Edmund, notice of, 250
Eenshaw, Eichard, Jr., note on,
276
Eaikes, Eobert, note on, 122
Eailroad Law, ref. to, 13
Eeed, Anna G. Everly, note on, 169
Eev. Dr. J. Sanders, account
of, 169
Eeformed Church, ref. to, 57
Eeily, John, account of, 33
Ee-interment, Act of Assembly as
to, 17, 18, 189
Eeligious Bodies, growth of, 57
congregation is a private
body, 14
life of St. Paul's Parishioners,
58 seq.
society, to every, absolute
ownership of its property is
confirmed, 190
Eenshaw, Eichard, mention of, 36,
137
Revelation 14, v. 13, quoted, 224,
231, 263
Revolution, ref. to, 23, 30, 31, 32,
33, 54, 90, 93 seq., 102
ref. to, 200, 239, 240, 270,
275, 286
Sons of the. Pa. Soc, ref. to,
22
Ehinelander, Et. Rev. Philip M.,
considers sale of St. Paul's,
3
Eiehmond, Va., its ancient name,
49
Eidgley, Nicholas, mention of, 97
Mary Vining, mention of,
97
Eobins, Edward, notice of, 73
Edward, of Phila., notice of,
73
Thos., notice of, 72
Isabella McClenachan, notice
of, 72
Thos., notice of, 73
Eoche, Eev. Dr. Robert T., rector-
ship of, 174, 175
Rev. Dr. Robert T., portrait
of, facing p. 173
Rodney, Caesar, mention of, 100
Romaine, Rev. Wm., notice of, 75,
87
Roman Catholic Church, ref. to, 15,
20, 57, 181
Ross, Capt. Chas., where buried, 15
Geo., notice of, 29
John, account of, 29, 30
John, ref. to, 34, 36, 49, 50,
51, 52
John, in relation to Articles of
Agreement, 47
Rev. Geo., note on, 29
Rowley, Richard, note on, 61, 62
Jane B., note on, 62
Royal Geographical Soc, men-
tioned, 179
Runk, Louis B., ' ' Fort Louis-
burg," ref. to, 67
Russia Company, The Worshipful,
mentioned, 224
299
3ntie£ to ^ubittt^.
Kush, Dr. Benjamin, "Memoirs," St.
ref. to, 111
Saehse, Dr. J. F., "Old Masonic
Lodges in Penna., Moderns
and Ancients," ref. to, 34 St.
Dr. J. F., "The German Sec-
taries of Penna.," ref. to, St.
122
Sacredness of Burial Grounds, IS-
IS
St. Andrew's Church, note on, 43,
73, 127, 129, 139, 146
Church, mentioned, 228 St.
Eichmond, N. Y., mentioned,
159
Society of Philadelphia, The,
ref. to, 31, 33 St.
Va., mentioned, 128
West Philadelphia, 171
Wilmington, Del., mentioned, St.
168
St. Ann 's Church, ref. to, 69 St.
Fishkill, N. Y., mentioned,
158
London, mention of, 75
St. Augustine, R. C. Church of,
ref. to, 41
St. David 's, Radnor, men-
tioned, 234 St,
Radnor, mentioned, 131
St. Elizabeth's Church, mentioned, St.
ISO
St. George, Society of the Sons of, St.
ref. to, 30, 122, 123
iSoe. of Sons of, mentioned, St.
199
St. George's, Georgetown, men-
tioned, 135
N. Y., mentioned, 138
M. E. Church, by whom estab-
lished, 114
St. James at Kingsessing, ref. to,
26
Pittston, Pa., mentioned, 175
Perkiomen, mentioned, 234
300
James College, Md., mentioned,
168
Memorial, Eatontown, N. J.,
mentioned, 175
R. C. Church, mentioned, 181
John the Evangelist, ref. to,
100, 105, 107 seq., 121
John's Chapel, mentioned, 169
Church, ref. to, 5, 168
Church, Clifton, N. Y., men-
tioned, 177
Northern Liberties, mentioned,
146
Luke's, Bustleton, ref. to, 167
Church, note on, 43, 138, 147,
154, 169, 178
Church, mentioned, 220
Mark's Church, Palatka, Fla.,
mentioned, 174
Church, Phila., mentioned, 177
Martin's Church, ref. to, 72
Marcus Hook, ref. to, 231
Mary's Cathedral Church, ref.
to, 286
Cathedral Church of, ref. to, 3
W. Philadelphia, mentioned,
144
Memorial Church, mentioned,
178
Mary, Sisterhood of, men-
tioned, 180
Matthew's Church, Francisville,
note on, 43
Patrick, ' ' History of Friendly
Sons of, ' ' ref. to, 78
Paul's, built for the Propaga-
tion of Principles of Estab-
lished Church, 34
incorporated, 36, 101
lottery, 37 seq.
title deeds, abstracts of, 206-
•209
Cheltenham, 44, 153, 155
Chester, Pa., mention of, 9
Chestnut Hill, mentioned, 190
Church Edifice, illustr. of, 1
^i0torp ot ^t paurgs CpiiScopal Cfiutc|^»
St. Paul's Church Entrance Gate, St.
illustr. of. 2
Church, appeal for preserva-
tion of, 3-24
Church, location of, 3
Church, sale of, considered, 3
Church Bldg. and Family
Vaults, illustr. of, 3
Churchyard, illustr. of, 4
history, request for, 19, 24
suggestions as to disposition
of, 20, 21
dead, debt to, 21-23
Church Eegisters, ref. to, 212,
213, 218, 220, 227, 230, 234,
243, 267
Church opened for worship, 41
rules of vestry, 41
sexton's duties, 41, 42
largest church in the Province,
43
formally incorporated, 43
consecrated, 43, 116, 136
mother of many parishes, 43
a religious storm center, 44
Detroit, mentioned, 141
Font, illustr. of, facing p. 45
Font, with baptismal bowl,
facing p. 47
erected for the defense of a
free gospel, 47
thoroughly American, 49
crowded to the doors, 53
contribution to formation of
Am. Episcopal Church, 63
Centennial Anniversary, 63,
64, 155
fourth diocesan convention at,
105
people visited by epidemic,
list of, 117
Keeords of, ref. to, 120
interested in foreign missions,
146
picture of interior, facing p.
147
301
Paul's prayer meetings, ref. to,
147
Societies of, 148
Children's church, 150
Missionary Sunday, ref. to,
152
petition to dftsolve corpora-
tion, 181 scq.
organization of, 25
by whom formed, 28
last survivor of original trus-
tees of, 32
agreements, by whom drawn, 34
corporate title of, 34
one of the founders of the P.
E. Church, 34
Pulpit and Communion Silver,
illustr. of, facing p. 210
Church Plate described, 210,
211
Church and Churchyard, plan
of, between pp. 216 and 217
charities of, remembered, 231
vestrymen, list of, 269-280
vestry minutes, ref. to, 269
Queen Anne Co., Md., ref. to,
79, 81
Rectors, list of, 64, 65
"had some invinceahle rea-
sons against Dr. Smith,"
82
Gift to Eev. Hugh Neill, 84,
85
conduct of parishioners of, at
breaking out of Revolution,
92
parishioners with Washing-
ton's army, 93
in rel. to organization of P.
E. Church, 102 seq.
School, Concord, N, H., men-
tioned, 168
Smyrna, ref. to, 98
near Md. line, ref. to, 98
Sunday-school, am't of money
Untitt to ^ubiectisi.
annually collected by, and
how applied, 170, 171, 172
St. Paul's Sunday School, ref, to,
44, 60, 120, 122, 142, 150,
151, 152, 159, 163^167
Sunday School, testimony to
Rev. Benj. Allen, 130
Sunday School, it:; Fiftieth
Anniv., ref. to, 142, 163
seq.
Sunday School, distinguished
pupils of, 152, 167 seq.
Sunday Schools, ref. to, 222
title to lot of, in whom
vested, 188
Buck Creek, ref. to, 97
Delaware, O., mentioned, 175
Great Valley, mentioned, 234
St. Peter's Church mention
of, 7, 9, 41, 43, 49, 50, 85,
136, 147, 162, 172, 186, 187,
188, 190, 208', 209, 276, 277
incepted, when and where, 25,
26
opened, when, 26
united with Christ Church, 26
Parish, " Sesquicentennial
Year Book," ref. to, 26,
106
requested to take over prop-
erty of St, Paul's, 182, 183,
184
St. Philip's Church, note on, 43
St. Stephen 's, Cecil Co., Md., men-
tioned, 27
Wilkes-Barre, mentioned, 144
St. Tammany, Sons of, ref. to, 22
St. Timothy's Church, mentioned,
174
St. Thomas, Whitemarsh, men-
tioned, 115, 121
Eavenswood, L. I., mentioned,
176
Salvation Army, ref. to, 56
Samuel Powel House, The, note on,
118
Sansom St. Union Prayer Meet-
ings, ref. to, 147
Saviour, Church of the, mentioned,
169
Sayres, Edward S., notice of, 101
Scharf and Westcott, ref. to, 275
Scharf and Westcott 's "Hist, of
Phila.," ref. to, 102, 133
Scharf 's "History of Delaware,"
ref. to, 97, 98
Schubert, autograph of, ref. to,
279
Scripture, interpretation of, 75
Seabury, Rt. Rev. Samuel, men-
tion of, 56, 105, 115
Rt. Rev. Samuel, subscribes to
Constitution, 214
ref. to, 215
Sellers, Edwin Jaquett, "Geneal-
ogy of the Kollock Fam-
ily," ref. to, 265
Seeker, Rev., letter to, in re Mr.
Whitefield's preaching, 53
Seckle, Lawrence, mention of, 276
Sellers, Wm., notice of, 33
Sepoy War, ref. to, 97
Sepulture, duty of providing, 4, 5
Sewell, Rev. Rich., notice of, 27
Sharp, Gov., ref. to, 81, 84
Sharswood, Justice, opinion by,
ref. to, 4
Justice, opinion of, in re Lot-
holders, 10, 11
Shaw, Capt., notice of, 217
Elizabeth Palmer, notice of,
217
Shee, Col. John, notice of, 33
Walter, account of, 33
Sheetz, Christian, mention of, 111
Shiras, Rev. Alexander, "Life and
Letters of the Rev. Dr. Jas.
May," ref. to, 144
Shirley, Gov., in ref. to ordina-
tion of the Rev. Mr. Mc-
Clenachan, 67
Gov., ref. to, 73
302
^i&toti^ of fe)t. ^mV0 episcopal Cfiurc]^.
Shober, Susannah B., notice of,
164
"iShockoes, " former name of
Eichmond, Va., ref . to, " 49
Shoemaker, Joseph M., mention of,
278
Shute, Atwood, note of, 34
Wm., account of, 34
Silk Stocking Company, mentioned,
118
Simpson, Henry, ' ' The Lives of
Eminent Philadelphians now
deceased," ref. to, 228
Simpson's "Lives of Eminent
Philadelphians, ' ' ref. to,
158
Slyhoof, Maria, mention of, '276
Sarah, mention of, 276
Michael, mention of, 276
Margaret, mention of, 276
Small 's ' ' Genealogical Eecords, ' '
ref. to, 124
Smith, Eev. Dr. Wm., his account
of Mr. MoClenaehan 's fol-
lowers, 47, 48
Eev. Dt. Wm., letter in ref. to
Eev, Dr. Jacob Duehe, 49
Eev. Dr. Wm., ref. to, 51, 52,
80, 82, 83, 84, 86, 87, 88,
91, 214
Eev. Dr. Wm., "no Clergyman
more disagreeable, ' ' 83
Eev. Dr. Wm., "refusal of,
an unpardonable crime," 83
Eev. Dr. Wm., letter to the
Bishop of London, 76, 77,
78
Eev. Dr. Wm., "Life and
Correspondence of," ref. to,
76, 77
Eev. Dr. Wm., portrait of,
facing p. 77
Eev. Dr. Wm., letter to, in
ref. to Mr. Neill, 81
Eev. Dr. Wm., letter of, in
ref. to Mr. Magaw, 96
Eev. Dr. Wm., calls conven-
tion of Md. clergy, Am. P.
E. church, 103
Smith, Eev. Dr. Wm., chosen bishop
of Md., 103
Smith's Laws, ref. to, 40
Society Hill, origin of name, 25
for Propagating the Gospel in
Foreign Parts, mentioned,
10, 46, 49, 67, 70, 71, 79,
84, 86, 88, 90, 96, 174
for the, see also Venerable
Soc.
of Antiquarians of Edin-
burgh, mentioned, 179
of the P. E. Church for the
Advancement of Christian-
ity in Pa., mentioned, '200
Springer, Geo., mention of. 111
Spurgeon, ref. to, 151
Stamp and Quartering Acts, ref.
to, 75
Standley, Wm., notice of, 276
Wm., grandson, mentioned,
276
Eichard, mentioned, 276
Hugh, mentioned, 276
Elizabeth Fulton, mentioned,
276
Stanley, Capt. Norris, mention of,
3
Norris, account of, 231
State has right to regulate use of
all property, 11
and Church, the former must
exercise its control some-
times, 63
policy of, with resi^ect to
tenure of property held by
religious societies, 190
House, Sale of, authorized, 8
House, in relation to St.
Paul's, 28
House, ref. to, 29, 46, 51, 71,
93, 111, 114, 214, 215
Statutes at Large of Penna., ref.
to, 40
303
Sntitj to ^uhint^*
Stevenson, Cornelius, account of,
228
Cornelius, portrait of, facing
p. 228
Mary May, notice of, 228
Wm., Sr,, notice of, 228
Ann Groebe, notice of, 228
Wm., notice of, 228
Cornelius, notice of, 130
Stevens, Eev. Dr, Chas. Ellis, rec-
torship of, 179, 180
Eev. Dr. Chas. Ellis, portrait
of, facing p. 180
Ella M. A., notice of, 180
Rt. Eev., on Bishop White, 74
Et. Eev., mentioned, 147
Stewart, Henry, notice of, 68
Mary Ann, notice of, 68
Caroline, notice of, 68
Washington, notice of, 68
Eobert, notice of, 68
Gen. Walter, children of, 68
Walter, notice of, 68
Wm., notice of, 68
Story & Humphreys, Printers, men-
tion of, 99
Stotesbury, Arthur, account of.
220
Eichard G., notice of, 220
Eichard G., notice of, 277
James M., notice of, 277
Mary Ann, notice of, 277
Stringer, Eev. Wm., rectorship of,
86-95
Eev. Wm., "ordained irregu-
larly," 87
Eev. Wm., applied to by St.
Paul's Congregation, 88
Eev. Wm., his evening lec-
tures, and action of Lodge
No. 2, 90
Eev. Wm,, validity of his or-
dination questioned, 90
Eev. Wm., rendered persona
non grata to St. Paul's, 90
Eev. Wm., dissolution of his
connection with St. Paul's
92 seq.
Sturgeon, Eev. Wm., note on, 50
Eev. Wm., his view of St.
Paul's Congregation, 50, 51
Eev. Wm., on Mr. MeClen-
achan's Eloquence, 51
Eev. Wm., on his dismissal
from Christ Church, 51, 52
Eev. Wm., ref. to, 53, 70, 71
Sunday, Observance of, 60 seq.
Sunday-school Ass'n P. E. Church,
organization of, 170
mentioned, 171
Supreme Court of Pa., ref. to, 8,
12, 13, 190
Court of U. S., ref. to, 9, 54
Court of Va., ref. to, 192
Susquehanna Coal Co., ref. to, 5, 12
Swanwick, John, notice of, 277
Swedish Settlers, ref. to, 32
Swift, John, note on, 133
Tammany, Sons of St., ref. to, 22
Tennant, Eev. Gilbert, ref. to, 46
Thefts, mysterious, enumerated,
42, 43
Thirty-nine Articles, The, ref. to,
35, 73, 88
Articles, ref. to, 195, 197
Thomas, John W., notice of, 44,
163
Gabriel, his publication of
1698, ref. to, 27
Geo. Clifford, account of, 277,
278, 279
John W., notice of, 277
Ada E. Moorhead, notice of,
278
Geo. C, his charity lauded, 44
Geo. C, Memorial Church, ref.
to, 44
Geo. C, organized Sunday-
school Ass'n P. E. Church,
170
"History of Printing in
America, ' ' ref. to, 78
304
I^isitotg ot felt paurgi Cpigicopal C^uccli,
Thomas, Library, famous works
therein, mentioned, 278-
Rev. Eieh'd Newton, men-
tion of, 44
Title Deeds, abstracts of, 206 seq.
Tories, mention of, 94, 97
Towne, Benjamin, mention of, 36
Traders, Free Society of, ref. to,
25
Transfiguration, Church of the,
mentioned, 177
Trenton, ref. to, 67
Trinity Church, N. Y. City, ref.
to, 97
Georgetown, mentioned, 174
Church, Oxford, ref. to, 40,
79, 115, 121
Church, Sharon Springs, men-
tioned, 163
Church, Watertown, men-
tioned, 169
Episcopal Church, ref. to, 18
Toland, Henry, Jr., notice of, 219
Henry, Sr., notice of, 219
Mary Huston, notice of, 219
Sarah, Barnhill, notice of, 219
Robert, notice of, 219
Trenton, battle of, ref. to, 268
Trinity Church, N. Y., mentioned,
250
Tun Tavern Lodge, its place of
meeting, 33
Turner, Joseph, mention of, 36
Twells, Sarah Standley, mention
of, 276, 279
Godfrey, mention of, 276
Elizabeth, mention of, 276
Godfrey, account of, 279
Elizabeth, mention of, '279
Godfrey, Jr., mention of, 279
Standley, mention of, 279
Edward, mention of, 279
Sarah W. C, mention of, 279
Richard, mention of, 279
Tyndale's New Testament, ref. to,
278
Tyng, Rev. Dr., mentioned, 269
21 305
Tyng, Ann De Wolf Griswold, notice
of, 138
Rev. Dudley A., mention of,
135, 139, 147
Rev. Dudley A., notice of,
137, 140, 168
Rev. Dudley A., Memorial
meeting in honour of, ref.
to, 159
Rev. Dr; Stephen H., is author-
ity for remarkable state-
ment, 47
Rev. Dr. Stephen H., sermon
of, at consecration St.
Paul's, ref. to, 116
Rev. Dr. Stephen H., portrait
of, facing p. 135
Rev. Dr. Stephen H., rector-
ship of, 135-140
Rev. Dr. Stephen H., chief
printed works of, 138 seq.
Rev. Dr. Stephen H., men-
tioned, 145, 146, 159, 163
Susan W. Mitchell, note on,
138
Union College, mentioned, 172
United Congregations Christ and
St. Peter's Churches, ref.
to, 51, 52, 53, 87, 102, 112
Congregations, the clergy of,
interest themselves in St.
Paul's, 90
Union League, mentioned, 163, 220,
279
Pacific R. R. Co., mentioned,
274
School and Children's Home,
mentioned, 171
United States, the making of the,
ref. to, 49
observes Washington 's birth-
day, 110
Navy, ref. to, 169
Bank, mentioned, 219
First Bank, mentioned, 228
Z7. S. Gazette, quoted, 217
3lnti« to ^ubiett^.
University of the City of N. Y., Washington, Gen, Geo., officers in
mentioned, 179
of Wooster, O., mentioned,
180
of Penna., mentioned, 29, 32,
52, 73, 96, 101, 103, 123,
142, 145, 147, 154, 155, 158,
161, 168, 177, 178, 179, 199,
200, 215
Hospital, mentioned, 181
Valley Forge, sale of, proposed, 8
winter quarters at, 93
Centennial and Memorial
Ass'n of, ref. to, 189
Van Brunt, Rutgers, mention of,
99
Vault, every, a sacred depository,
18
Venerable Soc, letter to, rel. to
St. Paul's, 81
Soc, ref. to, 84, 90, 96, 100
Soc, see also Soc. Propag.
Gospel in Foreign Parts.
Versailles in the time of Louis
XIV., ref. to, 49
Vestry, minutes of the, ref. to,
269
Vestrymen, List of, 269-280
Vining, Capt. Benjamin, notice of,
97
Mary, notice of, 97
Virginia Theological Seminary,
mentioned, 144
Voigt, Henry, mention of, 111
Wagner, Richard, mention of, 278,
279
Walsh, Stevenson Hockley, notice
of, 228
Washington, Gen'l Geo., notice of,
200
"Farewell Address" of, ref.
to, 270
patriotic appeal of, 279
Martha, note on, 278
forces of, 4
letter of, commending City
Troop, ref. to, 4
his headquarters at Valley
Forge, ref. to, 8
ref. to, 22, 50, 68, 91, 97, 106,
118, 139, 172
Gen. Geo., crossed Delaware,
67
Gen. Geo., defeated at Bran-
dywine, 92
Gen. Geo., defeated at Ger-
mantown, 93
Gen. Geo., victorious at York-
town, 94
Gen. Geo., styled "Cinein-
natus," 100
Gen, Geo., thanked by Grand
Lodge of donation to poor,
106
Gen. Geo., his birthday ob-
served, 110
Gen. Geo., when initiated into
Free Masonry, 139
Mary, note on, 192
College, Md., mention of, 103
Grays Artillery Corps, men-
tioned, 160
Wayne, Gen. Anthony, suggests
Valley Forge winter quar-
ters, 93
Wesley, Rev. John, mention of, 56,
113, 114, 115
West, Capt. Josiah, notice of, 250
Mary Gould, notice of, 250
Caroline, notice of, 250
Westcott, Thompson, ' ' Historic
Mansions and Buildings of
Phila.," ref. to, 22
"Westover" Plantation, ref. to,
49
West Point Military Academy,
mentioned, 141
Wharton, Anne H., "Salons Co-
306
m&totTf ot §)t paursi episcopal CSutcj;
lonial and Eepublican, ' ' ref .
to, 94
Wharton, mention of, 231
Robert, mention of, 8
Whelen, Henry, Jr., note on, 62
Laura Baker, note on, 62
Wldskey Insurrection, ref. to, 22,
270
White, Eev. Dt. Wm., referred to,
54, 91, 98
Eev. Dr. Wm., chosen Pres.
first Gen'l Convention, 103
Et. Eev. Dr. Wm., consecrated
St. Paul's, 43, 136
Rt. Eev. Dr. Wm., ref. to, 56,
73, 74, 95, 106, 111, 138,
141, 143, 147, 156
Et. Eev. Dr. Wm., "Me-
moirs," ref. to, 102
Et. Eev. Dr. Wm., portrait of,
facing p. 104
Et. Eev. Dr. Wm., conse-
crated Bishop, 104
Et. Eev. Dr. Wm., holds 1st
ordination, 104
Et. Rev. Dr. Wm., "Me-
moirs," ref. to, 106
Whitefield, Eev. Geo., ref. to, 47,
73, 75, 76, 77, 86
Rev. Geo., his coming to Phil-
adelphia, 52, 53
Rev. Geo., preaches at Christ,
St. Peter's and St. Paul's
Churches, 53
Rev. Geo., where he died, 53
Whiting, Beverley, notice of, 126
Betsy, notice of, 1'26
Wilkinson, Anthony, notice of, 271
Wilkinson, Elizabeth, notice of, 271
Ann, notice of, 271
Williams, John, martyr, mentioned,
152
Rt. Rev., mentioned, 54
Willing, Capt. Chas., mention of,
270
Morris & Swanwick, mention
of, 277
Wilmer, Lambert, notice of, 199
Wilson, Jas,, note on, 118
Wm. Currie, notice of, 234
James, notice of, 273
Mary, notice of, 273
Wilson's "Life of White," ref.
to, 106
Wood, John, notice of, 199
John, member of the Grand
Lodge, 4
John, where buried, 4
John, mention of, 23, 36, 105
Joseph, note on, 124
Woodland Cemetery, mentioned,
219, 265
Cemetery Co., ref. to, 5
Yale College, mentioned, 179, 180
Yellow Fever, ref. to, 200, 234,
273
Fever, mention of, 28, 111,
116, 118, 143
Young, John, mention of, 36
Zion Ev. Lutheran Church, men-
tioned, 111
German Ref. Congreg., men-
tioned, 189
307
• * •
INDEX TO NAMES.
Abbott, Edward, 269
Abraham, 14, 15
Adams, J. M., 164
Adamson, Eev. Wm. S., 65, 176,
177
Agnew, Daniel, 13-15
Aikman, Walter Monteith, 180
Ella Monteith, 180
Albright, 189
Alexander, 5
Christiana, 170, 236
Jas., 3, 254, 255
Elizabeth, 254
Margaret, 255
Eiehard, 3, 235
Wm., 164
Eachel P., 221
Ann C, 235
Eiehard C, '235
Eiehard J., 236
Wm.., 254, 269
Eachel, 254
Allen, 5, 165
Eev. Benjamin, Jr., 65, 120,
125-134, 165, 216, 217, 232
Eev. Dr. Thos. G., 165
Mary Ann C. A., 232
Benjamin, 232
Allison, Joseph, 10
Ameran, Jane, 117
Anderson, 5
Ann, 238
James B., 269
Anderson, Wm., 238
Mary, 238
Andrews, 96
Armat, 5
Thos. Wright, 248
Mary, 252
Arrowsmith, J., 27
Aspinwall, Wm. H., 160
Auber, 5
Jas., 224, 225
Babb, 5
Jane, 248
Bache, Eiehard, 122
Baker, Geo. A., 122
Bankson, Andw., 29, 32, 39, 206,
207, 208, 269
Deborah, 32
Martha, 31
Sarah Allen, 32
Jacob, 32
John, 3'2
John P., 7, 122, 164
Lloyd, 164
Barbazett, James, 255
James, 255
Barger, Elizabeth Donaven, 239
Barker, 5
John, Jr., 243
Barnes, 5
Eeachel, 246
Joseph, 122
Barratt, 5
308
^^igftotg ot fe»t ^mV0 CpfiScopal CSutcfi,
Barratt, James, 255
James, Jr., 220
Mary Irvine, 4
Norris Stanley, 24, 255, 281
PMlip, 27
Philip, Jr., 27
Barton, Dr., 96
Thos., 45, 92
Bartram, 5
Alexander, 269
George, 269
Jolin, M.D., 227
Sarah S., 227
Eobert, 255
Bason, J., 164
Bates, John, 199, 269
Batwelle, Daniel, 92
Bayard, Mrs., 145
Thos. F,, 145
Bayne, Eobert, 245
Samuel P., 245
Baynton, Elizabeth Bullock, 200
Elizabeth Chevalier, 30
Mary Budd, 30
Peter, 30, 200
Baynton, John, 29, 206, 207, 269
Beach, Edmund, 29
Beaks, Joseph, 237
Jane, 237
Capt. Joseph, 237
Elizabeth, 237
Sarah, 237
Beale, J. L., 269
Bearcroft, Eev. Dr., 69, 70, 71
Beard, Elizabeth, 246
Capt. Wm., 246
Beatty, John, 117, 269
Beck, Margaret, 261
Paul, 101, 15&
Margaret, 261
Paul, Jr., 101, 261
Mary Harvey, 261
Wm. Currie, 262
Becket, Thos. a, 20
Bedell, Et. Eev. Gregory T., 12
129, 131, 139, 140
Bell, Ann, 256
Eebecca A., 256
Eobert F., 256
Benezet, Jas., 29, 206, 207, 208,
269
John, 206
Philip, 269
Benham [Bonham], Ephraim, 206,
207, 208
Bennet, Maria, 261
Benson, Wm. Potter, 247
Frederick, 247
Peter, 247
Jane, 247
Jane P., 247
Biekerton, George, 269
Biggs, Mary, 242
Ephraim, 242
Thomas, 269
Black, Susannah Kennedy, 263
James, 263
Susannah, 263
Jeremiah F., 48
Blair, Wm., 264
Sarah, 264
Samuel, 264
Blatchford, Eev. Dr. Samuel, 125
Bodger, Benjamin, 117
Body, E., 164
Bonham, Ephraim, 29, 31, 39, 269
Boore, David, 33
Bourn, John, 33
Bowen, Thos., 257
David, 257
Penelope, 257
Bowman, Et. Eev. Samuel, 144
Eev. Samuel H., 175, 176
Boyd, 5
Catharine, 238
Jas., 238
Beyer, Eev. Dr. Samuel H., 65,
175, 176
Samuel, 175
Elenore Simmons, 175
7, Bradford, Wm., 39
Samuel F., 122
309
Inhtt to iRameiS,
Branson, David, 34
Bridges, 5
Capt. Geo., 257
Alexander, 257
Eobert, 257
George, 257
Bright, John, 117
Bringhurst, Eev. Dr. Geo., 165
Brooks, E. D., 148
Eev. Phillips, 147
Broom, Hannah, 263
Thomas, 263
Margaret, 263
Broome, Thomas, 263, 269
Letitia, 263
Brothers, Michael, 34
Brown, 5
Mr. Justice, 9
Wm., 148
Andrew, 230
Elizabeth, 230
Mary, 230
Geo., 230
Browne, Peter A., 122
Buckley, 5
Wm., 208
Sarah, 208
Budden, Wm., 31
Bullock, Esther Baynton, 200
Geo., 200
Joseph, 30, 199, 269
Esther Baynton, 30
Joseph, Jr., 200
Sophia, 200
Anna Maria, 200
Burden, Jesse E., 164
Burnet, Henry, 29
Butler, 5
Margaret, 240
John, 266
Mary, 266
Henry, 266
Sarah, 266
Eev. Dr. Clement M., 147
Cadwalader, Dr.' Chas. E., 7, 269
Thos., 137
Cameron, 5
Wm., 117, 244
Jas., 245
Campbell, Thos., 29, 31, 39, 206,
207, 208
John M., 18
John, Sr., 36, 218, 269
Mary, 218, 219
Dr. John, 199, 218
Mary Wood, 199
Campion, Mrs., 222
Margaret, 222
Catharine, 222
J. B., 222
Canadine, Thos., 31
Martha Fleeson, 31
Cannon, Ann, 210, 240
Cardan, Eev. Eichard, 147
Carr, Ann Jane, 170
Wm. Wilkins, 170
Carson, 5
Eobert, 33, 240
Hampton L., 273, 286
Elizabeth Yeaton, 240
Carteret, 5
Jas. P., 249
Daniel, 249
Emily, 249
Cash, Caleb, 32
Eebecca, 32
Caskey, 5
Mary, 265
Eobert, 265
Cathers, Wm., 117
Elenor, 217
Cave, Cathrane, 261
Thomas, 261
Chapman, Eev. Walter, 77, 86, 87
Carlton, Thos., 29, 33, 39, 206, 207,
208-, 210, 269
Chase, Et. Eev., 127
Chesterfield, Lord, 73
Chew, Benjamin, 67
Childs, Allen, 131
Christy, 258
Eebecca, 258
310
I^isftor? ot ^t ^mV0 (Kpigfcopal CSurcfi^
Christy, James, 25S
Eobert, 258
Wm., 258
Robert, Jr., 258
Churcli, PhUip, 68
Anne Stewart, 68
Clapier, Mary Heyl, 239
Clark, 5
Danl., 30
John, 242
Mary, 244
Jeffrey, 244
Rev. John A., 146
William H., M.D., 270
Claxton, 5
John, 119, 128, 205, 270
A., 164
Rev. Dr. Robert B., 165, 168
Claypoole, 5
Jas., 30, 39, 270
David C, 100, 270
Elizabeth, 270
Geo., 117, 243, 270
Wm., 117
Mary, 24, 270
Dr. Wm., 243
Catharine, 243
Clayton, Rev. Thos., 26, 27, 28
Clayton, Susannah, 261
Coates, Samuel, 32
Cohoon, Josiah, 267
Coit, Rev. Dr. Henry A., 168
Rev. Dr. Joseph H., 168
Colket, C. Howard, 234
Connelly, 5
Rebecca Robinson, 259
Isaac, 259
Conrad, Hy. I., 177
Hannah S. Kay, 177
Rev. Dr. Thos. Kittera, 65,
177, 178
Consort, 6
Conway, Susannah, 222
William, 270
Conyngham, Mrs. Hayfield, 68
Cook, Samuel, 45
Cooke, Jay, 7, 148, 270
Cooper, Cornelia, 170
Copley, John Singleton, 199
Copper, 6
Abraham Geo., 239
Elizabeth, 239, 270
Capt. Norris, 239, 270
Jas. Norris, 243
Annie Sayles, 243
Sarah, 221
Coulty, Samuel, 258
Cowell, 6
Mary, 218
Cox, 5
James, 270
Maria C, 255
Capt. John 255
Martha, 255
Coxe, Mr., his son-in-law, 117
Craig, Geo., 45, 92
Craven, 6
Crawford, Dr. Samuel, 177
Croley, Rev. Geo., 133
Cromwell, 6
his wife, 117
Rev. Joseph, 98
Oliver, 49
Ann, 224, 252
John, 252
Mary, 252
Margaret, 252
Cummings, 6
Norris Stanley, 148
Geo., 162
Elizabeth Tate, 162
Simon, 162
Wm., 3, 148, 161, 220, 221,
2.54, 271
Emily Alexander, 220
Mary Irvine, 220
Cora Monges, 220
Mary Alexander, 221
Curren, Nathaniel, 31
Currie, 6
Sarah, 234
Wm., M.D., 234
311
SnlifjE to jRamegi.
Curtis, 6
Mary, 244
Abigail, 244
John, 244
Elizabeth, 244
Jacob B., 244
John H., 244, 271
Sarah O., 244
Cuthbert, Thos., 33, 271
Darlington, Joseph G.j 271
Daughty, 6
David, John, 210
Davies, Samuel N., 130, 170, 223
Eebecea, 223
Herbert S., 223
Samuel N., 2d, 228, 271
Elizabeth B., 223
Chas. Edward, 223
Davis, John, 117
Mrs., 117, 222
Elizabeth, 117, 260, 261
Wm., 222
Perry, 222
Wm., 2d, 222
Justinian F., 222
Isabella Price, 260
Andrew, 260, 261
Elizabeth, 260, 261
Mary, 260, 261
Wm. Price, 261
Davy, Eichard, 117
Dawson, Joshua, his child, 117, 252
Ann, 252
Sarah, 253
Deaver, Dr. John B., 250
Caroline E., 250
Deacon, Gilbert, 272
De Bray, Susannah Auber, 224
Daniel, 224
Delany, Lydia, 184, 185
Delavan, Catharine, 263
Wm., 263
Catharine Amanda, 263
Delavan, Joseph, 272
DesUver, 6
Desilver, Margaret, 262
Eobert, 263
Ann, 263
De Wolfe Howe, Eev. Dr. Mark A.,
147
Dickenson, Dr. Willm., 29
Dickinson, Jonathan, 28
Dilworth, Sarah, 224
Doane, Et. Eev., 141
Dodge, Ezra, 164
Dogherty, Jas., 117
Donaven, 6
Capt. John, 239
Mary, 239
Dorr, Eev. Dr., 147
Dougherty, Jas., 36, 199, 272
Doughty, Ann, 242
Jas., 242
Margaret, 242
Dowers, John, 272
Doyle, John, 34
Doz, Andrew, 29, 32, 33, 39, 105,
199, 206, 207, 208, 272
Martha, 32, 210
Philip, 32
Eebecea Cash, 32
Eebecea, 210
Drais, Daniel, 253
Dray tons, the, 91
Drexel, Anthony J., 278
Drummond, Capt. Patrick, 67
Ann Bell, 67
Dubois, Claudius, 33
Duche, Anthony, 33
Eev. Jacob, 49, 50, 53, 82-83,
87, 88> 91
Elizabeth H., 50
Sarah Coats, 33
Duff, Edward, 221
Duffield, Abraham, 272
John, 40
Du Plessis, Peter le Barbier, 234,
235
Geo., 235
Helena, 235
Sophia, 235
312
i^igitor^ of fe)t ^auV0 (Episfcopal C5utc$.
Du Plessis, Mrs., 117
Dupuy, Dan'l, 34, 272
Durborrow, Chas. B., 7, 148, 272
Rev. Dr. Samuel, 165, 169
Durell, Wm., 121
Earnest, Jacob, 221
Geo. W., 221
Esther, 221
Elizabeth, 221
Eliza D., 221
Jas., 221
Hester, 221
Eecles, 6
Alice, 266
James, 266
Edward, Edward, 117
Edwards, 6
Howard, 148
Elders, David, 117
Eldred, Rev. Wm., 133
Ellis, 6
Jas., 225
Sarah, 225
Elmslie, 6
Virginia, 261
Louis, 261
Susan, 261
Ernes, 6
Worsley, 246, 272
Emory, Charles, 272
Entrikin, T., 122
Thos., 122
Erben, Rev. Dr. W., 165
Erwin, 6
Etting, Solomon, 40
Evans, 6, 77
Wm. M., child of, 226
Elizabeth C, 226
P., 267
Falconer, Capt., 42
Falkner, Lester, 29, 42
Fannen, 6
Anthony, 256
Farr, 6
Jas., 7
Farr, Jas. M., 148, 272
John, 155, 165, 169, 222, 272
J., 221
Edward, 222
Edward, 2d, 222
Elizabeth Parker, 266
WiEiam, 266
William A., 272
Elizabeth, 266
Fawcett, Owen, 152
Fearon, Joseph, 272
Feinour, 6
Geo., 222
Margaret, 222^
Ann, 222
Wm., 222
Geo. T., 222
Fennell, 6
Odell, 251
Edmund, 251
Margaret, 251
Fenton, 6
Eleazer, 7, 148, 272
Thos., Jr., 117
Ferguson, 6
Elizabeth, 238
Jas., 238
Field, 6
Mrs., 117
Barbary, 266
Peter, 266
Findley, Wm., 204
Finley, Francis, 117
Fisher, Miers, 32
Rev. Dr. Chas., 165
Fitzgerald, 6
Elizabeth, 256
Lydia, 256
Robert, 256, 272
Mary, 256
Kaziah, 256
Fitzrandolph, 6
Isaac, 237, 272
Fleeson, 6
Catharine, 31
Martha Bankson, 31
313
Snbei to 0amt0,
Fleeson, Plunkt, 29, 30, 31, 32, 36,
39, 105, 199, 200, 206, 207,
208, 210, 239, 272
^ Thos., 31
Rebecca Britton, 31
Flower, 6
Martha, 32, 210
Thos., 249
Thos., Sr., 249
Hannah, 249
Foot, 6
Mary, 260
Ford, Philip, 272
Forder, 6
Jas., 253
Forrest, 6
Edwin, 152, 221
Henrietta, 221
Wm., 221
Caroline, 221 '
Eebeeca, 221
Elenora, 221
Lorman, 221
Wm., Jr., 221
Joan, 206
Fowles, Jas. H., 1^5
Fox, Mrs., her son, 117
Francine, Catharine H., 275
James L., 275
Franklin, 33, 78, 91
Fraser, John Fries, 178
Frazer, Wm., 92
Freburger, Elizabeth Seaborn, 234
Peter, 234
Fugett, Eev. Dr. J. P., 165
Fyring, Philip, 41
Gardner, Elizabeth, 170
Garland, Rt. Eev., 286
Gartley, Wm., 248
Eliza Matilda, 248
Wm., Sr., 248
Eliza, 248
Garwood, Wm., 119
George, Henry, 7, 152
John D., 7, 137, 148, 170, 272
John, 33
E. S. H., 148, 272
Getz, Eev. Henry S., 169
Gibbons, Eev. Dr. Hughes O., 15
Gibson, John B., 48
Gill, Geo. W., 256
Harriet H,, 256
Geo. Andrew, 256
GiUinghan, George, 260, 264
Mary, 260
Girard, Stephen, 12
Glenn, Thos. Allen, 285
Glentworth, Dr. Peter, 117
Dr. Geo., 4, 23, 164, 225
Margaret Linton, 199
Dr. Peter Sonmans, 199, 272
Dr. Plunket Fleeson, 199, 205,
225, 272
Thos., 199
Geo., 2d, 225
Margaret, 225
Walter, 225
Mrs. Geo., 225
Geo. P., 225
Harriet, 225
Alfred, 225
Hannah L., 225
Edward H., M.D., 225
Mrs., 225
John L., 225
Harvey, 225
Geo., 225, 272
Theodore, 225
Goddard, Eev. Dr. Kingston, Q5,
147, 158-160
MatUda S., 159
John, 158, 261
Mary Beck, 158
Mary, 261
Godfrey, John W., 272
Godin, Mary, 117
Golder, J., 164
Goodman, Asa M., 37
Walter, 29, 39, 206, 207, 208,
272
514
^i&totis ot felt, paurss (Kpi^copal Cfiutc^*
Goodwin, 6
Geo., 33, 199, 272
Jolm D., 137
Dr. Daniel E., 147
Susannah, 242
John, 242
Gosner, Daniel, 256
Peter, 2.56
Jas. T., 256
Ann, 256
Hester, 256
Gowan, James, 272
Francis I., 272
Franklin B., 272
Graham, Wm., 199
Thomas, 273
John, 266
Greatorex, Lawrence, 155
Green, Samuel, 59
Edward A., 27
Dr., his child, 227
Griswold, Et. Eev., 135
Groves, John, 273
Guerin, 6
Geo., 224
Mary Ann, 224
Gummey, J., 189
Gunary, Mary, 262
Gurling, Abram, 273
Gurney, Catharine Eoss, 30
Henry, 30
Catharine, 216
Halberstadt, 6
Geo., 251
Anne, 251
Ann, 252
Hale, Eev. Ghas. E., 169
Hall, David, 29^ 39, 273
Capt. David, 4, 23
Parry, 230, 273
Mary, 230
Eev. Eichard D., 230
Parry Pilmore, 230
Eev. E. Drayson, 230
Mary Ann, 242
Hall, Geo., 242
Martha, 242
Hamilton, Andrew, 29, 34
Hancock, Eichard, 33
Hanson, Jonathan, 34
Harding, Jesper, 194
Hare, Dr., 147
Hargrave, Joseph, 34
Harman, 6
J. H., 148
Susanna Heyl, 239, 240
Jacob, Sr., 240
Harris, 6
Jas., 30, 253
Hartley, Joseph, 98
Hawkins, Geo., 31
Hayes, Samuel, 40
Eobinina, 229
Eobert, 229
Hayward, Wm. H., 229
Hazlewood, Commodore John, 31
Esther Fleeson, 31
Henry, Patrick, 91
Heyl, Dorothea, 239
Elizabeth, 239
George, 239
George A., 240
George Thomas, 239
Mary, 239
Susanna, 239
William, 239
Hey wards, the, 91
Hickenbottom, Alex. C, 29
Hicks, Sarah Keller, 246
Wm., 246
Hinton, George, 117, 253
Barbary, 253
Holland, 6
Nathaniel, 137, 273
Benj., 248
Hollingsworth, Levi, 205, 273
Henry, 273
Mary, 273
Paschall, 273
Zebulon, 273
Holmes, Mrs., 117
315
Inttn to Bsimt0,
Holson, Charles, 273
Hood, 6
Kebecca S., 221
Francis, 221
Hoot, 6
John, 266, 273
Hopkinson, 214
Hoppe, Mary K., 15
Howard, John, 29, 33, 274
Hozey, 6
Jane, 259
Isaac, 259
Huckel, Eev. Wm., 168
John, 262
Wm., 262
Susanna, 262
Hughes, Esther, 228
Hulsekamp, 6
Elizabeth, 257
Garrett, 257
Hyde, 6
John, 246
Mary, 257
Hunt, 6
Mary, 238
Eichard, 238
Huston, John, 219
lann, Ann, 266
lann, 6
Ann, 266
Inglis, Chas., 45, 92
Irish, Nat., 34
Irnitz, Jacob, 30
Irvine, 6
Irving, 6
Ann, 217
Catharine, 217
David, 217
John, 217, 251
Eev. Edward, 133
Jefferson, Thos., 146
Jenney, Eev. Dr., 25
Johnson, 6
Eichard, 119, 128, 205, 240,
274
Elizabeth Heyl, 239
Dr., 73
Frances Sophia, 240
Elizabeth, 240
Fred. Seeger, 240
John, 267, 274
Johnston, Samuel, 117, 217
John, 32, 233
Sarah, 233
Eleanor, 233
Catharine, 233
Wm. P., 237
Jones, 6
Gibbs, 23
Jane, 23
Jane (Crapp), 23
John, 23, 31
Capt. Gibbs, 22, 23
Eev. Edward C, 168
Col. Blathwaite, 4, 22, 23, 31,
274
Mark T., 222
Susannah, 222
Susan Shade, 258
Thomas, 258
Ann Maria, '258
Maria W., 258
John Fergusa, 258
Susan, 258
John Colem, 258
Jordan, 6
Dr. John W., 38
Catharine, 227
Josephson, Manuel, 40
Josiah, Emmanuel, 232, 274
Ann, 232
Jackson, William, 274
Jacobson, 6
Hans, 265
James, 6
Keble, 6
Abigail Spicer, 200
John, 199, 219, 274
Keen, 6
316
i^isitot? ot &t ^mV0 (Cpisicopal Cfiurc^,
Keen, Gregory B., 23
Matliias, 117^ 245
Mary, 245
Matthias V., 245, 274
Elizabeth Hood, 245
Gregory Bernard, 286
Keller, Adam, 246
Elizabeth, 246
Kemper, Et. Eev., 141
Kerr, Walter, 122
Kimmey, Henry M., 7, 148, 274
Kincaid, 10
King, Robert P., 173, 274
Daniel J., 274
Jas., Jr., 274
Leroy N., 274
Kirk, 6
Josiah W., 236
John Palmer, 236
Eli, 236
Elizabeth M., 236
Kirkham, Chas., 243, 274
Deborah, 243
William, 274
Kirkpatrick, Josephine Spooner,
223
Wm., 223
Kittera, Thos., 8, 130, 218
Thos. Wilkes, 218
Ann Moore, 218
Knowles, John, 29, 206, 207, 208
John, 274
KoUock, Cornelius, 265
Lieut. Jacob, Jr., 265
Mary Leech, 265
Mary Eogerson, 265
Kyn, Joran, 23
Lafayette, Gen'l, 99, 199
Lake, Ann, 228
Thos., 228
•Caroline, 229
Lammor, Susan P., 262
Daniel, 262
Lane, Mrs,, 117
Wm., 247, 274
Lane, Mary, 247
Langman, Edward, 117
Lansdale, W. M., 186
Lapsley, Thos., 117
Laskey, 6
Margaret, 238
Edward, 238
Catharine, 238
Latimer & Co., 131
Thos., 7, 148, 274,
Eev. Geo, A,, 168
Lea, Mrs. Arthur H., 239
Leach, Frank Willing, 285
Josiah Granville, 200, 286
Leacock, John, 85
Samuel, 31
Esther Fleeson, 31
Leadbetter, Geo., 30
Leah, 15
Leamy, 6
John, 220
Mrs., 220
Ann, 220
Elizabeth, 220
Ledlie, 6
Wm., 218
Ledru, John, 33
Josh., 34
Lee, Eiehard Hy., 91
Leech, 6
Thos., 29, 206, 274
Tobias, 29
Esther Ashmead, 29
Margaret, 232
Capt. Thos., 232
Charlotte, 232
WiUiam, 30
Lees, John, 30
Leevers, Eobert, 274
Lewis, Chas. S., 172
Jacob, 206
Michael, his son, 117
Libby, Capt. Benj. F,, 134
Linton, John, 31, 199
Martha Bankson, 31, 199
Lippincott, Samuel, 122
317
3}nbC3E to igaim0.
Littlejolin, Et. Eev. Dr. Abram N.,
176
Livingston, 91
Marian Alexandra, 226
Lloyd, Peter Z., 204
Lohra, Mrs. Mary, 117, 275
John, 164, 275
Catharine Houck, 275
Ann, 275
Long, Michel, 260
Lougeay, 6
Amy, 264
Anthony, 264
Phebe, 264
Loper, Eichard Fanning, 148, 152,
223, 275
Wm. P., 223
Emily Weaver, 223
Josephine Kirkpatrick, 223
Marie L., 223
Lowber, Edward, M.D., 279
Elizabeth Iwells, 279
Lower, Joseph, 211
Lowry, 6
AbigaU, 244
Margaret, 244
Lyon, Solomon, 40
Macclenachan [MeClenaehan], Eev. '
William, 29, 35, 45-49, 64,
66-78, 194-96
Mary, 219
Mackarall, Thos., 30
Mackensie, Kenneth, 30
Mackey, Mrs., 225
Maepherson, 6
Capt. John, 22, 235
Gen'l Wm., 23, 235
Eliza Gates, 235
Magaw, Eev. Dr. Samuel, 32, 36,
65, 92, 96-112, 199, 216
Lucia Doz, 32
Manning, 6
Elizabeth, 229
Eobert H., 229
Grizelda, .229
318
Marey, Francis, 117
Markoe, Abraham, 30, 42
Elizabeth Baynton, 30, 42
Marple, Elizabeth E., 222
Marsh, Mary Louisa, 265
Elias, 265
Marshall, Mary, 223
Amor, 223
Frances Matilda, 223
Ann Elizabeth, 223
Joseph Y., 223
Martin, Eev. John, 168
John Hill, 9
J. Willis, 185
Masden, Benjamin, 248
Prudence, 248
Benjamin, Jr., 248
Hannah, 248
Ann S., 248
Eichard, 275
Mason, Thos., 31
Ann, 31
Matlack, Eev. Dr. Eobert C, 165,
Timothy, 270
Elizabeth Claypoole, 270
Matthews, John, 205, 225, 275
Mary, 225
Matthew, 225
Elizabeth, 251
James, 251, 275
May, Eev. Dr. Jas., 65, 143, 144,
165
Eobert, 143
Adam, 228
Catharine Diehl,
Ellen Stuart Bowman, 144
Thomas Potts, 143
Euth Potts, 143
MeClenaehan [Macclenachan],
Anne Drummond, 67
Anne Drummond, 67
Ann Darrach, 67
Deborah, 67
Blair, 4, 31, 67, 199, 219, 275
Isabella, 72
Jas., 66
^i^toti^ of felt paur^ Cpisfcopal C^urcS.
McClenachan, Janet B., 66
Mary, 219
Patty, 68
Rev. William, 29, 35, 45-49,
64, 66-78, 194-96
MeClure, Mary, 184, 185
McCloskrey, Et. Eev. Dr. Samuel
A., 65, 141, 142, 165, 166
MeCoskry, Miss E., 222
MeCully, Thos., 181
McGarvey, Rev. Dr. Wm. I., 65,
180, 181
Alexander, 180
Mary J. C, 180
Mcllvaine, Rt. Rev., 175
McKay, Elizabeth, 242
Thos,, St., 242
Thos., Jr., 242
MeKean, Robert, 45
Thos., 48
McMurtrie, Elizabeth Spooner, 223
McNilans, Mary, 247
John, 247
MePherson, Geo., 249
Daniel, 249, 250
Daniel, Jr., 250
Ann, 249, 250
Ann Maria, 249
Wm., 250
Meer, John, Sr., 250
Mary G. W., 250
Mennick, Joseph P., 208
Mervine, Wm. M., 285
Metettal, Fred'k, 181
Mifflin, Thos., 105, 214
Miller, 6
Joseph, 246
John, 246
Mary, 246
Millett, Mr., 226
Mitchell, 6
Caldwell B., 160
Jas. T., 8
Thos., 218
Mary Frances, 218
Maria M., 218
Mitchell, Jas., 218
Moffett, Mr., 222
Sarah, 234
John Martin, 234
Molier, 6
Gulyann, 247
Esther, 247
Molleneaux, Jas., 117
Monahan, Rev. I. €., 181
Moorhead, Ada E., 278
Joel Barlow, 278
William Y., 270
Moore, Thos., 164
Rev. Dr. J. R., 165
Rt. Rev. Richard C, 125, 126
Jacob Vansciver, 245
John, 245, 275
Hannah, 245
Morgan, Col. George, 30
Morris, 4
Anthony, 187, 206-208
Israel, 187, 206-208
Sarah, 206
Robert, 67
Samuel, 206, 208
Morrison, 6
Wm., 117, 245
Sarah, 221, 245
Morton, John, 234
Sarah, 234
Mory, 6
Elizabeth, 237
Capt. Lewis, 237
Mountford, 226
Moyes, John, 33, 261, 275
James, 261, 275
Mary, 261
Ann, 261
Moyston, 6
Jane, 238
Edward, 238
Muhlenberg, Fred. A., 204
Murdick, 6
Mary, 237
John, 237
Hannah, 237
319
Knliej to jgameisi*
Murdoch, Wm., 29, 164
Murdock, Wm., Jr., 32
Murphy, Michael, 117
Murray, Alexander, 92
John, 164
Musgrove, James, 275
Muskett, 6
Thos., 244
Ellen, 244
Muskitts, Mrs., 117
Myers, 6
Anthony, 225, 226
Isabella Rowley, 226
Nally, 6
Francis C, 257
James S., 257
Esther, 257
Neave, Richard, 42, 243
Neill, 6, 53
Rev. Hugh, 64
Neilson, 6
Nelson, Geo., 34, 36, 199, 253,
Wm., Ill, 247
Ann, 247
Sarah, 253
Nesbitt, Alexander, 68
J. M., 68
NeviUe, Rev. Dr., 147
Newcomb, Bayse, Jr., 122
Newton, Richard, 145
Elizabeth Cluett, 145
Rev. Dr. Richard, 65, 145-
161, 165, 211, 220, 222
Rev. Dr. R. Heber, 65,
155, 161-173
Rev. Wm. W., 155, 170
Nichola, Major Lewis, 34
Nichols, Martha, 267
James, 267
Noble, Col., 66
Norman, Joseph, 117, 205, 27i
Margaret, 253
Norris, Isaac, 28
North, Phoebe, 227
Jas. Bartram, 227
North, Phoebe H., 227
Richard, 2d, 227
Mary Ann, 227
Phoebe Emma, 227
William, 227
Richard, 123, 128, 205, 227,
275
Sarah S., 227
Stephen, 227
Alfred Augustus, 227
Mary, 227
Odell, John, 92
Odenheimer, John W., 137, 165,
166, 275
Rt. Rev. Wm. H., DD., 147,
152, 163, 165, 166, 168, 275
Olyphant, Hannah, 217
Onderdonk, Rt. Rev. H. N., 141,
146
O'Neaill, Neomai, 266
Daniel, 266
275 Ann, 266
O'Neill, Daniel, 267
Ord, Geo., 29, 33, 36, 39, 199, 275
John, 29, 31, 33, 39, 206, 208,
275
Ormrod & Conrad, 111
Oswald, Eleazer, 107, 108
Page, S. Davis, 49
iCol. Jas., 137
157, Palmer, John, 29, 32, 36
Deborah Bankson, 32
148, Ann, 217
Jonathan, 217
Asher, 217
Wm., 217
Thos., 205, 217, 275
John, 29, 32, 206, 207, 208,
217, 236, 275
5 Deborah, 236
John, 2d, 236
Alice M., 236
John Bankson, 275
John R., 236
320
^i0totiS ot &t paurjS episcopal C8utc5»
Panton, Geo., 92
Parker, Alvin Mercer, 223
Joseph B. Bloodgood, 233
Eiehd., 32, 262
Matthew & son, 117
Matthew, 248, 275
Catharine, 248
John, 248
Joseph, 248
Samuel, 248
Lydia, 248
Joseph Pilmore, 248
Parsons, Thos., 187, 207, 208
Paul, William, 275
Parvin, Eev. Robert J., 153, 155
Patterson, Eobert, 137
Patton, 6
Paxson, Mr. Justice, 13
Payne, Jas., 32, 275
Peale, Chas. "Wilson, 115
James, 270
Mary Claypoole, 270
Pechin, Christopher, 34, 259, 2
John, 128, 205, 218, 275
John C, 164
Almira, 170, 218
George, 259
Christiana, 259
Pedicord, Caleb B., 98
Pendletons, the, 91
Penn, William, 25
Penrose, Ann Fleeson, 200
Sarah Moulder, 200
Samuel, 31, 36, 199, 200, 2
Thos., 33, 200
Sarah Coats, 200
Perry, John, 32
James, 275
Peters, 77
Phile, John, 205, 275
Frederick, 239, 240
Elizabeth, 239
Phipps, Lieut. Spencer, 66
Pidgeon, Mary, 262
David, 275
Pigott, R., 164
22
Pilmore, Rev. Joseph, D.D., 48, 65,
104, 112, 113-124, 205, 211,
212, 216
Pinckneys, the, 91
Pitfield, Benjamin, 117
Pleasants, Rev. Chas. E., 167
Potter, 6
Rt. Rev. Alonzo, 146, 147, 163,
177
George W., 275
Peter Miercken, 226
Richard, 226
Catharine, 226
Richard Cheslyn, 227
Catharine Miercken, 227
Powel, Samuel, 118, 187, 206, 207,
208
Pritchard, John Simes, 258
Joseph, 258
Elizabeth, 258
Powers & Weightman, 62, 130
Poyntell, William, 276
75 Pratt, Rev. Dr., 146, 165
Prendergast, Eev. Edmond F., 15
Presley, John, 32
Prevost, Andrew M., 122
Price, 6
Isabella, 260
George, 260
Pringle, Joseph, 263
Pritchard, 6
Procter, Proctor,
Francis, Sr., 22, 237
75 Anna Maria, 237
Robert Charlton, 237
Gen'l Thos., 4, 22, 23, 237
Pullin, Robert, 276
Pursell, Jos., 29
Purvis, Wm., his wife, 117
Quarry, Col., 27
Ramzay, Mons., 66
Randall, Caroline W., 250
Edmund, 250
Joseph C, 250
321
Intin to i^amt&.
Randolph, Benj., 29, 276
Isaac, 276
Stephen, 265
Bankin, 6
Juliet Ann, 257
Wm., 257
Eandall, 250
Raworth, 6
Grace, 266
Read, John, 276
Martha, 241
Francis, 241
Reading, Philip, 45, 92
Redles, G. Albert, 170
Redner, Lewis H., 7
Joseph J., 148
Reed, Rev. Dr. J. Sanders, 165,
166, 169
Reichner, L, Irving, 244
Reily, John, 29, 33, 39
Renshaw, Chas., 233
Wm., 233
Mary Ann, 233
Ann, 233, 236
Francis J., 236
Richard, 33, 199, 232, 233,
236, 276
Mary Erwin, 232, 233, 236
Alice Johnston Neill, 232
Richard, 2d, 233, 276
Richard, 3d, 233
Mary J., 233
Richard, 4th, 233
Rensselaer, 125
Reynolds, 6
Elizabeth, 216
Rhinehard, Martin, 276
Rhinelander, Rt. Rev. Philip M., 3,
286
Rhoads, Samuel, 206
Mary, 252
John, 252
Richard, Thos., 29
Richardet, 6
Richards, Mary, 252
John, 252
Richardson, Wm., 172
Ridgley, Nicholas, 97
Mary Vining, 97
Riley, John, 276
Rimer, 6
Mary, 217
Thos., 217
Rinedollar, 6
Hester, 237
Emanuel, 237
Rivelly, 6
Elizabeth, 221
■Chas. M., 221
Robbins, Samuel J., 205, 276
Benjamin, 240, 241
Ruth, 240
Susan, 241
John, 241, 276
Alexander, 241
Elizabeth, 241
Susannah, 241
Catharine, 241
Roberdeau, 6
Roberts, Hugh, 206
Rev. Dr. Edmund, 165, 167
Robinett, 6
Margaret James, 230
Mary McGlathery, 230
Thos., 230
Jas., 230
Ferguson, 230
Richard, 230, 236, 276
Mary, 230
Robert W. C, 230
Robins, Thos., Sr., 72
Leah Whalley, 72
Robinson, Abraham, 117
Daniel, 276
Rebecca, 255
Mary, 259
Henry, 259, 260
Benjamin, 260
Samuel, 260, 276
Judith, 260
Joseph, 260
Ruth, 260
322
^i^totv ot felt paurgf (CpiiSciJjpal C^ucc^.
Eobinson, William, 276
Eoclie, Eev. Dr. Robert T,, 65,
175
Wm. Hy., 174
Sarah M. T., 174
Romaine, Eev. Wm., 75^ 87
Eose, Ann A., 223
David, 223, 224
Mary, 224, 247
Eebecea, 224
Samuel, 224
Thos., 224
Ann S., 224
David, 2d, 224
Abigail, 224
Samuel, 2d, 224
Eoss, Capt. Chas., 15
Eev. Geo., 29
John 29, 30, 33-36, 49-52,
207, 216, 276
Elizabeth, 216
Elizabeth Morgan, 30
Eow, 6
Elizabeth, 217
Capt. Edward, 217
Rowland, Eev. Dr., 177
Eowley, Jane B., 62
Edward, 205, 225, 276
Richard, 61, 62, 225, 226
Ann, 226
Horatio G., 226
Ellen Ann, 226
John, 226
Edward, Jr., 226
Mr., his child, 226
Rush, 136
Rushton, 6
Nancy, 265
Edward, 265
William, 265
Jane, 265
Russell, Rev. Wm. C, 167
Eyerson, 6
Elizabeth, 230
Thos., 230, 231
Mary, 230, 231
Sadler, 6
174, Matthias, 239, 276
Eleanor, 239
Salaignac, Eloise, 229
Savidge, John, 276
Sayres, Edward S., 18, 101
Scarborough, Et. Eev., 152
Seaborn, 6
Eobert C, 234
Elizabeth, 234
Seabury, Et. Eev. Samuel, 56, 105,
115
Seaman, Wm., 159
Matilda S., 159
Search, Christopher, 117
Seckle, Lawrence, 276
Sellers, Wm., 34
Edward Jaquett, 265
206, Sergeant, Thos., 204
Seyfert, 6
Conrad, 251
Elizabeth, 251
Shade, 6
John v., 258
Susan Warner, 258
Peter, 258
Shaffner, 6
Deborah, 253
Francis, 253
Shafner, Francis, his wife, 117
Sharp, Jeremiah T., 30
Sharswood, 4, 10
Shaw, Elizabeth Palmer, 217
Samuel Adam, 255
Shea, Shee, Walter, 29, 33, 276
Shinkle, 6
Mr., his child, 221
Julia E., 221
Shober, Dr. John B., 23
Susannah B., 164, 170
Shute, Atwood, 34
William, 29, 34, 207, 208, 276
Simpson, 6
Ann, 227
Wm., 227
Eleanor, 227
323
SnlifjE to jRamr0.
Simpson, Samuel^ 227
Day, 227
Geo., 227, 228
Gustavus, 227
Stephen Day, 228
Mrs., 228
Eleanor Day, 228
Stephen, 228
Mrs. Stephen, 228
Julianna, 228
Emeline, 228
Skerrett, 6
Joseph R. A., 221
Skyhoof, Maria, 276
Michael, 276
Margaret, 276
Sarah, 276
Smethurst, Eichard, 276
Smith, 6
John, 34, 219
Wm., 32, 276
Dr. Wm., 45
Col. Chas. Somers, 34
Hy. Hollingsworth, M.D.,
Francis G., M.D., 34
Atwood, 34
Mary Hyde, 246
Jonithin, 246
Samuel, 285
Snell, George, 254
Capt. Jas., 254
Eliza, 254
Snyder, 6
Mary A., 224
Sonmans, Dr. Peter, 199
Spain, 6
Ann, 253
Capt. Edward, 258
Spear, Eev. Dr., 165
Spenee, 6
Andrew, 259
Mary, 259
Sparry, 6
John, 229
SpHlard, 6
Matthew, 229
Spillard, Mary, 229
Jas. Alexander, 229
Mary Ann, 229
Maria, 229
Elizabeth, 229
Spooner, 6
Catharine Mercer Baird, 223
Spriggs, Catharine, 262
James, 262
Sprogell, John, Jr., 33
Standley, Elizabeth Fulton, 276
Hugh, 276
Eichard, 276
William, 276
Stanley, 6
Capt. Norris, 3, 231, 276
Mary, 231
William, 276
Starkey, Eev. Dr. T. Alfred, 168
Stavely, Wm., 116
Stevens, Gov'r, 143
Eev. Dr. Chas. Ellis, 65, 179,
180
34 Jas. E. P., 179
Mary P. A., 179
Stevenson, Jas., 31, 39, 277
Ashfield, 117
Mrs., her daughter, 117
Ann, 228, 229
Eobert, 228
Wm., 228
Peter, 228
Margaretta, 229
Cornelius, 205, 228, 276
William, 277
Stokes, Wm., 247
Mary, 247
Stewart, Aaron, 277
Gen'l Walter, 22, 68
Deborah MeClenachan, 67, 68
Anne, 68
Adam, 68
Eobert, 68
Samuel M., 277
Stiles, 6
Wm., & his apprentice, 117
324
^motv ot felt paur0 episcopal CJutcl.
stiles, Wm., Jr., 117
Mrs., 117
Thos. T., 205, 276
Haanah, 246
Thos., 246
Mary, 246
Stockton, Chas., 164, 277
Stoddard, John, 277
Stotesbury, James M., 277
Richard G., 7, 220, 277
Arthur, 205, 220, 277
Edward C, 219
Helen L., 220
Fannie B., 220
James M., 277
S. Louise, 220
Mary, 220
Mary Ann, 277
Wm., 220
Thos. P., 220
Martha P., 220
Stow, Chas., 29
Stretch, Isaac, 29, 277
Stringer, Rev. Wm., 64, 86-95
Strong, Ashbel, 125
Capt., his daughter, 117
Stuart, Mary, 242
John, 242
Martha, 242
Sturgeon, Wm., 45
Sturgis, Peter, 277
Suddards, Rev. Dr., 146
Swan, Richd., 29
Sw^anwick, John, 277
Swain, Rolanda S., 231
Symes, Rev. Br, Snyder B., 165
Tallman, Elizabeth, 239
Taylor, Richard, 29
James N.,
Tennick, Andrew, his wife, 117
Thackara, Catharine, 250
Samuel, 277
Wm., Sr., 250
Thomas, John W., 7, 44, 148, 168,
277
Thomas, Ada E. Moorhead, 278'
Zachariah, 117
Gabriel, 27
Geo. C, 57, 148, 277-79
Richard Newton, 170
Thomson, Edward, 278
Jacob, 278
Thompson, Richard, 164, 279
Wm., 92
Thomson, Edward Renshaw, 233
E, E., 233
Ann R., 233
James, 264
John, 264
Jacob, 264
Mary, 264
Thorn, Zachariah, 117
Tidmarsh, Giles, Jr., 31
Tingley, Sam'l, 92
Toland, 6
Henry, 68
Geo., 219
Blair M., 219
Mary H., '219
Robert, 219
H., 219
Mary, 219
Towers, Robt., 29, 39, 279
Towne, Benjamin, 36, 200, 248',
279
Toy, John, 164, 205, 279
Turnbull, Chas. Smith, M.D., 34
Turner, 6
John, 205, 244, 279
Mary, 244
Joseph, 199, 231, 279
Sarah, 231
Elizabeth, 231
Rev. Joseph, 231
Joseph M., 231
Eliza, 231
Esther, 231
Twells, Elizabeth, 276
Godfrey, 276, 279
Sarah, 276
Standley,
325
:snhn to ji^antfiS.
Twells, Edward,
Eichard,
Tybout, James, 256
Comfort (KoUoek), 256
Tyng, Chas. R., 140
Dudley A., 135
Sarah H., 135
Eev. Dr. Stephen H., 65, 135-
140, 165
Usher, Robt., 29
Vallanee, John, 251, 279
Margaret, 251
Vanderhalt, 6
Mary 240
Van Dusen, Joseph B., 7, 148, 149,
279
Van Mannierck, Anthony, 218
Ann Wood, 218
Van Pelt, Peter, 164
Vining, Capt. Benj., 97
Mary, 97
Vinton, Dr. Alexander H., 146
Voigt, 6
Waldo, Gen'l, 66
Walker, Elizabeth, 223
WaUace, Thos. Edward, 243
William, 279
Walsh, Stevenson Hockley, 228^
Wardden, Joseph, 29
Warner, Margaret, 258
Susan, 258
Warton, John, 117
Washburn, Eev. Dr. Louis C, 179
Washington, Gen'l Geo., 4, 8, 22,
50, 68, 91, 97, 106
Watkins, 7
Eichard, 252
Thos., 252
Euth, 252
Wm., 252
Watson, Rev. Dr. Benjamin, 165,
168
Wayne, Humphrey, 30
Weaver, Matthew, 279
Webb, Mary, 238
John, 238, 249
Margaret, 238
Eachel, 249
Thos., 249
Weightman, Wm., 7
West, Collins, 279
Thomas, 279
Weston, Ann, 219
Wharton, 7, 42
Eobert, 8
John, 205, 260, 279
Margaret, 260
John, Jr., 260
Wm., 260
Wheaton, 7
Enoch, 241
White, Et. Eev. Wm., DD., 32, 68,
217
W. Blanch, 31
Jas., 31
John, 280
Joseph, 280
Thos., 34
Whiteear, Thomas, 256
Hester Gosner, 256
Whitehead, Joseph, & child, 117
Wigmore, 7
Thomas, 258
Susannah, 258
Wilkinson, John, 31, 33, 280
William, Thos., 249
Wm., 249
Thos., Sr., 249
Mary Fenton, 249
Williams, John, 32, 280
Wilmer, Dr., 126
Lambert, 36, 280
Mary Barker, 199
Mary Price, 199
Simon, 199
Wilson, 7
Ann, 117
E. & W., 211
Mary, 249
326
^i0totif of S>t paur^ CpfiScDpal €Wtt%
Wilson, Jas., 249
Edward, 249
John, 258
William C, 258
Wiltberger, Kev. Christian, 169,
226
Christian, 205, 210, 211, 226,
280
Ann, 226
Hetty, 226
Christian, 2d, 226
Edward, 226
George, 226
Mr., his child, 226
Maria S., 226
Wisdom, Wm., 262
Wise, Eev. Henry, 147
Wistar, Wm., 40
Wister, Chas, J., 200
Eebecca BuUock, 200
Wood, John, watchmaker, 117
Leighton, his wife, 117
John, 4, 23, 32, 205, 218, 280
Hannah Caskey, 265
Eobert S., 265
Elizabeth, 267
I., Jr., 267
Thomas, 280
Wren, Sir Christopher, 136
Wright, Joseph, 245
Joseph, his wife, 117
Thomas, 280
Anthony, 245
Hannah, 245
John W., 245
Eosannah, 250
Joseph, 250
Wyoming, 22
Yorke, 7
Mary, 243
Capt. Peter, 243
Young, 7
John, 29, 30, 39, 199, 236, 280
Wm., 29, 112
John, Jr., 280
Edward, 236
John B., 236
Chas., 236
Laetitia, 236
Ann, 236
(Samuel, 280
Thomas, 280
Youngs, Frances, 252
Thos., 252
Ann, 252
327
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1910.
Celebration of the Two Hundred and Thirtieth Anniversary of the
Landing of William Penn in Pennsylvania, held at the Wash-
ington House, Chester, Pa., Saturday, October 26, 1912, by the
Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, in association with the Swedish
Colonial Society. 1912.
History of the Province of Pennsylvania. By Samuel Smith.
Edited by William M. Mervine. 1913.
Certain Black-Letter Days in the Life of William Penn. Address
of Frank Willing Leach before The Colonial Society of Pennsyl-
vania, 1916. 1917.
puftltcationgf Colonial ^ocitti^ ot penngsglijania
1760-1898, Outline of the History of Old St. Paul's Church, Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania, with an appeal for its preservation, to-
gether with Articles of Agreement, Abstract of Title, List of
Rectors, Vestrjonen and inscriptions of tombstones and vaults.
By Norris Stanley Barratt. 1917.
Committee on Publications
Gregory Bernard Keen, Josiah Granville Leach,
Norris Stanley Barratt.
^isitorical feiocietg ot ptnngiglljania
Extract from the Minutes of the Annual Meeting op the
Historical Society op Pennsylvania held, Monday, May 14,
1917: Hon. Hampton L. Carson, Presiding.
On motion of Hon. Norris S. Barratt the following resolution was
unanimously adopted:
Whereas the Right Reverend Philip M. Rhinelander and the
Trustees of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of
Pennsylvania are considering the question of selling Old St. Paul's
Church, Third Street below Walnut Street, Philadelphia, with the
burial grounds, vaults and graves, and devoting the proceeds thereof,
if any, towards building a Diocesan House for the City Mission in
conjunction with the contemplated Cathedral Church of St. Mary's
to replace the Church of the Ascension now at Btoad and South
Streets,
And whereas Old St. Paul's is a part of our Colonial, revolu-
tionary and Church history, and has buried in its church yard many
Philadelphians, who in their day and generation acted their part
nobly,
Therefore Resolved, That the Historical Society of Pennsylvania,
one of whose objects is the preservation of shrines and memorials
of the past which make our history, desire to place upon record its
disapproval of the proposed sale and desecration of Old St. Paul's
Church and its historic dead.
And be it further Resolved that a copy of these Resolutions be
sent to Bishop Rhinelander, Bishop Garland, and the Trustees of the
Diocese of Pennsylvania.
Resolutions to the same effect have also been adopted by the
Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, The Genealogical Society of Penn-
sylvania, The Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames of America
and The State Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania, who thus
place themselves upon record as in favor of preserving Old St.
Paul's.
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