BIB_ID
120064
Accession number
MA 364.33
Creator
White, William, 1748-1836.
Display Date
1827 Dec. 1.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 25.6 cm
Notes
Address panel to :Rev'd John H. Hopkins / Pittsburg / Penns."
Docketed on verso.
Part of a 12-volume collection of Autographs and Manuscripts of Bishops of The Protestant Episcopal Church (MA 364-375). The arrangement of the collection is by Bishops in the order of their consecration and chronological within their portion of the collection. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
The recipient, Rev. John Henry Hopkins, was the rector of Trinity Church, Pittsburgh; later he would be the first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont and the 8th presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States.
Docketed on verso.
Part of a 12-volume collection of Autographs and Manuscripts of Bishops of The Protestant Episcopal Church (MA 364-375). The arrangement of the collection is by Bishops in the order of their consecration and chronological within their portion of the collection. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
The recipient, Rev. John Henry Hopkins, was the rector of Trinity Church, Pittsburgh; later he would be the first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont and the 8th presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa before 1901.
Summary
Responding to questions that relate to the specific duties of the Clergy, the Church Wardens and the Vestrymen; saying that the "Duties of Ch: Wardens & Vestrymen, have always been considered as limited to ye temporal concerns of Churches: but on ye Question, whether they ought to be Men of exemplary Life and Conversation; that is, whether ye Electors ought to have this in View; I think there can be no other Answer than in ye Affirmative."
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