BIB_ID
128625
Accession number
MA 364.66
Creator
Claggett, Thomas John, 1743-1816.
Display Date
1797 Dec. 8.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (7 p., with address) ; 32.2 cm
Notes
Address panel to "Hon'ble Samuel Chase / is requested to present this / the Vestry of St. Pauls parish / Baltimore."
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, Samuel Chase, was a Supreme Court Justice from 1796-1811.
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, Samuel Chase, was a Supreme Court Justice from 1796-1811.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Concerning the Vestry Act and the opposition of the Vestry of St. Paul's parish to it; explaining the impoverished state of the country churches and chastising them for putting their own parish needs ahead of the whole church in Maryland; asking that they reconsider their proposed amendments to the Bill.
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