BIB_ID
345330
Accession number
MA 364.5
Creator
Seabury, Samuel, 1729-1796.
Display Date
1786 May 24 .
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 24.5 cm
Notes
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.
With address panel to "The Rev'd Mr. Samuel Parker / Boston."
With autograph "Mr. John Ros?"
With address panel to "The Rev'd Mr. Samuel Parker / Boston."
With autograph "Mr. John Ros?"
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa before 1901.
Summary
Saying he has heard from the Rev. Mr. [Jonathan] Boucher, Vicar of Epsom; quoting from an article in the "Gentlemans Magazine" referring to a meeting of 2 Archbishops and 17 Bishops regarding the efforts of the church in America; quoting from the article, "That tho' they feel much for & are cordially attached to their Brethren in the united States, they can give no decided answer to their application, till they certainly know whether or no they are of the Church of England;" continuing to quote the article, "Their reformed Liturgy is amazingly weak / but I believe not heterodox/ their discipline favouring much more of the Kirk than of our Church. But of these things our Folks thought themselves not at Liberty to take notice till they had seen some authenticated copies of their proceedings;" concluding he says "The business therefore is postponed for some time: and unless they alter their plan of government, at an end in England;" asking if he might enlist his help in finding an accounting of the personal effects of a man who died in Boston two years earlier.
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