BIB_ID
346520
Accession number
MA 366.7
Creator
Chase, Philander, 1775-1852.
Display Date
1828 Apr. 7.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 25.4cm
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.
The letter, dated Washington, April 5, 1828 and signed "Ethan Allen" outlines the duties of the U.S. Navy Chaplain, and is directed to "Rev. J.P. Fenner;" Fenner would serve as the Episcopal chaplain to the U.S. Navy from 1828 to 1830; Philander Chase served as Navy Chaplain from 1818-1820.
The letter, dated Washington, April 5, 1828 and signed "Ethan Allen" outlines the duties of the U.S. Navy Chaplain, and is directed to "Rev. J.P. Fenner;" Fenner would serve as the Episcopal chaplain to the U.S. Navy from 1828 to 1830; Philander Chase served as Navy Chaplain from 1818-1820.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Attesting, in a signed postscript, to the description of duties of the Chaplain of the U.S. Navy as "meeting the requisitions of the 13th Canon of the General Convention of the P.E. Church."
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