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Autograph document signed : New York, 1847 Sept. 2.

BIB_ID
348190
Accession number
MA 369.88
Creator
Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew, 1792-1854.
Display Date
1847 Sept. 2.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 24.9 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.
Written on behalf of the Standing Committee of the Diocese of New York.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Certifying that Rev. Kingston Goddard is a Presbyter of the Diocese of New York in regular standing and that he is "at his request canonically dismissed from this Diocese to reside in the Diocese of Pennsylvania."