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

Record ID: 
348190
Accession number: 
MA 369.88
Author: 
Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew, 1792-1854.
Credit: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description: 
1 item (1 p.) ; 24.9 cm
Notes: 

Written on behalf of the Standing Committee of the Diocese of New York.
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.

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."

Provenance: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.