Metadata
Title
Orphans book, 1795
Date
1795
Digital Identifier
ABHS.FBCOrphansBook1795
Description
On February 16, 1795, the members of First Baptist Church established "a fund for the relief of Orphans and other indigent Persons." This bound manuscript contains details of how the fund was established and administered, and a list of members who paid an annual contribution to the fund in order to insure those in their charge would receive aid upon their death. Identifying information includes subscriber names, parents' names, birthdates, birthplaces, contributions paid and dates of death.
Subject
Place
Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Congregation
First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA
Holding Institution
American Baptist Historical Society
Extent
46 pages
Format (Digital)
tiff
Rights
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Language
eng
Type
Text
Thumbnail
IIIF Manifest
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