Metadata
Title
Benjamin Dorr letter to Moses Kempton regarding Christ Church pensioners and charitable aid, 1853
Date
1853
Digital Identifier
ChristChurch.CorporationCorrespondence_4-2-0-57
Call Number
4.2.0.57; F545
Description
Contains a list of pensioners at Christ Church receiving monthly financial support, as well as instructions for distributing funds and firewood to poor women. The letter was written by Benjamin Dorr to Moses Kempton prior to Dorr's departure abroad in April 1853. Dorr provides specific names and locations for the distribution of the church's charitable provisions, including half-cords of wood from Galbraith & Binders.
Subject
Place
Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Congregation
Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
Extent
1 document
Format (Digital)
tiff
Rights
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Language
eng
Type
Text
Abstract
This letter, addressed to Moses Kempton, Esq., was written by Benjamin Dorr, rector of Christ Church in Philadelphia, prior to his departure abroad in April 1853. It lists the pensioners of Christ Church, each of whom received three dollars per month: John Warner, Mrs. Caldwell, Mrs. Lusby, Mrs. Eastwood, Miss Lydia Wright, and Mrs. Chandler, with a note indicating that Mr. Garson should distribute funds to these individuals [p.1r]. Additional payments for Mrs. Jenkins ($3), Mrs. Callary ($5), and Mrs. Mornington ($5) were to be handed to Dorr's daughter Mary [p.1r].
Dorr describes his practice of supplying the pensioners with wood during the winter through orders on Galbraith & Binders at Vine Street Wharf, typically half a cord at a time, with bills submitted twice yearly for wood, carting, and sawing. He also notes providing wood to several poor women who were not pensioners, including Mrs. Allen of No. 4 Comptroller Street (whose elderly mother Mrs. Brown was old and feeble), Mrs. Rogers of Harmony Court in Coates's Alley, and Mrs. Peale [p.1r].
The verso of the document is endorsed as Dr. Dorr's list of pecuniary matters and remarks made previous to his going abroad in April 1853, and includes financial calculations and notations [p.1v].
Dorr describes his practice of supplying the pensioners with wood during the winter through orders on Galbraith & Binders at Vine Street Wharf, typically half a cord at a time, with bills submitted twice yearly for wood, carting, and sawing. He also notes providing wood to several poor women who were not pensioners, including Mrs. Allen of No. 4 Comptroller Street (whose elderly mother Mrs. Brown was old and feeble), Mrs. Rogers of Harmony Court in Coates's Alley, and Mrs. Peale [p.1r].
The verso of the document is endorsed as Dr. Dorr's list of pecuniary matters and remarks made previous to his going abroad in April 1853, and includes financial calculations and notations [p.1v].
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