Poor box receipts, 1800-1806

Metadata

Title

Poor box receipts, 1800-1806

Date

1800/1806

Digital Identifier

GloriaDei.PoorBoxReceipts

Description

"Account of the Box-money, being collection for the Poor that belong to the Congregation, on Sundays, during Divine Service: from the beginning of the year 1800, til the beginning of May 1806."

Entries are listed by month, with each Sunday's total pounds, shillings and dollars added into a monthly sum. Often an explanation is provided for low sums collected, usually bad weather and subsequent low attendance.

Expenditures are listed by year and include cords of firewood for the sickly during winter, and cash gifts to individuals such as detained sailors, widows, and disabled parishioners.

Place

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia

Congregation

Gloria Dei Church, Philadelphia, PA

Holding Institution

Gloria Dei Church, Philadelphia, PA

Extent

175 pages

Format (Original)

Format (Digital)

tiff

Rights

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Language

eng

Type

Text

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IIIF Manifest

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