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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.]]> Registers (Lists)]]> Manuscripts]]> ]]> First Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)]]> First Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)]]> Church finance]]> Church buildings]]> Church fund raising]]> Presbyterians]]> Presbyterian Church]]> Manuscripts]]> Correspondence]]> ]]> United Churches of Christ-Church and St. Peter's (Philadelphia, Pa.)]]> United Churches of Christ-Church and St. Peter's (Philadelphia, Pa.)]]> Psalms (Music)]]> Church music]]> Anthems]]> Hymns]]> Psalmody]]> Episcopalians]]> Episcopal Church]]> Manuscripts]]> Songbooks]]> ]]> Christ Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)]]> Christ Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)]]> Episcopal Church]]> Episcopalians]]> Church finance]]> Protestants]]> Anne, Queen of Great Britain, 1665-1714]]> Clergy]]> Church schools]]> Tobacco]]> Taxation]]> Manuscripts]]> ]]> St. Paul's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)]]> St. Paul's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)]]> Church finance]]> Episcopalians]]> Charity]]> Episcopal Church]]> Account books]]> Manuscripts]]> ]]> Gloria Dei Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)]]> Gloria Dei Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)]]> Church finance]]> Churchwardens' accounts]]> Church records and registers]]> Lutherans]]> Lutheran Church]]> Account books]]> Manuscripts]]> ]]> St. Thomas' Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)]]> St. Thomas' Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)]]> Church finance]]> African American churches]]> Episcopal Church]]> African Americans]]> Church records and registers]]> Episcopalians]]>
The prominent African American abolitionist and clergyman Absalom Jones is listed throughout text, as are prominent Philadelphia businessmen and donors such as William Gray, John Nicholson and Robert Ralston.]]> Account books]]> Manuscripts]]> ]]> Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Northern District]]> Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Northern District]]> Genealogy]]> Society of Friends]]> Quakers]]> Records (Documents)]]> Manuscripts]]> ]]> Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Southern District]]> Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Southern District]]> Genealogy]]> Society of Friends]]> Quakers]]> Records (Documents)]]> Manuscripts]]> ]]> Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting]]> Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting]]> Lay ministry--Society of Friends]]> Society of Friends]]> Quakers]]> Records (Documents)]]> Manuscripts]]> ]]> (1250/J2.15)]]> Congregation Mikveh Israel (Philadelphia, Pa.)]]> Congregation Mikveh Israel (Philadelphia, Pa.)]]> Registers of births, etc.]]> Circumcision]]> Marriage records]]> Burial records]]> Synagogue records and registers]]> Jews]]> Synagogues]]>
Cohen began this record book in 1776, writing from the front as well as from the back, and his entries record events in Montreal and New York, as well as a few other locations, in addition to Philadelphia. He wrote in English and Hebrew. After Cohen's death, the record book was continued by several others, including Benjamin Nones, Dr. Alexander Wertheim, Lewis Allen, Zalegman Phillips, and Abraham Hart.

Alan Corre, who served as rabbi for Congregation Mikveh Israel from 1955 to 1963 and who was an esteemed scholar of Hebrew Studies, and Malcom Stern, a rabbi and historian who has been described as the dean of American Jewish genealogy, published an article about this record book in The American Jewish Quarterly in 1969 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/23878015). In this article, Corre and Stern provided Hebrew translations for the prayers recorded by Cohen, and with the generous permission of the American Jewish Historical Society, those translations are now included in the transcription for this record. Corre and Stern also organized the data on circumcisions, marriages and deaths into tables, and provided detailed historical context for the records.

A prayer for the Eve of Kippur from Cohen's time in Montreal is found on page 1, and repeated with additions on page 93. The misheberach (public blessing) prayer is found on page 4, and escabot/hascabot (memorial) prayers are found on pages 6 to 8, 10, 19a and 19b of the manuscript. A copy of the Order of Service for the Day of Dedication (for Mikveh Israel's new synagogue) is found on pages 20 to 22.

Circumcision records are found on pages 14 to 17 and 23 to 25, and include date of birth, name of father, son's name, and date circumcised.

Marriage records, called ketubot or ketubah, start on page 92 and run backwards to page 44. The ketubot are written almost entirely in an Aramaic-Hebrew idiom; however they are fairly standardized, and Cohen provides English translations of two Canadian marriage contracts on pages 88 and 92. Please see also https://www.sefaria.org/Ketubah_Text.4 for the traditional ketubah text, which may have been altered slightly in practice.

A haliza document, releasing a widow from marriage to her husband's brother, is found on page 72.

Records of deaths in Montreal are found on pages 2, 3 and 5; records of deaths and burials in Philadelphia at Mikveh Israel are found on pages 18 to 19 and 27 to 41. The latter records often include information on family relations and location of burial plots.]]> Registers (Lists)]]> Manuscripts]]> ]]> Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia]]> Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia]]> Genealogy]]> Society of Friends]]> Quakers]]> volume]]> Records (Documents)]]> Manuscripts]]> ]]> (1250/JA3.1)]]> St. Michael's Church (Trenton, N.J.)]]> St. Michael's Church (Trenton, N.J.)]]> Episcopalians]]> Episcopal Church]]> Baptismal records]]> Confirmation records]]> Church membership]]> Marriage records]]> Burial records]]>
Baptismal records run from page 3 to page 37, and include date, name, parents' names, date of birth, and remarks such as location of ceremony, officiant, and witnesses.

Confirmation records run from page 73 to page 80, and include date, name, and remarks (usually name of officiant).

Lists of communicants run from page 85 to page 116, and include
date, name, mode (received/admitted), removed date and mode (moved/died/transferred), and miscellaneous remarks.

Marriage records run from page 121 to page 141 and include date, names of bride and groom, their residences, and place of ceremony. Note: Images 50-51 show marriage records inserted into the confirmations section.

Burials records run from page 145 to page 157, and include date, name, place of interment, age, and remarks (names of relatives, city of origin, person who performed burial).

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