St. George's Methodist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Itinerancy (Church polity)
Methodist Episcopal Church. Philadelphia Conference
Methodists
Methodist Church
Letters
Index of correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1800, including the date of the letter, name of writer, name of addressee, and a brief summary of the subject.
Church discipline
Correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1801. Letters to conference typically include: requests and recommendations for circuit preachers; reports of misbehavior by or censure of members; and requests for or receipts of financial compensation or other aid. A separate index of the correspondence for 1801 exists and is scanned separately. Most of the letters from this year concern the behavior of one John Stuart, a "band man and liar."
Index of correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1801, including the name and/or circuit of writer, date of the letter, name of addressee, and a brief summary of the subject.
Correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1802. Letters to conference typically include: requests and recommendations for circuit preachers; reports of misbehavior by or censure of members; and requests for or receipts of financial compensation or other aid. A separate index of the correspondence for 1802 exists and is scanned separately. Most of the letters from this year are recommendations for traveling preachers.
Index of correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1802, including the name and/or circuit of writer, date of the letter, name of addressee, and a brief summary of the subject.
Correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1803. Letters to conference typically include: requests and recommendations for circuit preachers; reports of misbehavior by or censure of members; and requests for or receipts of financial compensation or other aid. A separate index of the correspondence for 1803 exists and is scanned separately. Most of the letters from this year are recommendations for traveling preachers.
Index of correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1803, including the date of the letter, name and/or circuit of writer, name of addressee, and a brief summary of the subject.
Correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1804. Letters to conference typically include: requests and recommendations for circuit preachers; reports of misbehavior by or censure of members; and requests for or receipts of financial compensation or other aid. A separate index of the correspondence for 1804 exists and is scanned separately.
Index of correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1804, including the date of the letter, name and/or circuit of writer, name of addressee, and a brief summary of the subject.
Church committees
Correspondence to the annual conference of the Methodists in Philadelphia in 1805. Letters include requests or receipts for financial Correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia. Letters to conference typically include: requests and recommendations for circuit preachers; reports of misbehavior by or censure of members; and requests for or receipts of financial compensation or other aid. A separate index of the correspondence for 1805 exists and is scanned separately. Letters from this year include many discussions of members' misbehavior, as well as an annual statement from the Committee of Claims.
Index of correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1805, including the date of the letter, name and/or circuit of writer, name of addressee, and a brief summary of the subject.
Correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1806. Letters to conference typically include: requests and recommendations for circuit preachers; reports of misbehavior by or censure of members; and requests for or receipts of financial compensation or other aid.
Correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1807. Letters to conference typically include: requests and recommendations for circuit preachers; reports of misbehavior by or censure of members; and requests for or receipts of financial compensation or other aid. A separate index of the correspondence for 1807 exists and is scanned separately. Most of the letters from this year are recommendations for traveling preachers.
Index of correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1807, including the date of the letter, name and/or circuit of writer, name of addressee, and a brief summary of the subject.
Correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1808. Letters to conference typically include: requests and recommendations for circuit preachers; reports of misbehavior by or censure of members; and requests for or receipts of financial compensation or other aid. A separate index of the correspondence for 1808 exists and is scanned separately. Most of the letters from this year are recommendations for traveling preachers.
Index of correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1808, including the date of the letter, name and/or circuit of writer, name of addressee, and a brief summary of the subject.
Correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1809. Letters to conference typically include: requests and recommendations for circuit preachers; reports of misbehavior by or censure of members; and requests for or receipts of financial compensation or other aid. A separate index of the correspondence for 1809 exists and is scanned separately.
Index of correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1809, including the date of the letter, name and/or circuit of writer, name of addressee, and a brief summary of the subject.
Correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1810. Letters to conference typically include: requests and recommendations for circuit preachers; reports of misbehavior by or censure of members; and requests for or receipts of financial compensation or other aid. A separate index of the correspondence for 1810 exists and is scanned separately. This year's letters include an accounting from the Committee of Claims.
Index of correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1810, including the date of the letter, name and/or circuit of writer, name of addressee, and a brief summary of the subject.
Correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1811. Letters to conference typically include: requests and recommendations for circuit preachers; reports of misbehavior by or censure of members; and requests for or receipts of financial compensation or other aid. A separate index of the correspondence for 1811 exists and is scanned separately. This year's letters include many discussions of members' misbehavior, as well as some committee reports.
Index of correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1811, including the date of the letter, name and/or circuit of writer, name of addressee, and a brief summary of the subject.
Correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1812. Letters to conference typically include: requests and recommendations for circuit preachers; reports of misbehavior by or censure of members; and requests for or receipts of financial compensation or other aid. A separate index of the correspondence for 1812 exists and is scanned separately.
Index of correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1812, including the date of the letter, name and/or circuit of writer, name of addressee, and a brief summary of the subject.
Church fund raising
Correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1813. Letters to conference typically include: requests and recommendations for circuit preachers; reports of misbehavior by or censure of members; and requests for or receipts of financial compensation or other aid. A separate index of the correspondence for 1813 exists and is scanned separately. This year's letters include discussion of a book sale to help fund the traveling preachers.
Index of correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1813, including the date of the letter, name and/or circuit of writer, name of addressee, and a brief summary of the subject.
Correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1814. Letters to conference typically include: requests and recommendations for circuit preachers; reports of misbehavior by or censure of members; and requests for or receipts of financial compensation or other aid. A separate index of the correspondence for 1814 exists and is scanned separately.
Index of correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1814, including the date of the letter, name and/or circuit of writer, name of addressee, and a brief summary of the subject.
Correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1815. Letters to conference typically include: requests and recommendations for circuit preachers; reports of misbehavior by or censure of members; and requests for or receipts of financial compensation or other aid. A separate index of the correspondence for 1815 exists and is scanned separately. Many letters from this year discuss the bad behavior and subsequent suspension of one John Miller.
Index of correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1815, including the date of the letter, name and/or circuit of writer, name of addressee, and a brief summary of the subject.
Correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1816. Letters to conference typically include: requests and recommendations for circuit preachers; reports of misbehavior by or censure of members; and requests for or receipts of financial compensation or other aid. A separate index of the correspondence for 1816 exists and is scanned separately. Most of the letters from this year are recommendations for traveling preachers.
Index of correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1816, including the date of the letter, name and/or circuit of writer, name of addressee, and a brief summary of the subject.
Correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1817. Letters to conference typically include: requests and recommendations for circuit preachers; reports of misbehavior by or censure of members; and requests for or receipts of financial compensation or other aid. A separate index of the correspondence for 1817 exists and is scanned separately. Many of the letters from this year include discussions of a conflict related to land rights.
Index of correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1817, including the date of the letter, name and/or circuit of writer, name of addressee, and a brief summary of the subject.
Correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1818. Letters to conference typically include: requests and recommendations for circuit preachers; reports of misbehavior by or censure of members; and requests for or receipts of financial compensation or other aid. A separate index of the correspondence for 1818 exists and is scanned separately.
Index of correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1818, including the date of the letter, name and/or circuit of writer, name of addressee, and a brief summary of the subject.
Missionaries
Correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1819. Letters to conference typically include: requests and recommendations for circuit preachers; reports of misbehavior by or censure of members; and requests for or receipts of financial compensation or other aid. A separate index of the correspondence for 1819 exists and is scanned separately. This year's letters include several committee reports and discussions related to the development of a missionary society. Also of note, a dispute between the New Mills and Burlington circuits, which had previously been one circuit, over the profits from sale of the once-shared parsonage.
Index of correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1819, including the name and/or circuit of writer, name of addressee, and a brief summary of the subject.
Church schools
Correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1820. Letters to conference typically include: requests and recommendations for circuit preachers; reports of misbehavior by or censure of members; and requests for or receipts of financial compensation or other aid. A separate index of the correspondence for 1820 exists and is scanned separately. Many letters from this year pertain to the Committee on Charters. Other letters suggest the development of a seminary and church school. Also of note, the continuing dispute between the New Mills and Burlington circuits, which had previously been one circuit, over the profits from sale of the once-shared parsonage.
Index of correspondence to the annual conference of Methodists in Philadelphia in 1820, including the name and/or circuit of writer, name of addressee, and a brief summary of the subject.
Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Southern District
Genealogy
Society of Friends
Quakers
Most Quaker meetings did not keep membership lists until the 19th century, but urban areas were an exception. Population movement into and out of the City necessitated more documentation.
List of subscribers for rebuilding the First Presbyterian Church on Market Street, v. 1, 1796
First Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Church finance
Church buildings
Presbyterians
Presbyterian Church
List of subscribers for rebuilding the First Presbyterian Church on Market Street in 1796. Entries are by subscriber name, with amounts and total paid, and span two pages, verso and recto.
List of subscribers for rebuilding the First Presbyterian Church on Market Street, v. 2, 1793-1796
List of subscribers for rebuilding the First Presbyterian Church on Market Street. Each listing in the bound manuscript includes the name of the subscriber and amount given, and entries run from January 1793 to November 1796.
List of subscribers for rebuilding the First Presbyterian Church on Market Street, v. 3, 1793-1798
List of subscribers for rebuilding the First Presbyterian Church on Market Street. This bound manuscript includes entries dating from 1793 to 1798, and begins with an alphabetical index of names. The entries which follow are listed by subscriber name, with amounts paid, and span two pages, verso and recto.
Lists of burials for removal to Mount Moriah Cemetery, 1860
First Baptist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Church records and registers
Baptists
Cemeteries
Burial records
Mount Moriah Cemetery was established in 1855, on the outskirts of Philadelphia. As the population grew and land in Philadelphia became scarcer and more valuable, many churches had their burials removed to more rural locations. In 1860, after moving to a new building to accommodate their growing congregation, First Baptist Church made the decision to remove their burials from the cemetery on Arch Street to Mount Moriah. These pages contain a list of graves, by range, including the stone number, name of the interred, date buried and age at time of burial. Entries are marked with an "X," presumably meaning those remains were successfully identified and removed. Note: The final page is an invitation to a mock trial hosted by the Young People's Working Association of First Baptist Church in 1890, which includes handwritten notes about unmarked graves on the back.
Congregation Mikveh Israel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Synagogue officers
Synagogues
Jews
Synagogue records and registers
Pews and pew rights
The document is titled "Proceedings of the Board of Managers of K.K. M. Israel [Kahal Kadosh Mikveh Israel]; Under the new Constitution and Charter," but is only one page listing officers (parnas, adjunta, gabay, and secretary) for the congregation for the years 1823 to 1827.
Lithographs of First Moravian Church of Philadelphia, 1857
Moravian Church
First Moravian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Moravians
Four hand-colored lithographs created by Herline & Hensel of Philadelphia in 1857. The first lithograph features a view of the front and side of the original 1742 Moravian Church, which was located at the southeast corner of Bread Street (then Moravian Alley) and Race Street. The second lithograph features a view of the front and side of the Moravian Church (and parsonage) as it stood, on that same location, from 1746 to 1820. The third lithograph features a view of the front of the 1820 Moravian Church and surrounding buildings on Race Street. Finally, the fourth lithograph features a view of the side and front of the new Moravian Church of 1856, located at the southwest corner of Wood and Franklin Streets.
St. Michael's Church (Trenton, N.J.)
Episcopalians
Episcopal Church
Church membership
Correspondence
Marriage records
Baptismal records
Sermons
A set of many loose documents pertaining to the history of St. Michael's, dating from 1770 to 1862. Several of the documents are accompanied by typewritten transcripts. Included are: a record of the official naming of St. Michael's (submitted 1795, recorded 1796); lists of subscribers paying for Reverend Doctor Henry Waddell's salary, starting in 1797 and continuing for several years thereafter; a list of "Families of Episcopalians" in Trenton; an undated "plan of sittings" (map of church pews); Articles of Agreement for Building a Church in the City of Trenton, 1819; correspondence regarding the engagement of a minister; lists of communicants in 1855 and 1862; some marriage and baptismal records; and extracts from "Sermons by the Late Rev. John Logan, Edinburgh, one of the Ministers of Leith."
Lottery account book, 1773 and charity collections, 1802-1812
St. Paul's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Charity
The first 24 pages of this account book record the funds raised by St. Paul's 1773 church lottery, with entries ordered by date. Records of St. Paul's charity collections from 1802 to 1812 start from the back of the book and run chronologically, upside down, for another eight pages.