Author: Melissa DruckmanPublisher: Christ Church Philadelphia
ISBN: 9781422365380
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Archives of Old Christ Church, Philadelphia
Author: Melissa DruckmanPublisher: Christ Church Philadelphia
ISBN: 9781422365380
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Baptisms and Burials from the Records of Christ Church, Philadelphia, 1709-1760
Author: Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806309792
Category : Church records and registers
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Christ Church was established in 1695 and was the first Episcopal church in Philadelphia. For a number of years it served the entire Anglican community, and by 1760, when St. Peter's was split off from it, more than 10,000 baptisms and burials were recorded in its registers. These registers are intact from 1709, and the baptismal and burial records are abstracted in this work and arranged alphabetically by surname.
A Record of the Inscriptions on the Tablets and Gravestones in the Burial-grounds of Christ Church, Philadelphia
Author: Christ Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Christ Church, Philadelphia
Author: Deborah Mathias GoughPublisher: DIANE Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 9780812232721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
From its panoramic perspective, Christ Church, Philadelphia unfolds events as both religious and local history. Established as the church of the English crown in a decidedly Quaker colony, Christ Church dealt from its inception with issues of religious freedom. Demonstrating as much political as religious daring, Philadelphia Anglicans emerged from the Revolution with positions of power and influence that earned them the leading role in forming the nation's Protestant Episcopal Church.
The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
Author: Surviving Orchestral Music
Author: Charles HommannPublisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 9780895796196
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Pagination: lxxxiii + 270 pp.
Architectural Record
Author: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
Author: History of the Lincoln Family
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Samuel Lincoln (1619-1690) immigrated in 1637 from England to Salem, Massachusetts, later moving to Hingham, Massachusetts. Descendants lived in New England, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Missouri, California and elsewhere.
America's First Chaplain
Author: Kevin J. DellapePublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611461448
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
America’s First Chaplain is a biography of the life of Philadelphia’s Jacob Duché, the Anglican minister who offered the most famous prayer and wrote one of the most infamous letters of the American Revolution. For the prayer to open the First Continental Congress, Duché was declared a national hero and named the first chaplain to the newly independent American Congress. For the letter written to George Washington imploring the general to encourage Congress to rescind independence, he was accused of high treason and sent into exile. As a result of this apparently irreconcilable contradiction in the minister’s behavior, many of his contemporaries and most historians have assumed he was weak, that in the moment of crisis – his imprisonment by British authorities during their occupation of Philadelphia - he cut a deal with the British for his own safety. The evidence gathered from the life of Jacob Duché, however, points to a very different conclusion, one that reveals the immense complexity of the American Revolution and the havoc it wreaked on the lives of the people who experienced it. The story of this deeply religious rector of Christ Church and St. Peter’s reveals the human side of the Revolution, a story that includes great accomplishment and great tragedy. It also provides insight into the complicated nature of Pennsylvania’s “democratic” revolution, the unique difficulties faced by Anglican leaders during the revolution, and the weakness of simplistic categorizations such as patriot or loyalist. For more than two centuries two events – a prayer and a letter - have obscured our view of the extraordinary life lying in the background. This biography attempts to reinterpret the prayer and the letter in light of the man behind them and in the process to uncover the real significance of both as well as to gain a glimpse into the complexity and contradictions of the American Revolution.