Collection ID: 0034 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Christ Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) (http://viaf.org/viaf/123165129)
• United Churches of Christ-Church and St. Peter's (Philadelphia, Pa.) (http://viaf.org/viaf/139662090)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• https://philadelphiacongregations.org/records/item/ChristChurch.PewHoldersChristChurch1785-1800_v359
• local-identifier: v359

Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

United States

Summary

The practice of renting pews was common in 18th and 19th century churches; members paid a fee for the right to occupy a particular pew every week. This bound manuscript is a record of people who rented pews at Christ Church from 1785 to 1800. Entries are listed by pew number, with occupants' names, number of seats, dates occupied, and notes about the location of the pew and home addresses of the occupants. An insert at the back of the book illustrates the layout of the pews.

Extent

Support

Related resources

• Philadelphia Congregations Early Records Project (https://philadelphiacongregations.org)
• ATLA Digital Library (https://dl.atla.com/collections/philadelphia-congregations-early-records-project)

Subjects topical

• Pews and pew rights
• Church finance
• Episcopalians
• Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
• Christ Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
• Episcopal Church

Genres

• Account books
• Manuscripts

Keywords

• 18th century

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

  To the extent possible under law, Christ Church Philadelphia has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA ChristChurch.PewHoldersChristChurch1785-1800_v359: Pew holders, Christ Church, 1785-1800. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.

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