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

Title

Authors

• United Churches of Christ-Church, St. Peter's, and St. James's (Philadelphia, Pa.) (https://viaf.org/viaf/136497827)
• Christ Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) (http://viaf.org/viaf/123165129)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• https://philadelphiacongregations.org/records/item/ChristChurch.PewHoldersChristChurchStPeterStJames1826-1832_v362
• local-identifier: v362

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 document lists pew holders at Christ Church, St. Peter's Church and St. James's Church from circa 1826 to 1829. Entries are listed alphabetically, with columns for each church running across two pages, recto and verso.

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
• Episcopalians
• Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
• Christ Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
• St. Peter's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
• St. James's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
• United Churches of Christ-Church, St. Peter's, and St. James's (Philadelphia, Pa.)
• Episcopal Church

Genres

• Account books
• Manuscripts

Keywords

• 19th 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.PewHoldersChristChurchStPeterStJames1826-1832_v362: Pew holders, Christ Church, St. Peter's, and St. James', 1826-1829. 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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