Guide to the Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records

Descriptive Summary

Title

Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records

Inclusive Dates

1759-1940

Bulk Dates

1786-1899

Call Number

RG 33

Creator(s)

Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Quantity

8.50 cubic feet

Restrictions on Access

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Repository

Presbyterian Historical Society, 425 Lombard Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147-1516 USA

Biographical Note / Administrative History

Administrative History

The Second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia originated during the first Great Awakening from the preaching of the Rev. George Whitfield in Philadelphia. The followers of Whitfield constructed a building on Fourth Street above High (Market) Street where they gathered on a nondenominational basis. In 1743 the Presbyterians worshiping there organized as a New Side Presbyterian Church and called the Rev. Gilbert Tennent, oldest son of the renowned William Tennent and a leader of the revivalist Presbyterians, to be their pastor. Other groups, particularly the Moravians, objected to their use of the building. In 1750 the Presbyterians erected a brick building of their own at Third and Arch Streets.

During the colonial period, the church was served by Tennent until his death in 1764, and the short pastorate, 1764-1765, of the Rev. John Murray from Ireland followed. After a three year vacancy the pulpit was filled in 1768 by the Rev. James Sproat, a Congregationalist minister from Connecticut, who served until his death in the yellow fever epidemic of 1793. During his pastorate the corporation was granted a charter in 1772 by Thomas and John Penn, the proprietors. In 1780 the General Assembly of Pennsylvania granted the Church a new charter. Sproat started worship services at Campington in an area north of the city, site of a British army camp during the French and Indian War. The Campington congregation was served by the pastors and administered by Second Presbyterian Church until it became independent in 1813 as the First Presbyterian Church of Northern Liberties.

During the Revolution the Presbyterians generally supported the American cause. Services ceased during the British occupation of Philadelphia and the Arch Street building was used as a hospital. The woodwork and pews of the interior of the church building and the graveyard fence were destroyed. The Campington church building was used by the Americans as a warehouse for military stores.

Ashbel Green, called to be assistant pastor in 1786, succeeded Sproat as sole pastor in 1793. John N. Abeel served as assistant pastor, 1792-1794, as did Jacob J. Janeway, 1799-1812. Janeway become sole pastor when Green assumed the presidency of the College of New Jersey (Princeton) in 1812. During 1809-1810 considerable reconstruction of the Arch Street Church was undertaken.

The Second Presbyterian Church experienced the internal division that often afflicted the Presbyterian Church and that foreshadowed the great schism of the denomination in 1837-1838. In 1813 the Rev. Thomas S. Skinner became assistant pastor, but his pastoral style and preaching differed from that of Dr. Janeway and produced party strife within the congregation. In 1816 Skinner resigned, taking a few families with him to form another congregation. In 1828 Janeway left Second Presbyterian Church to join the faculty of the new Western Theological Seminary. When his successor, the Rev. Joseph Sanford attempted to make certain changes, the congregation again became polarized, and, after Sanford's death in 1832, a large group withdrew to form another congregation. During the schism of 1837-1869, Second Presbyterian Church adhered to the Old School branch of the Presbyterian Church.

Second Presbyterian Church never regained the numerical strength it had before the division of 1832. Under the leadership of the next pastor, the Rev. Cornelius C. Cuyler, who came from a Dutch Reformed Church in New York State, the congregation in 1837 erected a new building on Seventh Street below Arch, but when expectations of growth did not materialize, sentiment for another move gradually grew during the pastorates of the Rev. Charles W. Shields (1850-1865) and the Rev. Elias R. Beadle (1865-1879). The Arch Street Church was sold, the remains were removed from the graveyards, and a new building erected at Twenty-first and Walnut Streets was occupied in 1872.

During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Second Presbyterian Church experienced financial problems and, at times, had difficulty filling the pulpit. The Revs. John S. Macintosh (1881-1896), Charles Wood (1897-1908), and Alexander MacColl (1911-1949) served as pastors of the church during the remainder of its history as a separate congregation. Several attempts to merge the church with other congregations finally succeeded in 1950 with the consolidation of First Presbyterian Church and Second Presbyterian Church, retaining the name of the former and occupying the building of the latter.

Second Presbyterian Church was generous in its benevolences. The church had several benevolent, Sunday School, charity school and missionary organizations, to a large extent managed by the women. In 1812 Elias Boudinot gave the Church four brick homes at the northeast corner of Ninth and Cherry Streets, to provide homes for widows and their children. It was known as the Widows Asylum.

Second Presbyterian Church also established a congregational school which accepted both tuition and charity students and had varying arrangements between the teachers, male and female, and the Church, at different periods. The original frame schoolhouse erected on the church lot was replaced in the 1790's by a brick structure that also served as a lecture room. Another schoolhouse was built on the Asylum property.

Collection Overview

This record group consists of records of the corporation, session, the Board of Trustees, and other organizations of the Church, two thirds of the material being the records of the Board of Trustees, its committees, and the treasurers, from 1759-1940. The bulk of the records covers the post-Revolutionary period through the nineteenth century. The records were created by the various lawyers, businessmen and physicians who served as elders, trustees, treasurers and members of committees. The records include correspondence, reports, accounts, bills, minutes and other records of the operation of the Church, and deal with as pew rentals, building construction and maintenance, management of the congregational school and the burial grounds, church finances and pulpit supply.

The correspondence of the Rev. Charles Wood includes letters of Robert Lansing, Grover Cleveland (in rare documents file), Mrs. Grover Cleveland, Thomas Riley Marshall, Phillips Brooks and Henry Van Dyke.

Organization and Arrangement

THE CONGREGATION SERIES I: The Congregation, 1786-1937 THE SESSION SERIES II: Session, 1786-1913

SERIES III: Clerk of Session, 1871-1913 THE CORPORATION SERIES IV: The Corporation, 1781-1868

SERIES V: Clerk of the Corporation, 1874-1902 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES SERIES VI: Board of Trustees, 1759-1940

SERIES VII: Treasurer, 1777-1940

SERIES VIII: Committee of Accounts, 1794-1915

SERIES IX: Committee for a Sinking Fund, 1823-1834

SERIES X: Committee on Finance, 1784-1897

SERIES XI: Committee on Trusts, 1838-1925

SERIES XII: Committee on Church Buildings, 1793-1916

SERIES XIII: Committee on Church Records, 1827, 1874- 1906

SERIES XIV: Committee on Church Collections, 1875-1906

SERIES XV: The School Committee, 1786-1844

SERIES XVI: The Asylum Committee, 1813-1864

SERIES XVII: Committee of Music, 1833-1912

SERIES XVIII: Committee on Pew Rentals, 1790-1914

SERIES XIX: Committee on Burial Grounds, 1783-1914

SERIES XX: The Campington Church, 1787-1819 THE PASTORS SERIES XXI: Pastors, 1816-1939 ORGANIZATIONS OF THE CHURCH SERIES XXII: Beadle Memorial Society, 1914-1923

SERIES XXIII: Beth Eden House, 1936-1941. n.d.

SERIES XXIV: The Guild, 1907-1922

SERIES XXV: Ladies' Association, 1874

SERIES XXVI: Philadelphia Union Society...for a Female Charity School, 1804-1806

SERIES XXVII: Woman's Home Missionary Society, 1888-1923 MISCELLANY SERIES XXVIII: Miscellany

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Catalog Headings

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Personal Name Subject

Cuyler, Cornelius C., 1783-1850.

Green, Ashbel, 1762-1848.

Janeway, J. J. (Jacob Jones), 1774-1858.

Tennent, Gilbert, 1703-1764.

Corporate Subject

Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) Archives.

Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) History.

Topical Subject

Presbyterian Church--Pennsylvania-- Philadelphia.

Presbyterian Church--Clergy.

Clergy--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Widows--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Housing.

Presbyterian Church--Education.

Church schools--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Church work with women--Pennsylvania.

Geographic Subject

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Church history.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Education.

Asylums--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Collection Inventory

Box	Folder	Description	Alternative Formats

1	1	Finding Aid to Record Group 33

		SERIES I: THE CONGREGATION

1	2	Rough Minutes and Reports, 1786-1849
	3	Rough Minutes and Reports, 1850-1937

		SERIES II: THE SESSION

1	4	Rough Minutes, Reports, Correspondence, 1786-1850, n.d.
	5	1850-1913
	6	Incoming Certificates of Membership and Dismission, 1834-1839
	7	Incoming Certificates of Membership and Dismission, 1840-1842
	8	Incoming Certificates of Membership and Dismission, 1843-1847
	9	Incoming Certificates of Membership and Dismission, 1848-1870
	10	Incoming Certificates of Membership and Dismission, 1871-1876
	11	Incoming Certificates of Membership and Dismission, 1877-1879
	12	Incoming Certificates of Membership and Dismission, 1888, 1895-1899; Report of Dismissions and Deaths, 1895
	13	Incoming Certificates of Membership and Dismission, 1900-1904
	14	Incoming Certificates of Membership and Dismission, 1905-1909
	15	Outgoing Certificate of Membership and Dismission, 1820
	16	Session Cash Book, 1879-1880
	17	Miscellaneous Records, 1882, n.d.

		SERIES III: CLERK OF SESSION

1	18	Correspondence re Pulpit Supply (Mahlon S. Stokes and Charles F. Hasseltine), 1871-1872, 1874-1878
	19	Correspondence re Pulpit Supply (Mahlon S. Stokes), January-February, 1879
	20	Correspondence re Pulpit Supply (Mahlon S. Stokes), March-April, 1879
	21	Correspondence re Pulpit Supply (Mahlon S. Stokes), May-August, 1879
	22	Correspondence re Pulpit Supply (Mahlon S. Stokes), September, 1879
	23	Correspondence re Pulpit Supply (Mahlon S. Stokes), October, 1879
	24	Correspondence re Pulpit Supply (Mahlon S. Stokes), November-December, 1879
	25	Correspondence re Pulpit Supply (Mahlon S. Stokes), January-March 1880
	26	Correspondence re Pulpit Supply (Mahlon S. Stokes), April-June, 1880
	27	Correspondence re Pulpit Supply (Mahlon S. Stokes), September-December, 1880
	28	Correspondence re Pulpit Supply (Mahlon S. Stokes), 1881, 1883, 1886-1888
	29	Correspondence re Pulpit Supply (Mahlon S. Stokes), 1895
	30	Correspondence re Pulpit Supply, January-July, 1896
	31	Correspondence re Pulpit Supply, August 1896-January 1897, n.d.
	32	Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1872-1879
	33	Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1880, 1883-1888
	34	Lists of Candidates and Supply Appointments, 1879-1880; Resolution, n.d.
	35	Annual Report to Presbytery, 1882, 1912, 1913

		SERIES IV: THE CORPORATION

1	36	Rough Minutes, Resolutions, Reports, 1781-1787
	37	Rough Minutes, Resolutions, Reports, 1788-1797
	38	Rough Minutes, Resolutions, Reports, 1803-1832, 1868, n.d.
	39	Correspondence, 1781-1831
	40	Correspondence, (Appeal from First African Church),1813
	41	Act Re-establishing the Charter, 1780
	42	Estimate of Repair Costs from the British Occupation, 1780

2	1	Orders to Pay and Receipts, 1786-1787
	2	Orders to Pay and Receipts, 1788-1789, 1794
	3	Resolutions and Clipping re Merger with West Arch Street Church, 1868, n.d.
	4	Report of Committee re possible Merger with Calvary Presbyterian Church, 1893
	5	Outline of a Plan to Merge with Chambers Church Presbyterian Church, n.d.
	6	Article of Merger with First Presbyterian Church, 1948-1949

		SERIES V: CLERK OF THE CORPORATION

2	7	Correspondence (Richard C. Winship), 1874-1881
	8	Correspondence (Richard C. Winship), 1882-1889
	9	Correspondence (Richard C. Winship), 1890-1902

		SERIES VI: BOARD OF TRUSTEES

2	10	Correspondence, 1788, 1794, 1810-1829
	11	Correspondence, 1830-1839
	12	Correspondence, 1840-1849
	13	Correspondence, 1850-1859
	14	Correspondence, 1860-1869
	15	Correspondence, 1870-1879
	16	Correspondence, 1881-1896
	17	Correspondence, 1900-1915, n.d.
	18	Correspondence, 1927-1937, 1940
	19	Correspondence, undated
	20	Presbyterian Ministers Fund Correspondence, 1898- 1899
	21	Correspondence and Contract, Purchase of an Organ, 1904-1906
	22	Correspondence (Theodore S. Cuyler), 1862, 1864-1867
	23	Correspondence (Theodore S. Cuyler), 1868
	24	Correspondence (Theodore S. Cuyler), 1869-1873, 1875
	25	Committee Reports, 1794-1834
	26	Committee Reports, 1835-1855
	27	Committee Reports, 1868-1893, 1900
	28	Committee Reports, undated
	29	Rough Minutes, Extracts, Election Returns, 1773, 1805-1832
	30	Rough Minutes, 1833-1837
	31	Rough Minutes, 1837-1840
	32	Rough Minutes, 1841-1844
	33	Rough Minutes, Resolutions, 1845-1852
	34	Rough Minutes, Resolutions, 1853-1858
	35	Rough Minutes, Resolutions, Excerpts, 1859-1892, n.d.
	36	Rough Minutes, Resolutions, 1913, 1916, 1929, 1933-1936
	37	Reports and Resolutions: Qualifications of Voters, 1809, n.d.; Voter Lists, 1813, 1840
	38	Miscellaneous Resolutions, undated
	39	Lists of Trustees and Committee Assignments, 1836-1838, 1851, 1912,1923-1934, n.d.
	40	Letters of Resignation, 1813-1905
	41	Samuel Hazard's Letter of Resignation, 1864
	42	By-Laws, 1833, 1872
	43	Appointment of Attorneys, 1923

3	1	Leases and Correspondence, 1784, 1788, 1794-1819, 1826, n.d.
	2	Leases, Bonds, Mortgage, Insurance Policies, 1764, 1785, 1791, 1799-1808
	3	Leases, Bonds, Mortgage, 1810-1819, 1829-1831
	4	List of Rents and Bonds, 1816-1823
	5	Pew Rent and Sunday Collections Memorandum Book, 1793-1795
	6	Subscription Book, New Session House, 1820
	7	New Church Building (with some choir notes), 1870, 1873
	8	Organ Purchase, 1870
	9	Miscellaneous Financial Records, undated
	10	Deed of Trust for Property from Elias Boudinot, 1812; Letter and Papers 1829, n.d.
	11	Brief of Title, 1874; List of Title Papers, c. 1904
	12	Memorial to Pennsylvania General Assembly re Taxation of Church Buildings and Burial Grounds, n.d.
	13	Acts of the Pennsylvania General Assembly to Authorize the Sale of Property, 1835, 1848, 1863, 1866, n.d.
	14	Advertisement for Sale of Lots, 1787
	15	Auction Booklet, Sale of Church Properties, 1867
	16	Wills and Extracts of Wills, 1785, 1794-1806, 1828, 1876, 1885, 1910, 1922

		SERIES VII: TREASURER

3	17	Correspondence (William Gallagher and Armisted Miller), 1860-1861
	18	Correspondence (George W. Hall), 1866-1870
	19	Correspondence and Records (James M. Earle), 1877-1879
	20	Correspondence (James M. Earle and R. C. Winship), 1880-1885
	21	Correspondence (George P. Morgan), 1891-1898
	22	Correspondence (George P. Morgan and John Sailer), 1901
	23	Correspondence, (George P. Morgan), 1900-1908
	24	Accounts, Vouchers, Reports, 1777-1788
	25	Accounts, Vouchers, Reports, 1789-1790
	26	Hugh McCulloch's Disputed Accounts, 1759, 1769, 1790-1791
	27	Accounts, Vouchers, Reports, 1791-1795
	28	Accounts, Vouchers, Reports, 1796-1799
	29	Accounts, Vouchers, Reports, 1800-1802
	30	Accounts, Vouchers, Reports, 1803-1810
	31	Accounts, Vouchers, Reports, 1811-1819
	32	Accounts, Vouchers, Reports, 1820-1829
	33	Accounts, Vouchers, Reports, 1830-1849
	34	Accounts, Reports, Correspondence (Samuel Bacon, Sexton), 1811-1814
	35	Accounts, Reports, Correspondence (Samuel Bacon, Sexton), 1815-1818
	36	Isaac Snowden's Balance Sheets, 1813-1823
	37	Treasurers' Accounts, 1832-1838
	38	Treasurers' Accounts, 1839, 1844, 1846, 1849-1853
	39	Accounts, Reports, Rough Minutes, 1850-1858
	40	Accounts, Reports, Vouchers, 1860-1866
	41	Accounts, Reports, Bills, 1869-1872
	42	Accounts, Reports, Letter, 1870-1874

4	1	Accounts, Reports, Minutes, 1875-1879
	2	Reports, 1880-1889, n.d.
	3	Reports, Bonds, History of the Debt, 1873, 1883, 1885, 1886, 1896, n.d.
	4	Reports, 1890-1899
	5	Reports, 1900-1906
	6	Treasurers' and Audit Reports, 1927-1933, 1939-1940

		SERIES VIII: COMMITTEE OF ACCOUNTS

4	7	Minutes, Reports, Accounts, 1794-1799, 1803-1811, 1832-1840, 1863, 1913, 1915

		SERIES IX: COMMITTEE FOR A SINKING FUND

4	8	Reports, Account, 1823, 1827-1834

		SERIES X: COMMITTEE ON FINANCE

4	9	Minutes, Reports, Correspondence, 1784-1813, 1849-1851
	10	Minutes, Reports, Correspondence, Subscription Book, 1874-1878 (debt liquidation)
	11	Minutes, Reports, Correspondence, Subscription Book, 1880-1889, 1896, 1897 (debt liquidation)
	12	Correspondence (John Sailer, Chair), 1897

		SERIES XI: COMMITTEE ON TRUSTS

4	13	Reports, 1838, 1884, n.d.
	14	Reports and Correspondence, 1873-1882
	15	Reports and Correspondence, 1883-1889
	16	Reports and Correspondence, 1890-1893
	17	Reports and Correspondence, 1894-1899
	18	Reports and Correspondence, 1900-1903, 1925

		SERIES XII: COMMITTEE ON CHURCH BUILDINGS

4	19	Reports, 1793-1810
	20	Reports, 1811-1830, 1836
	21	Reports, 1840-1855
	22	Correspondence, Reports, Rough Minutes, 1866-1868
	23	Correspondence, Bids, Contracts, 1869
	24	Correspondence re Stained Glass Windows, 1871-1872
	25	Correspondence, Bids, Rough Minutes, 1870-1871, n.d.
	26	Correspondence, Rough Minutes, 1872-1874, n.d.
	27	Correspondence, Bills, Rough Minutes, 1872-1875
	28	Correspondence, Reports, Legal Opinion, Rough Minutes, 1876-1881, n.d.
	29	Correspondence, Reports, 1882-1885
	30	Correspondence, Reports, 1886-1899, n.d.
	31	Correspondence, Reports, 1900-1916

		SERIES XIII: COMMITTEE ON CHURCH RECORDS

5	1	Reports re Maintenance of Church Registers, 1827, n.d.
	2	Reports, 1874-1906

		SERIES XIV: COMMITTEE ON CHURCH COLLECTIONS

5	3	Reports, 1875-1906

		SERIES XV: THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE

5	4	Correspondence, Agreement, Account (John Ely, Schoolmaster), 1786-1787	Digital
	5	Subscription List, Contract, Report, Accounts, (Erection of Schoolhouse), 1796-1798
	6	Applications for Admission, 1807, n.d.
	7	"Rules and Regulations", Resolutions, Broadside, Minute Extracts, 1803, 1805, n.d.	Digital
	8	Accounts and Reports, 1799-1802	Digital
	9	Accounts and Reports, 1803-1804, n.d.
	10	Accounts and Reports, 1805-1807
	11	Accounts and Reports, 1808-1809
	12	Accounts and Reports, 1810-1811
	13	Accounts and Reports, 1812-1813
	14	Accounts and Reports (School on Asylum Lot), 1813-1814, n.d.
	15	Accounts and Reports, 1814
	16	Accounts and Reports, 1815-1816
	17	Accounts and Reports, 1816-1817
	18	Accounts and Reports, 1817
	19	Accounts and Reports, 1818
	20	Accounts and Reports, 1819
	21	Accounts and Reports, 1820
	22	Accounts and Reports, 1821
	23	Accounts and Reports, 1822
	24	Accounts and Reports, 1823
	25	Accounts and Reports, 1824
	26	Accounts and Reports, 1825-1826
	27	Reports, Lease, Estimates, 1829-1835
	28	School Fund Accounts, 1844
	29	Leaflet re Sunday Schools of the Church, c. 1829; Catechism and Hymn Book, n.d.
	30	Anonymous Letter Accusing Daniel Peck, Schoolmaster, 1821	Digital

		SERIES XVI: THE ASYLUM COMMITTEE

5	31	Accounts, Vouchers, Bills, 1813-1826, 1835, 1841, 1852, 1856-1857, 1863-1864

		SERIES XVII: COMMITTEE OF MUSIC

5	32	Reports and Correspondence, 1833-1837
	33	Reports and Correspondence, 1878-1892
	34	Reports and Correspondence, 1893-1897
	35	Reports and Correspondence, 1901-1912, n.d.

		SERIES XVIII: COMMITTEE ON PEW RENTS

5	36	Correspondence, 1790-1813
	37	Correspondence, 1813-1820
	38	Correspondence, 1820-1832
	39	Correspondence, 1832-1834

6	1	Correspondence, 1834-1887
	2	Correspondence, 1887-1901, n.d.
	3	Minutes, Reports, Resolutions, Correspondence, 1780-1818
	4	Minutes, Reports, Resolutions, Correspondence, 1820-1844
	5	Minutes, Reports, Resolutions, Correspondence, 1849-1860, 1888, n.d.
	6	Reports of the Pew Agent, 1792-1851
	7	Reports and Statements of Rentals and Withdrawals, 1873-1883
	8	Reports and Statements of Rentals and Withdrawals, 1883-1900
	9	Reports and Statements of Rentals and Withdrawals, 1901-1914
	10	Listing of Pew Rent Transactions, 1753-1834
	11	Accounts, Lists, Reports (Pewholders, Rents Due, Vacant Pews, Pew Sales), 1780-1800, n.d.
	12	Accounts, Lists, Reports, 1800-1809
	13	Accounts, Lists, Reports, 1810
	14	Accounts, Lists, Reports, 1811-1812
	15	Accounts, Lists, Reports, 1813-1816
	16	Accounts, Lists, Reports, 1817-1822
	17	Accounts, Lists, Reports, 1823-1826
	18	Accounts, Lists, Reports, 1827-1839
	19	Accounts, Lists, Reports, 1851, 1859, 1866- 1872, 1880-1889, n.d.
	20	Pew Ordinances, 1795-1803
	21	Legal Opinions: Pewholders' Rights, 1827, 1830
	22	Plans of Pews and Pew Valuations, 1794, 1810, 1827, 1836-1837, 1857, 1872, n.d.; Plan of Grace Church, Episcopal, n.d.
	23	Pew Certificates, 1811
	24	Pew Certificates, 1811 (cont.)
	25	Pew Certificates and Deeds, 1811-1837
	26	Pew Deeds, 1838-1874
	27	Pew Deeds, 1878-1897

		SERIES XIX: COMMITTEE ON BURIAL GROUNDS

6	28	Burial Lists and Sexton's Accounts, 1783-1799 (Peter Lesley)
	29	Burial Lists and Sexton's Accounts, 1804-1828,1839 (Peter Lesley)
	30	Burial Register, Noble Street Burial Ground, 1806-1828, 1845-1861, (# 1 is missing)

7	1	List of Burial Vaults, 1902-1903, n.d.
	2	"Funeral Register", 1804-1806 (incomplete)
	3	Reports, 1784, 1803-1867, n.d.
	4	Reports, Correspondence, Subscription List, Minute (Noble Street), 1784, 1805, 1808, 1815-1819, 1833
	5	Reports, Correspondence, Bills for Vaults, 1821- 1868, n.d.
	6	Reports, Mt. Vernon Cemetery Committee, 1875-1907
	7	Reports and Correspondence re Maintenance, 1829-1839, 1882, 1914, n.d.
	8	Reports and Resolutions re Burial Rights and Rates, 1797, 1824-1832, 1852, n.d.
	9	Reports, Accounts, Plan re Enclosure of Arch Street Burial Ground, 1810- 1816
	10	Correspondence, 1817, 1867, 1882
	11	Correspondence re Removal of Remains, 1852, n.d.
	12	Correspondence re Removal of Remains and Interments, 1867,1870, 1903-1909
	13	Correspondence with Philadelphia Board of Health and Board of Health Certificates, 1852-1853
	14	Correspondence re David McClure's Vault, 1867-1868, 1880; Deed, 1868
	15	Burial Ground Ordinances and Plot Plan, 1805
	16	Plot Plans (Arch Street, Noble Street, Mt. Vernon), n.d.
	17	Mt. Vernon Cemetery Company, Laurel Hill: By-Laws and Regulations, 1864
	18	Sketches of the Hearse, n.d.
	19	Certificates Authorizing the Sexton to Remove Remains, 1851-1856, 1867, n.d.
	20	Working Papers, Transfer of Remains, 1867, n.d.
	21	Working Papers, Transfer of Remains, 1867
	22	Working Papers, Transfer of Remains, 1867
	23	Transfer Cards, (Adams-Caldwell), 1867
	24	Transfer Cards, (Campbell-Dean), 1867
	25	Transfer Cards, (Deas-Fraser), 1867
	26	Transfer Cards, (Fry-Griffins), 1867
	27	Transfer Cards, (Groves-Hufly), 1867
	28	Transfer Cards, (Hufly-Jones), 1867
	29	Transfer Cards, (Kanter-Lewis), 1867
	30	Transfer Cards, (Little-Mooney), 1867
	31	Transfer Cards, (Moore-Neal), 1867
	32	Transfer Cards, (Nicholson-Poullney), 1867
	33	Transfer Cards, (Powell-Shannon), 1867
	34	Transfer Cards, (Slufflebottom-Stuart), 1867
	35	Transfer Cards, (Sullivan-Witt), 1867
	36	Transfer Cards, (Wilt-Young), 1867

		SERIES XX: THE CAMPINGTON CHURCH

8	1	Col. William Coates' Ground Rent Accounts, 1781- 1793; Letter 1787; Report, n.d.
	2	Accounts, 1785, 1805; Orders to Pay, 1790-1796, 1802
	3	Reports of a Plan to Establish a Church, 1784
	4	Reports and Resolutions re Erecting a Church Building, 1803, 1805, 1806, 1810
	5	Subscriptions, 1802-1806, n.d.
	6	Subscription Letter, 1804
	7	Subscription Account, 1805
	8	Plans, Bid, Floor Plan of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, n.d.
	9	Construction Contracts and Bonds, 1804, n.d.
	10	Building Committee Accounts, Bids, Bills, Orders to Pay, 1803-1804
	11	Building Committee Accounts, Bids, Bills, Orders to Pay, 1805-1807, n.d.
	12	Committee of Superintendence Reports, 1805-1813
	13	Copy of Parchment Put in Cornerstone, 1804
	14	Leases and Correspondence, Northern Liberties Property, 1787, 1797, 1804-1806, 1914, 1819
	15	Pewholder Certificates, 1807
	16	Pewholder Lists and Accounts, 1787, 1794, 1799, 1803-1806, 1813-1916
	17	Petition, Counter-petition, Reports, Agreement, Resolutions re Separation, 1813-1815
	18	Reports of Collections and Taxes; Receipts, 1805-1814, 1819, n.d.
	19	Historical Notes, ca. 1806, 1810, 1813

		SERIES XXI: PASTORS

8	20	Thomas H. Skinner: Minutes, Reports, Petitions re Dissolution of the Pastoral Relation, 1814, 1816, n.d.
	21	Thomas H. Skinner: Minutes, Reports, Petitions re Dissolution of the Pastoral Relation, 1816 (cont), n.d.
	22	Joseph Sanford: Communication re Opposition to his Ministry, 1831
	23	Joseph Sanford: Statement of Two Laymen re the Opposition in the Congregation, 1832
	24	Cornelius C. Cuyler: Letters and Resolutions, 1850, n.d.
	25	Elias R. Beadle: Church Dedication Sermons, 1872	Digital
	26	John S. MacIntosh: Letters and Clippings, 1880-1881, 1894; Revision of the Confession, n.d.
	27	John S. MacIntosh: Applications for Baptism, 1880-1881
	28	Charles Wood: Correspondence re Purchase of a Memorial, 1908
	29	Charles Wood: Incoming Letters, B-F, 1878-1939
	30	Charles Wood: Incoming Letters, G-W, 1878-1939
	31	Tribute from Session, 1936
	32	A Bibliography, 1953
	33	Alexander McColl: Printed Letters, 1938-1939
	34	Epitaphs and Memorial Tablets for Former Pastors, n.d.
	35	Quarterly Reports, 1873-1880
	36	Quarterly Reports, 1881-1887
	37	Quarterly Reports, 1888-1898
	38	Quarterly Reports, 1899-1926

		SERIES XXII: BEADLE MEMORIAL SOCIETY

8	39	List of Members, Officers, Committees, 1918; Manuscript History, n.d.
	40	Correspondence, 1914-1923
	41	Printed History, n.d.
	42	Constitution, The Junior Beadle Memorial Society, n.d.

		SERIES XXIII: BETH EDEN HOUSE

8	43	Annual Reports, 1936-1937
	44	Reports, 1937-1940, n.d.
	45	Financial Reports, 1937-1938
	46	Financial Reports, 1939-1941

		SERIES XXIV: THE GUILD

8	47	Correspondence, 1907-1915, n.d.
	48	Reports, 1909-1922

		SERIES XXV: LADIES' ASSOCIATION

8	49	Printed List of Contributors, 1874

		SERIES XXVI: PHILADELPHIA UNION SOCIETY FOR...
		A FEMALE CHARITY SCHOOL

8	50	Minutes and Correspondence, 1804-1806

		SERIES XXVII: WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY

8	51	Annual Report, 1912; Treasurer's Report, 1910-1923
	52	Contribution Book, 1888-1904
	53	Contribution Book, 1904-1911

		SERIES XXVIII: MISCELLANY

9	1	Historical Sketches, 1792, c. 1867
	2	Historical Notes, n.d.
	3	Extracts from Records of Second Presbyterian Church, 1743-1795
	4	Transcript, 133rd Anniversary, 1876
	5	A Statistical Summary, Second Presbyterian Church, 1804-1905
	6	Lists of Communicants, Baptisms, Burials, Location of Members, n.d.
	7	List of Elders and Pastors, 1743-1865 [by Samuel Agnew], c. 1865
	8	Announcements and Invitations to Special Services,1815, 1871, 1879, 1885-1886, n.d.
	9	Circular Letters, 1867, 1871, 1885-1887, n.d.
	10	Newspaper Clippings, 1814, 1868, 1882
	11	Order of Services and Schedule of Collections (leaflet), n.d.
	12	Cornerstone Plates (text and rubbings), 1869
	13	Plan of a Chandelier and Instructions, n.d.
	14	Notes on Responsibilities of Church Officers, n.d.
	15	"Religious Intelligence" (press release), Robert Cathcart, Secretary of General Assembly, 1816
	16	Statistical Tables re General Assembly from 1797-1831, [1831]
	17	Draft Legal Opinion re Power of Trustees of General Assembly to Hold Property in Trust, n.d.
	18	Extracts from The Olive Branch, 1815; Account of the Fourth of July in Philadelphia, ca. 1815.
	19	James H. Baird article, "Neglect of Infant Baptism", 1857; Review Clippings; Manuscript Essays and Statistical Tables critical of Baird, n.d.
	20	Deed of Settlement of the Mutual Assurance Company, 1818
	21	Presbyterian Mission School, Grassdale, Liberia: Report by John M. Deputie, 1888
	22	"The Book of Common Prayer as revised by the Royal Commission of Presbyterian Divines: A.D. 1661...Adapted to the Use of Presbyterian Ministers and Congregations In the United States," n.d.
	23	The Elders Association of the Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, Meeting Notices, 1871
	24	Charles Wood, 160th Anniversary of the Second Presbyterian Church.., (Historical Sermon), [1903]

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