| Title: | Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States |
|---|---|
| ID | 2190 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | R.H/86 |
| Year | 1838 |
| Sender | R.H. |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | clergyman? |
| Sender Religion | Episcopalian |
| Origin | Protestant Episcopal Church in the USA |
| Destination | Dublin, Ireland |
| Recipient | Editor of The Dublin Record |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | writes letter to newspaper about religion |
| Source | D 1391/2/19: The Dublin Record, Monday, May 7, 1838, Presented by Mr. Niall Heron, Harmony Hill, Lisburn, Co. Antrim |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9701197 |
| Date | 27/04/1838 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 15:01:97. |
| Word Count | 552 |
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| Transcript | PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES. _____ TO THE EDITOR OF THE DUBLIN RECORD. SIR - You have herewith an extract from a letter written in July last, by a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. At this season, when many of our congregations are emigrating to that country, it may be advantageous for the clergy here to be informed of the names, character, and address of their brethren in those places to which the members of their flock are going. It is obviously desirable to have it in our power to commend those who leave our care, to the ministerial charge of ministers of our own communion in a distant land. It tends to make them feel that they are still under the same salutary oversight; it secures for them that acquaintance with a clergyman, which, through diffidence or inadvertence, they might not otherwise seek; and is likely to preserve them from embracing other communions, as several have done, I have reason to believe, from want of some such introduction to an Episcopal minister. You will feel a desire to promote whatever tends to draw closer the bonds of fellowship between the Church here and in America. In this persuasion, therefore, I request you to give the accompanying information a place in your columns. I am, yours, &c., R. H. April 27, 1838. ______ "I give you the names of one or two of our clergymen from each of the large towns in the several States, together with the name and residence of each bishop. In Massachussets - Right Rev. Alexander V. Greswold, D.D., Boston; Rev. James Morss, Newburyport. In Vermont - Right Rev. John Henry Hopkins, D.D., Burlington. In Connecticut - Right Rev. Thomas C. Brownell, D.D., Hartford. In New York - Right Rev. Benjamin T. Onderdonk, D.D., Rev. James Milner, D.D., and Rev. Manton Eastburn, D.D.,; Rev. Benjamin C. Cutter, D.D., Brooklin. In New Jersey - Right Rev. George W. Doane, D.D., Burlington. In Pennsylvania - Right Rev. Henry U. Onderdonk, D.D.,; Rev. John A. Clarke, and Rev. S. H. Tyng, D.D., Philadelphia. In Maryland - Right Rev. William M. Stone, D.D., Salisbury; Rev. John Johns, D.D., and Rev. John P. R. Henshaw, Baltimore. In District of Columbia - Rev. Wm. Hawley, Washington. In Virginia - Right Rev. Richard C. Moore, D.D., and Rev. George Woodbridge, Richmond; Right Rev. Wm. Meade, Assistant-bishop, Millwood; Rev. Wm. Norvell Ward, Livingstone. In North Carolina - Right Rev. Levi S. Ives, Raleigh, and Rev. George Wm. Freeman. In South Carolina - Right Rev. Nathaniel Bowen, D.D., and Rev. Stephen Elliott, Prof. Evid. Chr., S. C. Coll., Charlestown. In Georgia - Rev. Edward Newfville [sic], Savannah. In Ohio - Right Rev. Charles P. M'Ilvaine, D.D., Kenyon College, Gambier; Rev. John T. Brooke, Cincinnati. In Kentucky - Right Rev. Benjamin B. Smith, D.D., Lexington; Rev. Wm. Jackson, Louisville. In Tennesee [Tennessee?] - Right Rev. James H. Otey, D.D., Franklin; Rev. Leonidas Polk, Columbia. In Missouri - Right Rev. Jackson Kemper, D.D., St. Louis. "The above are the bishops, and most prominent clergy, in the United Staes. I am personally acquainted with most of them; and feel assured that any of them will give you any information you may ask of them, and will serve you in any way they can, with much pleasure." |
