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Episcopal Church. Diocese of South Carolina. Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South Carolina, 1706-1972.

Title: Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South Carolina, 1706-1972.

Primary records of diocesan-level administrative bodies and activities include records of the Board of Missions (1877-1952), Board of Trustees (1880-1970), Consecration Committee (1960-1961), Division Committee (1920), Executive Council (1922-1941), and the Standing Committee (1892-1935), and the manuscript journals of the annual diocesan conventions (1785-1892). These materials consist primarily of correspondence, minutes, financial records, and reports. In addition, the records of the diocesan historiographers (1878-1962), primarily John Kershaw (d. 1921) and Albert Sidney Thomas (1873-1967), consist of research notes and drafts of church histories which formed the basis of Thomas's "A Historical Account of the Protestant Episcopal Church in South Carolina, 1820-1957" (published in 1957). Among the primary records of organizations, churches, and individuals associated with the Diocese of South Carolina are manuscript journals of the Society for the Advancement of Christianity in South Carolina (1810-1971), records of the extinct church at St. Paul's, Stono (1706-1864), manuscript sermons by Theodore Dehon (1776-1817) and Stiles Mellichamp (d. 1872), and minutes of the Church Women of Trinity Church, Edisto Island (1895-1972). The papers of Alexander Glennie (1804-1880) and Philip Gadsden (1798-1870) contain information relating to their ministry to slaves at All Saints, Waccamaw, and St. Paul's, Stono, respectively. Subject files include clippings, notes, and ephemera relating to nearly two hundred individuals, churches, and institutions associated with the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South Carolina.

ArchivalResource: 13.25 linear ft.

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Thomas, Albert Sidney, 1873-1967. Albert Sidney Thomas papers, 1883-1973.

Title: Albert Sidney Thomas papers, 1883-1973.

Correspondence, telegrams, and other papers plus 49 volumes (account books, sermons, etc.) re Thomas's career in the Protestant Episcopal Church including service at St. Matthew's (Darlington, S.C.), with registers (1901-1922) of marriages, baptisms, confirmations, and burials. Correspondence with Charles Edward Thomas, re biography of his father, John Peyre Thomas; letters re publication of Thomas's History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in South Carolina; other items re genealogy of Thomas family, and genealogical information on Gibbes, Broun, and other families. Papers include 32 school notebooks (1892-1917); correspondence and other papers (1960-1964) relating to operation of Porter Military Academy (Charleston, S.C.); and scrapbooks, re Dalcho Historical Society, Huguenot Society, and Thomas' political activities; church history materials include 4 v. (1892-1968) compiled by Charles Edward Thomas containing news stories about career of A.S. Thomas and others, and religious events; other scrapbooks cover the Citadel, University of the South, and social issues, including civil rights, race relations, segregation, and integration. Church history materials include 4 v. (1892-1968) compiled by Charles Edward Thomas re Bishop Thomas's career, the Citadel, University of the South, and social issues, including civil rights, segregation, and integration; other corrspondents include Stanley F. Morse, Gen. Mark Clark, Eleanor Walter Thomas, and Harold Thomas; places represented include Columbia, Greenville, Rockville, Darlington, Society Hill, Marion, Hartsville, Wadmalaw Island, and Fairfield County, S.C., and Sewanee, Tenn. Also including bound volume of two panphlets written by Samuel Dubose and one by Frederick A. Porcher, (published 1850, 1852, and 1858; filed in Box 3) re history of St. Stephens Parish and Berkeley County, S.C., with Thomas' annotations [for details, select TITLE search in catalog for Thomas Albert Sidney papers]. Reproduction of map, 1934, attributed to William H. Johnson, M.D., identifying plantations, churches, settlements, taverns, etc., of the Santee, Ashley, and Cooper River basins, including note, "places mostly from Sam Dubose and Prof. F.A. Porcher's addresses about 1860."

ArchivalResource: 3.75 linear ft. (3 cartons)

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