Wainwright family papers 1792-1850

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Wainwright family papers 1792-1850

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/3196

The papers contain the correspondence of Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright (1792-1854), bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and letters of two generations of the Wainwright family of Boston and New York City. Family members represented include prominent tobacco merchant Peter Wainwright of Liverpool, England and his wife Elizabeth Mayhew (1759-1829), daughter of Rev. Jonathan Mayhew (1720-1766); their children Bishop Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright and his wife Amelia Phelps; Peter Wainwright, Jr., treasurer of the Provident Loan and Trust Company of Boston and his wife Charlotte Lambert, and Elizabeth Wainwright, wife of noted obstetrician Walter Channing.

2.5 linear feet; 5 boxes

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6313104

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Wainwright family

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Elizabeth (Mayhew) Wainwright (1759-1829), was the daughter of Rev. Jonathan Mayhew (1720-1766), the radical divine of the West Church and Elizabeth (Breame) Clarke (1733-1777) of Boston. Her mother's marriage to Mayhew in 1756 lasted until his death in 1766. In 1771 she married Mayhew's successor, the Rev. Simeon Howard (1733-1804). Elizabeth Mayhew married Peter Wainwright in 1790. Wainwright was a prosperous English tobacco merchant who had come to Boston before the American Revo...

Channing, Elizabeth Wainwright, 1794-1834.

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Wainwright, Charlotte Lambert

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Wainwright, Elizabeth Mayhew, 1759-1829.

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Episcopal Church

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...

Wadsworth, Daniel, 1771-1848

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Traveler, amateur artist and architect; founder of the Wadsworth Atheneum. From the description of Falls of Niagara, 1806 / by D. Wadsworth. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 179672810 ...

Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew, 1821-1863.

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Howard, John C. (John Clarke), 1772-1810

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Episcopal Church. Eastern Diocese

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Wainwright, Peter.

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Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew, 1792-1854

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Provisional Bishop of New York (1852-1854). From the description of Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright papers, 1819-1865. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 664362405 ...

Wainwright, Peter, 1794-1878

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Wainwright, Amelia Phelps

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