William Rafferty papers 1801-1896 1814-1827 Rafferty, William papers

St. John's College Annapolis, Md

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Union college Schenectady, N.Y.

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Rafferty, William, 1778-1830

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William Rafferty was born in Ireland in 1778 and graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1800. He immigrated to the United States with his parents, John and Eleanor, and siblings, Mary, Stewart, and John, Jr., in the early 19th century. He began his ministerial career as a Presbyterian and later became an Episcopalian. Rafferty led the Blooming Grove Congregational Church in Orange County, New York (1812-1815), and later became president of St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryl...

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 ...