St. Stephen's Church records, 1822-1881.

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St. Stephen's Church records, 1822-1881.

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Includes one folder of loose materials and six volumes: an address book of members (1855); vestry minutes (1866-1880); a register of baptisms (1833-1865); a register of marriages (1822-1860); a register of burials (1822-1865); and a register of marriages, baptisms, confirmations, and burials (1867-1880). The register of baptisms includes a note (p. 49-51) concerning the fate of the church communion silver, which was "seized & divided by Sherman's troops that burnt the Capital of the State." A postscript states that in 1866 the church's tankard was returned to the church through a North Carolina woman "who ransomed the same from one of Sherman's men who was trying to find a purchaser for it."

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Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

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Sherman was born in 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio, near the banks of the Hocking River. His father, Charles Robert Sherman, a successful lawyer who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court, died unexpectedly in 1829. He left his widow, Mary Hoyt Sherman, with eleven children and no inheritance. After his father's death, the nine-year-old Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney Thomas Ewing, Sr., a prominent member of the Whig Party who served as senator from Ohio and as the first S...

St. Stephen's Episcopal Church (Charleston, S.C.)

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St. Stephen's Church in Charleston, S.C., was established in 1822 under the patronage of the Charleston Female Domestic Missionary Society, and is said to have been the first free Episcopal church in the U.S. The original church on Guignard St. was consecrated in Mar. 1824, but after that building was destroyed by fire in 1835 the church moved to its present location on Anson St. Around 1854 there were 120 regular white communicants and nine colored communicants. In 1880 St. Stephen's closed and...

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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 ...