Elizabeth Ann Seton collection, [ca. 1783-1980]

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Elizabeth Ann Seton collection, [ca. 1783-1980]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155481738

Included is Mother Seton's correspondence, ca.1803-1821, with family, friends, and clergymen concerning family matters and religious work. Correspondents include her children Anna Maria, Catherine Josephine, Richard, and William; Rose Stubbs; William R. Fox (concerning his children); John Carroll, Archbishop of Baltimore; Bishop John Cheverus; Bishop S.G. Bruté; Bishop John David, and William Dubourg, president of St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Md. Writings include Mother Seton's Italian journal, 1803, in which she describes her quarantine at Leghorn, the illness and death of her husband, William Magee Seton, and her stay with Antonio and Amabilia Filicchi, who were influential in Seton's decision to convert to Catholicism. Also, a volume of manuscript essays, "Interior Peace,", n.d., by Pére Lombez, translated and written out by Mother Seton. Collection includes a copy of William Magee Seton's will, 1803; and correspondence on miscellaneous topics, clippings, and portrait photographs, 1783-ca.1880's (a few are from the 1960's and 1970's) all by or about various relatives of Elizabeth Ann Seton. Also, letters from Elizabeth Seton (Mother Seton's mother-in-law) in England to her son William Magee Seton, 1783-1797. William was then working as a cashier at the Bank of New York.

ca. 18 cubic ft.

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New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N.Y.)

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Filicchi, Amabilia.

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Seton, Elizabeth, 1621–1650

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Epithet: daughter of Lord Herries, widow of George, 3rd Earl of Wintoun British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000800.0x000178 ...

Kalin, Eric.

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Seton, Anna Maria, 1795-1812.

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Fox, William R.

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Seton, William, b. 1796.

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David, John Baptist Mary, 1761-1841

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Catholic missionary and bishop of the Diocese of Bardstown. From the description of John Baptist Mary David papers, 1811-1840. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 438101415 ...

Seton, Richard Bayley, 1798-1823.

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Seton, William Magee, 1768-1803.

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Cheverus, Jean Louis Aimé Madeleine Lefebvre de, 1768-1836.

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Seton Literary Circle.

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Stubbs, Rosemary (British artist, 20th century)

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Bruté de Rémur, Simon William Gabriel, 1779-1839

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Filicchi, Antonio, 1764-1847

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Sisters of Charity (New York, N.Y.)

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The Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul were established in 1846 in McGowan's Pass at 109th St., New York City. When their land was appropriated for Central Park, they moved to Font Hill, now in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Mother House was named Mount Saint Vincent. From the description of Mother Generals/Presidents collection, 1810-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155481792 Collecting area: Materials relating to the Sisters of Charity and its ministrie...

DuBourg, Louis William Valentine, 1766-1833

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William Louis Valentine Doubourg was born February 14, 1766, the son of Chevalier Pierre DuBourg de la Loubere et St. Christaut, Sieur de Rochemont, and Marguerite (Armand de Vogluzan) DuBourg. He was educated at the College de Guyenne in Paris, and later attended the Seminary of St. Sulpice in Paris. He was ordained in 1788. He was forced to flee France due to the Revolution, and went to Oresene, Spain (1792) before heading to America in 1794. He was received in to the Society of St. Sulpice in...

Carroll, John, 1735-1815

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Carroll, the first Roman Catholic bishop of the United States and first Archbishop of Baltimore, was born 8 January 1735 in Upper Marlborough, Maryland, to Daniel and Eleanor Carroll. He was educated at Saint Omer's in Flanders as a Jesuit and returned to Maryland in 1774 where he resided until his death in 1815. He served for twenty five years as bishop and archbishop and contributed greatly to the growth of the American church. During his reign the clergy more than doubled its numbers and thre...

Seton, Catherine Josephine, 1800-1891.

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Seton, Elizabeth Ann, Saint, 1774-1821

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Elizabeth Ann Bayley was born in New York City in 1774. She married William Magee Seton, a New York merchant, in 1794. In 1797, with Isabella Graham and others, she founded a society for the relief of widows, the first charitable organization in New York City. Her husband died in 1803. In 1805 she converted to Catholicism, and in 1808 she began a girls' school in Baltimore, Maryland. In the spring of 1809 she and four others formed a community called Sisters of St. Joseph. That summer they moved...

Ambroise de Lombez, père, 1708-1778

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