Cheshunt College collection on Bethesda College, 1770-1778.

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Cheshunt College collection on Bethesda College, 1770-1778.

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This collection consists of photocopies of letters, maps, and other documents pertaining to George Whitefield's plans to add the Bethesda College to the Bethesda Orphan House. These papers also contain information on the orphanage. Included are: a letter from James Habersham to the Countess of Huntingdon describing the situation at Bethesda during the months after Whitefield's death; a letter from Margaret Floyd on the pillaging and neglect of Bethesda during the Revolutionary War; and Habersham's account of the burning of Whitefield's house in 1773 and his proposal to rebuild in brick. The college planning documents include a letter on the staffing of Bethesda; a list of annual prizes to be offered at Bethesda, which display Whitefield's plans to include a theological college with the orphanage; rules for the conduct of Bethesda College; a map of land by the Vernon River; and a map and plan of the orphanage. The descriptions in the inventory are notes on the items made by Rev. Stephen Orchard, who copied the documents from the Cheshunt College collection and sent them to the Bethesda Home for Boys in 1976. In addition to the photocopied documents, Orchard also included in his letter a copy of the Calendar of Archives; the titles of the documents have been kept the same as their listed forms in this inventory. Orchard was corresponding with W. Ford of the Bethesda Home for Boys, and some of his notes are directed toward their ongoing conversation; Ford may have been trying to uncover the original lands and building foundations of the orphanage.

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Huntingdon, Selina Hastings, Countess, 1707-1791

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English religious leader. From the description of Autograph letter in third person : Bath, to Mr. Laurens, [1784] Jan. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269520062 ...

Bethesda (Orphanage : Savannah, Ga. (1740-1809))

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Habersham, James, 1715-1775

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James Habersham (1712-1775) was born in Yorkshire, England in January, 1712. He came to Savannah in 1738 and founded the Bethesda Orphan Home with George Whitefield; from 1741 to 1744, Habersham ran the orphanage. In 1744, he left this position to start the firm Harris & Habersham, one of the earliest such businesses in Savannah. He married Mary Bolton on December 26, 1740. Habersham took an active part in the political affairs of Georgia: he was elected president of the upper house of the G...

Cheshunt College

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Cheshunt College was founded as Trevecca College in South Wales by the Countess of Huntingdon (1707-1791) as a theological school based on the ministry of George Whitefield (1714-1770). In 1791, upon the death of the countess, the Cheshunt College Trustees moved the college to Cheshunt in Hertford, England, and changed its name. In 1905 the college was again moved, this time to Cambridge. It merged with Westminster College in 1967. The Reverend George Whitefield founded the Bethesda Orphan Home ...

Whitefield, George, 1714-1770

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Epithet: Reverend; of Add MS 34068 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001152.0x0000fb Epithet: Reverend; Preacher British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001152.0x0000fc Methodist clergyman. From the description of Papers, 1750-1759. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20504475 Clergyman and evangelist. ...