Selian Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon manuscript material : 2 items, 1775-1783

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Selian Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon manuscript material : 2 items, 1775-1783

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/433105911

· Autograph card signed : 7 Jul 1775 : (MISC 3923) : from Bristol; admitting Mrs. Jane Ormston "into my Chapel at Bath or any of my Chapels elsewhere as a Perpetual Ticket." Mounted in the Agatha Hogsbottom album. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. · To Mr. Day : 1 autograph letter signed : 5 Aug 1783 : (MISC 3924) : from Bath; relating to her dispute with William Piercy (1744-1819), the preacher she had sent to Georgia to convert the poor people in America; begins, "From my Love of exactness it has occasioned me very much concern to find any mistake in copying has been made ..." Mounted in the Agatha Hogsbottom album. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.

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New York Public Library System, NYPL

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SNAC Resource ID: 7521409

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Huntingdon, Selina Hastings, Countess, 1707-1791

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6456bjc (person)

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

Piercy, William, 1744-1819

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66h5jmf (person)

British clergyman and agent for the Countess of Huntingdon in Georgia and South Carolina, who sent him to America in 1773 to be the president and manager of the Bethesda Orphan House and College in Georgia. In 1776, Rev. Piercy married Catherine Elliott, daughter of Barnard Elliott (d. 1758), in Charleston, S.C. George Whitefield established an orphan house in Georgia which was bequeathed to the Countess of Huntingdon with the intent that she would continue the work of t...