Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records, 1759-1940 (bulk: 1786-1899)

Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Records, 1759-1940 (bulk: 1786-1899)
Finding Aid to Record Group 33
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ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY

The Second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia originated during the first Great Awakening from the preaching of the Rev. George Whitfield in Philadelphia. The followers of Whitfield constructed a building on Fourth Street above High (Market) Street where they gathered on a nondenominational basis. In 1743 the Presbyterians worshiping there organized as a New Side Presbyterian Church and called the Rev. Gilbert Tennent, oldest son of the renowned William Tennent and a leader of the revivalist Presbyterians, to be their pastor. Other groups, particularly the Moravians, objected to their use of the building. In 1750 the Presbyterians erected a brick building of their own at Third and Arch Streets.

During the colonial period, the church was served by Tennent until his death in 1764, and the short pastorate, 1764-1765, of the Rev. John Murray from Ireland followed. After a three year vacancy the pulpit was filled in 1768 by the Rev. James Sproat, a Congregationalist minister from Connecticut, who served until his death in the yellow fever epidemic of 1793. During his pastorate the corporation was granted a charter in 1772 by Thomas and John Penn, the proprietors. In 1780 the General Assembly of Pennsylvania granted the Church a new charter. Sproat started worship services at Campington in an area north of the city, site of a British army camp during the French and Indian War. The Campington congregation was served by the pastors and administered by Second Presbyterian Church until it became independent in 1813 as the First Presbyterian Church of Northern Liberties.

During the Revolution the Presbyterians generally supported the American cause. Services ceased during the British occupation of Philadelphia and the Arch Street building was used as a hospital. The woodwork and pews of the interior of the church building and the graveyard fence were destroyed. The Campington church building was used by the Americans as a warehouse for military stores.

Ashbel Green, called to be assistant pastor in 1786, succeeded Sproat as sole pastor in 1793. John N. Abeel served as assistant pastor, 1792-1794, as did Jacob J. Janeway, 1799-1812. Janeway become sole pastor when Green assumed the presidency of the College of New Jersey (Princeton) in 1812. During 1809-1810 considerable reconstruction of the Arch Street Church was undertaken.

The Second Presbyterian Church experienced the internal division that often afflicted the Presbyterian Church and that foreshadowed the great schism of the denomination in 1837-1838. In 1813 the Rev. Thomas S. Skinner became assistant pastor, but his pastoral style and preaching differed from that of Dr. Janeway and produced party strife within the congregation. In 1816 Skinner resigned, taking a few families with him to form another congregation. In 1828 Janeway left Second Presbyterian Church to join the faculty of the new Western Theological Seminary. When his successor, the Rev. Joseph Sanford attempted to make certain changes, the congregation again became polarized, and, after Sanford's death in 1832, a large group withdrew to form another congregation. During the schism of 1837-1869, Second Presbyterian Church adhered to the Old School branch of the Presbyterian Church.

Second Presbyterian Church never regained the numerical strength it had before the division of 1832. Under the leadership of the next pastor, the Rev. Cornelius C. Cuyler, who came from a Dutch Reformed Church in New York State, the congregation in 1837 erected a new building on Seventh Street below Arch, but when expectations of growth did not materialize, sentiment for another move gradually grew during the pastorates of the Rev. Charles W. Shields (1850-1865) and the Rev. Elias R. Beadle (1865-1879). The Arch Street Church was sold, the remains were removed from the graveyards, and a new building erected at Twenty-first and Walnut Streets was occupied in 1872.

During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Second Presbyterian Church experienced financial problems and, at times, had difficulty filling the pulpit. The Revs. John S. Macintosh (1881-1896), Charles Wood (1897-1908), and Alexander MacColl (1911-1949) served as pastors of the church during the remainder of its history as a separate congregation. Several attempts to merge the church with other congregations finally succeeded in 1950 with the consolidation of First Presbyterian Church and Second Presbyterian Church, retaining the name of the former and occupying the building of the latter.

Second Presbyterian Church was generous in its benevolences. The church had several benevolent, Sunday School, charity school and missionary organizations, to a large extent managed by the women. In 1812 Elias Boudinot gave the Church four brick homes at the northeast corner of Ninth and Cherry Streets, to provide homes for widows and their children. It was known as the Widows Asylum.

Second Presbyterian Church also established a congregational school which accepted both tuition and charity students and had varying arrangements between the teachers, male and female, and the Church, at different periods. The original frame schoolhouse erected on the church lot was replaced in the 1790's by a brick structure that also served as a lecture room. Another schoolhouse was built on the Asylum property.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

This record group consists of records of the corporation, session, the Board of Trustees, and other organizations of the Church, two thirds of the material being the records of the Board of Trustees, its committees, and the treasurers, from 1759-1940. The bulk of the records covers the post-Revolutionary period through the nineteenth century. The records were created by the various lawyers, businessmen and physicians who served as elders, trustees, treasurers and members of committees. The records include correspondence, reports, accounts, bills, minutes and other records of the operation of the Church, and deal with as pew rentals, building construction and maintenance, management of the congregational school and the burial grounds, church finances and pulpit supply.

The correspondence of the Rev. Charles Wood includes letters of Robert Lansing, Grover Cleveland (in rare documents file), Mrs. Grover Cleveland, Thomas Riley Marshall, Phillips Brooks and Henry Van Dyke.

Record Group 33 is arranged accordingly:

THE CONGREGATION

SERIES I: The Congregation, 1786-1937 THE SESSION

THE CORPORATION

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

THE PASTORS

SERIES XXI: Pastors, 1816-1939 ORGANIZATIONS OF THE CHURCH

MISCELLANY

SERIES XXVIII: Miscellany

NOTES TO THE RESEARCHER

The researcher should consult the card catalog for the bound volumes of official records and printed items in the library. Some of the original minute books are in extremely fragile condition and must be handled with great care. They should not be photocopied. Researchers may also want to look at Record Group 218, the papers of Isaac Snowden, Jr., secretary of the Board of Trustees, member of the School Committee, an elder of Second Presbyterian Church, and source of many of the records in this Record Group 33.

Box Folder Description

1 1 Finding Aid to Record Group 33 SERIES I: THE CONGREGATION 2 Rough Minutes and Reports, 1786-1849 3 Rough Minutes and Reports, 1850-1937 SERIES II: THE SESSION 4 Rough Minutes, Reports, Correspondence, 1786-1850, n.d. 5 1850-1913 6 Incoming Certificates of Membership and Dismission, 1834-1839 7 1840-1842 8 1843-1847 9 1848-1870 10 1871-1876 11 1877-1879 12 Incoming Certificates of Membership and Dismission, 1888, 1895-1899; Report of Dismissions and Deaths, 1895 13 Incoming Certificates of Membership and Dismission, 1900-1904 14 Incoming Certificates of Membership and Dismission, 1905-1909 15 Outgoing Certificate of Membership and Dismission, 1820 16 Session Cash Book, 1879-1880 17 Miscellaneous Records, 1882, n.d. SERIES III: CLERK OF SESSION 18 Correspondence re Pulpit Supply (Mahlon S. Stokes and Charles F. Hasseltine), 1871-1872, 1874-1878 19 Correspondence re Pulpit Supply (Mahlon S. Stokes), January-February, 1879 20 March-April, 1879 21 May-August, 1879 22 September, 1879 23 October, 1879 24 November-December, 1879 25 January-March 1880 26 April-June, 1880 27 September-December, 1880 28 1881, 1883, 1886-1888 29 1895 30 Correspondence re Pulpit Supply, January-July, 1896 31 Correspondence re Pulpit Supply, August 1896-January 1897, n.d. 32 Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1872-1879 33 1880, 1883-1888 34 Lists of Candidates and Supply Appointments, 1879-1880; Resolution, n.d. 35 Annual Report to Presbytery, 1882, 1912, 1913 SERIES IV: THE CORPORATION 1 36 Rough Minutes, Resolutions, Reports, 1781-1787 37 1788-1797 38 1803-1832, 1868, n.d. 39 Correspondence, 1781-1831 40 Correspondence, (Appeal from First African Church),1813 41 Act Re-establishing the Charter, 1780 42 Estimate of Repair Costs from the British Occupation, 1780 2 1 Orders to Pay and Receipts, 1786-1787 2 1788-1789, 1794 3 Resolutions and Clipping re Merger with West Arch Street Church, 1868, n.d. 4 Report of Committee re possible Merger with Calvary Presbyterian Church, 1893 5 Outline of a Plan to Merge with Chambers Church Presbyterian Church, n.d. 6 Article of Merger with First Presbyterian Church, 1948-1949 SERIES V: CLERK OF THE CORPORATION 7 Correspondence (Richard C. Winship), 1874-1881 8 1882-1889 9 1890-1902 SERIES VI: BOARD OF TRUSTEES 10 Correspondence, 1788, 1794, 1810-1829 11 1830-1839 12 1840-1849 13 1850-1859 14 1860-1869 15 1870-1879 16 1881-1896 17 1900-1915, n.d. 18 1927-1937, 1940 19 undated 20 Presbyterian Ministers Fund Correspondence, 1898- 1899 21 Correspondence and Contract, Purchase of an Organ, 1904-1906 22 Correspondence (Theodore S. Cuyler), 1862, 1864-1867 23 Correspondence (Theodore S. Cuyler), 1868 24 Correspondence (Theodore S. Cuyler), 1869-1873, 1875 25 Committee Reports, 1794-1834 26 1835-1855 27 1868-1893, 1900 28 undated 29 Rough Minutes, Extracts, Election Returns, 1773, 1805-1832 30 Rough Minutes, 1833-1837 31 1837-1840 32 1841-1844 33 Rough Minutes, Resolutions, 1845-1852 34 1853-1858 35 Rough Minutes, Resolutions, Excerpts, 1859-1892, n.d. 36 Rough Minutes, Resolutions, 1913, 1916, 1929, 1933-1936 37 Reports and Resolutions: Qualifications of Voters, 1809, n.d.; Voter Lists, 1813, 1840 38 Miscellaneous Resolutions, undated 39 Lists of Trustees and Committee Assignments, 1836-1838, 1851, 1912,1923-1934, n.d. 40 Letters of Resignation, 1813-1905 41 Samuel Hazard's Letter of Resignation, 1864 42 By-Laws, 1833, 1872 43 Appointment of Attorneys, 1923 3 1 Leases and Correspondence, 1784, 1788, 1794-1819, 1826, n.d. 2 Leases, Bonds, Mortgage, Insurance Policies, 1764, 1785, 1791, 1799-1808 3 Leases, Bonds, Mortgage, 1810-1819, 1829-1831 4 List of Rents and Bonds, 1816-1823 5 Pew Rent and Sunday Collections Memorandum Book, 1793-1795 6 Subscription Book, New Session House, 1820 7 New Church Building (with some choir notes), 1870, 1873 8 Organ Purchase, 1870 9 Miscellaneous Financial Records, undated 10 Deed of Trust for Property from Elias Boudinot, 1812; Letter and Papers, 1829, n.d. 11 Brief of Title, 1874; List of Title Papers, c. 1904 12 Memorial to Pennsylvania General Assembly re Taxation of Church Buildings and Burial Grounds, n.d. 13 Acts of the Pennsylvania General Assembly to Authorize the Sale of Property, 1835, 1848, 1863, 1866, n.d. 14 Advertisement for Sale of Lots, 1787 15 Auction Booklet, Sale of Church Properties, 1867 16 Wills and Extracts of Wills, 1785, 1794-1806, 1828, 1876, 1885, 1910, 1922 SERIES VII: TREASURER 17 Correspondence (William Gallagher and Armisted Miller), 1860-1861 18 Correspondence (George W. Hall), 1866-1870 19 Correspondence and Records (James M. Earle), 1877-1879 20 Correspondence (James M. Earle and R. C. Winship), 1880-1885 21 Correspondence (George P. Morgan), 1891-1898 22 Correspondence (George P. Morgan and John Sailer), 1901 23 Correspondence, (George P. Morgan), 1900-1908 24 Accounts, Vouchers, Reports, 1777-1788 25 1789-1790 26 Hugh McCulloch's Disputed Accounts, 1759, 1769, 1790-1791 27 Accounts, Vouchers, Reports, 1791-1795 28 1796-1799 29 1800-1802 3 30 1803-1810 31 1811-1819 32 1820-1829 33 1830-1849 34 Accounts, Reports, Correspondence (Samuel Bacon, Sexton), 1811-1814 35 1815-1818 36 Isaac Snowden's Balance Sheets, 1813-1823 37 Treasurers' Accounts, 1832-1838 38 1839, 1844, 1846, 1849-1853 39 Accounts, Reports, Rough Minutes, 1850-1858 40 Accounts, Reports, Vouchers, 1860-1866 41 Accounts, Reports, Bills, 1869-1872 42 Accounts, Reports, Letter, 1870-1874 4 1 Accounts, Reports, Minutes, 1875-1879 2 Reports, 1880-1889, n.d. 3 Reports, Bonds, History of the Debt, 1873, 1883, 1885, 1886, 1896, n.d. 4 Reports, 1890-1899 5 1900-1906 6 Treasurers' and Audit Reports, 1927-1933, 1939-1940 SERIES VIII: COMMITTEE OF ACCOUNTS 7 Minutes, Reports, Accounts, 1794-1799, 1803-1811, 1832-1840, 1863, 1913, 1915 SERIES IX: COMMITTEE FOR A SINKING FUND 8 Reports, Account, 1823, 1827-1834 SERIES X: COMMITTEE ON FINANCE 9 Minutes, Reports, Correspondence, 1784-1813, 1849-1851 10 Minutes, Reports, Correspondence, Subscription Book, 1874-1878 (debt liquidation) 11 Minutes, Reports, Correspondence, Subscription Book, 1880-1889, 1896, 1897 (debt liquidation) 12 Correspondence (John Sailer, Chair), 1897 SERIES XI: COMMITTEE ON TRUSTS 13 Reports, 1838, 1884, n.d. 14 Reports and Correspondence, 1873-1882 15 1883-1889 16 1890-1893 17 1894-1899 18 1900-1903, 1925 SERIES XII: COMMITTEE ON CHURCH BUILDINGS 4 19 Reports, 1793-1810 20 1811-1830, 1836 21 1840-1855 22 Correspondence, Reports, Rough Minutes, 1866-1868 23 Correspondence, Bids, Contracts, 1869 24 Correspondence re Stained Glass Windows, 1871-1872 25 Correspondence, Bids, Rough Minutes, 1870-1871, n.d. 26 Correspondence, Rough Minutes, 1872-1874, n.d. 27 Correspondence, Bills, Rough Minutes, 1872-1875 28 Correspondence, Reports, Legal Opinion, Rough Minutes, 1876-1881, n.d. 29 Correspondence, Reports, 1882-1885 30 1886-1899, n.d. 31 1900-1916 SERIES XIII: COMMITTEE ON CHURCH RECORDS 5 1 Reports re Maintenance of Church Registers, 1827, n.d. 2 Reports, 1874-1906 SERIES XIV: COMMITTEE ON CHURCH COLLECTIONS 3 Reports, 1875-1906 SERIES XV: THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE 4 Correspondence, Agreement, Account (John Ely, Schoolmaster), 1786-1787 5 Subscription List, Contract, Report, Accounts, (Erection of Schoolhouse), 1796-1798 6 Applications for Admission, 1807, n.d. 7 "Rules and Regulations", Resolutions, Broadside, Minute Extracts, 1803, 1805, n.d. 8 Accounts and Reports, 1799-1802 9 1803-1804, n.d. 10 1805-1807 11 1808-1809 12 1810-1811 13 Accounts and Reports, 1812-1813 14 Accounts and Reports (School on Asylum Lot), 1813-1814, n.d. 15 Accounts and Reports, 1814 16 1815-1816 17 1816-1817 18 1817 19 1818 20 1819 21 1820 5 22 1821 23 1822 24 1823 25 1824 26 1825-1826 27 Reports, Lease, Estimates, 1829-1835 28 School Fund Accounts, 1844 29 Leaflet re Sunday Schools of the Church, c. 1829; Catechism and Hymn Book, n.d. 30 Anonymous Letter Accusing Daniel Peck, Schoolmaster, 1821 SERIES XVI: THE ASYLUM COMMITTEE 31 Accounts, Vouchers, Bills, 1813-1826, 1835, 1841, 1852, 1856-1857, 1863-1864 SERIES XVII: COMMITTEE OF MUSIC 32 Reports and Correspondence, 1833-1837 33 1878-1892 34 1893-1897 35 1901-1912, n.d. SERIES XVIII: COMMITTEE ON PEW RENTS 36 Correspondence, 1790-1813 37 1813-1820 38 1820-1832 39 1832-1834 6 1 1834-1887 2 1887-1901, n.d. 3 Minutes, Reports, Resolutions, Correspondence, 1780-1818 4 Minutes, Reports, Resolutions, Correspondence, 1820-1844 5 Minutes, Reports, Resolutions, Correspondence, 1849-1860, 1888, n.d. 6 Reports of the Pew Agent, 1792-1851 7 Reports and Statements of Rentals and Withdrawals, 1873-1883 8 Reports and Statements of Rentals and Withdrawals, 1883-1900 9 Reports and Statements of Rentals and Withdrawals, 1901-1914 10 Listing of Pew Rent Transactions, 1753-1834 11 Accounts, Lists, Reports (Pewholders, Rents Due, Vacant Pews, Pew Sales), 1780-1800, n.d. 12 1800-1809 13 1810 14 1811-1812 15 1813-1816 16 1817-1822 6 17 1823-1826 18 1827-1839 19 1851, 1859, 1866- 1872, 1880-1889, n.d. 20 Pew Ordinances, 1795-1803 21 Legal Opinions: Pewholders' Rights, 1827, 1830 22 Plans of Pews and Pew Valuations, 1794, 1810, 1827, 1836-1837, 1857, 1872, n.d.; Plan of Grace Church, Episcopal, n.d. 23 Pew Certificates, 1811 24 Pew Certificates, 1811 (cont.) 25 Pew Certificates and Deeds, 1811-1837 26 Pew Deeds, 1838-1874 27 Pew Deeds, 1878-1897 SERIES XIX: COMMITTEE ON BURIAL GROUNDS 28 Burial Lists and Sexton's Accounts, 1783-1799 (Peter Lesley) 29 Burial Lists and Sexton's Accounts, 1804-1828,1839 (Peter Lesley) 30 Burial Register, Noble Street Burial Ground, 1806-1828, 1845-1861, (# 1 is missing) 7 1 List of Burial Vaults, 1902-1903, n.d. 2 "Funeral Register", 1804-1806 (incomplete) 3 Reports, 1784, 1803-1867, n.d. 4 Reports, Correspondence, Subscription List, Minute (Noble Street), 1784, 1805, 1808, 1815-1819, 1833 5 Reports, Correspondence, Bills for Vaults, 1821- 1868, n.d. 6 Reports, Mt. Vernon Cemetery Committee, 1875-1907 7 Reports and Correspondence re Maintenance, 1829-1839, 1882, 1914, n.d. 8 Reports and Resolutions re Burial Rights and Rates, 1797, 1824-1832, 1852, n.d. 9 Reports, Accounts, Plan re Enclosure of Arch Street Burial Ground, 1810-1816 10 Correspondence, 1817, 1867, 1882 11 Correspondence re Removal of Remains, 1852, n.d. 12 Correspondence re Removal of Remains and Interments, 1867,1870, 1903-1909 13 Correspondence with Philadelphia Board of Health and Board of Health Certificates, 1852-1853 14 Correspondence re David McClure's Vault, 1867-1868, 1880; Deed, 1868 15 Burial Ground Ordinances and Plot Plan, 1805 16 Plot Plans (Arch Street, Noble Street, Mt. Vernon), n.d. 17 Mt. Vernon Cemetery Company, Laurel Hill: By-Laws and Regulations, 1864 18 Sketches of the Hearse, n.d. 19 Certificates Authorizing the Sexton to Remove Remains, 1851-1856, 1867, n.d. 20 Working Papers, Transfer of Remains, 1867, n.d. 21 1867 22 1867 23 Transfer Cards, (Adams-Caldwell), 1867 7 24 (Campbell-Dean), 1867 25 (Deas-Fraser), 1867 26 (Fry-Griffins), 1867 27 (Groves-Hufly), 1867 28 (Hufly-Jones), 1867 29 (Kanter-Lewis), 1867 30 (Little-Mooney), 1867 31 (Moore-Neal), 1867 32 (Nicholson-Poullney), 1867 33 (Powell-Shannon), 1867 34 (Slufflebottom-Stuart), 1867 35 (Sullivan-Witt), 1867 36 (Wilt-Young), 1867 SERIES XX: THE CAMPINGTON CHURCH 8 1 Col. William Coates' Ground Rent Accounts, 1781- 1793; Letter 1787; Report, n.d. 2 Accounts, 1785, 1805; Orders to Pay, 1790-1796, 1802 3 Reports of a Plan to Establish a Church, 1784 4 Reports and Resolutions re Erecting a Church Building, 1803, 1805, 1806, 1810 5 Subscriptions, 1802-1806, n.d. 6 Subscription Letter, 1804 7 Subscription Account, 1805 8 Plans, Bid, Floor Plan of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, n.d. 9 Construction Contracts and Bonds, 1804, n.d. 10 Building Committee Accounts, Bids, Bills, Orders to Pay, 1803-1804 11 Building Committee Accounts, Bids, Bills, Orders to Pay, 1805-1807, n.d. 12 Committee of Superintendence Reports, 1805-1813 13 Copy of Parchment Put in Cornerstone, 1804 14 Leases and Correspondence, Northern Liberties Property, 1787, 1797, 1804-1806, 1914, 1819 15 Pewholder Certificates, 1807 16 Pewholder Lists and Accounts, 1787, 1794, 1799, 1803-1806, 1813-1916 17 Petition, Counter-petition, Reports, Agreement, Resolutions re Separation, 1813-1815 18 Reports of Collections and Taxes; Receipts, 1805-1814, 1819, n.d. 19 Historical Notes, ca. 1806, 1810, 1813 SERIES XXI: PASTORS 20 Thomas H. Skinner: Minutes, Reports, Petitions re Dissolution of the Pastoral Relation, 1814, 1816, n.d. 21 Thomas H. Skinner: Minutes, Reports, Petitions re Dissolution of the Pastoral Relation, 1816 (cont), n.d. 22 Joseph Sanford: Communication re Opposition to his Ministry, 1831 23 Joseph Sanford: Statement of Two Laymen re the Opposition in the Congregation, 1832 24 Cornelius C. Cuyler: Letters and Resolutions, 1850, n.d. 25 Elias R. Beadle: Church Dedication Sermons, 1872 8 26 John S. MacIntosh: Letters and Clippings, 1880-1881, 1894; Revision of the Confession, n.d. 27 John S. MacIntosh: Applications for Baptism, 1880-1881 28 Charles Wood: Correspondence re Purchase of a Memorial, 1908 29 Charles Wood: Incoming Letters, B-F, 1878-1939 30 G-W, 1878-1939 31 Tribute from Session, 1936 32 A Bibliography, 1953 33 Alexander McColl: Printed Letters, 1938-1939 34 Epitaphs and Memorial Tablets for Former Pastors, n.d. 35 Quarterly Reports, 1873-1880 36 1881-1887 37 1888-1898 38 1899-1926 SERIES XXII: BEADLE MEMORIAL SOCIETY 39 List of Members, Officers, Committees, 1918; Manuscript History, n.d. 40 Correspondence, 1914-1923 41 Printed History, n.d. 42 Constitution, The Junior Beadle Memorial Society, n.d. SERIES XXIII: BETH EDEN HOUSE 43 Annual Reports, 1936-1937 44 Reports, 1937-1940, n.d. 45 Financial Reports, 1937-1938 46 1939-1941 SERIES XXIV: THE GUILD 47 Correspondence, 1907-1915, n.d. 48 Reports, 1909-1922 SERIES XXV: LADIES' ASSOCIATION 49 Printed List of Contributors, 1874 SERIES XXVI: PHILADELPHIA UNION SOCIETY FOR...A FEMALE CHARITY SCHOOL 50 Minutes and Correspondence, 1804-1806 SERIES XXVII: WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY 51 Annual Report, 1912; Treasurer's Report, 1910-1923 52 Contribution Book, 1888-1904 8 53 1904-1911 SERIES XXVIII: MISCELLANY 9 1 Historical Sketches, 1792, c. 1867 2 Historical Notes, n.d. 3 Extracts from Records of Second Presbyterian Church, 1743-1795 4 Transcript, 133rd Anniversary, 1876 5 A Statistical Summary, Second Presbyterian Church, 1804-1905 6 Lists of Communicants, Baptisms, Burials, Location of Members, n.d. 7 List of Elders and Pastors, 1743-1865 [by Samuel Agnew], c. 1865 8 Announcements and Invitations to Special Services,1815, 1871, 1879, 1885-1886, n.d. 9 Circular Letters, 1867, 1871, 1885-1887, n.d. 10 Newspaper Clippings, 1814, 1868, 1882 11 Order of Services and Schedule of Collections (leaflet), n.d. 12 Cornerstone Plates (text and rubbings), 1869 13 Plan of a Chandelier and Instructions, n.d. 14 Notes on Responsibilities of Church Officers, n.d. 15 "Religious Intelligence" (press release), Robert Cathcart, Secretary of General Assembly, 1816 16 Statistical Tables re General Assembly from 1797-1831, [1831] 17 Draft Legal Opinion re Power of Trustees of General Assembly to HoldProperty in Trust, n.d. 18 Extracts from The Olive Branch, 1815; Account of the Fourth of July in Philadelphia, ca. 1815. 19 James H. Baird article, "Neglect of Infant Baptism", 1857; Review Clippings; Manuscript Essays and Statistical Tables critical of Baird, n.d. 20 Deed of Settlement of the Mutual Assurance Company, 1818 21 Presbyterian Mission School, Grassdale, Liberia: Report by John M. Deputie, 1888 22 "The Book of Common Prayer as revised by the Royal Commission of Presbyterian Divines: A.D. 1661...Adapted to the Use of Presbyterian Ministers and Congregations In the United States," n.d. 23 The Elders Association of the Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, Meeting Notices, 1871 24 Charles Wood, 160th Anniversary of the Second Presbyterian Church.., (Historical Sermon), [1903]