Documents relative to the celebration of a late marriage
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American imprints.
no. 16785. |
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| Online Access: | Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition |
| Item Description: | "To the members of the congregations of Christ-Church, St. Peter's, and St. James's. An affectionate and grateful recollection of the uniform kindness and indulgence which I have experienced from you ... have impelled me to lay before you such information and documents as will, I trust, effectually remove the misconception of my motives, and the misapprehension of my principles upon which I acted, in the celebration of a late marriage. ..."--p. [3]-5. Signed: James Abercrombie. Phila. Oct. 27th, 1809. Although his personal feelings corresponded with the public sentiment that the marriage between William Penn and Catharine Julia Balabrega (described by some as a beautiful but unfortunate girl) was inexpedient and imprudent, Rev. Abercrombie, "finding the marriage invincibly determined on," performed the ceremony, supposing that the celebration "by a regular episcopal clergyman would be less opprobrious in the opinion ... of the public mind, than by a civil magistrate." "The following letters were spontaneously addressed by Mr. P. to the chief justice and myself, a few days after the marriage."--p. 6-11. "Finding that the popular opinion was severe, the popular clamour loud, in reprobation of my conduct ... I solicited ... the opinion of the Bishop, who, in compliance with our request, benevolently communicated it as follows: An opinion relative to a supposed case of intended marriage."--p. 12-30. Signed: Wm. White, D.D. Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Philad. Oct. 12th 1809. "The following letter, written by a gentleman of the law, to whom the facts of this case were submitted, has been obligingly handed to me ..."--p. 31-47. Signed: [Blank] Philad. Nov. 11, 1809. |
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| Physical Description: | 47, [1] p. ; 22 cm Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |