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Description
Receipt for Communion set from English friends.
Date
8-9-1833
Keywords
Communion set, Communion plate, Gilead, Branch County, Michigan, J. Rosse, S. Dunelm, T. St. Davids, G. Spencer, J.A. Park, T.D. Acland, W. Skinner, G. Gaskin, G.W. Marriott, R. Marriott, J. Marriott, T. Bowdler, H. Hoare, Duff Macfarlane, W. Ward, J. Pratt, J. Prince, C. Crawley, Bishop McIlvaine
Recommended Citation
Chase, Philander, "Receipt for Communion set from English friends" (1833). Philander Chase Letters. 944.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/chase_letters/944
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K.Ch.330809
Received this 9th of Augt. 1833 at Gilead Branch County Michigan Ty a certain sett [sic] of small plate for the administration of the Holy Communion of the Lord’s Supper to the sick in [private]. Viz.
One Chalice
One - Paten
One Flagon
Each has this inscription
In usum Philander Chase D.D.
Episc: Ohio et suscessorum
[Cana] Domini sacrum
MCCCXXIV
on the Pater are inscribed these names
J. Rosse - S. Dunelm - T. [St.] Davids - Kenyon - G. Spencer - J.A. Park. T.D. Acland. [W.] Skinner G. Gaskin - J.A. Park - R. Marriott. GW Marriott J Marriott . T. Bowdler H Hoare. D. Macfarlane. W. Ward. J Pratt. J. Prince. C. Crawley.
The articles named & [receited] on the opposite side I promise to deliver as soon as may be to the Right Rev. Bishop McIlvaine the now successor of Bishop Chase in the diocese of Ohio
B[?] Wells
1833
R[t]. for plate
Receipt fo the Communion Plate given to me by my Friends in England for the benefit of the sick --
The sd. Plate to be given by B. Wells to Bp. McIlvaine provided he be not so much of a Presbyterian as to deny the propriety of administering the Holy Communion to the sick