[shelby research]Mary Selby/Shelby and Baptismal Font photos

[Judith A Trolinger]

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Hi Martha,
I'll give ILL a try, thanks!

At 05:18 PM 10/31/03 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 10/30/2003 11:04:22 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
>hoberta@hilconet.com writes:
>When was the Gough book published?? Do you know if it would be available 
>thru interlibrary loan? I don't have this one.
>
>Judy,
>
>This book was published in 1995.  It is a very good book on the history of 
>the church during its beginning, through the revolutionary war and to the 
>present.
>
>The history of Philadelphia is very interesting.  In most aspects it was a 
>seed environment for the American attitude of self determination, 
>friendship and openmindedness.  William Penn Jr. was, in essence, a 
>hippie.  His father was an important admiral in England who had helped the 
>Stewarts return to the throne.  He had been paid well by the Monarchy for 
>his services.  He wanted Jr. to go to college and become somebody 
>important.  Jr. rebelled all the way, and decided to come to America to 
>live in order to get away from Sr.  Sr. eventually died and left Jr. all 
>his money, which Jr. requested  be given him as land in America.  Jr. used 
>it to establish a prototype American City with all different denominations 
>of Protestants, Jews, and Catholics, and whatever else, free to live and 
>worship as they chose.  He thought they should each have a lot of land and 
>designed the city to be spread out.  However, because of the indians, and 
>other dangers, the people divided up they land, sold it off and eventually 
>created a very people packed community.
>
>Christ Church was organized by a bunch of Anglicans in a Quaker community 
>who eventually designed the rules for the present American Episcopal 
>Church.  I am wondering why Evan and Catherine had Mary (and maybe David) 
>baptised in this church because they were Presbyters I believe.  At least 
>that is what Moses, Rees, and Mary were in Mecklenburg.  Interestingly 
>enough, the church they were part of organizing in NC was called 
>"Philadelphia" Presbyterian Church.  The leaders of the church were 
>schooled at, what is now, Princeton.  My husband's father was a 
>Presbyterian minister trained at Oxford in England and Princeton in 
>NJ.  He had come from a Congregationalist (Presbyterian) family in Wales.
>
>You might be able to get the Gough book on interlibrary loan, I don't know.
>
>Happy Halloween!  124ade7d.jpg
>Martha

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