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Excerpt from Journals of the General Conventions of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the United States of America; From the Year 1784, to the Year 1814, Inclusive: Also, First Appendix, Containing the Constitution and Canons; And Second Appendix, Containing Three Pastoral Letters
In pursuance of preceding correspondence, there assembled some of the Clergy of New York, of New Jersey, and of Pennsyl vania, in the city of New Brunswick, New Jersey, in May, 1784: And there being a few respectable Lay Members of the Church at tending on public business in the same city, their presence was de sired, The immediate object of the meeting, was the revival of a charitable corporation, which had existed before the Revolution; clothed with corporate powers, under the government of each of the said three Provinces. The opportunity was improved by the Cler gy from Penns; lvania, of communicating certain measures recently adopted in that State, tending to the organizing of the Church throughout the union. The result was, the inviting of a more general meeting in the ensuing October, at the citv of New York that being the time and place, v. Herein, according to the charter of the above mentioned corporation, their next meeting should be held. It was accordingly held, for the revival of the corporation: And there appeared Deputies, not only from the said three States.
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