1[February 1785] (Adams Papers)
...Rev. James Caldwell of Elizabethtown, N.J., whom Lafayette had educated in a French boarding school. Caldwell later returned to the United States, where he was a philanthropist in New York city and a founder of the American Bible Society (
221st. (Adams Papers)
...Rev. James Caldwell of Elizabethtown, N.J., whom Lafayette had educated in a French boarding school. Caldwell later returned to the United States, where he was a philanthropist in New York city and a founder of the American Bible Society (
3From John Jay to Benjamin Rush, 23 January 1789 (Jay Papers)
...member of the Society of the Cincinnati, settled in New York, where he became a medical professor at Columbia College, city health officer, president of the Medical Society of the State of New York, and manager of the American Bible Society.
4Thomas Jefferson to John Pintard, 9 January 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
for president in 1812, was a founder and longtime officer of the American Bible Society, helped to organize
5From John Jay to Samuel Bayard, 5 February 1816 (Jay Papers)
Letter not found. This meeting resulted in the creation of the American Bible Society.
6To James Madison from James Monroe, [ca. 21 April 1816] (Madison Papers)
The American Bible Society was founded in New York on 11 May 1816. Rice attended the meeting as a representative of the Bible Society of Virginia and its auxiliaries in Norfolk, Petersburg, and Frederick County. On 10 Apr. 1816 he wrote...The Centennial History of the American Bible Society
7To John Jay from John Mitchell Mason, 13 May 1816 (Jay Papers)
The constitution of the American Bible Society was written at a meeting at Mason’s New York home beginning on 10 May for presentation at the second meeting of the first convention of the Society.
8To John Jay from John Brodhead Romeyn, 1 June 1816 (Jay Papers)
I have the honour, in compliance with the direction of the Managers of the American Bible Society, to inform you, that you have been elected one of the Vice Presidents of that Institution....American Bible Society, formed by a convention of delegates, held in the city of New-York, May, 1816. Together with their address to the people of the United States; a notice of their proceedings; and a...
9From John Jay to John Brodhead Romeyn, 12 June 1816 (Jay Papers)
. Inst., informing me that I had been elected one of the Vice Presidents of the American Bible Society, arrived by the last mail—Sixth Report of the American Bible Society,
10To John Jay from William Jay, 4 July 1816 (Jay Papers)
...but little company were so fortunate as to get a large & pleasant room. On the following Monday I left Augusta & the Children, & returned to Town to attend a meeting of the Board of Managers of the American Bible Society, in order to propose some measures which I deemed important. The meeting was held yesterday— it was large & respectable. Your letter & one from M