To George Washington from St. Philip’s Church Officials, 3 May 1791

From St. Philip’s Church Officials

[Charleston, 3 May 1791]

At a Meeting of the Vestry & Church Wardens of St Philips Church

Resolved—

3d May 1791

That the President of the United States, be invited to Service in St Philips Church, & the Church Wardens do inform him, that a Pew is ready for his Accommodation on Sunday next, or on any other day that he may think proper.1

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1. On Sunday, 8 May 1791, his last full day in Charleston, GW “Went to Crouded Churches in the Morning & afternoon” (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 6:132). The city wardens escorted him from his lodgings to morning services at St. Philip’s Church held by its rector Dr. Robert Smith (1732–1801). In the afternoon GW was escorted to Dr. Henry Purcell’s services at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church. See Lipscomb, South Carolina in 1791, description begins Terry W. Lipscomb. South Carolina in 1791: George Washington’s Southern Tour. Columbia, S.C., 1993. description ends 41–42.

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Title: To George Washington from St. Philip’s Church Officials, 3 May 1791
Author: St. Philip’s Church Officials
Recipient: Washington, George
Date: 3 May 1791

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Cite as: “To George Washington from St. Philip’s Church Officials, 3 May 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-08-02-0119. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 8, 22 March 1791 – 22 September 1791, ed. Mark A. Mastromarino. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, p. 155.]