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Title: Dedication and sale of pews
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1828
1829
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
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Description: Image of a broadside advertising the new meeting house dedication and sale of pews for the First Precint of Middleborough, Massachusetts; text outlining dedication details and pew auction information with diagram of numbered pews and pulpit with the new pew owners' names handwritten in ink below; decorative border.
Date supplied by cataloger based on church history; the meeting house in Middleborough, MA, was built in 1828 and the vestry completed the following year. "The new meeting house will be dedicated by religious services, on Tuesday, 6th January, 10 o'clock, A.M. Rev. Dr. Beecher, of Boston, will preach the Sermon... Persons of advanced age and who do not hear well will take the deaf seats. Dec. 29. W. Bourne, Treasurer."
Type: image
Extent: 1 letterpress : uncolored ; overall 47.63 x 28.58 cm (18 3/4 x 11 1/4 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_REL_002893
418225
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/4906
Language: English
Subject: Auctions
Relief prints--1825-1850. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Religion
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The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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