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Religion

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Glenn papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1017
Abstract

The collection is comprised primarily of correspondence as well as legal documents, deeds, wills and indentures, and some of Judge John Glenn's and his son William Wilkins Glenn’s personal correspondence, including letters from Reverdy Johnson, Daniel Webster, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Maryland Governor Thomas Pratt, General Henry Heth, General Louis Wigfall.

Dates: 1706-1939

Reverend John Hersey collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1016.3
Abstract

This collection consists of the the personal papers, namely correspondence, belonging to Reverend John Hersey, a Methodist Episcopal minister who came to Baltimore in 1835 as a missionary preacher. The material was collected by the Reverend Fletcher E. Marine during the period 1870-1889 while he was in the course of writing Hersey's biography.

Dates: 1829-1889

Reverend John Lusby Pitts papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 3266
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence addressed to Reverend John Lusby Pitts, an itinerant Methodist minister in Maryland and Virginia, between 1798-1821. The majority of the letters are penned by other Methodist ministers and discuss camp meetings, revivals, conferences, politics, as well as daily life.

Dates: 1787 February 16-1826 January 17; Majority of material found within 1798 - 1821

Ridgely family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1127
Abstract

This collection consists of the papers pertaining to the Ridgely family of Hampden in Baltimore, Maryland, from 1757 to 1949.

Dates: 1757-1949

Vincent Godfrey Burns papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2493
Abstract

This collection consists of the papers of Vincent Godfrey Burns (1893-1979), a Congregationalist minister and Poet Laureate of Maryland.

Dates: 1918 - 1979

Young People's Christian Association record book

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0226
Abstract

This record book contains the roll and minutes of the Young People's Christian Association, a youth group, of the Cedar Point Methodist Episcopal Church in St. Mary's County, Maryland.

Dates: 1889 - 1891