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Anglican Slaveholding in Brooklyn: Phillis Jackson and the "Elegant" American Prayer Book of 1819
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June 1, 2008
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The complete text of a manuscript note penned in ink in a contemporary hand that at one time seems to have been tipped in to a flyleaf inside a "Megarey's Elegant Edition of the Book of Common Prayer according to the Use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America," its date of publication being 1819 and now in my personal collection, reads as follows:
"A Record of an old Family Servant. Phillis Jackson. Died on the 30th of June 1826. Aged 86 years, and some months. On the following Sunday was buried in St. John's Church-Yard. The subject of this Record was an old family servant belonging to the family of Gilford, and was valued for many good qualities by the ...
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