Jesse Smith papers, 1816-1868

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Smith, Jesse, 1785-1851

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Papers of a Pennsylvania Presbyterian minister and teacher, including family correspondence, 1816-1868, containing much genealogical information; diaries, 1816-1840; personal account books, 1820-18...

Papers of a Pennsylvania Presbyterian minister and teacher, including family correspondence, 1816-1868, containing much genealogical information; diaries, 1816-1840; personal account books, 1820-1831, 1836; legal cases and miscellaneous business papers; fifty-nine volumes of manuscript sermons delivered mainly in the 1820s and 1830s; and records of the Bethel and Ebenezer Presbyterian congregations in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, 1822-1835. Smith was defrocked in 1834 on a charge of drunkenness.

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