2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
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Three page letter “To the Male Members of Bethel Church Baltimore” June 18, 1844 and signed by Perry Young, Ex. Treasurer Of Bethel Church Baltimore. The letter reviews the financial circumstances of missing money in the Church. In part, “The amount reported by Mr. Stokes ... asserted that the Treasurer was then Eight Hundred Dollars in arrears tot he Church ... Aware that he shall soon stand before the dread tribunal of Almighty God where the inmost recesses of all hearts shall be laid open the most hidden motives of conduct ... he therefore asks for nothing more than truth ...” Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Bethel A.M.E.), Baltimore lays claim to the designation as the oldest independent continuously operating African American church in the state of Maryland tracing its origins back to 1785 when a group of African Americans met at the Strawberry Alley meetinghouse.
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