A Familiar Conversational History of the Evangelical Churches of New-York. New-York: Robert Carter, 1839. [9516]
Recent quarter leather in gilt, marbled boards, 15 cm (6 x 3 7/8 inches); frontispiece wood engraving of West Presbyterian Church, Carmine-Street; 222 pp., light foxing, light tidemark in top margin throughout; tight. Very good. Hardcover.
Some references attribute this work to the publisher, Robert Carter.
A history that treats largely with colonial times, with chapters on The Morals of our City Predecessors; Colonial Slavery - Negro Plot; The Primitive Indian Inhabitants of our Island; and The Church in the Fort. Then particulars about the Reformed Dutch, Episcopal, French, Quaker, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Moravian, Baptist, Methodist, and Reformed Presbyterian churches. A chapter on the Jews, and an alphabetical list by denomination of the 150 churches & synagogues in the city as of 1838. Each denomination is fairly treated, with many particulars mentioned regarding ministers and congregations.