Inglis, Charles; O'Callaghan, E. B. [editor]. State of the Anglo-American Church, in 1776. Albany: Weed, Parsons & Co., Public Printers, 1850. First Edition. [9798]
Leaves are 11 1/2 x 9 inches, pp. 637-646; newly stab-sewn, foxing. Removed from The Documentary History of the State of New-York, Vol. III., by E. B. O'Callaghan; Albany, 1850. Good. Stab-sewn.
An assessment of the Anglican Church in the City of New York and the surrounding area in 1776. Relates an encounter with General Washington.
Charles Inglis, D.D. (1734-1816), conducted a free school in Lancaster, Pa. (1755-1758), then ordained in England and returned to America in 1769, as mission pastor at Dover, Pa. In 1765 he became assistant to the Rev. Dr. Auchmuty in New York city, and in 1777 succeeded him as rector.
"Being the only governor of King's College [now Columbia University] in town, when Washington occupied the city of N. York, Dr. I. loaned the latter, on his application, the telescope belonging to that Institution. After Galloway, the great Pennsylvania Loyalist, went to England in 1779, Dr. I. became his correspondent, and his letters evince no little harshness towards the American party." Dr. Inglis was made Bishop of Nova Scotia in 1787. - from footnote, p. 646.