INTRODUCTION. This volume completes the reissue of the Journals of General Conventions from 1785 to 1835 inclusive. In its preparation pains have been taken to incorporate those errata which have the sanction of the original compilers of the successive Journals; and, in several instances, to correct evident errors of the press which had escaped previous notice. In the lists of clergy further corrections have been made to render them conformable to the facts of the case. But nothing has been done which can in any way detract from the authority of the reprint as a faithful reproduction of the Journals as they originally appeared from the press. It is with no little satisfaction that the editor presents this completed work to the members of the Church. For forty years the republication of these records of our legislation has been a desideratum. The story of the various efforts to supply this want has been already told in the preface to the first volume of this series. Seeking no personal return for the labor spent during more than a decade of years in securing the success of the present attempt to meet this acknowledged want, the editor would venture to ask for the publishers of these volumes the patronage and profit they have fairly earned. Should the work receive the support it may reasonably claim, they, at least, will not be the losers by their ready trust in the Church's interest in an enterprise other publishers did not venture to undertake. Feast of St. Michael and All Angels, 1874. Trinity Rectory, Geneva, N. Y. JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE BISHOPS, CLERGY, AND LAITY OF THE Frotestant Episcopal Church, IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IN A GENERAL CONVENTION, HELD IN ST. PETER'S CHURCH, IN THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, FROM THE A. D. 1823. (7) HOUSE OF BISHOPS. The Right Rev. William White, D. D. of Pennsylvania, presiding Bishop. The Right Rev. John Henry Hobart, D. D. of New York. The Right Rev. Alexander Viets Griswold, D. D. of the Eastern Diocese, comprising the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont and Rhode Island. The Right Rev. Richard Channing Moore, D. D. of Virginia. The Right Rev. James Kemp, D. D. of Maryland. The Right Rev. John Croes, D. D. of New Jersey. The Right Rev. Nathaniel Bowen, D. D. of South Carolina. The Right Rev. Philander Chase, D. D. of Ohio. The Right Rev. Thomas Church Brownell, D. D., LL. D. of Connecticut. The Right Rev. John Stark Ravenscroft, of North Carolina. N. B. Those whose name are in Italics, were prevented from attending. HOUSE OF CLERICAL AND LAY DEPUTIES. CLERICAL DEPUTIES. N. B. The deputies whose names are in Italics, were not present. |