Copy of original diary of Rev. Oliver Hart
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- Identifier
- NJS-SRC-01415
- Source Type
- Diary/Daybook/Journal
- Author
- Oliver Hart Sr. (1723-1795)
- Date
- 1723 – 1780
- Description
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A typescript mimeographed edition of the diary kept by the Rev. Oliver Hart, a Baptist minister in Charleston, South Carolina, and Hopewell, New Jersey. The diary enumerates key events in Hart's life from his birth in 1723 until his arrival in Hopewell in 1780.
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary's Boyce Digital Repository provides the following abstract of the item:
"Note Typescript. A copy of the diary was found in an old notebook kept by William O. Whilden. Dr. H.A. Tupper made use of the diary when he edited "two centuries of the First Baptist Church of South Carolina" in 1889, but the original is lost. This mimeographed edition was made by Loulie Latimer Owens. With: Items in relation to the Screvens."
Page 6 contains a record related to Dinah and her son Friday, who were purchased by Hart in 1771.
Additionally, page 15 notes that when Hart took over the Baptist Church in Hopewell in 1780, the congregation numbered 220 members, including 7 Black members (3 male and 4 female). - Transcript
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[page 6]
Dinah and her son Friday were bought April ye 9th 1771. Dinah was then supposed to be about twenty years of age. Friday was born May ye 29th 1767. The two cost 356 pounds. - Language
- English
- Format
- Typescript mimeographed edition
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E-Text Collection, Boyce Digital Repository, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. https://repository.sbts.edu/handle/10392/26
- Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
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