Bishop Doane's Protest, Appeal, and Reply
- Abstract
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In 1852, the Right Reverend George Washington Doane found himself facing a presentment, or church trial, from his fellow bishops in the Episcopal Church. The charges stemmed from large debts he had taken on during the Panic of 1837 in order to fund the founding of St. Mary's Hall and Burlington College, the predecessors of Doane Academy. They charged that he had caused "great and grievous injury" to the Church by taking on debts of approximately $300,000 that he had no chance of ever paying back. In response to these charges, Doane put out this volume to defend his conduct and plead his case in the court of public opinion.
Value Annotations
- Abstract
- Bibliographic information courtesy of "The Record of the Proceedings of the Court of Bishops..."
- The Record of the Proceedings of the Court of Bishops
- Subject
- Episcopal Church. Diocese of New Jersey. Bishop (1832-1859 : Doane).
- Episcopal Church--Trials, litigation, etc.
- St. Mary's Hall (Burlington, N.J.).
- Date
- 1852
- Publisher
- King & Baird
- Title
- Bishop Doane's Protest, Appeal, and Reply
- Alternative Title
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The Protest and Appeal of George Washington Doane, Bishop of New Jersey; As Aggrieved, By the Right Reverend William Meade, D.D.; the Right Reverend George Burgess, D.D.; and the Right Reverend Charles pettit McIlvaine, D.D.:
And His Reply to the False, Calumnious, and Malignant Representations of William Halsted, Caleb Perkins, Peter V. Coppuck, and Bennington Gill; On Which They Ground Their Uncanonical, Unchristian, and Inhuman Procedure, in Regard to Him