The importance of correct religious instruction to the people of colour in the city and liberties of Philadelphia, and the prospect of such being afforded in the establishment of a congregation and place of worship, under the care and direction of John Gloucester, a man of colour, induce the subscribers to contribute to an object so well calculated to promote the present and future happiness of the Africans (s.n, 1809)
Appeal by the Presbyterian Evangelical Society for funds to establish the First African Presbyterian Church at Philadelphia. Cf. Nash, Gary B. Forging freedom; the formation of Philadelphia's black community, 1720-1840, 1988, p. 199-200, 328. - Erroneously filmed by Readex for Shaw & Shoemaker 18376, Appeal for funds to erect a church for Negroes, which is cited in Nash p. 328 as having at least 38 pages and dated 1809. - Shaw & Shoemaker, 18376