Black Families in the Records of Christ Church, Philadelphia (doi:10.7910/DVN/IQPXH6)

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Black Families in the Records of Christ Church, Philadelphia

doi:10.7910/DVN/IQPXH6

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2025-04-30

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Belden, Michelle; Hasbrouck, Allan; Rice, Walt; Smith, Carol, 2025, "Black Families in the Records of Christ Church, Philadelphia", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IQPXH6, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:c/f2jR8pKxAHLtD+7s1m0A== [fileUNF]

Black Families in the Records of Christ Church, Philadelphia

doi:10.7910/DVN/IQPXH6

Belden, Michelle

Hasbrouck, Allan

Rice, Walt

Smith, Carol

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Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation

Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation

2025-04-17

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IQPXH6

Arts and Humanities, Slavery, Add Coverage Spatial Data

In 2006 Christ Church Preservation Trust undertook a project to enter the baptismal, marriage, and burial records of Christ Church, Philadelphia into a database to provide easier access to this information, so prized by genealogists and historians. The data entry was done by volunteers and part-time staff over a period of about seven years. This resulted in this large and detailed spreadsheet containing data from the baptism, marriage, and burial records of Christ Church Philadelphia, from 1709 to 1913. The “Notes” field is useful for identifying black individuals in the records.

2022-2025

Sacramental or Religious Registry

Baptisms, marriages, and burials, Christ Church, 1709-1718, v. 28, https://philadelphiacongregations.org/records/item/ChristChurch.RectorsRegisters_BaptismsMarriagesBurials1709-1718_v028#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-1736%2C-414%2C8280%2C8264.

Baptisms, marriages, and burials, Christ Church, 1719-1750, vol. 29, https://philadelphiacongregations.org/records/item/ChristChurch.RectorsRegisters_BaptismsMarriagesBurials1717-1749_v029#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-2027%2C-508%2C10178%2C10158.

Baptisms, marriages, and burials, Christ Church, 1750-1762, vol. 30, https://philadelphiacongregations.org/records/item/ChristChurch.RectorsRegisters_BaptismsMarriagesBurials1750-1762_v030#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-2295%2C-525%2C10503%2C10483.

Baptisms, Christ Church and St. Peter's Church, 1763-1810, vol. 31, https://philadelphiacongregations.org/records/item/ChristChurch.RectorsRegisters_Baptisms1763-1810_v031#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-2094%2C-508%2C10179%2C10159.

Baptisms, Christ Church, St. Peter's Church, and Saint James's Church, 1811-1831, v. 32, https://philadelphiacongregations.org/records/item/ChristChurch.RectorsRegisters_Baptisms1811-1831_v032#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-2222%2C-513%2C10273%2C10253.

Marriages, Christ Church and St. Peter's Church, 1763-1836, Vol. 36, https://philadelphiacongregations.org/records/item/ChristChurch.RectorsRegisters_Marriages1763-1835_v036#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-184%2C6765%2C416%2C416.

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This data has been described in the following data article: Belden, Michelle, Allan Hasbrouck, Walt Rice, and Carol Smith. "Black Families in the Records of Christ Church, Philadelphia, 1749-1825." Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation 6, no. 1 (2025): 54-61.

This data has been described in the following data article: Belden, Michelle, Allan Hasbrouck, Walt Rice, and Carol Smith. "Black Families in the Records of Christ Church, Philadelphia, 1749-1825." Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation 6, no. 1 (2025): 54-61.

Belden, Michelle. "Black families in the records of Christ Church, 1749-1825." November 13, 2022.

Belden, Michelle. "Black families in the records of Christ Church, 1749-1825." November 13, 2022.

• Number of cases: 539

• No. of variables per record: 21

• Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

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Black baptisms in the records of Christ Church, Philadelphia dataset

• Number of cases: 235

• No. of variables per record: 14

• Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

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Black marriages in the records of Christ Church, Philadelphia dataset

• Number of cases: 49985

• No. of variables per record: 27

• Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

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General Register of records of Christ Church, Philadelphia dataset

• ID - ID
• EventType - EventType
• Location - Location
• EventDay - EventDay
• EventMonth - EventMonth
• EventYear - EventYear
• CC book URL - CC book URL
• Image number - Image number
• FirstName - FirstName
• LastName - LastName
• Relation - Relation
• Sex - Sex
• Father - Father
• Mother - Mother
• Spouse - Spouse
• BirthDay - BirthDay
• BirthMonth - BirthMonth
• BirthYear - BirthYear
• AgeBaptized - AgeBaptized
• Notes - Notes
• Minister - Minister
• ID - ID
• EventType - EventType
• Location - Location
• EventDay - EventDay
• EventMonth - EventMonth
• EventYear - EventYear
• CC book URL - CC book URL
• Image number - Image number
• BrideFirstName - BrideFirstName
• BrideLastName - BrideLastName
• GroomFirstName - GroomFirstName
• GroomLastName - GroomLastName
• Notes - Notes
• Minister - Minister
• ID - ID
• EventType - EventType
• Location - Location
• EventDay - EventDay
• EventMonth - EventMonth
• EventYear - EventYear
• Julian? - Julian?
• BookYear - BookYear
• PageNo - PageNo
• FirstName - FirstName
• LastName - LastName
• Relation - Relation
• Sex - Sex
• Father - Father
• Mother - Mother
• Spouse - Spouse
• BirthDay - BirthDay
• BirthMonth - BirthMonth
• BirthYear - BirthYear
• Age Baptized - Age Baptized
• Cross-Ref - Cross-Ref
• Notes - Notes
• Minister - Minister
• BrideFirstName - BrideFirstName
• BrideLastName - BrideLastName
• GroomFirstName - GroomFirstName
• GroomLastName - GroomLastName

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