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Maybe someone can help this person.
Christine Gray
Subscribers to H-Maryland have been very helpful to me in the past, so I am hopeful that someone might have an idea for this query. I am looking for information on the Baltimore Mariner's Church of the 1830s.
Its preacher was Stephen Williams, who published a short essay called "Seaman's Cause in Baltimore" in the _Baltimore Literary and Religious Magazine_ in March 1835 (vol 1). As my research relates to the social welfare of working-class residents in early republic Baltimore, I am eager to locate any manuscript materials pertaining to this church or Stephen Williams (who is described elsewhere as a "city missionary" in Fell's Point and Old Town). While I have had luck in finding public poor relief records, I have not been able to turn up much in regard to private charity in the period before 1840, especially the kind of primary source records of "visitors" who kept tabs on specific impoverished families. Any ideas about such archival records (in church collections?) for early republic Baltimore would be most appreciated.
Thank you in advance,
Seth Rockman
Department of History
Brown University
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