Citation - New York Gazette & Weekly Post Boy: 1770.10.08

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Index Entry Church music, in New York, performed for benefit service 
Location New York 
Citation
NYGWPB.770.091
8 Oct 1770:31 (1449)
On Tuesday last, the Corporation for the Relief of the
Widows and Children of Clergymen in the Communion of the
Church of England in America, met in this city; and on
Wednesday a well adapted discourse, warmly recommending the
charity, was preached in Trinity Church, to a very large and
respectable audience, by the Rev. Doctor Auchmuty, one of
the members of the corporation. . . [8 lines] Upon this
occasion, several pieces of cathedral music, with extracts
from Handel's celebrated oratorio the Messiah, were
performed . . . [20 lines]


Generic Title New York Gazette & Weekly Post Boy 
Date 1770.10.08 
Publisher Inslee, Samuel, and Anthony Car 
City, State New York, NY 
Year 1770 
Bibliography B0027173
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