1840s Philadelphia, PA SFL to Rev John A. Vaughan DD in NY w/o contents

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Stampless Folded Letter addressed to Rev John A. Vaughan DD, Secy. 281 Broadway, NYC. This cover features a Philadelphia, Pa circular date stamp in blue. This was probably from 1841 or 1842 as he became DD in 1839, was secretary until 1842 and this CDS was used from 1841-1847. Here is what we know about the recipient:John Apthorp VaughanVAUGHAN, John Apthorp, clergyman, born in Little Cambridge (now Brighton), Massachusetts, 13 October, 1795; died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 5 June, 1865. His father, Charles, came from England to this country, and removed to Hallowell, Maine, where the son received his first education. After graduation at Bowdoin in 1815, he went to London, and was for a time employed in the banking-house of his uncle, William Vaughan. Subsequently he took charge of a plantation that belonged to the Vaughan family in Jamaica, Wisconsin, but returned to Hallo-well and opened there a school for girls, also studying divinity. In 1833 he was ordained deacon, and held charge of Trinity church in Saco, Maine, and, after receiving priest's orders in 1834, he became rector of St. Peter's church, Salem, Massachusetts From 1836 till 1842 he was secretary of the Protestant Episcopal board of foreign missions. Owing to impaired health he resigned this post, went to Georgia, and in 1844 settled in Philadelphia, where he was superintendent of the Institution for the blind in 1845-'8. In 1848 he established in that city a school for girls, which he abandoned in 1854. From 1861 until 1865 he was professor of pastoral theology in the Philadelphia divinity-school, to which he presented a library of 1,200 volumes. Kenyon gave him the degree of D. D. in 1839. He published pamphlets, including one "On the General Missions of the Church " (1842).

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