Peter Williams, Jr.
American priest
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Peter Williams Jr. was an African-American Episcopal priest, the second ordained in the United States and the first to serve in New York City. He was an abolitionist who also supported free black emigration to Haiti, the black republic that had... Wikipedia
Born: 1786, New Brunswick, NJ
Died: 1840 (age 54 years), New York, NY
Books: An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade: Delivered in the African Church, in the City of New York, January 1, 1808, Discourse Delivered in St. Philip's Church: For the Benefit of the Coloured Community of Wilberforce in Upper Canada, on the Fourth of July, 1830, and A Discourse Delivered on the Death of Capt. Paul Cuffee: Before the New-York African Institution, in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, October 21, 1817
Grandchild: Peter William Cassey
Children: Amy Matilda Cassey
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