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- Peter Williams Jr. (1786–1840) 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 achieved independence in 1804 in the Caribbean.
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Peter Williams, Jr. c. 1780–1840. Minister, orator, writer, abolitionist. Peter Williams Jr. eschewed his upbringing in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded by his father, Peter Williams Sr., to join the Episcopal Church.
Peter Williams Jr. (1786–1840) 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 achieved independence in 1804 in the Caribbean. In the 1820s and 1830s, he strongly ...
Peter Williams, Jr. Biography. religious leader. Born: 1780. Birthplace: New Brunswick, New Jersey. Williams grew up to become active in the Methodist Church. In 1818, with the blessings of prominent white Methodist minister Thomas Lyell, Williams organized a Black congregation in Harlem, St. Philip's African Church.
Jan 2, 2020 · Peter Williams Jr., clergyman, abolitionist, and opponent of colonization was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey around 1780. His family moved to New York City, where he first attended the New York African Free School operated by the Manumission Society.
Williams was ordained as an Episcopal priest on July 10, 1826, the second in the United States and the first in New York. The following year, he helped found the Freedom's Journal , the first Black newspaper in America.
Peter Williams Jr. (1786–1840) 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 achieved independence in 1804 in the Caribbean.
Peter Williams, Jr., born in 1786, was the first African-American Episcopal Priest in New York. His father, Peter Williams Senior, was a member of the John Street Methodist Church and co-founded the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.
