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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.
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. 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.
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.
Jan 24, 2007 · One of these opponents, Rev. Peter Williams, Jr., the minister at the largest predominately black Episcopal Church in New York City, gave an impassioned speech on July 4, 1830, calling for African American allegiance to the U.S. but also demanding that the nation treat its black citizens as the full equal of others.
Peter Williams, Jr. 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.
Williams was the father of Peter Williams, Jr. (1780-1840), the first African American ordained minister in the Protestant Episcopal church. Peter Williams, Jr., became the first leader of St. Phillips African Church in 1819.
Aug 20, 2020 · Peter Williams Jr. was an important figure in American history known for his role as a clergyman, abolitionist, and opponent of colonization. He was born on April 27, 1780, in New York City, to Peter Williams Sr., who was a free African American and a successful businessman.
