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Maggie Newton Van Cott Book of Psalms

 Item — Box: MSS Box 369
Identifier: MSS-2025-0005

Scope and Contents

Book of Psalms originally belonging to Rev. Margaret (Maggie) Newton Van Cott. Van Cott was the first woman to be licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church. She made frequent trips to Greene County, and lived on Liberty St. in Catskill and in Jefferson Heights. She is buried in the Cairo Cemetery.

Dates

  • 1856

Extent

1 Volumes : a black leather-bound volume of The Book of Psalms Translated Out of the Original Hebrew and with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised published by the American Bible Society, New York, 1856. ; 9.75" H x 6.5" W 212 pages.