Walter Dulany Addison was rector from 1801 to 1809.5 He was notable as an early social activist in a period when this was a highly exceptional activity for Episcopal clergy. He fought vigorously against the practice of dueling, even riding to the White House on one occasion in an attempt to induce President Thomas Jefferson to stop a duel. Failing here, he rode on to the dueling grounds and stopped the proceedings by himself. He publicly opposed slavery and freed those slaves which he had inherited. He also actively assisted the founding of several Episcopal parishes in the District of Columbia, and assisted a congregation of black Methodists to establish a church in the vicinity of Oxon Hill. As a young newly-wed, he lived for a short time in Battersea (Harmony Hall).
HISTORY OF ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH - BROAD CREEK
Jim Titus and Phyllis Cox, St. John's Historians
HISTORY OF ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH - BROAD CREEK
Jim Titus and Phyllis Cox, St. John's Historians
Walter Dulany Addison was rector from 1801 to 1809.5 He was notable as an early social activist in a period when this was a highly exceptional activity for Episcopal clergy. He fought vigorously against the practice of dueling, even riding to the White House on one occasion in an attempt to induce President Thomas Jefferson to stop a duel. Failing here, he rode on to the dueling grounds and stopped the proceedings by himself. He publicly opposed slavery and freed those slaves which he had inherited. He also actively assisted the founding of several Episcopal parishes in the District of Columbia, and assisted a congregation of black Methodists to establish a church in the vicinity of Oxon Hill. As a young newly-wed, he lived for a short time in Battersea (Harmony Hall).
HISTORY OF ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH - BROAD CREEK
Jim Titus and Phyllis Cox, St. John's Historians
HISTORY OF ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH - BROAD CREEK
Jim Titus and Phyllis Cox, St. John's Historians
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