The senior Peale was pleased to discover that his son had "painted a Portrait in oil of Absalom Jones a very excellent picture of the Rev'd. Gentleman." The following year, in defiance of his ...

the museum's exhibits ranged from presidential portraits to the bones of a mastodon that Peale had unearthed. In 1819, Peale (whose son Raphaelle had painted Absalom Jones in 1810) went to ...

"Absalom (negro slave to Mr. Wynkoop) and Mary (Do. to S. King)" were married by Mr. Duché. The Wynkoops and the Kings were neighbors in Philadelphia, and both families worshipped at St. Peter's.

provide a succinct portrait of the organization, the first of its kind in Philadelphia, and probably the first in America. Established by Absalom Jones, Richard Allen, and other free blacks in ...

Absalom Jones, co-founder and first pastor of Philadelphia's African Methodist Episcopal Church, preached a sermon on that day, in which he proposed that the day "be set apart every year ...