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==Ministry== |
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Rev. Addison then became the first priest that Bishop Claggett ordained after his own consecration as Bishop of Maryland in 1793.<ref>Archives of the General Convention, Volume 6, by Episcopal Church, General Convention, p. 207.</ref> Rev. Addison thus succeeded his uncle by serving from 1973 to 1795 as rector of Queen Anne Parish, with its two widely separated churches, [[Holy Trinity Episcopal Church (Bowie, Maryland)|Holy Trinity]] and [[St. Barnabas' Episcopal Church, Leeland|St. Barnabas']].<ref>Constance Pelzer Ackerson, Holy Trinity-Collington: her people and their church: two hundred and ... |
Rev. Addison then became the first priest that Bishop Claggett ordained after his own consecration as Bishop of Maryland in 1793.<ref>Archives of the General Convention, Volume 6, by Episcopal Church, General Convention, p. 207.</ref> Rev. Addison thus succeeded his uncle by serving from 1973 to 1795 as rector of Queen Anne Parish, with its two widely separated churches, [[Holy Trinity Episcopal Church (Bowie, Maryland)|Holy Trinity]] and [[St. Barnabas' Episcopal Church, Leeland|St. Barnabas']].<ref>Constance Pelzer Ackerson, Holy Trinity-Collington: her people and their church: two hundred and ... – Page 59 |
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Due to the shortage of Episcopal priests in that era and area, while serving at Addison Chapel, in 1801 Rev. Addison also became the first rector of St. John's Church in [[Georgetown, Washington, D.C.|Georgetown]].<ref name="Maryland History 1913, p. 4"/><ref>Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, 1906, p. 85.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://stjohnsgeorgetown.org/about-us/our-history|title = Our History|date = June 17, 2016}}</ref> Rev. Addison officiated at the funeral of [[George Washington]].<ref name="ReferenceA"/> He also encouraged [[William Holland Wilmer]] and former student (and future Virginia bishop) [[William Meade]] in their attempts to school Episcopal clergy, which eventually led to the founding of [[Virginia Theological Seminary]]. |
Due to the shortage of Episcopal priests in that era and area, while serving at Addison Chapel, in 1801 Rev. Addison also became the first rector of St. John's Church in [[Georgetown, Washington, D.C.|Georgetown]].<ref name="Maryland History 1913, p. 4"/><ref>Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, 1906, p. 85.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://stjohnsgeorgetown.org/about-us/our-history|title = Our History|date = June 17, 2016}}</ref> Rev. Addison officiated at the funeral of [[George Washington]].<ref name="ReferenceA"/> He also encouraged [[William Holland Wilmer]] and former student (and future Virginia bishop) [[William Meade]] in their attempts to school Episcopal clergy, which eventually led to the founding of [[Virginia Theological Seminary]]. |
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In 1810, Addison sold most of the original Oxon Hill property to Zachariah Berry.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jefpat.org/NEHWeb/Assets/Documents/FindingAids/18PR175-%20Oxon%20Hill%20Manor%20Finding%20Aid.htm |title=Oxon Hill Manor |year=2003 |work=www.jefpat.org |publisher=Jefferson Patterson Park & Museum | |
In 1810, Addison sold most of the original Oxon Hill property to Zachariah Berry.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jefpat.org/NEHWeb/Assets/Documents/FindingAids/18PR175-%20Oxon%20Hill%20Manor%20Finding%20Aid.htm |title=Oxon Hill Manor |year=2003 |work=www.jefpat.org |publisher=Jefferson Patterson Park & Museum |access-date=January 14, 2010}}</ref> At the end of the year, December 12, 1810, Rev. Addison was appointed as U.S. Senate Chaplain, succeeding Rev. [[Obadiah Bruen Brown]].<ref name=senchap>{{cite web |url=https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Senate_Chaplain.htm |title=Senate Chaplain |work=www.senate.gov |publisher=United States Senate |access-date=January 14, 2010}}</ref> |
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Rev. Addison helped incorporate the Georgetown Lancaster School Society, and also served as vice-president of the [[Bible Society]] of the District of Columbia.<ref>A History of the National Capital, by Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan, p. 639.</ref> |
Rev. Addison helped incorporate the Georgetown Lancaster School Society, and also served as vice-president of the [[Bible Society]] of the District of Columbia.<ref>A History of the National Capital, by Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan, p. 639.</ref> |
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==Personal life== |
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Walter Dulany Addison married Elizabeth Dulany Hesselius, the daughter of well-known portrait painter [[John Hesselius]] and Mary Young, on June 5, 1792 in [[Anne Arundel County, Maryland]].<ref name="BDA1906" /> In 1792, the couple leased Battersea House for a year. Elizabeth Addison gave Battersea its new name, ''[[Harmony Hall (Fort Washington, Maryland)|Harmony Hall]]'', which it retains to this day.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nps.gov/haha/historyculture/index.htm |title=Harmony Hall: History & Culture |work=www.nps.gov |publisher=U.S. Department of the Interior | |
Walter Dulany Addison married Elizabeth Dulany Hesselius, the daughter of well-known portrait painter [[John Hesselius]] and Mary Young, on June 5, 1792, in [[Anne Arundel County, Maryland]].<ref name="BDA1906" /> In 1792, the couple leased Battersea House for a year. Elizabeth Addison gave Battersea its new name, ''[[Harmony Hall (Fort Washington, Maryland)|Harmony Hall]]'', which it retains to this day.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nps.gov/haha/historyculture/index.htm |title=Harmony Hall: History & Culture |work=www.nps.gov |publisher=U.S. Department of the Interior |access-date=January 13, 2010}}</ref> Their children include [[Lloyd Dulany Addison]],<ref>Mac/McPherson of PA and Related Families; rootsweb.com</ref> who would later move to [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]] as a merchant and found the [[Mistick Krewe of Comus]] and [[The Pickwick Club]].{{citation needed|date=February 2019}} |
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==Death and legacy== |
==Death and legacy== |
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Rev. Addison lost his sight during the last decades of his life. He died on January 31, 1848 and was buried in his family's cemetery at Oxon Hill.<ref>Edward D. Neill, The History of Education in Virginia during the 17th Century(U.S. Dept. of Education, 1867) p. 34, available at google books, https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=dFFR9aBOXogC&rdid=book-dFFR9aBOXogC&rdot=1</ref> |
Rev. Addison lost his sight during the last decades of his life. He died on January 31, 1848, and was buried in his family's cemetery at Oxon Hill.<ref>Edward D. Neill, The History of Education in Virginia during the 17th Century(U.S. Dept. of Education, 1867) p. 34, available at google books, https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=dFFR9aBOXogC&rdid=book-dFFR9aBOXogC&rdot=1</ref> |
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To mark the 100th anniversary of Rev. Walter Dulany Addison's ordination, his granddaughter Elizabeth H. Murray wrote, "The oldest parish record spoken of is Piscataway, or Broad Creek, parish, called St. John's, Prince George's County, contiguous to the Potomac and Piscataway Creek, dated January 30, 1693. It contains the name of John Addison, Privy Councilor. His grandson Henry was rector of St. John's for thirty years. He was educated at Oxford, and in the corner of a quaint old portrait of him in the possession of the family is a scroll containing the picture of his college. His parish would have no other rector during his life. A later descendant, Walter Dulaney Addison, became rector in the year 1801. The old Bible and prayer book used by Rev. Henry Addison in this church are still preserved in the family. In them is written: 'Presented to me by the honored Lady, my Mother.'" |
To mark the 100th anniversary of Rev. Walter Dulany Addison's ordination, his granddaughter Elizabeth H. Murray wrote, "The oldest parish record spoken of is Piscataway, or Broad Creek, parish, called St. John's, Prince George's County, contiguous to the Potomac and Piscataway Creek, dated January 30, 1693. It contains the name of John Addison, Privy Councilor. His grandson Henry was rector of St. John's for thirty years. He was educated at Oxford, and in the corner of a quaint old portrait of him in the possession of the family is a scroll containing the picture of his college. His parish would have no other rector during his life. A later descendant, Walter Dulaney Addison, became rector in the year 1801. The old Bible and prayer book used by Rev. Henry Addison in this church are still preserved in the family. In them is written: 'Presented to me by the honored Lady, my Mother.'"<ref>Elizabeth Hesselius Murray, One Hundred Years Ago, or the Life and Times of Walter Dulany Addison (Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs, 1898) available at https://archive.org/details/onehundredyearsa00eliz</ref> |
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His mother was Eleanore Smith, daughter of Colonel Walter Smith. |
His mother was Eleanore Smith, daughter of Colonel Walter Smith. |
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Born | Annapolis, Maryland, U.S. | January 1, 1769
Died | January 31, 1848 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. | (aged 79)
Citizenship | American |
Occupation | Clergyman (Episcopal) |
Term | Chaplain of the U.S. Senate (1810–1811) |
Predecessor | Obadiah Bruen Brown |
Successor | John Brackenridge, D.D. |
Spouse |
Elizabeth Dulany Hesselius
(m. 1792) |
Children | Lloyd Dulany Addison |
Parents |
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Relatives |
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Walter Dulany Addison (January 1, 1769 – January 31, 1848) was an Episcopal clergyman who served as Chaplain of the United States Senate (1810–1811).
Early years
Walter Dulany Addison was born at Annapolis, Maryland on January 1, 1769, the son of Thomas Covington Addison and Rebecca Dulany Addison.[1] Their home was Oxon Hill Manor, overlooking the Potomac River opposite Alexandria, Virginia, where the family lived in great state, driving a coach and four with liveried outriders.[2] Along with Mount Airy, Belair, Mount Vernon, Stratford Hall, Mount Clare, Whitehall, and Carlisle House, it was one of the great mansions of the Colonial era. The Addison Plantation, as it is sometimes called, was a large agricultural plantation. Acquired by John Addison in 1687, the site was the estate of successive generations of the Addison family.[3]
When he was fifteen years old, Walter Addison and two of his brothers sailed to England to be educated there under the care of their uncle, Dr. Jonathan Boucher, a Tory who had returned to England during the American Revolution. Addison returned to Maryland in 1789, and studied for the ministry under the direction of Rev. Thomas John Claggett, who ordained him a deacon in Saint Peter's Parish, Talbot County on May 26, 1793.
Ministry
Rev. Addison then became the first priest that Bishop Claggett ordained after his own consecration as Bishop of Maryland in 1793.[4] Rev. Addison thus succeeded his uncle by serving from 1973 to 1795 as rector of Queen Anne Parish, with its two widely separated churches, Holy Trinity and St. Barnabas'.[5]
Rev. Addison soon established a school at his home, Oxon Hill. In 1799 he became assistant rector under Rev. Henry T. Addison, and in 1805 he became rector of St. Matthew's Church, also known as Addison Chapel to commemorate its founder (and both Rev. Addisons' ancestor), Col. John Addison. The current building was erected between 1809 and 1816, under Rev. Walter Addison's direction.[6] Rev. Addison, who freed the slaves he inherited, publicly advocated the abolition of slavery as well as the practice of dueling. He also helped found several Episcopal churches in the new city of Washington, D.C. and Alexandria, Virginia, as well as a black Methodist church in Oxon Hill.[7]
Due to the shortage of Episcopal priests in that era and area, while serving at Addison Chapel, in 1801 Rev. Addison also became the first rector of St. John's Church in Georgetown.[2][8][9] Rev. Addison officiated at the funeral of George Washington.[6] He also encouraged William Holland Wilmer and former student (and future Virginia bishop) William Meade in their attempts to school Episcopal clergy, which eventually led to the founding of Virginia Theological Seminary.
In 1810, Addison sold most of the original Oxon Hill property to Zachariah Berry.[10] At the end of the year, December 12, 1810, Rev. Addison was appointed as U.S. Senate Chaplain, succeeding Rev. Obadiah Bruen Brown.[11]
Rev. Addison helped incorporate the Georgetown Lancaster School Society, and also served as vice-president of the Bible Society of the District of Columbia.[12]
Personal life
Walter Dulany Addison married Elizabeth Dulany Hesselius, the daughter of well-known portrait painter John Hesselius and Mary Young, on June 5, 1792, in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.[1] In 1792, the couple leased Battersea House for a year. Elizabeth Addison gave Battersea its new name, Harmony Hall, which it retains to this day.[13] Their children include Lloyd Dulany Addison,[14] who would later move to New Orleans, Louisiana as a merchant and found the Mistick Krewe of Comus and The Pickwick Club.[citation needed]
Death and legacy
Rev. Addison lost his sight during the last decades of his life. He died on January 31, 1848, and was buried in his family's cemetery at Oxon Hill.[15]
To mark the 100th anniversary of Rev. Walter Dulany Addison's ordination, his granddaughter Elizabeth H. Murray wrote, "The oldest parish record spoken of is Piscataway, or Broad Creek, parish, called St. John's, Prince George's County, contiguous to the Potomac and Piscataway Creek, dated January 30, 1693. It contains the name of John Addison, Privy Councilor. His grandson Henry was rector of St. John's for thirty years. He was educated at Oxford, and in the corner of a quaint old portrait of him in the possession of the family is a scroll containing the picture of his college. His parish would have no other rector during his life. A later descendant, Walter Dulaney Addison, became rector in the year 1801. The old Bible and prayer book used by Rev. Henry Addison in this church are still preserved in the family. In them is written: 'Presented to me by the honored Lady, my Mother.'"[16]
His mother was Eleanore Smith, daughter of Colonel Walter Smith.
References
- ^ a b Johnson 1906, p. 58
- ^ a b Side-Lights on Maryland History, by Hester Dorsey Richardson, 1913, p. 4.
- ^ One Hundred Years Ago; or, the Life and Times of Rev. Walter Dulany Addison, by Elizabeth Hesselius Murray (his granddaughter), 1895
- ^ Archives of the General Convention, Volume 6, by Episcopal Church, General Convention, p. 207.
- ^ Constance Pelzer Ackerson, Holy Trinity-Collington: her people and their church: two hundred and ... – Page 59
- ^ a b Addison Chapel, Historic American Buildings Survey, National Park Service.
- ^ http://www.stjohnsbroadcreek.org/StJohnHistory.htm
- ^ Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, 1906, p. 85.
- ^ "Our History". June 17, 2016.
- ^ "Oxon Hill Manor". www.jefpat.org. Jefferson Patterson Park & Museum. 2003. Retrieved January 14, 2010.
- ^ "Senate Chaplain". www.senate.gov. United States Senate. Retrieved January 14, 2010.
- ^ A History of the National Capital, by Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan, p. 639.
- ^ "Harmony Hall: History & Culture". www.nps.gov. U.S. Department of the Interior. Retrieved January 13, 2010.
- ^ Mac/McPherson of PA and Related Families; rootsweb.com
- ^ Edward D. Neill, The History of Education in Virginia during the 17th Century(U.S. Dept. of Education, 1867) p. 34, available at google books, https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=dFFR9aBOXogC&rdid=book-dFFR9aBOXogC&rdot=1
- ^ Elizabeth Hesselius Murray, One Hundred Years Ago, or the Life and Times of Walter Dulany Addison (Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs, 1898) available at https://archive.org/details/onehundredyearsa00eliz
Attribution
- This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Johnson, Rossiter, ed. (1906). "Addison, Walter Dulany". The Biographical Dictionary of America. Vol. 1. Boston, Mass.: American Biographical Society. p. 58. Retrieved October 30, 2020 – via en.wikisource.org.