Charles Jeffery Smith papers 1758-1908 1758-1765

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Charles Jeffery Smith papers 1758-1908 1758-1765

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Charles Jeffery Smith's papers consist of his writings and diaries, including "Some Minits: or a Brief Narrative of the Motions & Strivings of Gods Spirit with my Soul;" "Jejunationes," a devotional journal; and a four-part diary, 1763-1765, containing his religious thoughts and detailing his daily activities and travels. There are also daily transcriptions, made in 1908, which excise parts dealing with Smith's personal problems. The transcriptions also include marginal notes about place names, people mentioned, and the changing quality of Smith's handwriting during his times of depression. The identity of the person who transcribed the diaries is not known.

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Smith, Charles Jeffery, 1740-1770

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Charles Jeffery Smith was born near the village of Setauket, New York, on October 9, 1740. After graduating from Yale College in 1757, Smith became a Presbyterian minister. He spent 1760 and 1761 traveling in New Jersey, and by 1762 he had decided to become a missionary to the Native Americans. Soon after his ordination in 1763, Smith set off on a mission to the Indians of the Six Nations in upstate New York; but with the outbreak of Pontiac's Rebellion, he had to alter his plans. He then preach...