Records, 1752-1948.

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Records, 1752-1948.

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Include historical materials, correspondence, general business records, diaries, and financial records of the first Protestant missionary society of its kind in the U.S. The historical materials include correspondence between Gideon Hawley and Edward Wigglesworth and other materials prior to the official founding of the society in 1787, in particular its early relationship with the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge. The bulk of the general correspondence is between missionaries to the Indians in New England and officers of the sponsoring society. Also, later materials between the society and individuals involved in the education of Blacks after the Civil War at industrial and other schools such as the Tuskegee Normal School and Institute, Hampton Institute, and Claflin University. (Cont'd) Among the correspondents are G.E.E. Lindquist, Abraham Plumer, Booker T. Washington, Elijah Kellogg, Frederick Baylies, Abiel Holmes, James Savage, Francis Parkman, and Mrs. L.M. Wight. The diaries in the collection were kept by missionaries Samuel Kirkland (1787-91, New York State); John Sergeant (1791, Massachusetts); John Strickland (1796, Maine); William Maclean (1800, Camden, Maine); John Sawyer (1828, 1832, Bangor and Brewer, Maine); and George F. Kenngott (1910, Western U.S.). The business and financial records include by-laws, Select Committee minutes and reports, ledgers, auditors' and treasurers' reports, bills, and receipts.

22 boxes and 1 oversize box.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Hampton University (Va.)

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Sergeant, John, 1710-1749

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Sawyer, John.

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Plumer, Abraham.

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Strickland, John

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Epithet: nonconformist minister British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000571.0x000086 ...

Kirkland, Samuel, 1741-1808

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Claflin University

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Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge

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Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893

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Baylies, Frederick.

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Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

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Lindquist, G. E. E. (Gustavus Elmer Emanuel), 1886-1967

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Hawley, Gideon, 1727-1807

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Congregational clergyman and Yale graduate who served as a missionary to the Stockbridge Indians, 1752-1754; among the Iroquois on the New York frontier, 1754-1756; and to the Mashpee Indians, 1758-1807. From the description of Letters : Mashpee, Mass., 1770-1775. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 37849057 Missionary, minister; born, 1737; graduated from Yale University; served as a Congregational minister and as a missionary to the various Indian tribes in Massachuset...

Kellogg, Elijah, 1761-1842.

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Congregational clergyman, of Portland, Me. From the description of Elijah Kellogg notations of The Farmer's almanac, 1816, undated. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 214316613 Clergyman; missionary to local Native Americans; superintendent of schools in Portland, Me.,and superintendent of the Indian School in Pleasant Point, Me., later known as Perry, Me. From the description of Elijah Kellogg correspondence, 1823-1842. (Maine Historical Soc...

Holmes, Abiel, 1763-1837

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Wight, L. M., Mrs.

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Wigglesworth, Edward, 1732-1794

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According to a manuscript note (f. 4v) Wigglesworth wrote the sermon while a professor at Harvard College. Wigglesworth (A.B. 1749) succeeded his father, Edward Wigglesworth, as professor of theology in 1765. From the description of Sermon : manuscript, [not before 1765] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612847034 Edward Wigglesworth (ca. 1693-1765), a Harvard professor, was born ca. 1693 in Malden, Massachusetts. He received an AB from Harvard in 1710 a...

Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute

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Washington was an African-American educator and founder of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, later the Tuskegee Institute. From the description of Letter : Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Ala., to George W. Benson, 1898 May 10. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 34657012 ...

Kenngott, George Frederick.

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Maclean, William.

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Savage, James E.

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