Correspondence, 1824-1834.

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Correspondence, 1824-1834.

From various correspondents, including Josiah Brewer, William Goodell and Jonas King, all having to do with early American Board missionaries to the Near East.

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American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

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The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) was among the first American Christian missionary organizations. It was created in 1810 by recent graduates of Williams College. In the 19th century it was the largest and most important of American missionary organizations and consisted of participants from Protestant Reformed traditions such as Presbyterians, Congregationalists, and German Reformed churches. Before 1870, the ABCFM consisted of Protestants of several denominati...

Goodell, William, 1792-1867

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Congregationalist clergyman and missionary to Armenians in the Turkish empire, sponsored by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. From the description of Papers of William Goodell, 1818-1917. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80812996 Congregational minister to Turkish empire, sponsored by American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. From the description of Papers, 1818-1917. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 28410342 ...

Brewer, Josiah, 1796-1872

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Missionary. From the description of Josiah Brewer papers, 1835-1934. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451945 ...

King, Jonas, 1792-1869

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Jonas King (1792-1869) was born near Hawley, Mass., the son of strict Puritan parents. He graduated from Williams College in 1816 and Andover Theological Seminary in 1819, and then spent six months at a mission in Charleston, S.C., where he was ordained as an evangelist. In the early 1820s, King studied Arabic under De Sacy in Paris where he apparently became involved with Sampson Vryling Stoddard Wilder (1780-1865) and the Paris Missionary Society. Following three years of missionary work in Pa...

Bird, Isaac, 1793-1876

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ISAAC BIRD, 1793-1876 (Y.1816) ISAAC BIRD, son of Isaac and Rhoda (Selleck) Bird, was born in Salisbury, Conn., June 19, 1793. He spent the year after graduation as a teacher in the academy in West Nottingham, Md., and in Nov., 1817, entered Andover Theol. Seminary. His three years there were passed in close companionship with his classmates, William Goodell and Daniel Temple, the associates of his future missionary life, and the three friends together offere...