Charles B. Dana and family papers, 1799-1949 (bulk 1823-1880).

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Charles B. Dana and family papers, 1799-1949 (bulk 1823-1880).

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Papers are comprised of sermons, essays, notebooks, and correspondence of Charles B. Dana and family. Papers after 1880 are those of Rev. Charles Dana's sons, Charles B. and Richard H. C. Dana, and of Richard H. C. Dana's guardian, Miss Octavia Dockery of Glenwood Plantation "Goat Castle", Natchez, Miss. Correspondence in general reflects religious activities, expressing concern over sabbath schools, church attendance, and the spread of Catholicism. Family matters, local events, literature, politics, education and slavery, and genealogical information relative to the Dana family are also discussed. A letter of S. A. Kimball of Concord, N. H., discusses the abolitionist movement and members of the Colonization Society (1836). Also among the papers are checks of Richard Dana, bank statements of Octavia Dockery, newspaper clippings, maps, photographs, and a broadside listing officers of the Colonization Society of Virginia. Manuscript volumes are comprised of a diary (1906-1907), cashbooks, registers, sermons, and notebooks. Included in the printed materials are religious pamphlets and journals. Collection also contains two postcard albums (1906-1933, n.d.).

700 items.59 v.1 microfilm reel.

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7140513

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Dockery, Octavia, 1865-1949

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Colonization Society of Virginia

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Established November 4, 1823, as an auxiliary to the American Colonization Society, to provide and organize resources for the free black population of Virginia who desired to emigrate. In December 1828 the members of the auxiliary resolved to become the Colonization Society of Virginia, separate from the parent society, for the purpose of providing funds for those who voluntarily chose to emigrate to Liberia. From the description of Records, 1823-1859. (Virginia Historical Society Li...

American colonization society

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The American Colonization Society was founded in 1817 in Washington, D.C. for the purpose of transporting freeborn and emancipated American blacks to Africa and helping them start a new life there. From the description of List of emigrants for Liberia, 1867 Nov. 17. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32144821 The American Colonization Society was an organization dedicated to transporting freeborn blacks and emancipated slaves to Africa, to what is n...

Dana, Richard

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Dana, Charles

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Reverend Charles B. Dana, son of Reverend Sylvester Dana of New England, was a Protestant Episcopal minister of Alexandria, Va., Port Gibson, Miss, and in 1866 he became rector of Trinity Church in Natchez, Miss., where he remained until his death. From the description of Charles B. Dana and family papers, 1799-1949 (bulk 1823-1880). (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 250671000 ...

Episcopal Church

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...