Letter of Mary Jane Wilson, 1836.

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Letter of Mary Jane Wilson, 1836.

Letter describing the attempt of missionaries Daniel Lindley and Henry Venable to establish a mission station in a southern Africa territory under the protection of a tribal chief.

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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...

Venable, Henry Isaac.

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Lindley, Daniel, 1801-1880

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Daniel Lindley (August 24, 1801-September 3, 1880) was an American missionary to South Africa. With his wife Lucy, the Lindleys founded the Inanda Seminary School in 1869. The son of the founder of Ohio University, Daniel Lindley studied there and at the Union Seminary in Prince Edward, Virginia, and was ordained by the Presbyterian Church. He married Lucy Virginia Allen in 1834, and they were sent by the American Board of Missions to South Africa, where they were first posted in Matabeleland. I...

Wilson, Mary Jane, d. 1836.

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Missionary with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in southern Africa; married Alexander Wilson and had one child, Martha; died, 1836. From the description of Letter of Mary Jane Wilson, 1836. (Wheaton College). WorldCat record id: 31743393 ...

Moffat, Robert, 1795-1883

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