John Gill Pratt Papers

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John Gill Pratt Papers

1834-1899

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Correspondence, accounts, reports, land allotments, deeds, contracts, vouchers, and other papers. The letters for the 1st few years are largely personal in nature. Later papers fall into divisions based on J. G. Pratt's activities: missionary printer at the Shawnee Baptist Mission, present Mission, Kan. (1837-44); head of the Stockbridge mission near Fort Leavenworth, Kan. (1844-48); leader of the Delaware Baptist Mission in Wyandotte County, Kan. (1848-64); and U.S. Indian agent at the Delaware Agency with headquarters at Leavenworth, Kan. (1864-68). The largest segment falls within the period of Pratt's service as U.S. agent to the Delaware Indians. ǂb The Pratt collection provides a thread of continuity through several Indian agencies located in what is now Kansas. The early period of this collection includes the time the Delaware were under the care of the Fort Leavenworth Agency which also included the Shawnee, Kickapoo, Munsee, and Christian Indians, the Stockbridge, and the Kansa. In July 1843, the Wyandot arrived in the West and purchased a small tract of land from the Delaware reserve on the Kansas River. Thus they became involved in the Fort Leavenworth Agency along with the Delaware.

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Baptist Mission Press.

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Baptist Missionary Society

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Located in London. From the description of Records of the Baptist Missionary Society, 1892-1981, (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702132580 The Baptist Missionary Society was founded in 1792, principally by William Carey, and was the first of modern missionary societies. The Society's early work began in 1793 in India under Carey's leadership. Its work extended into the East Indies and British West Indies in the early 19th century and, later, into Africa, ...

Pratt, J. G. (John Gill), 1814-1900

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John G. Pratt was born September 9, 1814 at Hingham, Massachusetts. He studied at the Wakefield Academy, Reading, Massachusetts, and at Andover Seminary where he graduated in 1836. Besides his regular studies, he spent time at the University Press, Cambridge, where he learned the printing trade. At Andover he was licensed to preach and after graduation was employed by the Baptist Missionary Society for work in the Indian Country, first as a printer and later as a missionary. John married Olivia ...