Jaffa Colony collection, 1876-1991.

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Jaffa Colony collection, 1876-1991.

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Correspondence, photographs, diary, typescripts, including passenger list, and printed secondary materials, including newspaper and magazine articles, relating to the Jaffa Colony, also known as Palestine Emigration Association, a group of people, chiefly from Jonesport and Indian River, Me., led by George J. Adams, preacher and member of Church of the Messiah (briefly a Mormon), to found a colony in Palestine in order to be eye-witnesses to the second coming of the Messiah.

.5 linear ft.

Maine Historical Society Library

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