Manuscripts relating to the American Ceylon Mission
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This collection consists of nine manuscript files related to the 19th-century American Ceylon Mission, including reports, church record books, and minutes from meetings. Anonymous private collection.
Jaffna Diocese of the Church of South India (JDCSI) Collection
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This description comes in part from Professor Bernard Bate's finding aid for the JDCSI's archive, published in 2005. This collection consists mostly of manuscript materials "from the establishment of the American Ceylon Mission (ACM) in 1816 by the American Ceylon Board of Commissioners for Forei...
This file consists of sundry mission reports such as baptismal records, marriages, admissions to the church, etc., retranscriptions of important events, and several floor plans. It also includes a fragment of Tamil and English versions of a church convenant presumably to be repeated by converts. ...
This file contains typical records from the mission station Chavagacherry. According to Bate's finding aid, it may be a transcription of earlier records. Issues discussed include admissions, appointments, baptisms, transfers, deaths, and issues within the congregation. Some records are signed by ...
This file describes church admissions, schools, the printing press, religious vocations, mission meetings, and funds of the mission. The writer mentions Samuel Hutchings (1806-1895), Benjamin Meigs (1789-1862), M.D. Sanders (?-?), and Miron Winslow (1789-1864) in his reports.Physical characteris...
This file consists of letters from Henry Hill (?-?), Treasurer of the A.B.C.F.M., addressed to Miron Winslow and Benjamin Meigs. These letters, sent from India, London, and Boston, concern funds for the ACM in the form of payments and donations for supplies and for Tamil children to attend school.
This file consists of three tabular sheets and one eight-page report: a. Chavagacherry, Ecclesiastical and Educational Returns, 1851; b. Panditeripo, Ecclesiastical and Educational Returns, 1851; c. Oodooville, Ecclesiastical and Educational Returns, 1851; d. "Programme of Results of Preaching an...
This file contains reports on the process of ordaination for Ceylonese preachers, certificates of ordination, and license to preach. It also contains detailed data relating to the ACM's printing establishment, with tract-by-tract descriptions by Levi Spaulding (1791-1873), and information on clas...
This file contains copies of letters sent from E.P. Hastings (?-1890) to Rufus Anderson (1796-1880), Secretary of the ABCFM. These letters refer to ACM business and concerns such as methods for village schools, the uses of the Native Evangelical Society in Jaffna, and financial burdens as well as...
The archive belongs to Jaffna College and holds diverse materials ranging from 1710 to the present, with a focus on late nineteeneth- and early-twentieth century materials. The materials are divided into seven shelves categorized by major subject: history, religion, medicine, astronomy, the Tamil...