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.
This file records church admissions, baptisms, marriages, deaths, and excommunications from the American Ceylon Mission's Oodooville (Uduvil) Church between the years of 1820-1848. It includes entries by Levi Spaulding (1791-1873).Physical characteristics of original material: Manuscript volume. ...
This file records church admissions, baptisms, marriages, deaths, and excommunications from the American Ceylon Mission's Batticotta (Vaddukoddai) Church between the years of 1816-1845. It includes entries by Benjamin C. Meigs (1789-1862) and Daniel Poor (1789-1855).Physical characteristics of or...
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 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 collection consists of nine manuscript files related to the nineteenth-century American Ceylon Mission, including reports, church record books, and meeting minutes. The first nine files of this collection were digitized by EAP835. Custodial history: The materials were originally housed at ...
This file contains minutes beginning from the first ACM meeting abroad the ship Dryad on October 26, 1815, and ending Febuary 1, 1844. Contributors include Revs. G.H. Apthorp (1798-?), Horatio Bardwell (1788-1866), Edward Cope (1806-?), James Reed Eckard (1805-1887), Henry Richard Hoisington (18...
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 Foreign Missions (ABCFM) to the transfer of the ACM to the Church of South India (CSI) in 1947. These materials include ni...
Named The 1937 series because Professor Bernard Bate believed the materials were organized and labeled after 1937. Although only one file was located and digitized by EAP971, the original series includes primarily letterbooks and tabāl books (manuscripts circulated amongst members of the mission...