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1. EAP835/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP835/1
Title:
Manuscripts relating to the American Ceylon Mission
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Tamil
Date Range:
1816-1883
Extent:
2732 Tiff images

2. EAP835/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP835/1/1
Title:
Oodooville Church Record Book 1820-1848
Scope & Content:
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. ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Tamil
Date Range:
1820-1848
Extent:
300 TIFF files

3. EAP835/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP835/1/2
Title:
Batticotta Church Record Book 1816-1845, Volume I
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Tamil
Date Range:
1816-1845
Extent:
198 TIFF files

4. EAP835/1/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP835/1/3
Title:
Proceedings of Meetings of Delegates of the three Tamil Missions 1838-1841
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is inaccurately titled. It consists of letters written by two successive secretaries of Foreign Correspondence for the ABCFM, Rufus Anderson (1796-1880) and Nathanial G. Clark (1825-?), addressed to the American Ceylon Mission between 1862 and 1879. These letters contain general in...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1862-1879
Extent:
600 TIFF files

5. EAP835/1/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP835/1/4
Title:
Remarks on the Duties of the Wives of Missionaries 1843
Scope & Content:
Dated Batticotta 1840, this short manuscript includes instructions and advice written by both missionaries and the wives of missionaries from the ACM and other missions, including Samuel Hutchings (1806-1895) of the ACM, Robert Dwight (1802-1844) of the Dindigul mission, Margaret Wilson (1795-183...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1840
Extent:
40 TIFF files

6. EAP835/1/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP835/1/5
Title:
Report of the Uduvil School Committee 1841-(1864) 1875
Scope & Content:
Reports on the Uduvil Girls' and Boys' Boarding Schools by a number of missionaries and mission Tamil assistants, including Daniel Poor (1789-1855), Samuel Hutchings (1806-1895), Francis Asbury (1810-?), Edward Cope (1806-?), and Robert Wyman (?-?). General information provided on classes, pupils...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Tamil
Date Range:
1841-1864
Extent:
200 TIFF files

7. EAP835/1/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP835/1/6
Title:
Ecclesiastical Reports 1855-1860
Scope & Content:
This file holds reports from numerous mission stations in the Jaffna peninsula, including Batticotta, Chavagachery, Karativoe, Manipay, Oodoopitty, Oodooville, and Valany. Some of the reports are signed by missinoaryes like E.P. Hastings (?-1890), and Levi Spaulding (1791-1873), and mission assis...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Tamil
Date Range:
1855-1860
Extent:
478 TIFF files

8. EAP835/1/7

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP835/1/7
Title:
Mission Tapal Book. 1854-1856.
Scope & Content:
Letter book containing sundry letters and notes of the missionaries in various parts of the Jaffna district, such as Batticotta and Manepy. It was probably circulated among the missionaries as a cheaper method of communication than the post. Some of the contributors are by mission printer Thomas ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Tamil
Date Range:
1854-1856
Extent:
342 TIFF files

9. EAP835/1/8

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP835/1/8
Title:
Letters to the Secretaries of the A.B.C.F.M. 1874
Scope & Content:
This file contains letters written by E.P. Hastings (?-1890) to Nathanial G. Clark (1825-?), Secretary of the A.B.C.F.M. The letters contain information on the mission's doings, financial details, estimates for financial burden of the following years, etc. Physical characteristics of original mat...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1874
Extent:
228 TIFF files

10. EAP835/1/9

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP835/1/9
Title:
Records of the Committees on Uduvil School 1855-1883
Scope & Content:
This file contains records of examinations of the Uduvil Female Boarding School periodically held by the missionaries appointed to the Committees. Comments include concerns about specific pupils, feedback on teachers, criticisms of class levels, and other issues related to the schools and the lev...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Tamil
Date Range:
1855-1883
Extent:
346 TIFF files