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American Home Missionary Society records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 014
Scope and Contents
The records of the American Home Missionary Society contain correspondence, both incoming and outgoing, and printed matter. The collection documents the financial and administrative aspects of the Society, as well as the personal activities of and issues faced by its missionaries. Immigrant and frontier communities are also detailed within the letters and reports by missionaries.The strength of the American Home Missionary Society records is contained within the incoming and...
Dates:
Created: 1816-1907; Other: Majority of material found in 1826-1894; Other: Date acquired: 07/21/1969
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
American Home Missionary Society records addendum
Collection
Identifier: 014-1
Content Description
This addition to the records of the American Home Missionary Society (AHMS) consists of a small amount of correspondence from the British Isles, Hawaii, and abroad addressed to the officers of the society, Charles Hall, Milton Badger, and Absalom Peters. Correspondence dates from 1822-1865 and is arranged chronologically by country or region. The topics covered within the correspondence reference financial contributions to the society, applications for aid from various churches and...
Dates:
Other: 1822-1865, 1941
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Caroline W. Marvin AHMS membership certificate
Collection — Container: 1 OS folder
Identifier: 2505
Scope and Contents
Life membership certificate given by the American Home Missionary Society (AHMS) to Caroline W. Marvin following receipt of payment of $50.00 by Marvin's father. The certificate is dated August 23, 1886, and signed by AHMS treasurer Alexander H. Clapp and secretaries Walter M. Barrows and Joseph B. Clark.
Dates:
Created: 1886 August 23; Other: Date acquired: 06/11/2013
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Edward Franklin Williams papers
Collection
Identifier: 391
Scope and Contents
The papers of the Rev. Edward Franklin Williams consist mainly of correspondence, dating from 1841-1918. There are also accounts; a fragmentary diary; news clippings and scrapbooks; documents; a few by-laws, minutes, resolutions, and lists of organizations to which Williams belonged; announcements, invitations, programs, and calling cards; a few poems and photographs (none of Williams or his wife); lecture notes and writings such as articles, essays, speeches, and the column entitled...
Dates:
Created: 1838-1918; Other: Date acquired: 12/01/1969
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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