WAUMethodistEpiscopalChurchMissionarySociety4818.xml Guide to the Methodist Episcopal Church, Missionary Society Records 1835-1858 Methodist Episcopal Church. Missionary Society. Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries ©2014 (Last modified: 4/29/2020)
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Finding aid written inEnglish. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections 4818 (Accession No. 4818-001) Methodist Episcopal Church. Missionary Society Methodist Episcopal Church, Missionary Society records 1835-1858 1 microfilm reel (positive) Collection materials are inEnglish. Records of the missionary society headquartered in New York

Mission society headquartered in New York.

Records, 1835-1858.

Letters, reports, journals, some minutes of Missionary Society, N.Y., and the Oregon Mission, Willamette Valley, Oregon. Nathan Bangs and Charles Pitman were on the Board of Commissioners and the Corresponding Secretary of the Society, respectively. Jason Lee was the Mission's Superintendent. Correspondence January - June 1839 concerned the staffing of the Mission and includes primarily applications and recommendations. 1840 concerns a case against Elijah White. 1843-1844 includes the journal of H.K.W. Perkins.

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 Abernethy, George, 1807-1877 Bangs, Nathan, 1778-1862 Gary, George, 1793-1855 Hines, Gustavus, 1809-1873 Lee, Daniel, 1806-1895 Lee, Jason, 1803-1845 Leslie, David Perkins, H. K. W. (Henry Kirk White), 1812-1884 Pitman, Charles Roberts, William Waller, Alvan F., b. 1808 White, Elijah, 1806-1879 Methodist Episcopal Church. Missionary Society Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington) Missionaries Clubs and Societies