NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY MANUSCRIPT FINDING AID
RG5537.AM: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
Papers: 1830-1859
Nebraska Territory: Religious organization
Size: 3 reels of microfilm
BACKGROUND NOTE
Organized by the General Association of Congregational Churches of Massachusetts in 1810, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions was formed to promote the ìspread of the gospel in Heathen lands.” The Board sent its first missionaries to Calcutta in 1812, and since that time, thousands of missionaries and other shorter-term workers have worked in countries all around the world. These missionaries regularly sent back letters, journals and reports in order to document their activities and observations.
Since 1944 the Houghton Library of Harvard University has housed and administered this vast archive of documents. In the 1980s, Research Publications Inc. (now Primary Source Microfilm, an imprint of the Gale Group) published portions of these papers in a microfilm edition. Permission to publish or quote from the documents on this microfilm must be obtained from both Harvard and the United Church Board of World Ministries.
For more information, contact the Curator of Manuscripts, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
This collection consists of three reels of microfilm of the papers of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The reels contain letters, journals, and reports by missionaries documenting their activities and observations regarding various tribes, including the Pawnee Indians in the Nebraska Territory. The documents date from 1830 to 1859.
DESCRIPTION
Reel #743
Vol. 9: Arkansas Cherokees, Pawnees, Rocky Mountain Indians, 1830-1837; Letters, Journals, Reports
Reel #776
Vol. 1: Ojibwa, Pawnee, Mackinaw, Stockbridge Mission, 1844-1859; Letters, Documents, Reports, Part 2
Reel #782
Vol. 1: Pawnees, Choctaws, 1837-1844; Letters, Reports
ADDED ENTRIES:
Allis, Samuel, 1805-1883
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions — Archives
Arkansas Cherokee Indians — Missions
Choctaw Indians — Missions
Dunbar, John, 1804-1857
Frontier and pioneer life
Indians of North America — Missions
Indians of North America — Social life and customs
Mackinaw Indians — Missions
Missionaries — Nebraska — Correspondence
Ojibwa Indians — Missions
Parker, Samuel, 1779-1866
Pawnee Indians — Missions
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