Letter from John Smith, 24 June 1819, Plantation Le Resouvenir, Demerary [Demerara]

Condition of the mission station. Alteration and repair of Chapel. Financial contribution of congregation. Practicability of a mission station at Mahaica now that there is a Wesleyan chapel there - identfies a possible site in the vicinity (4-5 miles away). He reports approaches from enslaved people...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/British Guiana. Demerara/Incoming Correspondence/Box 2
Date(s) of creation: 1819
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Smith, John, 1792?-1824
URL: https://digital.soas.ac.uk/l/CW00001404
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title Letter from John Smith, 24 June 1819, Plantation Le Resouvenir, Demerary [Demerara]
scb_date_creation 1819
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author Smith, John, 1792?-1824
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author_letter Smith, John, 1792?-1824
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description Condition of the mission station. Alteration and repair of Chapel. Financial contribution of congregation. Practicability of a mission station at Mahaica now that there is a Wesleyan chapel there - identfies a possible site in the vicinity (4-5 miles away). He reports approaches from enslaved people in the region for the establishment of a mission church and costs of doing so. Asks the Directors to turn their attention to the area for expansion of the mission work. Refers to J. Gladstone Esq. of Liverpool and asks for Directors to ask him to authorise the writer to teach the enslaved people on his plantation (3-400 people on the plantation adjoining Le Resouuvenir). Also a need for a schoolmaster to teach the 'great number of Creoles under 10 years of age'.
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Council for World Mission
language English
language_search English
scb_scripts_material Latin
scb_file_number Box 2, Folder 3, Jacket A
scb_copies Digital copy available on SOAS Digital Collections
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