Amboyna [Ambon],1818

includes letters by: Joseph Kam, Amboina - permission from Dutch governor Kock for seminary; hopes for 5000 NewTestaments from British & Foreign Bible Society; on travels has discovered 35-40,000 Christian islanders; tabulates Christian population in Moluccan [Maluku] islands and number of non-C...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/Ultra Ganges. Amboyna-Rangoon/Incoming correspondence/Box 1
Date(s) of creation: 6 Mar - 12 May 1818
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: CWM/LMS/Ultra Ganges. Amboyna-Rangoon/Incoming correspondence/Box 1
Summary: includes letters by: Joseph Kam, Amboina - permission from Dutch governor Kock for seminary; hopes for 5000 NewTestaments from British & Foreign Bible Society; on travels has discovered 35-40,000 Christian islanders; tabulates Christian population in Moluccan [Maluku] islands and number of non-Christians; report on visit to nearby islands; sympathy on death of son of David Langton (LMS secretary); copies of writings of local schoolboys; need for printing press; over 6,000 baptised during his 1817 tour of islands. George Livett, London - report on the religion and state of the peoples of the Moluccan islands with his assessment of missionary opportunities there.
Extent: 4 items
Access status: Open
Language: English
File number: Folder 3,Jacket A
Finding aids: Hand-written lists of Incoming Correspondence for each year up to 1824 are contained in the Box
Format: Archive