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           

collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.LMS.14.02.04.005
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scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with CWM/LMS/Ultra Ganges. Amboyna-Rangoon/Incoming correspondence/Box 1
callnumber CWM/LMS/14/02/04/005
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/14/02/04/005
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/14/02/04/005
prefix_number 005
title Amboyna [Ambon],1818
scb_date_creation 6 Mar - 12 May 1818
scb_level File
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 4 items
format Archive
description 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.
scb_access_status Open
language English
language_search English
scb_file_number Folder 3,Jacket A
scb_finding_aids Hand-written lists of Incoming Correspondence for each year up to 1824 are contained in the Box
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0014.0002.0004.00005