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MMS/Special Series/Biographical/West Indies/FBN 2 (fiche 28-31)
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| Summary: |
Manuscript entitled 'Thoughts on The Present state of Religion among the Negroes in Jamaica. A plan For their moral and religious Improvement suggested by which, a knowledge of the Christian religion may be communicated to them, with but (comparatively) little Clerical assistance; and without teaching them to Read. And The propriety and necessity of their Instruction considered in a variety of arguments. By John Shipman'.
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| Main author: |
Shipman; John (1788-1853); ordained missionary |
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145 pages
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Title from original caption
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John Shipman was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, in 1788. He was accepted for the ministry in 1810 and worked for four years in home circuits. He married Ann Wills on 26th July 1814 and shortly afterwards the two of them sailed from Portsmouth on the 'Sir James Henry Craig' to Jamaica. However, Shipman found it difficult to obtain a preaching licence and when he did finally succeed in November 1815 he was restricted to where and when he could preach in Kingston. Later they both served in Montego Bay, Grateful Hill and Morant Bay with Ann teaching in Catechetical schools and John serving as Chairman of the District. Many years later John described how they had both 'suffered much from the hostile spirit of the planters [enslavers who own enslaved people] and merchants of those days of slavery and darkness'. They left Jamaica in 1824 in the wake of the 'Jamaica Resolutions' and returned to Ann's native Aberdeen. Subsequently, they served in a number of districts and circuits including Kings Lynn [Norfolk], Loughborough [Leicestershire], Keighley [Yorkshire], Colchester [Essex], Yarmouth [Norfolk], Otley [Yorkshire], Cranford [London] and Belper[Derbyshire]. Anne died on 5th December 1846, aged 56. In 1850 John became a supernumerary in Cheddar, Somerset, where he was instrumental in the building of a new chapel which opened only days before his death on 19th December 1853.
Anne and John Shipman had at least 8 children. Three of them died in their infancy in Jamaica (including Susanna of measles in c1821). Their daughter Anne died on 26th April 1839 aged 15 at Keighley, Yorkshire, whilst their son, Alexander Innes, died on 18th February 1848 aged 22. Two other sons' names are known: Martin Luther and Samuel Annesley. The latter of these two became a Wesleyan Methodist Missionary himself, dying in service aged 24 at Accra, Ghana, on 22nd February 1842.
Further Reading:
Findlay & Holdsworth, The History of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, (vol 2, 1921);
Shipman, J, The Missionary Child: a memoir of Samuel Annesley Shipman by his father (1846). |
John Shipman was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, in 1788. He was accepted for the ministry in 1810 and worked for four years in home circuits. He married Ann Wills on 26th July 1814 and shortly afterwards the two of them sailed from Portsmouth on the 'Sir James Henry Craig' to Jamaica. However, Shipman found it difficult to obtain a preaching licence and when he did finally succeed in November 1815 he was restricted to where and when he could preach in Kingston. Later they both served in Montego Bay, Grateful Hill and Morant Bay with An ... View more |
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Open
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| Access conditions: |
Only to be viewed on microfiche
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| Copyright: |
Copyright probably held by Methodist Missionary Society |
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For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance |
| Language: |
English
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| Related material: |
Also within the records of the (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society is the official correspondence for John Shipman (MMS/West Indies/Correspondence/General/FBN 1-5). Furthermore, the synod minutes will detail his work, and that of his colleagues, for the last couple of years he served in the Jamaica District (MMS/West Indies/Synod Minutes/FBN 1). There is one letter by Shipman, with some brief biographical details, within the Steele Collection (MMS/Special Series/Various Papers/FBN 46).
The Methodist Missionary Society Library copy of 'The Missionary Child: a memoir of Samuel Annesley Shipman by his father' (MMSL MG 558) also contains a printed pamphlet on Mrs Thomas Henderson [Shipman's sister-in-law] as well as manuscript memoirs by Shipman on his father (William), his wife and his son (Alexander Innes). |
Also within the records of the (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society is the official correspondence for John Shipman (MMS/West Indies/Correspondence/General/FBN 1-5). Furthermore, the synod minutes will detail his work, and that of his colleagues, for the last couple of years he served in the Jamaica District (MMS/West Indies/Synod Minutes/FBN 1). There is one letter by Shipman, with some brief biographical details, within the Steele Collection (MMS/Special Series/Various Papers/FBN 46).
The Methodist Missionary Society Library copy of ' ... View more |
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