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Organization name Boston Missionary Society
Other names Massahusetts Missionary Society
Date founded 1779
Org type Religious group
Bio notes Organized in Boston in 1779. In 1800 the Society first sent Rev. Jacob Cram and Rev. David Avery to minister to Native Americans between Whitestown and the Genesee River. In 1811 the Society shifted its attention away from Western New York.
Citations A History of the Purchase and Settlement of Western New York: And of the ..., by James Harvey Hotchkin (1848)

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Missionary's address to the chiefs of the six nation Indian & Their answers

Halliday Jackson 1800 Journal (continued)