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) |
Missionary's address to the chiefs of the six nation Indian & Their answers
Halliday Jackson 1800 Journal (continued)