Research Catalog

Title

History of the African mission of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States : with memoirs of deceased missionaries, and notices of native customs / by Mrs. E. F. Hening.

Author

Hening, E. F., -1853

Publication

New York : Stanford and Swords, 1850.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Stanford and Swords, publisher.
• Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Description

300 pages : folded map; 20 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).

Alternative Title

African mission of the Prostestant Episcopal Church in the United States, History of the.

Subjects

• Bookplates (Provenance)
• Publishers' catalogues > New York (N.Y.) > 1850
• Maps > Africa, West
• West Africa
• Missions > Liberia > Palmas, Cape
• Missions > Africa, West
• Episcopal Church Missions

Genre/Form

• Maps – Africa, West.
• Publishers' catalogues – New York (N.Y.) – 1850.

Note

• "The object of the writer ... has been, to present ... the leading historical facts of the mission of the Protestant Episcopal church in western Africa."--Preface
• Folded map title: "Cape Lamas and the adjacent County, West africa, 1849."
• "Entered according to Act of congress, in the year 1849, by Stanford and Swords, in the Cleck's office of the district court of the United State for the Southern district of New York."

Indexed In (note)

• New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in digital form.

Provenance (note)

• Copy in Sc Rare -266 H: with bookplate of Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection.

Contents

Origin of first Missionary efforts of Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States - First agents of American Colonial Society - Appointment of Mr. Ephaim Bacon - Mr. Jacob Oson - Mission School at Hartford - Mr. James Thompson - Donation from American Colonial Society - Selection of Mount Vaughan as Mission Station -- 2. Appointment of Rev. John Payne, Minor, T.S. Savage, M.D. - Dr. Savage's departure - Description of Cape Palmas - Manner of building native house - Visit from the King - Greegree pole - Situation of the station - John and Susan Savage - Custom of betrothal -- 3. Removal to Mt. Vaughan - Sheppard's Lake - The Palmtree and Mangrove - Grahway - Use of Greegrees - Manner of making doctors - Half Cavalla -- Description of Country - Interview with King Baphro .. -- 4. Desire of natives for schools - Ideas of the Supreme Being - Dr. Savage's journey to Deneh - Curious Illustration of Suppertitions - Sassa Wood - Nallicott - Incident on the river - Oracle of Grand Devil at Hodia - Debeh - King's hospitality - Healthen customs -- 5. Arrival of Mr. & Mrs. Payn and Mr. Minor - failure of Doctor Savage's Health - Cause - Different dialects of the native - Dr. S. returns to United States - - Attempt to open a station at Garraway - Death of Mr, Thompson - Manner of preparing farms... -- 6. Sailing of new missionaries - Illness and death of Mrs. Savage - Lines by Mrs. Sigourney ... -- 7. Prosperity of the mission - Superstition of the Grabwayans - Mr. Payne's remoVAL TO Cavalla - Krooman's letter - Mr. Minor returns to Africa, accompanied by his wife and Rev, J. Smith - Religious interest in the schools - Grebohymns -- 8. Review of the year 1840 - Dr. Savage's visit to the Leeward Coast - Mr. & Mrs. Payne return to the United States - Opening of stations at Rockbookah and Taboo - Illustration of heathen superstition - Mr. & Mrs. Payne again embark for Africa with new missionaries -- Death of Coggleshall - Biographical notice - Difficulties with natives -- 9. Encouraging circumstances at Cavalla - Death of native convert - Mr, Payne visit family -- 10. Ideas of people respecting a future state - Funeral ceremonies - Sassa Wood - Superstitions of the Grahwayans - Singular custom - Arrival of Rev. Samuel Hazlehurst - Mr. Payne's labors. -- 11. Death of Mrs. Maria V. Savage - Parentage, birth, and early life - Determination to offer her services for Africa - Letter to the Rev. Dr. Vaughan - Farewell letter to her friends - Voyage and arrival in Africa. -- 12. Mrs. Savage illness - Extracts from her letter and journal -- 13. Account of Mrs. Savage's last illness and death -- 14. Death of Rev. L.B. Minor - His birth and boyhood - college life - Characteristic incidents. -- 15. Maternal influence - Change in his religious character - Devotes himself to the ministry and to the African Mission - Tour in behalf of the mission - Character of his preaching. -- 16. Mr, Minor embarks for Africa - Letters descriptive of the voyage and country - Acclimation - Other letters. -- 17. Cape Coast - Fortifications - Missionary efforts. -- 18. Mr, Minor's visit to the United States - His marriage and return to Africa - Efforts in the colony - Letters. -- 19. Excursion into the country. -- 20. Results of this journey - Visit to Taboo - Moving a native house. -- 21. Notes, descriptive of his mode of life at Taboo, addressed by Mr, Minor to his wife. -- 22. Outrage committed by the natives at Little Bereby - Letter to the Hon. Abel P. Upshur - Extracts from Mr. Minor's Journal. -- 23. Mr. Minor's declining health -- His last illness and death. -- 24. Letter from Rev. J. Peterkin, illustrative of Mr. Minor's character -- 25. Musu's conversion - Native lawyers - Quarrel at Taboo - Singular custom. -- 26. Two new stations - Dr, Savage, and Mrs. Minor return to the United States - Serious difficulty at Cavalla -- 27. Intervention of the United States Squadron - Affecting scene -- 28. Commodore Perry's parley at Cape Palmas - the squadron visits Little Bereby - Overtures of natives to Mr. Payne - Fidelity of mission scholars - Another deputation from Cavalla - The "palaver set." -- 29. Death of Warra Hobah, alias Alexander V. Griswold -- 30. Embarkation of another band of missionaries - Cape Verde - Bathurst - Sierra Leone - Monrovia - Arrival at Cape Palmas - Sickness - Chapel at Cavalla - Examination of School -- 31. New arrangements - Arrival of Dr. and Mrs. Perkins, and Mr. & Mrs. Appleby - Another palaver - Curious ceremony - A great warrior - A battle - Native custom. -- 32. Quiet restored - Purifying the land - Mr. Hening's journal - Visit from a devil Doctor - Musu's 's Baptism - Dr. Pekins removes to Rockbookah - Account of Nimhel -- 33. Review of the year - 1845 - Arrival of the Rev. Mr. Messenger - Illness and death of Mrs. Parch -- 34. Illness and death of Rev. Mr. E.J. P. Messenger -- 34. Sentiments of missionary under these trials - Baptism of native converts - Result of the mission - Permanent grounds of encouragement, -- Appendix

Call Number

Sc Rare 266-H (Hening, E. F. History of the African mission)

LCCN

14008141

OCLC

4701740

Author

Hening, E. F., -1853, author.

Title

History of the African mission of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States : with memoirs of deceased missionaries, and notices of native customs / by Mrs. E. F. Hening.

Imprint

New York : Stanford and Swords, 1850.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Additional Formats

Also available in digital form.

Indexed In:

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 4, page 3326, column 1, row 3

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare -266 H: with bookplate of Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection. NN

Local Note

The Schomburg Center's Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division's copy includes accession no. D01704 in ink on several parts of the book. Probably one of the books added to the collection when Catherine A. Latimer was the collection librarian and Lawrence Reddick was the Curator; lacks original covers, bound in library binding, red cloth over boards, and a gilt spine.

Source

Copy in Sc Rare -266 H: D01704. NN

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Local Subject

Bookplates (Provenance).

Place of Publication

United States New York (State) New York.

Added Author

Stanford and Swords, publisher.

Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995, Curator.

Added Title

African mission of the Prostestant Episcopal Church in the United States, History of the.

Other Form:

Online version: Hening, E.F., -1853. History of the African mission of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. New York, Stanford and Swords, 1850 (OCoLC)657780227

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 266-H (Hening, E. F. History of the African mission)

ZKVX (Hening, E. F. History of the African mission. 1850)