Miscellaneous materials from the USPG archives
Miscellaneous materials from the USPG archives
Collection: Indigenous Cultures and Christian Conversion in Ghana and Sierra Leone, 1700-1850 Volumes Miscellaneous materials from the USPG archives
In January 1752 Reverend Thomas Thompson arrived at James Fort on the Gambia river. This marked the launch of the first mission by The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in West Africa (more than fifty years after its incorporation by royal charter during the reign of William III). From 1766 onwards, the mission was overseen by the Reverend Philip Quaque, the first African to be ordained into the priesthood of the Church of England. Although an Anglican bishopric of Sierra Leone was established by the Church Mission Society in Freetown, there seems to have been a pause in SPG activity in the region following Quaque's death in 1811. This hiatus drew to a close during the mid-nineteenth century. This period witnessed the establishment of the West Indian Church Association for the Furtherance of the Gospel in Western Africa and its mission to the Rio Pongas.
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Miscellaneous papers, 1753-1764
Five items relating to West Africa from a box in the C series, including: (i) 1753 March 14: bill of exchange from Rev. Thomas Thompson, Cape Coast Castle; (ii) 1762...
Date:1753-1764Contributor:Rhodes House Library
Identifier:72047-SPG-1762
Original letters received, 1860-1867 : calendar
Typescript calendar of the whole of the preceding volume (D/24) of the letters received from Sierra Leone under the Bishop of Barbados, as well as from the dioceses of Cape...
Date:1860-1867Contributor:Rhodes House Library
Identifier:72047-SPG-1867
Deeds, etc., from the Bishop of Gambia and the Rio Pongas
A number of documents received by the SPG archive in February 1938 for safe keeping on behalf of the Bishop of Gambia and the Rio Pongas [or Pongo]. The initial...
Date:1886-1907Contributor:Rhodes House Library
Identifier:72047-SPG-1900
Original letters received, 1899
D/130a. Items relating to West Africa extracted from this volume.
Date:1899-1899Contributor:Rhodes House Library
Identifier:72047-SPG-1899
Original letters received, 1894-1898
Series D/110, 114, 118b, 122b & 126b: Items relating to Sierra Leone extracted from these volumes, beginning with a copy of The fourth annual report of the Gallinas Church Missionary...
Date:1894-1898Contributor:Rhodes House Library
Identifier:72047-SPG-1894
Original letters received, 1890-1893
Series D/94b, 98, 102c & 106b: Items relating to Sierra Leone extracted from these volumes, including in addition to the reports from Rio Pongo, regular completed forms for monies drawn...
Date:1890-1893Contributor:Rhodes House Library
Identifier:72047-SPG-1890
Original letters received, 1880-1889
Series D/57, 65, 69, 73, 77, 82, 86 & 90: Items relating to Sierra Leone extracted from these volumes, including financial reports and a request to the Society from the...
Date:1880-1889Contributor:Rhodes House Library
Identifier:72047-SPG-1880
Original letters received, 1872-1879
Series D/37, 42a & 44a: Items relating to Sierra Leone from these three volumes, including at the end a map of the Rio Pongo mission stations, and showing the continued...
Date:1872-1879Contributor:Rhodes House Library
Identifier:72047-SPG-1872
