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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Circular letter [manuscript]: Boston, [Mass.], to Josiah Cotton, Plimouth [sic], [Mass.], 1712/13 [i.e. 1713], Feb. 10 |
| Author | Company for Propagation of the Gospel in New England and the Parts Adjacent in America |
| Date | View date in the chronology |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Description | From the Newberry Library Catalogue: February 10, 1712/13, circular letter from the commissioners of the society, addressed to Josiah Cotton, a Plymouth, Mass., teacher, missionary, and town official, who for nearly forty years (dismissed 1744) received an annual stipend of twenty pounds for his preaching to the Indians. Signed and probably composed by Samuel Sewall, the letter informs the missionaries that the commissioners have advanced and borrowed large sums to keep the work going, and advises them to keep the Sabbath, promote the schools, and protect the Indians from unscrupulous whites. |
| Names | Sewall, Samuel (1652-1730); Cotton, Josiah (1680-1756) |
| Places | Boston, Massachusetts, New England, United States |
| Keywords | Christianity, missionary, education, British North America, public debt |
| Theme | Missionaries and Education |
| Culture Area | Northeast |
| Additional Information | Protestant foreign missionary society founded in 1649 in London to convert the Indians of New England. The society collected and invested funds, the interest from which it sent annually to its New England commissioners, who then paid the salaries of missionaries there. Samuel Sewall, a prominent Boston public official and merchant, was appointed commissioner of the society in 1699, secretary in 1700, and treasurer in 1701. |
| Library | The Newberry Library |
| Copyright | The Newberry Library |
| Collection | The Edward E. Ayer Collection |
| Reference | VAULT box Ayer MS 181 |
| Catalogue Link | The Newberry Library Catalogue |