ABCFM PROJECT

ABCFM PROJECT
Documenting the content of the microfilm collection concerning the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions upon the Near East, 1817-1919 by the Department of History

Submitted by: Mariya Kiprovska
Submitted to: Department of History
Project term (month, year): October 31, 2002

Bibliographical and physical information
Document type: microfilm
Reference no. BV2410.A4 1984, Reel 548
Degree of readability: R; HR
(e.g. readable, partially readable, hardly readable, unreadable)

Vol. 8

Syrian Mission

Supplementary Papers

1823 – 1870

Documents

Records

Minutes

1836 – 1870

Boxes 1 – 4

[0002] Supplementary Papers (352 Pieces)

* Given by the United Presbyterian Church in the USA Commission on Ecumenical Missions and Relations, New York, New York.

** After 1870 most Syria Mission work continued under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church. For work carried on by the ABCFM after that date, see Turkey Missions.

*** This collection contains Seminary (Abeih) Records to 1878.

Box 1. Documents No. Pieces

Records, v. 1, 1836 – January 1853 1

Records, v. 2, March 1853 – 1870 1

Records Index, v. 1-5 1

(vol. 3-5 not in this collection)

[0003] Records of the Syrian Mission

[0004-0012] Records from April 1836

[0013-0021] Records for April 1837

[0022-0032] Records for 1838

[0033(61)-0035] Records for 1839

[0036-0043(80)] Records for 1840

[0043(81)-0049(93)] Records for 1841

[0050(94)-0056(106)] Records for 1842

[0056(107)-0060] Records for 1843

[0061-0065] Records for 1844

[0066-0075(144)] Records for 1845

[0075-(145)-0082] Records for 1846

0083-0089 - Records for 1847

0090-0098 - Records for 1848

0098(191)-0105(204): Records for 1849

0105(205)-0109: Records for 1850

0110-0115: Records for 1851

0116-0126(244): Records for 1852

0126(244): Records for 1853

0127: Records of the Mission to Syria and the Holy Land

0128-0134: Minutes of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Syrian Mission, being the

Thirty First year in the history of the Mission (1853)

0135-0143: Minutes of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Syrian Mission, 1854.

Thirty Second year in the history of the Mission.

0144-0149: Minutes of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Syrian Mission, 1855.

0150-0153: Minutes of the Special Meeting of the Syrian Mission held at Abeih from

Sept. 24^th to October 1^st, 1855

0154-0161: Minutes of the Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the Syrian Mission, 1856

0162-0163: Minutes of the Special Meeting of the Syrian Mission, held in Abeih,

October 1^st and 2^nd 1856.

0164-0171: Minutes of the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Syrian Mission, 1857.

0171(83)-0173: Proceedings of the Special Meeting, September 1857.

0174-0176: Minutes of the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Syrian Mission, 1858

0177(95)-0178: Minutes of the Special Meeting, October 1858

0179-0180: Minutes of the Special Meeting of February 1859.

0181-0183(106): Minutes of the Twenty-fourth Meeting of the Syrian Mission, 1859

0183(107)-0184: Minutes of the Special Meeting, August 1859 (HR)

0185-0189(118): Minutes of the Twenty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Syria Mission, 1860

0189(119)-0191(122): Votes passed by Stations, 1860

0191(123)-0194(128): Minutes of the Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Syria

Mission, 1861

0194(128)-0195(130): Special votes after the Annual Meeting, 1861

0195(131)-0196(132): Special Meeting of the Syria Mission, September 18^th, 1861

0196(133)-0200: Minutes of the Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting of the Syria Mission,

1862.

0201-0202(144): A Special Meeting of the Syria Mission, June 10^th, 1862.

0202(145)-0208: Minutes of the Twenty-eight Annual Meeting of the Syria Mission,

1863 (HR)

0209-0212: Minutes of the Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Syria Mission being the

Forty-second year of the Mission, 1864 (HR)

0213: Special Meeting (HR)

0214-0220(176): Minutes of the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Syria Mission, 1865 (R)

0220-0222: Minutes of the Thirty-first Annual Meeting of the Syria Mission, 1866 (HR)

0223-0224(184): Special Meeting, August 1866 (HR)

0224(185)-0226(188): Minutes of the Thirty-second Annual Meeting of the Syrian

Mission in the Forty-fifth year in its History, 1867 (HR)

0226(189)-0227(190): Special Meeting, August 1867 (HR)

0227(191)-0230(196): Minutes of the Thirty-third Annual Meeting of the Syria Mission

being the Forty-sixth year of its history (HR)

0230(1976)-0231: Special Meeting, August 1868 (HR)

0232-0235: Minutes of the Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Syria Mission being the

Forty-seventh year of its History, 1869 (HR)

0236-0238: Special Meeting, August 1869 (R)

0239-0240: Minutes of the Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Syria Mission being the

Forty-eighth year of its history, 1870 (R)

0241-0243: Special Meeting, 1870 (R)

0244-0298: Records Index, v. 1-5

ABCFM

Syria Mission (1823-1870)

0299-0327: Quarterly Finance Reports v. 114

0328:

Box 2. Documents: No. Pieces

Stations

Beirut

1. Minutes, 1835-1861 1

Institutions

Mission Church, Beirut

2. Records, 1823-1834, with Jerusalem Branch

Records 1835-1841 1

3. Records, 1823-January 1848. 1

0329-0377: Records of the Missionary Station at Beirut, 1835-1861 (HR)

0381:

Records of the Mission Church in Beirut 1823-1834 (HR)

[0382]: Marriages

[0383]: Names of those who belong to the Mission Church in Beirut

[0388-0390]: The Arabic Confession of Faith and Covenant (first used at Beirut) and its translation

[0393]: Missionaries

[0394-0396]: Records of Baptisms

0397-0415:

Records of the Jerusalem Branch of the Church, 1836-1841 (HR)

0416-0434: Records of the Missionary Church at Beirut: marriages, names of those who

belong to the Mission Church at Beirut, the Arabic Confession of Faith and

Covenant and its translation (HR)

0435-0439: Records of Baptisms in the American Mission Church in Beirut

(1824-1847) – (R)

0440:

Box 3. Documents: No. Pieces

Institutions (continued)

Mission Church, Beirut (continued) 1

0462-0490:

Records of the Mission Church in Syria,

vol. II: Baptisms, marriages, burials (HR)

Seminary, Abeih

0491-0514:

2. Records, April 1848-1878 (HR) 1

[0515-0522]: Books in the Seminary Library (R)

Special Papers and Reports:

0523-0527:

3. Rules and Regulations of the Syria Mission, n.d. (R) 1

0528-0629:

4. Re. Schools and Seminaries (HR) 31

0630:

Box 4. Letters to Missionaries from ABCFM Secretaries (R. Anderson, N. G. Clark,

David Greene, S. L. Pomeroy, S. B. Treat, B. B. Wisner, L. R. Worcester)

0632-0634: To Eli Smith from R. Anderson, June 22, 1827. (R)

0635-0637: to Eli Smith from R. Anderson, Jan. 25, 1828 (R)

0638-0639: to Eli Smith from R. Anderson, June 20, 1828 (R)

0640: to Eli Smith from R. Anderson, July 25, 1828 (R)

0641: to Eli Smith from R. Anderson, Jan. 19, 1830 (R)

0648: to Eli Smith from R. Anderson, March 31, 1830 (R)

0651: to William M. Thompson from R. Anderson, Feb. 17, 1831 (R)

0654: to William M. Thompson from R. Anderson, March 15, 1837 (R)

0656: to William M. Thompson from R. Anderson, July 12, 1831 (R)

0659: to William M. Thompson from R. Anderson, Aug. 2, 1831 (R)

0662: to William M. Thompson from R. Anderson, Aug. 11, 1831 (R)

0665: to William M. Thompson from R. Anderson, Aug. 22, 1831 (R)

0668: to William M. Thompson from R. Anderson, Aug. 25, 1831 (R)

0671: to William M. Thompson from R. Anderson, Oct. 1, 1831 (R)

0675: to Eli Smith from R. Anderson, Feb. 22, 1832 (R)

0678: to William M. Thompson from R. Anderson, March 2, 1832 (R)

0681: to William M. Thompson from R. Anderson, July 9, 1832 (R)

0687: to Eli Smith from B. B. Wisner, April 20, 1833 (R)

0689: to Eli Smith from R. Anderson, May 20, 1833 (R)

0692: to the Brothers of the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, March 20, 1834 (R)

0695: to the Brothers Smith, Bird, Whiting from R. Anderson, July 30, 1834 (R)

0699: to the Brothers of the Mission to Syria and the Holy Land from R. Anderson,

May 1, 1835 (R)

0702: to the Brothers of the Mission to Syria and the Holy Land from R. Anderson,

Feb. 23, 1835 (R)

0707: to Eli Smith from D. Greene, May 1, 1835 (R)

0710: to the Brothers of the Mission to Syria and the Holy Land from R. Anderson,

June 6, 1835 (R)

0713: to the Brothers of the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, June 19, 1935 (R)

0716: to the Mission of Syria from R. Anderson, Sept. 30, 1835 (R)

0723: to the Mission of Syria from R. Anderson, Dec. 2, 1835 (R)

0728: to Eli Smith from R. Anderson, Dec. 2, 1835 (R)

0732: to Eli Smith from R. Anderson, Jan. 21, 1836 (R)

0740: to Eli Smith from R. Anderson, April 18, 1836 (R)

0743: to the American Mission at Beirut from D. Greene, May 13, 1836 (R)

0745: to the Brothers of the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, July 14, 1936 (R)

0751: to the Brothers of the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Oct. 31, 1936 (R)

0755: to Eli Smith from R. Anderson, Nov. 5, 1836 (R)

0758: to the Brothers of the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Nov. 12, 1936 (R)

0760: to Eli Smith from R. Anderson, Dec. 23, 1836 (R)

0763: to the Brothers of the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Dec. 26, 1936 (R)

0769: to the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, June 13, 1837 (HR)

0776: to the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, David Greene, W. J. Armstrong,

June 23, 1837. (R)

0779: to the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, David Greene, W. J. Armstrong,

July 3, 1837. (R)

0782: to the Brothers of the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Oct. 10, 1837 (R)

0787: to the Brothers of the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Oct. 20, 1837 (R)

0790: to the Brothers of the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Jan. 27, 1838 (R)

0794: to George Whiting from R. Anderson, Jan. 31, 1838 (R)

0797: to the Brothers of the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Apr. 29, 1838 (R)

0800: to the Brothers of the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, July 18, 1838 (R)

0805: to the Brothers of the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Dec. 21, 1838 (R)

0809: to the Brothers of the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Jan. 3, 1839 (R)

0815: to the Brothers of the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, May 11, 1839 (R)

0818: to the Brothers of the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, July 12, 1839 (R)

0820: to the Brothers of the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Aug. 9, 1839 (HR)

0823: to the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Jan. 11, 1840 (R)

0829: to the Brothers of the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Jan. 20, 1840 (R)

0832: to the Brothers of the Syria Mission from George E. Head, Feb. 18, 1840 (R)

0835: to the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, July 14, 1840 (HR)

0844: to the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Aug. 22, 1840 (R)

0847: to the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Oct. 29, 1840 (HR)

0850: to Thompson from George Head, Nov. 30, 1840 (R)

0854: to the Mission of Syria from the secretaries Armstrong, Greene & Anderson,

March 4, 1841 (R)

0857: to the Mission of Syria from R. Anderson, July 2, 1841 (HR)

0862: to the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Oct. 20, 1841 (HR)

0867: to the Syria Mission from G. Head, Dec. 10, 1841 (R)

0869: to the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Dec. 24, 1841 (R)

0872: to the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Jan. 5, 1842 (R)

0875: to the Syria Mission from G. Head, Jan. 28, 1842 (R)

0878: to the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Feb. 14, 1842 (R)

0881: to the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, April 1, 1842 (HR)

0884: to the Several Missions under the direction of the American Board of

Commissioners for Foreign Missions from Anderson, Armstrong, Greene, May

10, 1842 (R)

0887: to the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Aug. 9, 1842 (R)

0895: to the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Oct. 22, 1842 (R)

0906: to the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Oct. 29, 1842 (R)

0916: to Eli Smith from Anderson, March 9, 1843 (R)

0922: to the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, April 28, 1843 (HR)

0927: to the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, June 13, 1843 (HR)

0936: to the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Sep. 29, 1843 (HR)

0942: to Eli Smith from R. Anderson, Dec. 18, 1843 (HR)

0945: to the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Dec. 16, 1843 (HR)

0948: to the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Jan. 24, 1844 (HR)

0950: to the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Jan. 27, 1844 (HR)

0952: to the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, April 28, 1844 (R)

0964: to Eli Smith from Anderson, May 11, 1844 (R)

0967: to the Brothers of the Syria Mission from Anderson, July 16, 1844 (HR)

0971: to the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Aug. 23, 1844 (HR)

0977: to the Brothers in Syria from Anderson, Sep. 16, 1844 (HR)

0979: to the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Nov. 29, 1844 (HR)

0985: to the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Dec. 16, 1844 (R)

0989: to the Brothers of the Syria Mission from Anderson, Jan. 4, 1845 (R)

0991: to the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Jan. 4, 1845 (R)

0993: to the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, Feb. 22, 1845 (R)

0998: to the Syria Mission from R. Anderson, May 14, 1845 (R)

1004: to the Brothers of the Mission from Anderson, Nov. 15, 1845 (HR)

1016: to the Brothers of the Mission from Anderson, Jan. 31, 1846 (HR)

1022: to Whiting from Anderson, April 30, 1846 (HR)

1028: Circular letter from Anderson, July 30, 1846 (R)

1033: to the Syria Mission from Anderson, July 11, 1846 (R)

1038: to the Syria Mission from Anderson, Aug. 10, 1846 (R)

1045: to Eli Smith from Anderson, Oct. 31, 1846 (HR)

1051: to the Brothers of the Mission from Anderson, April 29, 1847 (R)

1053: to the Brothers of the Mission from Anderson, June 21, 1847 (HR)

1057: Circular letter from Anderson, Armstrong and Greene, Oct. 12, 1847 (R)

1062: to the Syria Mission from Anderson, Armstrong and Greene, Jan. 13, 1848 (R)

1067: to the Syria Mission from Anderson, Armstrong and Greene, with no date (R)

1068: to the Syria Mission from Anderson, June 21, 1848 (R)

1073: to the Brothers of the Syria Mission from Anderson, Sep. 1, 1848 (HR)

1074: to the Brothers of the Syria Mission from Anderson, Oct. 30, 1848 (R)

1076: to the Brothers of the Syria Mission from the Mission House, Boston, Nov. 13,

1848 (R)

Papers of the American Board of Commissioners

for Foreign Missions

ABC 16: the Near East

1817-1919

Unit 5, reel 548

16.8.1: Syrian Mission

Vol. 8; Part 1