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American Home Missionary Society

 Organization

Biography

American Home Missionary Society, although interdenominational in character, was recognized for about ten years by the Presbyterian General Assembly as a semiofficial agency of the Church; after schism in 1837 New School churches continued their home missionary work for a number of years through the American Home Missionary Society.

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Maltby Gelston letter

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230323864]
Identifier: MSS SC 2459
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letter dated 8 Aug. 1832. The item is addressed to Rev. Miles D. Squire, Corresponding Secretary of the American Home Missionary Society, of Geneva, New York. Gelston reports on conversions and religious intolerance in Medina, approximately sixty miles west of Palmyra, New York. He states that through both open and secret means, a group of citizens are actively striving to discourage his congregation and attempting to expell them from their meeting house.

Dates: 1832 August 8
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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