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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Letter, 1772 May 9
LETTER from John Gray to Nathaniel Phillips. (NLW ref. 8944)
Date:1772-1772Contributor:National Library of Wales
Identifier:71811c06
