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John Brooke Pinney journals
- Title
- John Brooke Pinney journals, 1868-1877.
- Author
- Pinney, John Brooke, 1806-1882.
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- Description
- .4 lin. ft.
- Summary
- The John Brooke Pinney Journals consist of two journals Pinney maintained as a missionary for the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church. Two separate trips to Liberia are discussed in his jounrals, one in 1868-1869 and the other in 1876-1877.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
- Preservation of the Black Religious Heritage Project funded by the Lilly Endowment.
- Subjects
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A > Liberia Mission
- Liberia > Description and travel
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A Clergy
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A Missions
- Pinney, John Brooke, 1806-1882
- University of Liberia
- Liberia > History > 1847-1944
- Liberia > Civilization > American influences
- Diaries
- Missionaries > Liberia
- Genre/Form
- Diaries.
- Access (note)
- Restricted to photocopies. Use of originals requires permission of curator.
- Reproduction (note)
- Photocopies.
- Source (note)
- Erdman, David V. and Virginia B.
- Biography (note)
- John Brooke Pinney was an American born Presbyterian minister, serving as a missionary in Liberia on various occasions from 1833-1878.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 266
- OCLC
- NYPW086000038-A
- Author
- Pinney, John Brooke, 1806-1882.
- Title
- John Brooke Pinney journals, 1868-1877.
- Reproduction
- Photocopies.
- Biography
- John Brooke Pinney was an American born Presbyterian minister, serving as a missionary in Liberia on various occasions from 1833-1878. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1828 where he studied law. In 1832 he graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary and was ordained by the Presbytery of Philadelphia that same year. The following year Pinney became a missionary in Africa as an agent of the American Colonization Society, which constituted him ex-officio Acting Governor of the colony of Liberia. From 1848 to approximately 1872, he was Corresponding Secretary of the New York Colonization Society. Pinney was also one of the organizers of the College of Liberia, now known as the University of Liberia.
- Access
- Restricted to photocopies. Use of originals requires permission of curator.
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- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 266