Mission History

“The committee in the Indian M. L. School has agreed to employ Mr. Currell shoe-maker at 350 dollars per year and bear his traveling expenses…

July 2, 1840 Thomas Johnson to Jotham Meeker:    I have recd your kind letter by the Ottawa Chief— And in reply would say that…

Mrs. Shurlock writes in reference to the note for $75.00 she loaned Miss Todd :—    Rev. Mr. Greene:— Dear Brother;— Mr. Canterberry called on…

Feb. 20, 1840. "Indian Missions in the Missouri Conference" Dear Brother,— I have been trying for several days to forecast so as to get time…

Between June 27 and September 7, 1840 Thomas Johnson wrote a series of almost daily notes for a “Journal” (which may have mirrored a personal…

Transcribed letter from Major Joshua Pitcher, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, St, Louis, Mo. to T. Hartley Crawford, Commissioner of Indian Affairs dated Jun 7, 1939…

Shawnee Mission House, Oct. 15, 1839    The board of managers of the Missouri Conference Missionary Society feel devout gratitude to the great Head of…

Extract from the report of the Rev. Thomas Johnson to Major Cummins. August 1839?    Experience and observation during the past year strengthen us in…

Jerome Berryman writes:    "It was in the winter of 1839 that I was commissioned by Rev. Thomas Johnson to go to Pittsburg, Pa., to…

Belle Greene, in a series of extracts from letters, along with memories of conversations with her mother, Mary Todd Greene, relates Mary’s experiences coming to…