CONTENTS. Corporate Members, 3-Corresponding, 6--Honorary, 7, Secretaries, Treasurer, and General and Receiving Agents of the Board, Members present, 23-Committees appointed, 25-Reports of the Treasurer and Commit- tees, 27--Resolutions adopted, 29--Religious Services, and Officers elected, 31, Places of the previous Annual Meetings of the Board, and the Preachers, Report of the Prudential Committee: Domestic Operations:---Obituary Notices, 33-Missionaries and Assistants discharged, and sent forth, 34-Candidates and Agencies, 35-Publications and Finances, 36---Aid from Constantinople:--Turks, 49-Greeks, 51-Armenians, 52---Jews, 55, Asia Minor: Smyrna, 56- Scio, 58---Broosa, 58--Trebizond, 59, Syria and the Holy Land---Beyroot and Jerusalem, 60---Cyprus, 62, Page. North-American Indians:--Cherokees, 102--Arkansas Cherokees, 104--Choctaws, 106--- Creeks, 109-Osages, 111--Pawnees, 112--Indians west of the Rocky Mountains, 113--- Sioux, 115---Ojibwas, 117---Mackinaw, 120---Stockbridge Indians, 121-New York Indians, Correspondence with the Rev. John Smith, of the London Missionary Society, at Madras, Extracts from the Fourth Triennial Report of the Amnefican Mission Seminary in Ceylon," OF THE AMERICAN BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR Foreign Missions, PRESENTED AT THE TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING, HELD IN THE CITY OF PORTLAND, MAINE, SEPT. 12, 13, & 14, PRINTED 1838. FOR LIBE BOSTON: FOR THE BOARD, BY CROCKER AND BREWSTER. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. Time of Election. CORPORATE MEMBERS. [The names under each State, are arranged according to the order of election.] Maine. 1813. Gen. HENRY SEWALL, Augusta. 1820. WILLIAM ALLEN, D. D. President of Bowdoin College. 1832. ENOCH POND, D. D. Professor in the Theological Seminary at Bangor. 1836. LEVI CUTTER, Esq. Portland. 1838. BENJAMIN TAPPAN, D. D. Augusta. 1838. Rev. JOHN W. ELLINGWOOD, Bath. New Hampshire. 1820. JOHN HUBBARD CHURCH, D. D. Pelham. 1832. NATHAN LORD, D. D. President of Dartmouth College. 1838. Hon. SAMUEL FLETCHER, Concord. 1838. Rev. AARON WARNER, Professor in the Theological Seminary, Gilmanton. Vermont. 1818. Hon. CHARLES MARSH, Woodstock. 1821. JOSHUA BATES, D. D. President of Middlebury College. 1833. JOHN WHEELER, D. D. President of the University, Burlington. 1838. Rev. CHARLES WALKER, Brattleborough. Massachusetts. 1810. WILLIAM BARTLET, Esq. Newburyport. 1819. LEONARD WOODS, D. D. Professor in the Theological Seminary, Andover. 1821. SAMUEL HUBBARD, LL. D. Boston. 1821. WARREN FAY, D. D. Charlestown. 1823. HEMAN HUMPHREY, D. D. President of Amherst College. 1826. JOHN CODMAN, D. D. Dorchester. 1826. Hon. LEWIS STRONG, Northampton. 1826. JUSTIN EDWARDS, D. D. President of the Theological Seminary, Andover. 1827. JOHN TAPPAN, Esq. Boston. 1828. HENRY HILL, Esq. Boston. 1832. Hon. SAMUEL T. ARMSTRONG, Boston. 1832. RUFUS ANDERSON, D. D. Boston. 1832. Rev. DAVID GREENE, Boston. 1832. CHARLES STODDARD, Esq. Boston. 1834. Rev. SYLVESTER HOLMES, New Bedford. 1835. DANIEL NOYES, Esq. Boston. 1835. Rev. WILLIAM J. ARMSTRONG, Boston. 1837. Rev. NEHEMIAH ADAMS, Boston. 1838. MARK HOPKINS, D. D. President of Williams College, Williamstown. 1838. THOMAS SNELL, D. D. North Brookfield. Connecticut. 1810. CALVIN CHAPIN, D. D. Wethersfield. 1817. JEREMIAH DAY, D. D. LL. D. President of Yale College. 1819. JOHN COTTON SMITH, LL. D. Sharon. 1823. BENNET TYLER, D. D. Professor in the Theological Institute at East Windsor. 1832. NOAH PORTER, D. D. Farmington. 1836. Hon. THOMAS S. WILLIAMS, Chief Justice of the State, Hartford./ 1836. HENRY HUDSON, Esq. Hartford. 1838. JOEL HAWES, D. D. Hartford. 1838. THOMAS W. WILLIAMS, Esq. New London. New York. 1812. JAMES RICHARDS, D. D. Professor in the Theological Seminary at Auburn. 1812. ELIPHALET NOTT, D. D. President of Union College, Schenectady. 1812. HENRY DAVIS, D. D. Clinton. 1813. ALEXANDER PROUDFIT, D. D. New York city. 1816. STEPHEN VAN RENNSELAER, LL. D. Albany. 1823. S. V. S. WILDER, Esq. New York city. 1824. DAVID PORTER, D. D. Catskill. 1824. GARDINER SPRING, D. D. New York city. 1824. ELEAZER LORD, Esq. Rockland County. 1826. NATHANIEL W. HOWELL, LL. D. Canandaigua. 1826. THOMAS DE WITT, D. D. New York city. 1826. NATHAN S. S. BEMAN, D. D. Troy. 1826. THOMAS MCAULEY, D. D. LL. D. President of the Theological Seminary in New York city. 1832. ORRIN DAY, Esq. Catskill. 1832. ZECHARIAH LEWIS, Esq. Brooklyn. 1834. JAMES M. MATTHEWS, D. D. Chancellor of the New York University. 1836. Rev. HENRY DWIGHT, Geneva. 1838. ISAAC FERRIS, D. D. New York city. 1838. THOMAS H. SKINNER, D. D Professor in the Theological Seminary in New York city. 1838. HENRY WHITE, D. D. Prof. in the Theological Seminary in New York city. 1838. D. W. C. OLYPHANT, Esq. New York city. 1838. RICHARD T. HAINES, Esq. New York city. 1838. WILLIAM W. CHESTER, Esq. New York city. 1838. PELATIAH PERIT, Esq. New York city. 1838. Hon. JOSEPH RUSSELL, Troy. 1838. Rev. ELISHA YALE, Kingsboro. New Jersey. 1812. SAMUEL MILLER, D. D. Professor in the Theological Seminary at Princeton. 1824. PHILIP MILLEDOLER, D. D. Professor in the Theological Seminary at New Brunswick. 1826. ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER, D. D. Professor in the Theological Seminary at Princeton. 1826. THEODORE FRELINGHUYSEN, LL. D. Newark. 1826. JAMES CARNAHAN, D. D. President of Nassau Hall, Princeton. 1832. Hon. PETER D. VROOM, Somerville. 1838. Rev. DAVID MAGIE, Elizabethtown. Pennsylvania. 1812. ASHBEL GREEN, D. D. Philadelphia. 1826. JOHN LUDLOW, D. D. President of the University of Pennsylvania. 1826. THOMAS BRADFORD, Jr. Esq. Philadelphia. 1826. SAMUEL AGNEW, M. D. Harrisburg. 1826. WILLIAM NEIL, D. D. Germantown. 1832. JOHN MCDOWELL, D. D. Philadelphia. 1832. CORNELIUS C. CUYLER, D. D. Philadelphia. 1834. ALEXANDER HENRY, Esq. Philadelphia. 1838. MATTHEW BROWN, D. D. President of Jefferson College, Cannonsburg. 1838. WILLIAM R. DE WITT, D. D. Harrisburg. 1838. THOMAS FLEMING, Esq. Philadelphia. 1838. AMBROSE WHITE, Esq. Philadelphia. Maryland. 1838. Rev. JAMES G. HAMNER, Baltimore. District of Columbia. 1826. JOSEPH NOURSE, Esq. Virginia. 1826. Gen. JOHN H. COCKE, Fluvanna County. 1826. WILLIAM MAXWELL, Esq. Norfolk. |