BMS Missionaries Falmouth 1841

A card bearing the signatures of all the BMS missionaries in Falmouth, Jamaica, February 1841.

Baptist Missionaries in Association  Falmouth Feby 1841

Joshua Tinson                                   Samuel Oughton

James M. Phillippo                             David Day

Thomas Burchell                                Ebenezer Jos Francies

William Knibb                                   Joseph Merrick

Tho.s F Abbott                                  Henry John Dutton

Walter Dendy                                    John Edw.d Henderson  

John Kingdon                                    Benjamin Millard      

Benjamin B. Dexter                            Philip Henry Cornford

John Hutching                                   Edward Wholley

John Clark                                         John May

Text: Eng. MS. 861, fol. 33, John Rylands University Library of Manchester. The above letter from Falmouth bearing the signatures of attendees at the February association meeting of the Baptist missionaries in Jamaica appeared in the Missionary Herald (May 1841), p. 257, along with a printed list of the signatories: Joshua Tinson (1794-1850), BMS missionary, 1822-1850; Samuel Oughton and his wife, Hannah (the niece of Mrs. Thomas Burchell), 1835-1866; James Mursell Phillippo (1798-1879), 1823-1879; David Day, 1837-1862; Ebenezer Joseph Francies (1815-1846), 1839-1846; Joseph Merrick (1818-1849), one of the first native missionaries with the BMS, 1839-1849; Thomas Fisher Abbott, 1831-1847 (see also letter 150); Henry John Dutton, 1839-1846; Walter Dendy, 1831-1881;  John Edward Henderson (1816-1885), 1840-1881; John Kingdon (d. 1855), 1831-1850; Benjamin Millard, 1840-1872; Philip Henry Cornford, 1840-1850; John Hutchins (d. 1851), 1834-1851; Edward Woolley, 1840-1847; John Clark (arrived in Jamaica in 1835); John May (1814-1894), 1840-1852.