HOM.26

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History of The Micronesian Mission American Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions, 1852-1909, is the twenty-sixth volume of the History of Micronesia: A Collection of Source Documents (HOM), compiled and edited by Rodrique Levesque. It is the sixth volume in the HOM second series (HOM.S2).

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The History of Micronesia: A Collection of Source Documents, Volume 26, History of The Micronesian Mission American Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions, 1852-1909.

The History of Micronesia: A Collection of Source Documents was complied, edited and published by Rod Levesque. Copyrights were obtained by the Habele Outer Island Education Fund, a US nonprofit, in 2022, which digitized the content to facilitate noncommercial access to, and use of, the series. The PDF file for HOM.26 is roughly 100MB.

Table of Contents

1852M1 Creation of the Micronesian Mission

1862M2 The Gulick Family

1852M3 Voyage of the Caroline—First letters from the Missionaries

1852M4 Voyage of the Caroline—The journal of Rev. E. W. Clark

1852M5 News from Micronesia

1852M6 Letter from King Hamehameha to the chiefs of Micronesia

1852M7 Dr. Gulick's journals, 1852-57

1853M1 Some letters written in 1853

1854M1 Rev. Sturges' house burned down

1855M1 News from the missionaries in 1855

1855M2 Mission report for 1855-56

1856M1 A new missionary vessel—The Morning Star

1856M2 Encounter with the native religion on Pohnpei

1857M2 News from Dr. Pierson in Kosrae

1857M3 The first voyage of the Morning Star to Micronesia—Departure

1857M4 The first voyage of the Morning Star—First news

1857M5 The first voyage of the Morning Star—Narrative of Captain Moore

1857M6 The first voyage of the Morning Star—Narrative of Rev. Bingham

1857M7 Mission report from Pohnpei for 1857

1858M1 Captain of the Morning Star changed

1858M2 News from the missionaries in 1858

1858M3 Second cruise of the Morning Star in Micronesia

1859M1 Chuukese sailor aboard the Morning Star asks for a missionary

1859M2 Extracts from the diary of Rev. Snow, Kosrae, 1 June to 1 Oct. 1859

1859M4 Letters from the missionaries in 1859

1859M5 Opinion of General Meeting—The Mission should not be abandoned

1860M1 Letters from the missionaries in 1860

1860M2 The Morning Star I in 1860, and after

1860M3 Third trip of Morning Star—Narrative of Capt. Brown

1861M1 Rev. Bingham and his travels in the Gilbert Islands

1861M2 Fifth trip of the Morning Star—Narrative of W. H. Mosher

1861M3 The Morning Star Papers—Fifth trip of the Morning Star, by Rev. Samuel C. Damon

1861M4 Lap-in-Wapa, the Pohnpei chief—Story by Rev. Damon

1862M1 Death of Mrs. Doane, a missionary wife

1862M2 Sixth voyage of the Morning Star to Micronesia

1862M3 Open letter from the Micronesian Missionaries

1863M1 Seventh trip of the Morning Star—News from Ebon, Marshall Is.

1863M2 News from Micronesia in 1863

1863M3 Eighth trip of the Morning Star to Micronesia

1864M1 Ninth trip of the Morning Star—News from the mission stations

1864M2 Ninth trip of the Morning Star, Captain James' report

1864M3 News item from Micronesia

1864M4 Tenth trip of the Morning Star

1864M5 Missionary reports for 1864

1865M1 News from Pohnpei

1865M2 Eleventh trip of the Morning Star

1867M1 The Morning Star II

1867M2 First trip of the Morning Star II

1867M3 First voyage of the new Morning Star to Micronesia

1868M1 Odds and ends about the Micronesian Mission

1868M2 Fifth Annual Report of the Board, Hawaiian Evangelical Association

1868M3 Private letters from Rev. Snow, 1868-70 period

1868M4 News from Kosrae in 1868

1869M1 Mission report for 1869

1869M2 The shipwreck of the Morning Star II at Kosrae

1870M1 Mission report for 1870

1870M2 The chartered missionary vessel Annie, Captain Babcock

1871M1 Mission report for 1871

1871M2 First voyage of the third Morning Star

1872M1 Mission report for 1872

1872M2 Voyage of the Morning Star to Micronesia in 1872

1872M3 Letter from Rev. J. F. Whitney, new missionary to Micronesia

1873M1 The New Testament translated into Gilbertese

1873M2 First newspaper published in the Marshallese language

1873M3 The voyage of the Brig Morning Star, 1873-74

1873M4 Voyage of the Morning Star in the Caroline Islands

1874M1 Mission report for 1874

1875M1 Mission report for 1875

1875M2 Missionary news for 1875

1875M3 Journal of a voyage to Micronesia in 1875, by Mrs. Colcord

1882M1 Two voyages of the Morning Star III, and her shipwreck at Kosrae

1884M1 A new missionary vessel, the Morning Star IV

1885M1 First trip of the Morning Star IV to Micronesia

1885M2 German versus Spanish dominion in the Carolines

1886M1 Annual report for 1885-86

1886M2 Letters from Rev. and Mrs. Logan, Chuuk, 1886

1887M1 Spanish occupation of Pohnpei—The American point of view

1887M4 Last words and work of Rev. Logan, by Mary Logan

1887M5 The journal of a visit to the Gilbert Islands by Mrs. Walkup

1889M News published in the Friend

1890M1 A Day in Kusaie, by Miss Ella Theodora Crosby

1890M2 The Ponape Troubles, by Miss Crosby

1890M3 The missionary schooner Robert W. Logan for Chuuk

1890M4 Life in Chuuk, 1890-98, by Mrs. Mary Logan

1892M1 Extracts from the logbooks of the Hiram Bingham I, 1892-98

1894M1 The Morning Star IV chased away from Ponape in 1894

1896M1 Extracts from the logbook of schooner Robert W. Logan II, 96-98

1896M2 Two visits of the Morning Star to Ponape in 1896

1896M3 Protestants versus Catholics in Ponape

1897M1 Trouble in Truk reported by Dr. Price

1897M2 Micronesian Memories, by Mrs. Beulah Logan Tuthill

1900M1 Letters of Rev. Price upon arrival at Guam

1901M1 Logbook of the Carrie & Annie, Captain Foster

1901M2 The rambling notes of Rev. Walkup, Supervisor of the Gilbert Island Protestant Mission

1903M1 Miss Hoppin, hopping from Gilberts to Kosrae aboard native canoe

1903M2 Marjory with the Chamorros, by Mary C./ Stevens

1904M Missionary work in Guam, by Rev. Francis M. Price

1907M1 Signs of progress in Guam, by Rev. Francis M. Price

1907M2 What "Being a Missionary" means in Kusaie, by Miss Jenny Olin

1907M3 Nauru, past and present, by Rev. Delaporte

1909M1 A word on Nauru, by Rev. O. H. Gulick

1909M2 Death of Mr. Walkup—Sinking of the Hiram Bingham II

Appendix 1—Micronesian Mission—Missionary vessels

Appendix 2—Protestant missionaries in Micronesia, 1852-1980s

Appendix 3—References to the Micronesian Mission in the Missionary Herald, 1852-1923

Appendix 4—Specimens of Micronesian languages (1866)

Appendix 5—Correspondence of Rev. and Mrs. Ephraim Roberts

Publication Details

Lévesque Rodrigue. History of Micronesia: A Collection of Source Documents; History of The Micronesian Mission American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1852-1909. Gatineau Québec: Lévesque Publications; 2004.

ISBN 978-0-920201-26-8