First Annual Report of the Trustees of the Female Missionary Society of the Western District

Title

First Annual Report of the Trustees of the Female Missionary Society of the Western District

Creator

Female Missionary Society of the Western District (N.Y.)

Date

1817

Subject

Female Missionary Society of the Western District (N.Y.)

Missions--New York (State)

Type

text

Language

English

Place of Issue

Utica (N.Y.)

Genre

Annual reports

Location

Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester

Call number

2

AC109.5 .D51p v.5, no.32

Exhibition link

Upstate New York and the Women's Rights Movement

Label text

The First Annual Report of the Trustees of the Female Missionary Society of the Western District (Utica, 1817). In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries a wave of religious revivals swept across New England and New York State. The converted were exhorted to work for the salvation of others. Women's participation in this undertaking was welcomed, and through organizations such as the Female Missionary Society of the Western District they raised money to spread the Gospel, found churches, and distribute tracts. These undertakings gave women their first experience in working together for a semi-public cause.

Precursors

Collection

Rare Book Collection (UR-RBSCP)

Citation

Female Missionary Society of the Western District (N.Y.), “First Annual Report of the Trustees of the Female Missionary Society of the Western District,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed April 25, 2024, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/512.

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