Browse Collections (7 total)
Wives Incorporated
While the early SPG was an organisation made up of male Church of England clergy, committee members, and subscribers, there is evidence that women had…
Contributors: AH/T003197/1: Pastoral Care, Literary Cure and Religious Dissent: Zones of Freedom in the British Atlantic (c. 1630-1720)
Elias Neau
Sourcing reliable missionaries for an unpredictable and often financially untenable life on the fringes of imperial experimentation was not a simple…
Contributors: AH/T003197/1: Pastoral Care, Literary Cure and Religious Dissent: Zones of Freedom in the British Atlantic (c. 1630-1720)
Francis Le Jau
Francis Le Jau (1665-1717), originally a French Huguenot, was one of the earliest missionaries employed by the Society in Goose Creek, South Carolina,…
Contributors: AH/T003197/1: Pastoral Care, Literary Cure and Religious Dissent: Zones of Freedom in the British Atlantic (c. 1630-1720)
The Conversion and Education of the Indigenous People Groups of the Americas
Mission was the driving imperative behind the founding of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG), as its name makes clear. However, this…
Contributors: AH/T003197/1: Pastoral Care, Literary Cure and Religious Dissent: Zones of Freedom in the British Atlantic (c. 1630-1720)
The Codrington Plantation
Upon his death in 1710, Christopher Codrington bequeathed to the SPG two plantations in Barbados 'to maintain a convenient number of professors and…
Contributors: AH/T003197/1: Pastoral Care, Literary Cure and Religious Dissent: Zones of Freedom in the British Atlantic (c. 1630-1720)
The SPG as an Incorporated Company
The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG) was founded in 1701 as an incorporated company. William III granted this status to the company by…
Contributors: AH/T003197/1: Pastoral Care, Literary Cure and Religious Dissent: Zones of Freedom in the British Atlantic (c. 1630-1720)
The SPG’s Early History and Archives
The early SPG can be considered an organisation that was bound by letters: transatlantic exchanges which linked together missionaries and their…
Contributors: AH/T003197/1: Pastoral Care, Literary Cure and Religious Dissent: Zones of Freedom in the British Atlantic (c. 1630-1720)