1807 JOHN ALLYN. On Call to Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians of North America.

A superb 4pp early American manuscript regarding the call of Rev. John Allyn [1767-1833], John Elliot, etc., and to engage a missionary tour to the Native America communities in Maine. The names of Whitman, Burr, etc., sprinkled throughout are worthy of further exploration.  John Allyn entered Harvard University in 1781, and graduated in 1785, at the early age of eighteen. On leaving College, he was determined to devote himself to the work of the ministry, and so studied Theology under the direction of the able and learned, but highly eccentric, Dr. Samuel West, of Dartmouth. In September of 1788, having been licensed to preach, he received an invitation from the Church and Society in Duxbury to become their Pastor, which he accepted. After some time of faithful pastoral ministry at Duxbury, he was approached about the possibility of being employed on a missionary in Maine [1807] by the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and others in North America, which he fulfilled