The Massachusetts Missionary Magazine for the Year 1803

This is the first volume of *The Massachusetts Missionary Magazine*, published in Salem in 1803. The magazine contains religious communications and articles intended to edify Christians and inform the rising generation. Profits from the publication supported missionaries in new settlements and among Native Americans. Notably, one of the articles details the conversion of two Jewish people to Christianity. The editors were Samuel Austin, Nathanael Emmons, Abiel Holmes, David Sanford, Jonathan Strong, Daniel Hopkins, Caleb Alexander, Samuel Springs, Jacob Norton, Joseph Barker, Paul Litchfield, Samuel Niles, Elijah Parish and Samuel Austin (Ed. Appointed by the Missionary Society). This is a rare first edition, May 1803-April 1804, bound in contemporary leather.

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• Missionaries
• Baptists
• Congregationalists
• Missions

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