1797 CONNECTICUT MISSIONARY SOCIETY. First Address & Report of Important Great Awakening Sending Agence.

Nicely preserved copy of the origin documents of one of the earliest Missionary agencies in America, and the founding of the Connecticut Missionary Society, the parent organization of much of the Second Great Awakening via its missionary evangelists, and its publication, The Connecticut Evangelical Magazine.

Contains an introduction by Jonathan Edwards Jun [who was acting as Scribe]; a Circular Address by John Love, and then missionary content including an address to the missionaries going to the South Seas in 1796; letter to the missionaries aboard the Duff; An Address to the British Nation by August von Shirnding; Notes by Levi Hart, Joseph Strong, and Walter King of the Association, etc. 

General Association of Connecticut. An Address, of the General Association of Connecticut, to the District Associations on the Subject of a Missionary Society; together with Summaries and Extracts from Late European Publications on Missions to the Heathen. Norwich. Thomas Hubbard, 1797. 32pp.

Textually complete and good; removed from a larger sammelband with the attending residue on spine and abrasion to inner margin at the first and last leaf. Some light toning and foxing; moderate tide mark across head of last half of text.