"Schiedt from Danish Accra"

1) About the transfer of the Government chaplaincy. The chaplain has fallen into the hands of the Negro girls, unsuitable. 2) Financial matter. 3) Wolf has gone to Peki, but the Hamburg Committee does not agree and commands him to go to the Danya (?) where he had been refused admittance (p 1). 4) The proposal to transfer Dieterle to Aburi was his own private opinion. 5) The West Indians should be settled as a colony in the Accra plain at Abokobi, this is the paradise of the Gold Coast and most fertile and handy for transport. There groundnut could be planted on a large scale. The French trader there interested in the exporting of groundnuts (p 2-3). 6) Personal matters about Halleur who sent his time at Christiansborg doing nothing. The missionaries at Tantun see that they must give up work, no money, great debts. Halleur sent away by the Governor on account of a report of Schiedt. Gossner sent mighty accusations to Africa against Schiedt, because he believed that Schiedt had stolen Mr. Heinze from him, where he only did a work of charity (pp 3-4). 7) About the ordering difficulties for schoolbooks (pp 2-4). 8) About Thompson: He has no servant. The instructions of the committee are strictly kept (p 4). 9) About the Methodist intention to start work in Krobo and the endeavors about it (p 5). 10) The committee should endeavor to get back the beads loaned to the Akwapim chief. 11) Should a child of a Christian and a pagan woman be forced to be baptised? 12) Shall a baptised man be allowed to marry according to native custom?

16.03.1848

16.03.1848

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