There are papers concerning the proposed journey to Kumasi on the part of Missionaries Harneck and Asante. The mission were already clearly considering the point that Asante had relatives in Kumasi, and wondering what could be made of this, but the…
Includes the accounts of the building both to date, and with estimates of the costs to come. There are also estimates for making a churchyard and building a wall. Work on the station so far into 1877 had been held up by the bad weather, and the lack…
Once more concerned with the question of building and build costs. They give an estimate of costs and another computation of the types of expenses incurred so far.
In the situation which led to Süss’ final break with the mission a number of points are made by Haas which give some picture of the working of the Gyadam station. At a conference on 11 May Süss had been left free from most station duties to carry on…
A discussion takes place as to the relative merits of the old and new station sites, since Widman in a visit to Gyadam in March 59 had suggested that the old site might remain in use.-Inter al it is said that the old-station lay only 200-250 paces…
Information on costs of building and transport. £130 had been set aside by the Basel Committee for the building of the new station. So far 226 Thaler have been spent on the stock-houses and Brethren Süss’s house. That leaves 350 Thaler. In fact a…
No seperate number, bound before, Gyadam No. 10. Hönger had at his death a high sum in his possession: it is doubtful how much of this was his own property.
Discussion about the buying free of a servant girl of Chr. Asante in Kibi. He had acquired her because he could get no-one to serve him, and Missionary Mader had suggested that buying someone with the slave emancipation fund would be the best plan.…
The protocol was written by W. Huppenbauer. It concerns with the local agents in Akim. Huppenbauer advises that J. Seth and J. Asumen be fully accepted as local agents. The former at Kwaben has succeeded in getting the Christians to set out and build…
Concerns the reply to the Basel Committee's letter dated 14 October 1870. No. 52, Fol. 155. The subject, was the re-settling of Kukurantumi, the Basel Committee's letter is a reply to the Station’s Conference Minute from June 1870 (see Akim No. 10).…
To the minutes there are subscripts concerning trouble over the boundaries of the Mission Land in Kibi. People in the town were disputing the mission's ownership of a strip of land on the town side of the mission land, and another strip along the…
Christaller and Eisenschmid apply to the Basel Committee for resources to support 25 boarding pupils in the school. One of the factors adduced to justify the additional expenditure is the fact that a fetish priest has recently appealed to the…
In the attachment is a copy of a letter from a Togo Government Official named Oertzen welcoming the idea that the Basel Mission extend its area of operations in the German Protectorate, specifically naming Amfoi, Kpando, Kete Krakye and Buem as…
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