This report is printed almost in full as an appendix to the 1897 Annual Report (pp.59-61). The only paragraph lacking from the printed version is that which announces the arrival of assistants for Ramseyer in the person of the missionaries Zellweger…
Part of the report is printed in the Annual Report 1894, pp. 57ff. In the course of the year a large schoolhouse with two rooms was built for the Boarding School, also, a sleeping room for the boarding pupils. In Bompata there are several houses on…
Part of this report is printed as annex to the 1891 Annual Report, pp49f and 51f. Additional material: Personnel changes. Tschopp and Weber both left the station, and Haasis arrived. Catechist Kutabi was posted to Akpamim, Catechist Ntow was posted…
A happy year - the total of the community in Kwahu stands at 219. Abetifi - Personnel - the Weber family arrived in the course of the year. The 22 Abetifi Christians baptised in July included several older people, and several wives of previously…
He reacts to the decision taken by these bodies that only two outstations should be opened in Asante on account of Asante not yet being pacified. Ramseyer’s reaction is to ask simply which of the missionaries was in position to make a judgement about…
The letter is printed in full in Sklavenheim 1898, pp2-7. It is a general account of the progress of the slave-colony to date. There is a Ramseyer letter in Le Missionaire 1898, pp55-57. It does say that they had been advising the Sklavenfreund…
(1) The idea of buying free slave children and bringing them up he is quite against - if they buy them free this will simply stimulate the traffic, and if they do not buy they free he does not see how the mission is to get them into its hands. (2)…
He writes that he worked very happily with Kwabi - he has an 'inner life' and knows how to go about things with the people. Two problems emerged - that he was too fond of settling disputes, and also fond of dispensing medicine. Ramseyer considers he…
Abetifi at the beginning of the year they had to exclude from the station four people including Johannes Wiredu who had earlier been sent away from the Bekoro Middle School because of laziness, and Rosina Gyemfa, the wife of, the late elder Nathaniel…
Apart from one case of fever, the missionaries have not been stopped from working by health problems at all in 1882. The Census figures are a result of 16 baptisms (13 of them baptisms of adult heathens). However, it is not so easy to answer the…
A letter informing the committee of their hesitations about going forward to Kwahu, because of the war. Much of the informations are in Mohr’s letter number 255 of 1875. Additional points: The Juabenhene had visited Ramseyer on the mission station…
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