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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/B/OMS/C I2 O81
TitleDevasagayam, Rev. John
Extent34 docs.
Date1821-1861
DescriptionTranquebar 1821-1824; Mayaveram 1830-1831; Pallamcotta 1835-1840; Satankullam 1843; Kadatchapuram 1844-1861
/1-2 Letters 1832, 1853;
/3-6 Journals: Apr - Jun 1821; Oct - Dec 1844; Jan - Mar 1857 [brief extracts];
/7 Report: Kadatchapuram district 1846;

/8-9 Annual letters for 1853, 1861 including:
/8 Covering letter only 1855;

/10-31 Statistics:
/10-14 Quarterly lists of Tranquebar schools: place, number and castes of scholars, expenses (includes school rents, masters' allowances) 1821, 1822, 1824;
/15 List of Tranquebar schools: place, names of schoolmasters and assistants, month and year established, number of children in 1821 and 1822, total number that passed through each class, present number in class 1822;
/16-22 Lists of schoolmasters and catechists: Palamcotta division: signed by Devasagayam and Edward Dent 1837-38, 1840;
/23 School statistics: Palmacotta district 1835;
/24-28 Mayaveram: Quarterly and monthly returns 1830-31;
/29-30 Palamcotta division: half-yearly lists of congregations and schools Jun, Dec 1838;
/31 Satankullam and Kadatchapuram districts: list of congregations and schools 1843;

/32 Declaration by bishop of Calcutta that Devasagayam, first Indian candidate for ordination, is not required to take the oaths of allegiance or supremacy [copy] [1830];
/33 Obituary of Arokkia Nadan written by the catechist of Meyyoor [including extract from Devasagayam's journal] 1852;
/34 Letter to Devasagayam from son D. John, Palamcotta: relating to three converts 1857
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