Facts and 'Failures'?! February 1855

According to Professor Bernard Bate, this file "appears to be a polemical statistical report designed to analyze the relationship between schooling in ACM institutions and church membership in ACM churches" (Bate, 2005). Includes: (a) American Missionaries in the Ceylon Mission Jaffna, (b) Index to Batticotta seminary including pupils, principals, and a tabular view of the schools and seminary, (c) Index to Female Boarding School, Oodooville including names, villages, etc. of all students, professions of husbands, and church membership, (d) Native Free Schools with information on government grants and the evangelical society, and (e) Complete list of those church members who have not been educated in our seminary...nor in the Female Boarding School at Oodooville...1839-1853. Size and dimensions of original material: 1 file of 118 pages.