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Annual Register_, Vol. I, pp. 478-481. [82] _The American Baptist Magazine_, Vol. V, pp. 241f.; _The American Missionary Register_, Vol. VI, pp. 222f. [83] _The American Missionary Register_, Vol. VI, pp. 222f. [84] At the annual meeting of the American Colonization Society, February, 1825, on motion of General Robert G. Harper, the settlement was named Monrovia, in honor of the President of the United States. Fox, _op. cit._, p. 71. [85] _The American Baptist Magazine_, Vol. VI, pp. 244f. In the Report of the Board of Managers of the General Missionary Convention, May, 1825, "Lott Cary ... states that hostilities ... of the natives had ceased.... He asks for assistance to complete the work (on the church); and the Board feel pleasure in recommending the case to the hearts of all who are interested in the melioration of the condition of the African Race." Ibid., Vol. V, p. 216. [86] Cf. _Letters and Addresses of Lott Cary_. [87] Gurley, _op. cit._, p. 196. [88] Gurley, _op. cit._, p. 213. [89] _Ibid._, p. 214. [90] _Ibid._, p. 213. [91] _Ibid._, _op. cit._, p. 182. [92] The laws of the Society required every adult male to work two days a week for the public good while receiving rations from the public store. This rule was dispensed with providing each colonist would cultivate his own land. _Ibid._, p. 186. [93] _Ibid._, appendix, p. 150. [94] Gurley, _op. cit._, p. 187. [95] _Ibid._, appendix, p. 150. [96] Fox, _op. cit._, p. 72. [97] Gurley, _op. cit._, appendix, p. 150. [98] _Ibid._, pp. 190ff. [99] Gurley, _op. cit._, appendix, p. 150. [100] _The American Baptist Magazine_, Vol. IV, p. 423. [101] Hervey, _op. cit._, p. 204. [102] Gurley, _op. cit._, p. 203. [103] Gurley, _op. cit._, p. 214; Hervey, _op. cit._, p. 204. [104] _Ibid., op. cit._, p. 215; _ibid._, appendix, p. 150. [105] _The American Missionary Register_, Vol. VI, p. 143. [106] _Ibid._ [107] Gurley, _op. cit._, appendix, p. 49. [108] _Ibid._ p. 246. [109] Gammell, _op. cit._, p. 247. [110] _The Missionary Jubilee_, p. 215. [111] The Veys inhabit this healthy country and are very intelligent. They have a written language although no books. Peck, _op. cit._, p. 441. [112] Warneck, _op. cit._, p. 189. [113] Peck, _op. cit._, p. 441. [114] Gurley, _op. cit._, appendix, p. 30. [115] _The American Missionary Register_, Vol. VI, p. 341. [116] Cf. Jones, _The Religious Instruction
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