William Porter journals relating to the Wellington Valley Mission, NSW, 1838-1843

MLMSS 7239/Box 1X

fonds

1838-1843

423882

Microfilm : CY 4317, frames 16-60 (MLMSS 7239)

0.16 metres of textual material (1 outsize box) - manuscript

In January 1837 William Porter was appointed by the Church Missionary Society in London to be the agriculturalist at the Wellington Valley Mission which had been established in 1832 to introduce Christianity to the indigenous people west of the Great Dividing Range. Porter arrived there in July 1838 and soon clashed with the mission head, Rev. William Watson, over Watson's use of mission land for his own private farming and his laziness in spreading the Word of God. The mission was eventually abandoned in 1844 by which time Porter had resigned and returned to England.

ITEM 01
William Porter diary, 16 July-31 December 1838

ITEM 02
William Porter journal, 13 September 1842 to 6 March 1843

ITEM 03
William Porter narrative, ca. 1843

See The Wellington Valley Project (http://www.newcastle.edu.au/group/amrhd/wvp/) for transcripts of letters, journals, diaries and reports of William Porter in the Church Missionary Society papers at the University of Birmingham.
Original journals copied onto preservation microfilm, July 2003.