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1854 *RARE* Sailing Ship 'Sanuel French' Card with Missionary Trip Inscription

$ 263.99

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1854 *RARE* Sailing Ship 'Sanuel French' Card with Missionary Trip Inscription
Approx 4 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches
Front of card is a rare example of a sailing ship advertising card ca 1854
On the rear is a handwritten statement this is a picture of the Brigantine in which I crossed the ocean from Sierra Leone to New York in the year 1856.  Having been xx? in the Mendi Missions, West Africa Mrs Rebecca L. Tefft.
Rebecca Sexton Tefft (1829-1909), who worked at the Mendi Mission in Sierra Leone, Africa, an AMA mission. The American Missionary Association archives contains 92 letters from James Cutler Tefft (1815-1855), which document his being in Africa at the Kaw Mendi Station, the Good Hope Mendi Station, and Freetown, Sierra Leone, from 1851 to 1854. Rebecca Lovisa Sexton was at the Kaw Mendi Station in 1853 and returned in February 1855 after her marriage to James Cutler Tefft. She returned to the United States in 1856 following his death in October 1855.  She married Dr. Martin Tefft (1825-1880), the brother of James Cutler Tefft, in New York in 1857. Martin Tefft was also affiliated with the American Missionary Association in Vermont.
The Amistad Research Center holds the family papers of hers.
VERY RARE
See photos for condition details. Heavy ding on one side
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