University of Otago Library Letter: John Cowell to Church Missionary Committee, 20 February 1819 John Cowell Author Church Missionary Committee Receiver text Letter Kent, England 20 February 1819 26 February 1819 Notes about where the letter was created: Brompton, Chatham, Kent, England eng text/html 227 x 188 mm 1 leaves 2 pages reformatted digital Hocken Collections' Title: John Cowell, Brompton, to the CMS Committee Other title: The humble Petition of John Cowell (formerly Rope-maker now working as) Labourer in H.M. Dock Yard at Chatham Scope and Content: This letter concerns a petition to join the New Zealand mission Committees Committee Petitions Petition Cowell Chatham -44.012571,-176.535401 Missions Mission New Zealand -41.244772,174.675751 1819 Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0498_076 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0498_076_001 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0498_076_002 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0498_076_003 MS_0498_076 The manuscript images, transcripts and metadata displayed on the Marsden Online Archive site are governed by a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 New Zealand (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 NZ) copyright agreement (available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/nz/). Please contact the Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand for more information. University of Otago Library 2015-06-11T15:18:10+12:00 machine generated eng Letter: John Cowell to Church Missionary Committee, 20 February 1819 John Cowell University of Otago Library Digitised from the Hocken Library Collection Number MS-0498/076 Digitised by the Marsden Online Archive Library of Congress Subject Headings Letter Maori Subject Headings Church Missionary Committee 20 February 1819 Kent, England 26 February 1819 British English Committees Petitions Missions Committee Petition Cowell Chatham Mission New zealand 1819 To the Gentlemen that constitute the Church Missionary Committee The humble Petition of John Cowell, (formerly Rope- maker now working as) Labourer in H. M. Dock Yard at Chatham Showeth, That your Petitioner having served his Apprenticeship to a Ropemaker of the first respectability at North Shields, and worked as a journeyman seven years in H.M. Yard at Chatham, from which place he can obtain testimonials of ability, as to his perfect knowledge of Rope making and Twine spinning, and of his good conduct, begs to present himself as a Candidate to join the Mission now about to proceed to New Zealand. Your petitioner’s object is only to obtain a bare subsistence for himself, Wife, and one Child— to use his weak efforts in assisting to promote the objects of the Mission, and to perform the pleasing task of instructing the unenlightened, having been in the habit (for years) of teaching the lower orders of Society. Your petitioner begs to add that he will feel happy in making him self useful in any Employment which he may be called upon to perform. And as in duty bound will ever pray John Cowell Brompton Feby 1819. Hocken Archive Reference Number MS-0498/076 24MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 45f36485d626f3779397c908c1c6e9e1 ACEMC 2646 3174 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0498/076 188 mm 227 mm 2014:05:02 14:32:05.93 University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit digital still camera Canon Canon EOS 6D 11.0 1 Manual 0220 1 11.0 6.9 1.4 Multi-segment tungsten flash did not fire 50.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 79.6 mm) 0 Subject is illuminated from the front side. Auto Focus Used Normal Digitised as part of the Mining Marsden Project in 2013/2014 8, 8, 8 integer 3 2014:05:06 11:24:55 University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit Processing actions undertaken to: prepare the image for online digital use and maintain the integrity of the image. Adobe Photoshop CS6 Windows 7 Cropped item to remove excess border and straightened the image. The manuscript images, transcripts and metadata displayed on the Marsden Online Archive site are governed by a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 New Zealand (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 NZ) copyright agreement (available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/nz/). Please contact the Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand for more information. Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. hocken@otago.ac.nz Hocken Archive Reference Number MS-0498/076 23MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 f946c6e4b0be0d685f1145d75bf48ce1 ACEMC 2640 3168 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0498/076 188 mm 227 mm 2014:05:02 14:32:48.62 University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit digital still camera Canon Canon EOS 6D 11.0 1 Manual 0220 1 11.0 6.9 1.4 Multi-segment tungsten flash did not fire 50.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 79.7 mm) 0 Subject is illuminated from the front side. 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