Classic DACB Collection

All articles created or submitted in the first twenty years of the project, from 1995 to 2015.

Pearce, Moses

1800s
Anglican Communion (Church Missionary Society)
Sierra Leone , Ghana

Of Sierra Leone, West Africa. A Colony-born Christian of the Egba Tribe. At Freetown Grammar School and Fourah Bay College. 1862, Catechist at Kissey Road; afterwards at Charlotte and the Bananas. 1866, December 23, deacon and 1868, December 20, ordained a priest by Bishop of Sierra Leone. Stationed at Kissey Road. 1867, Sherbro. 1871, Trinity Church, Freetown. 1872, June 1, Charlotte. 1874, January, Trinity Church. 1874, Christ Church. 1883, Colonial and Garrison Chaplain on the Gold Coast. 1884, Acting Garrison Chaplain to Her Majesty’s troops. 1893, license withdrawn by the Bishop.

Source:

Church Missionary Society, Register of Missionaries (Clerical, Lay and Female) and Native Clergy from 1804 to 1904.