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Did you know that the American Baptist missionaries were responsible for bringing education to Jaffna and its surrounding districts They founded the Girls’ College at Uduvil in 1820 the oldest school in Sri Lanka and Jaffna College at Vaddukoddai in 1871 as a successor to the Batticotta Seminary. The remains of these surprising people lie in the cemeteries at Uduvil and Tellippalai. Find out who they are in GRAVEYARDS OF CEYLON North & East Vol VI
http://www.genealogybookshop.co.uk/kabristan-publications/sri-lanka-publications.html
My great great grandfather is the Rev Thomas Poage Hunt, first headmaster of Vadokottai College from 1872 to 1880. His picture still hangs at the American missions church in Jaffna. I currently live in Ipoh, Malaysia.
I just purchased a brief letter of your great great grandfather presumably written to noted medical missionary Samuel F. Green who has added and initialed two notes on it, one saying your g.g. grandfather was “a very animated interesting preacher.”. Rev. Hunt thanks the recipient for a copy of Goulburn’s Personal Religion.