Ye Olde History Snippets… Pioneer Presbyterian minister Rev. Joseph Bullen
On this day May 22, 1799, pioneering Presbyterian minister Rev. Joseph Bullen met with Chickasaw leader Levi Colbert in Mississippi. Using another Chickasaw, Joseph Colbert, as interpreter, Rev. Bullock proposed a mission to the Chickasaw Indians. The proposal was well received. Three years prior, in 1796, the New York Missionary Society published an appeal for…