# 3694c - 2002 37c Hawaii Scott 3 (13c of 1851)
The Hawaiian Missionaries
In 1819, Hawaiian King Kamehameha II established freedom of religion in the Islands. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions began sending teachers and missionaries to Hawaii. By the 1840s, many American missionaries had settled there.
To send a letter from Honolulu to America at that time, a person first had to find a ship ready to sail to the U.S. Then, he took his letter to the ship’s captain and asked him to mail it on the mainland. He did not pay the captain; the recipient would pay the postage. When he docked at a U.S. port, the captain took the letters to a post office, turned them in, and received two cents per letter for his service.
Incoming mail delivery was haphazard. Often mailbags were spilled across the counting table at a local business and people sorted through the stack looking for their mail.
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The Hawaiian Missionaries
In 1819, Hawaiian King Kamehameha II established freedom of religion in the Islands. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions began sending teachers and missionaries to Hawaii. By the 1840s, many American missionaries had settled there.
To send a letter from Honolulu to America at that time, a person first had to find a ship ready to sail to the U.S. Then, he took his letter to the ship’s captain and asked him to mail it on the mainland. He did not pay the captain; the recipient would pay the postage. When he docked at a U.S. port, the captain took the letters to a post office, turned them in, and received two cents per letter for his service.
Incoming mail delivery was haphazard. Often mailbags were spilled across the counting table at a local business and people sorted through the stack looking for their mail.
Click any of the First Day Covers above for more neat cover options for your collection. |
Click here to read more about the Grinnell Missionaries.
Click here to view more Hawaii stamps.