Baptist Missionary Society (Corporate Name)

Central Africa, 188-?: map recto (Baptist Missionary Society)

LC data base, 8-1-87 (hdg.: Baptist Missionary Society, London)

Annual report and financial statements, 1999: p. 1 (BMS)

Annual report and financial statements, 2000: t.p. (BMS World Mission)

The unfinished story, 1991: p. 6 (Baptist Missionary Society (BMS))

Christianity.com website, Baptist Missionary Society formed in England, viewed Sep. 9, 2013 (formed by a parlor gathering of ministers in the district of Kettering, England, Oct. 2, 1792, in response to a pamphlet by William Carey; first foreign missionary society created by the Evangelical Revival of the last half of the 18th century)

William Carey University website, viewed Sep. 9, 2013 (Baptist Missionary Society; original name, "Particular Baptist Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Amongst the Heathen"; centenary in 1892)

OCLC, The annual report of the Committee of the Baptist Missionary Society for the year ending ..., -1890, viewed Sep. 9, 2013 (hdg.: Particular Baptist Missionary Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Heathen; "The name by which the society has been and still is designated is the Particular Baptist Missionary Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Heathen, or, the Baptist Missionary Society"--1860; merged with the General Baptist Missionary Society in 1891, thereafter designated the Baptist Missionary Society)

Wikipedia, viewed July 12, 2013 (BMS World Mission; founded 1792; for most of its life known as the Baptist Missionary Society; current name was adopted in 2000.)

Email to NACO, Aug. 7, 2014 (The overseas mission started in Calcutta (see http://www.bmsworldmission.org/about-us/our-heritage-2), and the statement of responsibility in no2002030651 (now deleted) is just using a descriptive phrase rather than stating the name of a corporate body. That is, there is no subordinate body Baptist Missionary Society. Calcutta Branch)

The Congo news letter, April, 1906, viewed online April 13, 2018: page 11 (B. M. S., Baptist Missionary Society)

NLSA, May 5, 2006 (Baptist Missionary Society, 1819-19?, name changed to South African Baptist Missionary Society)