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	Subject:	Re: REV. JOSIAH GODDARD - Early Baptist China Missionary
	Post Date:	June 10, 2008 at 15:32:09
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Town Clerk of Wendell, MA. Josiah Goddard of Wendell and Eliza Ann Abbott of Holden Aug. 25, 1838 ============================================================ History of Western Massachusetts: The Counties ... by Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1855 - Hampden County (Mass.) Page 458. Rev. Josiah Goddard, Baptist Missionary at Ningpo, China, is a native of Wendell, and is said to be the best linguist in the Celestial Empire. Full View - www.books.google.com ============================================================ A History of the Churches and Ministers, and ... by Theophilus Packard - 1854 - Franklin County (Mass.) - 456 pages From Wendell have originated the following Baptist preachers, Josiah Goddard, a missionary in China. books.google.com/books?id=v8UdyMySRJwC... ======================================================== http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Goddard Josiah Goddard (1813-1854) was an American Baptist missionary in China. Goddard published a number of tracts, including: A temperance Tract: An inquirer's Guide; A history of Elijah His New Testament in Chinese was first published in 1853 for the American and Foreign Bible Society A nineteenth-century biographical sketch of Goddard is included in William B. Sprague, Annals of the American Baptist Pulpit (1860) ============================================================