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Re: REV. JOSIAH GODDARD - Early Baptist China Missionary
Posted by: Jacqueline Russell (ID *****0541) Date: June 10, 2008 at 16:38:55
In Reply to: Re: REV. JOSIAH GODDARD - Early Baptist China Missionary by Jacqueline Russell of 1739

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Josiah Goddard

GODDARD, Josiah, clergyman, born in Wendell, Massachusetts, 27 October, 1813" died in Ningpo, China, 4 September, 1854. He was graduated at, Brown in 1835, and at the Newton theological institution in 1838, was appointed a missionary to the Chinese in Siam, and arrived in Singapore in June, 1839. His labors were begun in Bangkok, Siam, in 1840. In 1848 he removed to Ningpo, where he remained until his death, preaching and working with energy, although in failing health. He prepared several tracts, an English and Chinese vocabulary, and a translation of the New Testament into Chinese.
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Goddard, Josiah
1813-1854
Baptist Board for Foreign Missions
Thailand; Ningbo, China


Goddard, Josiah, American Baptist missionary in Siam and China.

Born in Wendell, Massachusetts, Goddard was the son of the Reverend David and Hannah B. Goddard. He graduated from Brown University in 1835 and from Newton Theological Institute three years later. Ordained to the Baptist ministry, Goddard and his wife, Eliza (Abbot), were appointed by the Baptist Board for Foreign Missions to work with the Chinese in Siam (Thailand) and they sailed in 1839. At Bangkok in l842 Josiah Goddard succeeded William Dean as pastor of the first Chinese Baptist church, and labored there for six years until his health failed. In 1848 the Goddards moved to Ningpo (Ningbo), northeast Chekiang (Zhejiang) Province, China. Though suffering from a lung disease, Josiah mastered the Tie-Chu dialect and preached to a new congregation. He was best known for the quality of his translation work, some of which was among the first English to Chinese. From 1842 to 1854 he completed five tracts, a catechism, a vocabulary, and the entire New Testament. The Goddard children, some of whom married members of the William Dean family, produced several generations of Baptist missionaries in China, including Josiah Ripley Goddard, Augusta Fanny Dean, Anna Kate Goddard, Francis Wayland Goddard, and Anna M. Corlies.
William H. Brackney
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IGI Individual Record FamilySearch™ International Genealogical Index v5.0 North America
JOSIAH GODDARD Pedigree Male
Birth: 27 OCT 1813 Wendell, Franklin, Massachusetts
Father: DAVID GODDARD
Mother: HANNAH BROWN
Messages: Form submitted by a member of the LDS Church.
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and on wife of JOSIAH GODDARD.

The History of Holden, Massachusetts, 1667-1841: 1667-1841 - Page 132
by Samuel Chenery Damon - Holden (Mass.) - 1841 - 154 pages

She was born at Holden, August 13, 1814. They embarked from Boston for the Sandwich
... GODDARD, (Eliza Ann Abbott.) She is the daughter of Mr. Asa Abbott, ...
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The History of Holden, Massachusetts. 1684-1894 - Page 130
by David Foster Estes, Samuel Chenery Damon - Holden (Mass.) - 1894 - 446 pages

Mrs. Eliza Ann Abbott Goddard, born in Holden, January 3d, 1817, married Rev.
Josiah Goddard, in 1838, reached Siam 1840, and resided at Bangkok until 1848, ...
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FTM CD#220 MA VITAL RECORDS
ABBOT, ELIZA ANN
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: 3-JAN-1817
Town of Record: Holden
County of Record: Worcester
Comment: /DR ASA AND SALLY
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2 listings in the IGI list ELIZA's mother as SALLY MORSE.




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