biography
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| lived:
| (1788–1850)
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| biography:
| Protestant missionary, born in Malden, Massachusetts, USA. He graduated from Brown (1807), taught for a year, studied at Andover Theological Seminary, was ordained (1812), and went to Burma in that year as a Baptist missionary. He was married three times, in each case to women who were missionaries in their own right. Imprisoned as a spy during the Anglo-Burmese War (1824–6), he translated the Bible into Burmese and claimed to have converted thousands to Christianity. He died a few days after leaving Burma on a voyage for his health. |
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