Harriet Newell
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Harriet Newell was born Harriet Atwood at Haverhill, Massachusetts
in Oct 1793. She was part of the first wave of Christian missionaries to go overseas from the United States
. She died less than a year into her journey and became a hero and role model for Christians during the Nineteenth Century. Many children were named for her over the following decades.
She married in February 1812 to Rev. Samuel Newell. Along with Adoniram Judson
and Ann Judson http://www.archive.org/details/memoirofmrsannhj00judsuoft they went off to preach in India and Burma. They were expelled by the East India Company and went on to Mauritius
, where she died November 30, 1812. She had given birth to a child who died after five days. Her memoirs were published posthumously http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/05021703.html, going into a number of editions.
Haverhill, Massachusetts
Haverhill is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 60,879 at the 2010 census.Located on the Merrimack River, it began as a farming community that would evolve into an important industrial center, beginning with sawmills and gristmills run by water power. In the...
in Oct 1793. She was part of the first wave of Christian missionaries to go overseas from the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. She died less than a year into her journey and became a hero and role model for Christians during the Nineteenth Century. Many children were named for her over the following decades.
She married in February 1812 to Rev. Samuel Newell. Along with Adoniram Judson
Adoniram Judson
Adoniram Judson, Jr. was an American Baptist missionary, who served in Burma for almost forty years. At the age of 25, Adoniram Judson became the first Protestant missionary sent from North America to preach in Burma...
and Ann Judson http://www.archive.org/details/memoirofmrsannhj00judsuoft they went off to preach in India and Burma. They were expelled by the East India Company and went on to Mauritius
Mauritius
Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar...
, where she died November 30, 1812. She had given birth to a child who died after five days. Her memoirs were published posthumously http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/05021703.html, going into a number of editions.