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  1. South Pacific missionary. John Williams. On 17 November 1816, John Williams and his wife, Mary Chawner Williams, set sail from London to voyage to the Society Islands, a group of islands that included Tahiti, accompanied by William Ellis and his wife. Travelling via Sydney in Australia they initially only reached as far as Eimeo, west of Tahiti ...

  2. May 4, 2017 · John Williams. These islands captured the heart of Welsh missionary John Williams, later to be known to history as the “Martyr of Polynesia.”. More than any other man, John Williams would be the instrument of God to open the islands of the South Pacific to mission work. The first island upon which the Williams labored was the beautiful ...

  3. John became a member at the Tabernacle and joined the London Missionary Society. He was ordained, September 1816, at Surrey Chapel, London, alongside another destined to be a great missionary, Robert Moffat, whose sights were set on Africa. In November 1816, the newly-married young missionary sailed with his bride, Mary, bound for the other ...

  4. Samoa. John Williams, a member of the London Missionary Society, arrived to establish a Christian mission in 1830. He made a convert of Malietoa Vainu’upo, who had just conquered all of Samoa, and the rest of the population soon followed suit. A foreign settlement had developed…. Other articles where John Williams is discussed: Rarotonga ...

  5. Feb 18, 2019 · John Williams was a missionary in the mid 1800s to the South Pacific Islands. He was greatly used of the Lord to bring the natives to a knowledge of Christ. ...

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  6. John Williams (1796-1839), missionary, was born on 27 June 1796 at Tottenham High Cross, London, the son of John Williams and Hannah (?) Maidment. His ancestors on his father's side had been Baptists for many generations. His mother was influenced by the Calvinistic Methodist movement and brought her son up as a Congregationalist.

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  8. John Williams: The Welshman Who Loved the Unlovely. 5 min. It was spring of 1817. The two young missionaries on the deck of a ship peered into the distance toward the new, strange land where they would spend their lives. A long line of white sand greeted their eyes, a refreshing break from the brilliant blue skies and ocean waters they had seen ...

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