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1827-Present Judson Baptist Church    Mawlamyine/Myanmar Maulmein/Burma After the first Anglo-Burmese War ended in 1826, Adoniram and Ann Judson moved their headquarters from Rangoon to Maulmein (now Mawlamyine) and settled under the safety of the British empire. The first church Judson constructed was in 1827 patterned after the zayat from which he worked in Rangoon. A […]

1827-1909 Adoniram Judson Patterson Pastor/Legislator       PA/NH/MA Thanks to Andy Osterdahl for allowing me to use his research on Adoniram Judson Patterson from “The Strangest Names in American Political History” blogspot. Adoniram Judson Patterson was a noted New Hampshire clergyman who served a term in his state’s House of Representatives in the mid-1860’s. Patterson was born

1827-1906  Adoniram Judson Bradley Soldier/Farmer/Watchman    MA Adoniram Judson Bradley was born 2 March 1827, just 6 weeks before little Marie Elizabeth Butterworth Judson died in Burma at age two, the third child of missionaries Ann and Adoniram Judson to die too young. Bradley was born in Russell, MA, and was a farmer and lumber

1826-1900      Adoniram Judson Billings Physician/Public Servant     Maine   ME Ann Hasseltine Judson died in 1826 not long after her husband had been released from a Burmese prison to help negotiate treaties between the British and the Burmans. Little Adoniram Judson Billings was born later that same year in Newport, Maine, December 3, 1826, and was

1824-1897     Adoniram Judson Batchelder Businessman/Public Servant MA/CA The August 8, 1897, edition of the San Francisco Call reports the headline “Mourning in Marysville: Passing to Adoniram Judson Batchelder, a Pioneer of Yuba County.” Yuba County mourns the loss of an efficient officer and ex-representative in the State Legislature, while Marysville is in deep gloom over

1824-Present      Judson Press and Publications District of Columbia/Pennsylvania DC/PA In June of 1824 Adoniram Judson was imprisoned when the British invaded Burma thus beginning the First Anglo-Burmese War. His confinement would last for 21 months and during that time, Baptists in America began their publication ministry. The Judsons, aided by missionary George Hough, plus

1823-1835? Judson Ward Rowe Missionary Child     India/Alabama? While recovering from liver problems in the US under the care of Dr. Elnathan Judson, brother of Adoniram Judson, Ann Judson published her best-selling book, A Particular Relation of the American Baptist Mission to the Burman Empire informing Americans of the first-hand work of missionaries. In that same year,

1821-1890 Family of Daniel Gray Taylor A Country Preacher  Virginia VA To understand the significance of the Taylor family in The Judson Legacy Project we must begin with Daniel Gray Taylor and his wife, Martha King Taylor.  A simple biography of Rev. Taylor was written by their son, Joseph Judson Taylor, and simply named Daniel

1821-1850  Adoniram Judson Blake Methodist Pastor           Ohio    OH/OH The archives of Ohio United Methodism help tell the story of Adoniram Judson Blake. These documents state that he was in the Pittsburgh Conference in 1847 and was assigned to Brownsville in Licking County just west of Zanesville. The next year, 1848, he was assigned to Richmond

1821-1897 Adoniram Judson Waite Farmer    New York/Illinois NY/IL Due to liver problems and the loss of two children, Ann Hasseltine Judson left Burma in August 1821 to return to the States for medical care. One month before her departure, Adoniram Judson Waite was born in Washington County, NY. He eventually married Caroline Bull, also of