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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

1821-1891  Adoniram Judson Bigelow Entrepreneur VT/CA Rod Bigelow of the Bigelow Society shared this biography of his great-grandfather, Adoniram Judson Bigelow: Adoniram Judson Bigelow was the son of Barna and Elizabeth (Boynton) Bigelow and was born at Hubbardston, VT, on 20 April 1821. His marriage was on 27 October 1857 to Martha Jane Munroe who was

1820-1893 Adoniram Judson Buell Baptist Pastor   New York/Ohio    NY/OH Adoniram Judson Buell was born in the village of Delphi, NY, 30 October 1820. His mother was Phebe Freeman Buell whose four brothers were all Baptist preachers. Her first son, Rev. Rufus Freeman Buell was the first American missionary to Greece where he labored 15

1820-1907 Adoniram Judson Adams (3 entries)      NH/ME/MA [Compiler’s Note: I accumulated many people named Adoniram Judson Adams but all their stories were incomplete. I winnowed them down to three and lumped them together under the first name that had a date of birth and a date of death.] First. The first version of Adoniram Judson Adams

1820-1868 Adoniram Judson Bingham Baptist Pastor/Missionary     MI/MA Adoniram Judson Bingham was born 5 April 1820, to Abel Bingham and Hannah Brown, American Baptist missionaries to the Ojibwa (Chippewa) Indians in Sault Ste. Marie, MI.  Abel Bingham was nationally known for his work with the Indians because of his regularly published letters from the field about

1819-1868 Adoniram Judson Joslyn Baptist Pastor/Abolitionist   NY/IL In 1819, after six years on the field, Adoniram Judson built the first Christian zayat and preached his first sermon in Burmese. On 5 October 1819, Mary Polly Waite Joslyn gave birth to a son and named him Adoniram Judson Joslyn. Her husband, Rev. Lindsey Joslyn, was

1819-1850 Nancy Judson McCoy Special Daughter IN/MO To get a glimpse of Nancy Judson McCoy it is necessary to know her parents, Isaac and Christiana McCoy. Biographer Walter N. Wyeth describes Isaac McCoy as, “the pioneer, the Judson of the West, who enjoys the honor of arousing the people of God, and of the land

1818-1864  Adoniram Judson Rowell Businessman/Public Servant.  Vermont Adoniram Judson Rowell was born on 4 November 1818, in Waterville, VT. He died 46 years later on 24 December 1864, in New Troy, VT.  He married Lucy Ann Richardson in 1841 and six children were born into this family. Rowell’s obituary reads in part: Died, at his