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John Williams (missionary)
John Williams (1796 – 20 November 1839) was an English missionary, active in the South Pacific. Born at Tottenham, near London, England, he was trained as a foundry worker and mechanic.
In September 1816, the London Missionary Society commissioned him as a missionary in a service held at Surrey Chapel, London.
==South Pacific missionary==
In 1817, John Williams and his wife, Mary Chawner, voyaged to the Society Islands, a group of islands that included Tahiti, accompanied by William Ellis and his wife. John and Mary established their first missionary post on the island of Raiatea. From there, they visited a number of the Polynesian island chains, sometimes with Mr & Mrs Ellis and other London Missionary Society representatives. Landing on Aitutaki in 1821, they used Tahitian converts to carry their message to the Cook islanders. One island in this group, Rarotonga (discovered by Captain John Dibbs of the colonial schooner ''Endeavor'' in August 1823, with Rev. Williams on board), rises out of the sea as jungle-covered mountains of orange soil ringed by coral reef and turquoise lagoon; Williams became fascinated by it. John and Mary had ten children, but only three survived to adulthood.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wills & Admons = Pt II, KÜCK, John )〕 The Williamses became the first missionary family to visit Samoa.
The Williamses returned in 1834 to Britain, where John supervised the printing of his translation of the New Testament into the Rarotongan language. They brought back a native of Samoa, named Leota who came to live as a Christian in London. At the end of his days, Leota was buried in Abney Park Cemetery with a dignified headstone paid for by the London Missionary Society, recording his adventure from the South Seas island of his birth. Whilst back in London, John Williams published a ''"Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands"'', making a contribution to English understanding and popularity of the region, before returning to the Polynesian islands in 1837 on the ship ''Camden'' under the command of Captain Robert Clark Morgan.
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