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LIST OF PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES

AT THE SEVERAL PORTS OF CHINA, WITH THE NAMES OF The socIETIES TO WHICH THEY BELONG.

Names of the Missionary Societies, and the period when

they first sent laborers to the Chinese.

1. The London Missionary Society, 1807.

2. The American Board of Commissioners for For. Mis. 1829. 3. The Rhenish Missionary Society, (Barmen, Prussia,) 1832. 4. The American Baptist Missionary Union, 1834.

5. The Board of the Prot. Episcopal Ch. in the U. S. A. 1835. 6. The Church Missionary Society (England) for Africa and

the East 1837.

7. The Board of For. Mis, of the Presb. Ch. in the U. S. A. 1837. 8. The English General Baptist Missionary Society, 1845.

9. The Evangelical Mis. Society of Basle (Switzerland). 1846. 10. The Board of For. Mis. of the Southern Baptist Convention.

U. S. A. 1846.

11. The Mis. Soc. of the Sabbatarian (Baptist) Ch., U. S. A. 1847. 12. The Mis. Soc. of the Methodist Epis. Ch. in the U. S. A. 1847. 13. The For. Mis. Soc., of the Presbyterian Ch. in England. 1847. 14. The Methodist Episcopal Church of the Southern States, 1848. 15. The Swedish Missionary Society, 1849.

The Netherlands Missionary Society, in 1827, sent out the Rev. Charles Gutzlaff; his connection with it was dissolved in 1835. It has had no other missionary to the Chinese.

The Medical Missionary Society in China was established in Feb. 1838. Its sole object has been to afford medical missionaries, hospitals, medicines, and attendants," without " support or remu-

neration" for their services.

protestant MISSIONARIES AT PRESENT LABORË,,

WHEN SENT, and in conNECTION WITH WHẤT

CANTON.

Rev. E. C. Bridgman, D. D. and fam.,

CHINESE,

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Retd.

S. W. Williams, and fam.,

Rev. Dyer Ball, M. D. and fam.,

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Rev. James G. Bridgman,

Samuel W. Bonney, licentiate,

Rev. John B. French,

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Rev. William Speer, absent

1829 Amer Board Com.

1833

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1838

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(Printer) (Dispensary)

1843

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1845

Rev. Andrew P. Happer м. D. and fam., 1844 Amer. Pres. Board.

Rev. Issachar J. Roberts, absent, Rev. B. W. Whilden and fam.,

Benjamin Hobson M. D. and fam., Rev. William Gillespie,

*Rev. John F. Cleland and family,

Rev. Thomas Gilfillan,

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1836 Am. Bap. S. Co■. 1849

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1839 Lond. Mis. Soc. 1844 " 1846

1848

Rev. Peter Parker, M. D. Ophthalmic Hospital.

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