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Harriet Newell (October 10, 1793 – November 30, 1812) was a Christian missionary and memoirist. She was the first American to die in foreign mission service.
Harriet Atwood was born at
''A sermon, preached at Haverhill (Mass.) in remembrance of Mrs. Harriet Newell''
Text of her memoirs
{{DEFAULTSORT:Newell, Harriet 1793 births 1812 deaths People from Haverhill, Massachusetts American Protestant missionaries Female Christian missionaries Protestant missionaries in India American Ceylon Mission Protestant missionaries in Mauritius Protestant missionaries in Myanmar Writers from Massachusetts 19th-century American women writers 19th-century American memoirists American women memoirists
Harriet Newell (October 10, 1793 – November 30, 1812) was a Christian missionary and memoirist. She was the first American to die in foreign mission service.
Biography
Harriet Atwood was born at Haverhill, Massachusetts
Haverhill ( ) is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. Haverhill is located 35 miles north of Boston on the New Hampshire border and about 17 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. The population was 67,787 at the 2020 United States Cen ...
on October 10, 1793. In 1806, while at school at Bradford, Massachusetts
Bradford is a village and former town, in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. Eastern Bradford is the current town of Groveland, while western Bradford was annexed by the city of Haverhill, and today consists of the part of Haverhill o ...
, she became deeply impressed with the importance of religion. In 1809, at the age of sixteen, she joined the First Congregational Church, in Roxbury.
She had developed an interest in missions through a courtship with Rev. Samuel Newell
Samuel Newell (1784–1821) was an American missionary and one of the pioneers of American foreign missions. He served with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in India and Ceylon, where he founded the first American ''Ceylon M ...
, missionary to the Burman
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empire. On February 9, 1812, they married. In the same month, the Newells sailed to India, along with Adoniram Judson
Adoniram Judson (August 9, 1788 – April 12, 1850) was an American Congregationalist and later Particular Baptist missionary, who served in Burma for almost forty years. At the age of 25, Judson was sent from North America to preach in B ...
, his wife Ann
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, Samuel Nott Samuel Nott (11 September 1788 – 1 June 1869) was one of the pioneers of American foreign missions. He was one of the first five foreign missionaries under American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to India, and established Bombay Missi ...
, and Nott's wife. On their arrival at Calcutta
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in June 1812, they were denied residence by British
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and were asked to leave. Accordingly, the Newells took a ship to Mauritius
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. At sea, three weeks before reaching the island, she gave birth to a child who died after five days.
Death and legacy
Newell died November 30, 1812, at Mauritius, less than a year into her journey. Newell left a journal and a few letters, the record of her religious feelings, and the events of her short missionary life. They were published posthumously. going into a number of editions. Following their publication, she became a hero and role model for Christians during the nineteenth century. Many children were named for her over the following decades, includingHarriet Newell Noyes
Harriet Newell Noyes (; March 5, 1844 – January 16, 1924) was an American Presbyterian educator, writer, and missionary for fifty years. She founded the True Light Middle School, the first women's school in Guangdong Province, China, and is cred ...
who also went on to be a missionary.
References
Attribution
*External links
''A sermon, preached at Haverhill (Mass.) in remembrance of Mrs. Harriet Newell''
Text of her memoirs
{{DEFAULTSORT:Newell, Harriet 1793 births 1812 deaths People from Haverhill, Massachusetts American Protestant missionaries Female Christian missionaries Protestant missionaries in India American Ceylon Mission Protestant missionaries in Mauritius Protestant missionaries in Myanmar Writers from Massachusetts 19th-century American women writers 19th-century American memoirists American women memoirists