Sarah Hall Judson (; November 4, 1803 – September 1, 1845) was an American missionary and writer.

Biography

Sarah Hall was born in

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. She spent twenty years of her life in

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(now known as

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) doing missionary work. She and her husband George Boardman sailed to Burma in 1824, just one week after their wedding. They had a son also named George Dana Boardman, often referred to as "George Boardman the Younger". She was widowed in 1831. Although during this era a widowed missionary wife would be expected to return to her homeland, Boardman continued to proselytize

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in the jungles and supervised mission schools. In 1834, she married

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. In 1844, she gave birth to

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, who later pastored a church in

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named after his father. Her illness forced the family to return to the United States in 1844, but she died en route at

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. While in the U.S., Judson asked

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to write Boardman's biography, and he subsequently married Chubbuck. Boardman's Burmese translation of ''

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'' is still in use today. She also translated the

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into Peguan.

References

* * 1803 births 1845 deaths People from Alstead, New Hampshire Baptist missionaries in Myanmar Baptist missionaries from the United States Missionary educators Female Christian missionaries American expatriates in Myanmar 19th-century Baptists {{Myanmar-stub