American Congregationalist missionaries Adoniram Judson and his…
July 1813 CE
Judson had been appointed by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions as a missionary to the East on September 19,1811.
Judson was also commissioned by the Congregational Church, and soon married Ann Hasseltine on February 5, 1812; he had been ordained the next day at the Tabernacle Church in Salem.
On February 19, he set sail aboard the brig Caravan with Luther Rice; Samuel and Harriett Newell; and his wife, Ann (known as "Nancy") Judson.
The Judsons had arrived in Calcutta on June 17, 1812.
While aboard ship en route to India, he had undertaken a focused study on the theology of baptism, and had come to the position that believer's baptism is theologically valid and should be done as a matter of obedience to the command of Jesus (Matthew 28:19–20).
On September 6, 1812, he had switched to the Baptist denomination along with his wife and they had been baptized by immersion in Calcutta by an English missionary associate of William Carey named William Ward.
Both the local and British authorities do not want Americans evangelizing Hindus in the area, so the group of missionaries had separated and sought other mission fields.
They had been ordered out of India by the British East India Company, to whom American missionaries were even less welcome than British (they were baptized in September, and already in June, the United States had declared war on England).
The following year, on July 13, 1813, he moves to Burma, and en route his wife miscarries their first child aboard ship.
Judson offers to Baptists in the United States to serve as their missionary.
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