THE FIRST WOMAN MISSIONARY, Part 1

Ann Hasseltine, born in 1789, grew up in my husband’s home church, First Church of Christ, Congregational in Bradford, Massachusetts, where her father was a deacon. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the first group in the US to send missionaries overseas, began in that church building in 1810. She was a part of the event because her father was the host. Attending were young seminary students from Andover Theological Seminary, [where my husband also went.] Probably Ann and her future husband met then, because on Feb. 5, 1812 they were married and left for the mission field of India. It would take them more than 4 months to make the voyage. [More tomorrow.]

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