Memoir of Jacob Thomas: Missionary to Assam (Kindle)

 Jacob Thomas (1811-1837) was born at Newburgh, N.Y.; and in 1825, the family moved to Elbridge, N.Y. He was baptized in 1828, into the First Baptist Church of Elbridge by Rev. C. M. Fuller. Sarah Harris, the author of this book was the daughter of Rev. Fuller. Jacob Thomas spent five years at Hamilton Theological Seminary preparing for the ministry. In 1836, he was ordained, got married, and left for India. After spending six months sailing to India, three month traveling up the Brahmaputra River, only three hours from his destination, a large tree fell on his boat and crushed him. “It began to rain, and he had just gone inside of the boat, when a huge tree precipitated itself from the shore, across the bowels of my brother, sinking him and the boat into the deep.” “How dark and deeply mysterious are the ways of Providence!” His wife, Sarah Thomas, married Rev. Osgood, printer in Maulmain, and remained a missionary for eight years.

Timeline of events in Jacob Thomas' life:

1811 – Thomas was born at Newburgh, N.Y.
1825 – The Thomas family moved to Elbridge, N.Y.
1828 – Jacob Thomas was baptized by Rev. C. M. Fuller.
1831 -1836 – Hamilton Theological Seminary.
1836 – August 19, Jacob Thomas ordained at Elbridge.
1836 – August 22, Thomas and Sarah Maria Willsley were married.
1836 – October 17, Sailed from Boston on the ship Rosabella.
1837 – Jan 8, Indian Ocean.
1837 – Feb 13, Padang, Sumatra.
1837 – April 11, Arrived at Calcutta.
1837 – April 26, left Calcutta, to go up the river.
1837 – May 17, entered the Brahmaputra River.
1837 – June 4, reached Guwahati.
1837 – July 7, Jacob Thomas died in his boat on the river.
1838 – Maria was married to Rev. Sewell M. Osgood by Adoniram Judson in Maulmain, Burma.
1849 – July 13 Marie died age 34.

Author Sarah M. Fuller (1814–1893) was born at Grafton, Vermont. She was the daughter of Rev. Cyrenius M. Fuller, who became pastor of the Baptist Church at Elbridge in 1827. Jacob Thomas was baptized at this church in 1828. She married Edward Lansing Harris (1816-1897), a Baptist pastor, and they eventually moved to Wisconsin.

Product Details:

Print Length: 188 pages
File Size: 1350 KB
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Publisher: Curiosmith (April 28, 2019)
Publication Date: April 28, 2019
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B07R5Q21FJ
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
X-Ray: Not Enabled
Word Wise: Enabled
Lending: Enabled
Screen Reader: Supported
Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled

 
Memoir of Jacob Thomas: Missionary to Assam by Sarah Harris.
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