Acknowledgments

Many institutions and individuals have helped bring this book into being. Not all can be named here, but specific acknowledgment muSt be made to:

THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY and the AMERICAN BAPTIST CONVENTION, for financial assistance in the early stages which made it possible to undertake serious work; the ESSEX INSTITUTE and its library, the PEABODY INSTITUTE, and the MARITIME NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE, all of Salem, Massachusetts; the HUNTINGTON LIBRARY at San Marino, California; the library Of ANDOVER—NEWTON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY; the library Of PHILLIPS ACADEMY at Andover; the library Of the AMERICAN BIBLE SO- CIETY; the BROWN UNIVERSITY library, particularly the Department of Special Collections; the DARTMOUTH COLLEGE library; the HOUGHTON LIBRARY; HARVARD UNIVERSITY, library; YALE UNIVERSITY, library; the Missionary Research Library at UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY; the Public Library, at Beverly Hills and at LOS Angeles, California, and at Beverly, Haverhill, Malden and Quincy, Massachusetts, and at New York City, New York; the FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH and the FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH in Malden, Massachusetts; the CHURCH OF THE PIL- GRIMAGE in Plymouth; the FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH in Bradford and in Wenham, Massachusetts; the HISTORICAL SOCIETY of Beverly and of Wenham, Massachusetts; the OFFICE OF ALUMNI RECORDS of BROWN UNIVERSITY, and of DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, and of YALE UNIVERSITY; the AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY; the OFFICE OF THE TOWN CLERK in Wenham, Massachusetts, and in Belfast, Maine; the REGISTRY 0F DEEDS AND THE REGISTRY 0F PROBATE in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Among individuals, special thanks must not be omitted to: MR. ROME A. BETTS, for suggesting Judson as a subject, undertaking to find the initial financing, and unfailing counsel and encouragement; DR. STACY R. WARBURTON, for counsel, for warm encouragement, and for certain information which came to him too late for inclusion in his OWn life of Judson; MRS. MARTHA KINGSBURY COLBY, daughter Of one Of Bradford’s great ministers and its historian, for years of search for books about Judson and his associates; the late AMOS E. JEWETT, historian, antiquarian and rare book collector and dealer of Rowley, Massachusetts, for the same and for the gift Of a rare Judson engraving and for permission tO borrow and quote from the “Diary” of Deacon Joshua Jewett of Rowley; the late ROBERT LULL Of Newburyport for the gift Of certain documents; MISS HAZEL F. SHANK, Secretary for Burma and Thailand Of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society and her assistants, scholars and acquaintances, for reading much of the manuscript and help in resolving many confusing points of meaning, identification and spelling; MISS BESSIE BARKER Of Malden, for photographs; MRS. BEN- JAMIN L. BULLOCK Of Manchester, Massachusetts, for a gracious shelter in the center of New England’s “Judson country”; Miss MARGARET T. HILLS, Librarian of the American Bible Society; HENRY H. HENSTELL, M.D., MR. ANTON M. LEADER and MR. JOSEPH GAER, for many kinds Of encouragement and help; MISS LUCY WIATT of Santa Barbara, California, for information about and translations Of hymns by Judson; and, above all, to my wife CATHERINE and my son JAMES A. ANDERSON, for many days Of reading typescript and proof, for encouragement, and, perhaps most important, for sympathetic forbearance at difficult times.