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John Williams (missionary)

John Williams (1796-1839) was a missionary, born in London, England. In 1817, he voyaged to the Society Islands[?], and remained in the South Seas until 1834, when he returned to Britain to supervise the printing of his translation of the New Testament into the Raratongan language. In 1838, he travelled to the New Hebrides, and in the course of his voyage was killed and eaten by cannibals on the island of Erromango[?].



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