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WILLIAMS, JOHN (1796-1839)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 682 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WIL-YAK
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1796-1839) ,
English
  Nonconformist missionary, was born at
Tottenham
  near London on the 29th of June 1796. He was trained as an ironmonger, and acquired considerable experience in mechanical
work
 . Having offered himself to the London Missionary Society, he was sent, after some training, in 1816 to Eimeo, in the Society Islands, where he rapidly acquired a knowledge of the native language. After staying there for a short time, he finally settled at Raiatea, which became his permanent headquarters. His success as a missionary here and elsewhere was remarkable. The
people
  rapidly became Christianized and adopted many of the habits of civilization. Williams was fairly liberal for his age, and the results of his labours among the Pacific Islands were essentially beneficial. He travelled unceasingly among the various
island
  groups, planting stations and settling native missionaries whom he himself had trained. From the Society Islands he visited the Hervey
group
 , where he discovered, and stayed for a considerable time on, the
island
  of Rarotonga. Most of the in-habitants of the
group
  were converted in a remarkably short time, and Williams's
influence
  over them, as over the
people
  of other groups, was very
great
 . Besides establishing Christianity and civilization among them, he also, at their own request, helped them to draw up a code of
laws
  for civil administration upon the basis of the new religion. While at Rarotonga he, with the help of the natives, built himself a 6o-ft. ship, " The Messenger of Peace," within about four months; with this he


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