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 Bangkok to consider the propriety of missionaries for the Chinese, temporarily to reside in Siam, acquire the Chinese language and be ready to proceed to China whenever it should be open to them.

The Foreign Mission Boards of the Protestants of the U.S. became interested in Siam and sent out their missionaries.

In 1834 the A. B. C. F. M. sent out their first missionaries the Rev. Messrs. Robinson and Johnson. The first for the Siamese the latter for the Chinese. These were their first missionaries. In 1835 they sent out the Rev, D. B. Bradley, M. D. and subsequently the Rev. J. Caswell. In 1847 the American Presbyterian Board sent out the Rev. Stephen Matoon and Samuel R. House, M. D. their first missionaries for the Siamese department of their work.

Later on the Canadian Baptists sent out a few of, their missionaries to Bangkok, but these were soon transferred to India. One of these was the now well known Mr. Boggs.

The American Baptist Mission consisted of two departments, one Siamese and the other Chinese. Siamese missionaries were Rev. John Taylor Jones, D. D., Rev. Mr. Slafter, Rev. Mr. Davenport, Mr. J. H. Chandler and the Rey, Samuel J. Smith. In 1868 this department of that mission was given up and has been continued by Rev. S. J. Smith as a self-supporting mission.

The workers of the A. B. C. F. M. were as follows, Rev. Messrs. Robinson, Johnson, Bradley who came out in 1835 and subsequently the Rev. J. Caswell. Later on in 1849 the A. M. A. assumed the support of Dr. Bradly and supplied him with two associate workers, the Rey. Messrs. Lane and Silsby. After a few years the A. M. A. gave up their work and from that time