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 JUDSON JUEL 705 sionary life. They were married at Bradford, Feb. 5, 1812, and on Feb. 19 embarked for Cal- cutta. Her subsequent history will be found in connection with that of her husband. A memoir of her life was written by the Rev. James D. Knowles (2d ed., Boston, 1829; many times reprinted). HI. Sarah Hall (Board- man), second wife of Adoniram Judson, born in Alstead, N. H., Nov. 4, 1803, died at the island of St. Helena, Sept. 1, 1845. She was the eldest child of Ralph and Abiah Hall. While she was a child her parents removed, first to Danvers, Mass., and then to Salem. On July 4, 1825, she became the wife of the Rev. George Dana Boardman, and on July 16 they embarked for Calcutta, arriving there Dec. 15. The Burman war still raging, Mr. Boardman accepted temporarily an invitation to preach at the Circular Road Baptist church in that city. Here they remained till the spring of 1827, when they embarked for Bur- mah, where arrangements were made for the establishment by Mr. Boardman of the mis- sion station at Maulmain, which subsequent- ly became the chief seat of Baptist missions in that country. Here Mrs. Boardman made rapid progress in the acquisition of the lan- guage, and availed herself of every opportuni- ty and method in her benevolent work. This mission being fairly established, Mr. and Mrs. Boardman were transferred to Tavoy for a similar service, where was commenced the remarkable work of the propagation of the gospel among the Karens, the inhabitants of the interior jungles. In two years Mr. Board- man died. His widow continued her mis- sionary labors, and besides managing a school with great success, and giving religious instruc- tion in various ways at Tavoy, she was accus- tomed to make long and toilspme journeys among the mountains. In these excursions, assemblies of hundreds gathered around her, and notwithstanding her reluctance to assume what seemed like the office of a public teacher, she was obliged to conduct their worship, and instruct them more perfectly in the Christian faith. In April, 1834, she became the wife of Dr. Judson. Her subsequent life was less event- ful, but it was filled with steady, quiet useful- ness. She was perfectly familiar with the Bur- mese language, and skilful in the use of it. She translated into it the first part of Bunyan's " Pilgrim's Progress," and various tracts, pre- pared a hymn book, several volumes of Scrip- ture questions for Sunday schools, and, as one of the last works of her life, a series of Sunday cards. Before the Peguans had a missionary, she acquired their language, and translated or superintended the translation of the New Tes- tament and the principal Burman tracts into the Peguan tongue. In these useful labors she continued till 1845, when her shattered health compelled her to attempt a voyage to America in the hope of its restoration, but she sank before its completion. A memoir of her life was written by Mrs. Emily C. Judson (18mo, New York, 1850). IV. Emily Chnbbnek, third wife of Adoniram Judson, born in Eaton, Madi- son co., N. Y., Aug. 22, 1817, died June 1, 1854. Though her opportunities of early culture were extremely limited, she made much progress in learning. At the age of 14 she took charge of a district school, and continued teaching, with very brief intervals, until the age of 28, con- tributing in the mean time a number of pieces in prose and poetry to the village newspapers. In 1840 she entered the Utica female seminary as a pupil, but was soon transferred to the office of teacher. She began her career of formal authorship by writing several Sunday school books ("Charles Linn," "Allen Lucas," &c.), which, however, yielded little pecuniary remu- neration. Charged with the support of her aged parents, she turned to other sources, and in 1844 addressed a playful letter, under the assumed name of Fanny Forester, to Messrs. Morris and Willis, editors of the New York "Evening Mirror," proposing contributions to that journal. She soon after became a regular contributor to several periodicals, and a bril- liant literary career was opening before her, when a new direction was given to her destiny by her marriage with the Rev. Dr. Judson, in June, 1846, and their departure for India in July following. She remained in Burmah until January, 1851, when, learning the death of her husband, she returned to America. While in Rangoon she wrote the memoir of Mrs. Sarah B. Judson, and in Maulmain composed some of her best poems connected with her personal history. She returned with a broken consti- tution, but devoted herself to the care of her children and of her aged parents, and to her literary labors. She prepared and arranged the papers for Dr. Wayland's life of Dr. Jud- son, and collected her poems, which were pub- lished under the title of " Olio of Domestic Verses." Her other works are " The Kathayan Slave," a collection of missionary writings in prose and verse, and " My Two Sisters." Her magazine tales and sketches had been collected and published before she left America, under the title of " Alderbrook." A memoir of her life was written by Dr. A. C. Kendrick (12mo, New York, 1860). The " Lives of the Three Mrs. Judson," by Mrs. A. M. Wilson, was pub- lished in New York in 1851-'5. .11 'EL, Niels, a Danish admiral, born May 8, 1629, died in Copenhagen, April 8, 1697. He served under Martin van Tromp and De Ruy- ter, and became captain of a Dutch frigate, and subsequently commander of a Danish squadron, with which he cooperated in defending Copen- hagen in 1659 against the Swedish fleet. In 1676 he captured the island of Gothland, and repulsed (June 4), with 25 ships, a Swedish force twice as large; and he soon afterward achieved another victory over the Swedes in conjunction with Cornelius van Tromp. In 1677 he was still more successful in overwhelm- ing two separate Swedish squadrons, capturing a great number of ships, for which he subse-