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MEMOIRS
OF
The Life and Labours
OF THE
REV. SAMUEL MARSDEN,
OF PARAMATTA,
SENIOR CHAPLAIN OF NEW SOUTH WALES;
AND OF HIS EARLY CONNEXION WITH THE MISSIONS TO NEW ZEALAND AND TAHITI.
EDITED BY THE
Rev. J. B. MARSDEN , M.A.,
AUTHOR OF "THE HISTORY OF THE EARLY AND LATER PURITANS," ETC. ETC
LONDON:
THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY;
56, PATERNOSTER ROW; 65, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD;
AND 164, PICCADILLY:
AND SOLD BY THE BOOKSELLERS.
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[INTRODUCTION]
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INTRODUCTORY NOTE.
THE EDITOR would make his kind acknowledgments to the Church Missionary and London Missionary Societies for the free use of the hitherto unpublished correspondence of Mr. Samuel Marsden in their hands; and to J. L. Nicholas, Esq., who accompanied Mr. Marsden on his first visit to New Zealand, for the use of a valuable manuscript account of his residence in New South Wales, containing much information respecting Mr. Marsden. He has also had before him a manuscript life of Mr. Marsden by Lieut. Sadleir of Paramatta, from which several extracts are made. And lastly, he would acknowledge the courtesy of those surviving friends who have placed in his hands Mr. Marsden's autograph letters to themselves or deceased members of their families. From these several sources the work has been chiefly compiled.
The Editor may be permitted to add, that the similarity of his name having led to the general conclusion (which however is incorrect) that he was related to Mr. Samuel Marsden, he has been repeatedly urged to publish his life. At length this request being
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renewed by the Religious Tract Society, into whose hands some valuable papers and documents had fallen, he was induced to comply with their wishes, under the conviction that the facts and incidents, as well as the moral grandeur, of Mr. Marsden's life, were too important to be suffered to lie any longer in comparative obscurity. There are ample materials for a much larger volume; but of course the Editor has been obliged to select what appeared to be most suitable for general usefulness.
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Introductory Note... .....iii
CHAPTER I.
Early life of Mr. Samuel Marsden--His appointment to New South Wales--Voyage, and arrival in the Colony............1
CHAPTER II.
Discovery and early History of New South Wales--Becomes a Penal Settlement--Its state, moral and religious, on Mr. Marsden's arrival............11
CHAPTER III.
Mr. Marsden appointed to the Magistracy--Objections to this considered--Cultivates Land--Charge of Secularity considered--His connexion with the London Missionary Society, and care of its Polynesian Mission--Revisits England in 1807............26
Distant view of Sydney (. Engraving)............27
CHAPTER IV.
Various measures devised for the benefit of New South Wales--The establishment of Missions in New Zealand--Friendship with Dr. Mason Good............47
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CHAPTER V.
Return to the Colony--Duaterra--His strange Adventures--Mr. Marsden's Labours in New South Wales--Aborigines--Their Habits--Plans for their Civilization............63
CHAPTER VI.
Mr. Marsden's Correspondence with the London Missionary Society--Buys the brig Active--His First Voyage to New Zealand--Journal of Events............85
CHAPTER VII.
Death of Duaterra--Trials of Mr. Marsden in the Colony--Libel of Philo-free--Letter to the Rev. George Burder--To Dr. Mason Good--Sympathy of his Friends in England--Congratulations of the 46th Regiment, and Mr. M's acknowledgment--Letters of Lord Gambier, Rev. C. Simeon, and Mrs. Fry.........108
CHAPTER VIII.
Tooi and Teterree--Mr. Marsden's Second Voyage to New Zealand--Progress of the Gospel there--Shunghie--His ferocity--Mr. Marsden returns to New South Wales--Third Voyage to New Zealand--Malicious charges brought against him in his absence--A Commission of Inquiry--Its result--Letters, etc.--Approbation of the Government............128
CHAPTER IX.
Fourth Visit to New Zealand--Trials and Successes of the various Missions--Shipwreck and Danger of Mr. Marsden and the Rev. S. Leigh--Returns home--Letter to Avison Terry, Esq.......... 167
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CHAPTER X.
Aborigines--South Sea Mission--Fresh Slanders on Mr. Marsden's character--His Pamphlet in self-defence--Letter of Messrs. Bennett and Tyerman--Libels and Action at Law--Verdict--Case of Ring--Pastoral Letters of Mr. Marsden: To a Lady; On the Divinity of Christ--Fifth Voyage to New Zealand--Letters, etc............184
CHAPTER XI.
Death of Dr. Mason Good--Malicious charges brought against Mr. Marsden and confuted--Sixth Voyage to New Zealand--Frightful state of the Island--Battle of the Maories--Their Cannibalism--Progress of the Mission--Mr. Marsden's return --Death of Mrs. Marsden--Anticipation of his own decease............212
CHAPTER XII.
State of New South Wales--The Aborigines--Cruelties practised upon them--Attempts to civilize and convert them--They fail--Mr. Marsden's Seventh Visit to New Zealand--His Daughter's Journal--Affection of the Natives--Progress of the Mission--Danger from European vices--Returns in H. M. S. Rattlesnake to Sydney............232
Paramatta Church (Engraving)............233
CHAPTER XIII.
Mr. Marsden's ministerial pursuits and journeys--Love of the Country and of Patriarchal story--His Old Age--Its mental features--Anecdotes--Love of Children--Bishop Broughton--His reverence for Mr. Marsden's character--Mr. Marsden's views of Death, etc.--His Habits of Prayer--His Illness and Death..........260
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CHAPTER XIV.
Character of Mr. Marsden--His Life and Labours............280
APPENDIX I.
Progress of the Gospel and of Civilization in New Zealand, since Mr. Marsden's Decease............295
APPENDIX II.
State and Prospects of the Protestant Mission at Tahiti, under the French Protectorate............311
