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Title
  
Evangelist, Reverend

Name
  
David Abeel

Role
  
Missionary


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Born
  
12 June 1804 (
1804-06-12
)
Middlesex County, New Brunswick United States

Parent(s)
  
David Abeel (1763 - 1840), Jane Hassert Abeel (1766 - 1842)

Died
  
September 4, 1846, Albany County, New York, United States

Education
  
New Brunswick Theological Seminary

Books
  
Memoir of the Rev. David Abeel, D. D.: Late Missionary to China

Similar People
  
Samuel Wells Williams, Peter Parker, Griffith John, Robert Morrison, Jonathan Goforth

David Abeel (June 12, 1804 – September 4, 1846) was a missionary of the Dutch Reformed Church with the American Reformed Mission.

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Biography

Abeel was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1804 to Captain David and Jane Hassert Abeel. He is a descendant of Albany, New York Mayor Johannes Abeel.

After having begun his studies in medicine, Abeel converted and was ordained a minister. He graduated from New Brunswick Theological Seminary in 1826, and was ordained to the ministry that same year. He served as a pastor of his church until the winter 1828, when he went to St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda to recover his health. He was appointed the chaplain of the Seaman's Friend Society. In 1829, he left New York to serve as a missionary. He arrived in Canton, China in 1830, later evangelizing in Java, Malacca, Siam, and Singapore. In 1833, he relocated to Europe, where he visited England, Switzerland, France, Germany, and the Netherlands through 1834.

In 1835, he returned to the United States to recruit additional missionaries from his church to work overseas. He remained in that capacity through 1838, to return to active missionary duty. In 1839, he visited Maritime Southeast Asia, and later established a mission in Xiamen in 1842. In Xiamen, Abeel met with Chinese official and scholar Xu Jiyu, who helped obtain information on conditions in the West. In 1844 he was joined by new co-workers Pohlman and Elihu Doty. Xu later used this information to compile an influential work on geography.

Abeel died in Albany, New York, in 1846.

Works

  • To the Bachelors of China, by a Bachelor (1833)
  • A Narrative of Residence in China (1834)
  • The Claims of the World to the Gospel (1838)
  • References

    David Abeel Wikipedia