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3 unusual facts about John Taylor Jones


John Taylor Jones

He married Eliza Grew Jones on July 14, 1830, and was ordained in Boston on July 28, 1830, as a missionary to Burma under the American Baptist Missionary Union (ABMU).

Rev. Dr. John Taylor Jones (July 16, 1802 – September 13, 1851) was one of the earliest Protestant missionaries to Siam (now Thailand) with his wife, Eliza Grew Jones.

Rev. Jones informed Roberts that Major Burney, the British ambassador at the court of Ava who had six years previously negotiated the Burney Treaty, told Rev. Jones that Americans were decidedly preferred to any other foreigners.



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