Azubah Caroline Condit (c. 1810 – June 11, 1844) was a missionary of the

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. Condit embarked on missionary work in response to a call from

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, and with Jacob Ennis,

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, Elbert Nevius, and William Youngblood, along with their wives, she sailed to

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from

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in June 1836; she was the sister of Elbert Nevius' wife. The first single woman to engage in foreign mission work for the Reformed Church in America, her title was "assistant missionary". She studied Chinese and engaged in the instruction of Chinese girls on

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; she also founded a boarding school at

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dedicated to the education of Chinese girls. In

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, Condit married a fellow missionary, the Reverend D. O. Allen, on December 12, 1843; she died the following year in the same city.

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