Sarah Hall Judson (; November 4, 1803 – September 1, 1845) was an American missionary and writer.

Biography

Sarah Hall was born in

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. She spent twenty years of her life in

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(now known as

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) doing missionary work. She and her husband George Boardman sailed to Burma in 1824, just one week after their wedding. They had a son also named George Dana Boardman, often referred to as "George Boardman the Younger". She was widowed in 1830. Gospel Fellowship Association Missions website, ''Sarah Hall Boardman Judson'', article by Dr John A. Dreisbach dated May 22, 2007
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named after his father. Her illness forced the family to return to the United States in 1844, but she died en route at

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. While in the U.S., Judson asked

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to write Boardman's biography, and he subsequently married Chubbuck. Boardman's Burmese translation of ''

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'' is still in use at the start of the 21st century; she also translated the

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into Peguan.

Family

Sarah had one son, George, with her first husband. She had several children with her second husband: Abby Ann (1835), Adoniram Brown (1837), Elnathan (1838), Henry (1838), Luther (1841), Henry Hall (1842), Charles (1843), Edward (1844). American Baptist Historical Society, ''Judson, Sarah Hall Boardman''
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References

* * 1803 births 1845 deaths People from Alstead, New Hampshire Baptist missionaries in Myanmar Baptist missionaries from the United States American missionary educators Female Christian missionaries American expatriates in Myanmar 19th-century Baptists {{Myanmar-stub