John Williams

English missionary

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Rarotonga

  • Te Manga mountain
    In Rarotonga

    …was the base from which John Williams of the London Missionary Society (who arrived in 1823) sought to Christianize the islands.

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Samoa

  • Samoa
    In Samoa: European influence

    John Williams, a member of the London Missionary Society, arrived to establish a Christian mission in 1830. He made a convert of Malietoa Vainu’upo, who had just conquered all of Samoa, and the rest of the population soon followed suit. A foreign settlement had developed…

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