John Williams of the South Sea Islands by James J Ellis and published by Classics.
John Williams was born in Tottenham in 1796.
He was appreciated to an ironmonger at the age of fourteen. In 1816 he set sail with his wife Mary for Tahiti in the South Pacific. He built his own boat which he named the "Messenger of Peace" and discovered the island of Raratonga in the Cook Islands in 1823. It was
here that he began translating the Bible. During the great part of this lifetime, John Williams served God in comparative obscurity among the South Sea Islands. While in the New Hebrides, which were inhabited by cannibals, he visited the Island of Erromango and was clubbed to death on the Island in November 1839.
