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| | Marsden, Samuel (1765 - 1838) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | MARSDEN, SAMUEL (1765-1838), chaplain, missionary and farmer, was born on 24 June 1765 at Farsley, Yorkshire, England, the son of Thomas Marsden, a flsmith. |
 | | Marsden satisfied his English correspondents that 'it was not from inclination' that he and Johnson first accepted Lieutenant-Governor Grose's offer of land, but from the duty to assist the colony to avert the threat of recurring famine. |
 | | Marsden found that the subordinates he left in New Zealand, no less than the missionaries he superintended in the South Seas, were very human men and women, peculiarly exposed in their tiny groups to rivalries, quarrels, pecuniary temptations and carnal desires that hindered their higher objectives. |
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