Chapter I: Front Matter

MEMOIRS

OF

_The Life and Labours_

OF THE

REV. SAMUEL MARSDEN,

OF PARAMATTA,

SENIOR CHAPLAIN OF NEW SOUTH WALES;

AND OF HIS EARLY CONNEXION WITH THE MISSIONS
TO NEW ZEALAND AND TAHITI.

EDITED BY THE

REV. J. B. MARSDEN, M.A.,

AUTHOR OF "THE HISTORY OF THE EARLY AND LATER PURITANS," ETC. ETC.

LONDON:
THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY;
56, PATERNOSTER ROW; 65, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD;
AND 164, PICCADILLY:
AND SOLD BY THE BOOKSELLERS.

INTRODUCTORY NOTE.

The Editor would make his kind acknowledgments to the Church Missionary and London Missionary Societies for the free use of the hitherto unpublished correspondence of Mr. Samuel Marsden in their hands; and to J. S. Nicholas, Esq., who accompanied Mr. Marsden on his first visit to New Zealand, for the use of a valuable manuscript account of his residence in New South Wales, containing much information respecting Mr. Marsden. He has also had before him a manuscript life of Mr. Marsden by Lieut. Sadleir of Paramatta, from which several extracts are made. And lastly, he would acknowledge the courtesy of those surviving friends who have placed in his hands Mr. Marsden's autograph letters to themselves or deceased members of their families. From these several sources the work has been chiefly compiled.

The Editor may be permitted to add, that the similarity of his name having led to the general conclusion (which however is incorrect) that he was related to Mr. Samuel Marsden, he has been repeatedly urged to publish his life. At length this request being renewed by the Religious Tract Society, into whose hands some valuable papers and documents had fallen, he was induced to comply with their wishes, under the conviction that the facts and incidents, as well as the moral grandeur, of Mr. Marsden's life, were too important to be suffered to lie any longer in comparative obscurity. There are ample materials for a much larger volume; but of course the Editor has been obliged to select what appeared to be most suitable for general usefulness.

CONTENTS.
PAGE

Introductory Note iii

CHAPTER I.
Early life of Mr. Samuel Marsden--His appointment to New
South Wales--Voyage, and arrival in the Colony 1

CHAPTER II.
Discovery and early History of New South Wales--Becomes a
Penal Settlement--Its state, moral and religions, on Mr.
Marsden's arrival 11

CHAPTER III.
Mr. Marsden appointed to the Magistracy--Objections to
this considered--Cultivates Land--Charge of Secularity
considered--His connexion with the London Missionary
Society, and care of its Polynesian Mission--Revisits
England in 1807 26

Distant view of Sydney (_Engraving_) 27

CHAPTER IV.
Various measures devised for the benefit of New South
Wales--The establishment of Missions in New
Zealand--Friendship with Dr. Mason Good 47

CHAPTER V.
Return to the Colony--Duaterra--His strange Adventures--Mr.
Marsden's Labours in New South Wales--Aborigines--Their
Habits--Plans for their Civilization 63

CHAPTER VI.
Mr. Marsden's Correspondence with the London Missionary
Society--Buys the brig Active--His First Voyage to New
Zealand--Journal of Events 85

CHAPTER VII.
Death of Duaterra--Trials of Mr. Marsden in the
Colony--Libel of Philo-free--Letter to the Rev. George
Burder--To Dr. Mason Good--Sympathy of his Friends in
England--Congratulations of the 46th Regiment, and Mr. M's
acknowledgment--Letters of Lord Gambier, Rev. C. Simeon,
and Mrs. Fry 108

CHAPTER VIII.
Tooi and Teterree--Mr. Marsden's Second Voyage to New
Zealand--Progress of the Gospel there--Shunghie--His
ferocity--Mr. Marsden returns to New South Wales--Third
Voyage to New Zealand--Malicious charges brought against
him in his absence--A Commission of Inquiry--Its
result--Letters, etc.--Approbation of the Government 129

The Bay of Islands, New Zealand (_Engraving_) 133

CHAPTER IX.
Fourth Visit to New Zealand--Trials and Successes of the
various Missions--Shipwreck and Danger of Mr. Marsden and
the Rev. S. Leigh--Returns home--Letter to Avison Terry,
Esq. 167

CHAPTER X.
Aborigines--South Sea Mission--Fresh Slanders on Mr.
Marsden's character--His Pamphlet in self-defence--Letter
of Messrs. Bennett and Tyerman--Libels and Action at
Law--Verdict--Case of Ring--Pastoral Letters of Mr. Marsden:
To a Lady; On the Divinity of Christ--Fifth Voyage to New
Zealand--Letters, etc. 184

CHAPTER XI.
Death of Dr. Mason Good--Malicious charges brought against
Mr. Marsden and confuted--Sixth Voyage to New Zealand--
Frightful state of the Island--Battle of the Maories--Their
Cannibalism--Progress of the Mission--Mr. Marsden's
return--Death of Mrs. Marsden--Anticipation of his own
decease 212

CHAPTER XII.
State of New South Wales--The Aborigines--Cruelties
practised upon them--Attempts to civilize and convert
them--They fail--Mr. Marsden's Seventh Visit to New
Zealand--His Daughter's Journal--Affection of the
Natives--Progress of the Mission--Danger from European
vices--Returns in H. M. S. Rattlesnake to Sydney 232

Paramatta Church (_Engraving_) 233

CHAPTER XIII.
Mr. Marsden's ministerial pursuits and journeys--Love
of the Country and of Patriarchal story--His Old Age--Its
mental features--Anecdotes--Love of Children--Bishop
Broughton--His reverence for Mr. Marsden's character--Mr.
Marsden's views of Death, etc.--His Habits of Prayer--His
Illness and Death 260

CHAPTER XIV.
Character of Mr. Marsden--His Life and Labours 280

APPENDIX I.

Progress of the Gospel and of Civilization in New Zealand,
since Mr. Marsden's Decease 295

APPENDIX II.

State and Prospects of the Protestant Mission at Tahiti,
under the French Protectorate 311

LIFE

OF

THE REVEREND SAMUEL MARSDEN.