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James Peggs
James Peggs (January 7, 1793 to January 5, 1850) was the first missionary to be sent out by the English General Baptists Missionary Society in 1821. Peggs and William Bampton served in Cuttack, Orissa (present Odisha) in India.
Peggs was an English Baptist missionary and pamphleteer active in British India who played an influential role in the spread of Christianity on the subcontinent. Along with fellow General Baptist William Bampton, Peggs spent the majority of his career in India, preaching in Cuttack, Orissa to evangelize the local population. In his pamphlets, Peggs publicised the practise of Sati- then widespread in Bengal to gather support for further evangelical missionary work among the "pagan" Indian public. Peggs also circulated the Pilgrim tax levied on Idolaters going on pilgrimages.
James Peggs, a student of G.B. Academy at Wisbeach, offered himself to the General Baptist Missionary Society, for missionary service in 1820. With delay in prior designed plans to travel India for missionary service along with William Ward, one of the Serampore Trio, he moved to London in 1820 and obtained acquaintance with British system of education along with Mrs. Bampton, while Bampton studied medicine. He was ordained on 15 May 1821 at Loughborough along with Bampton, attended by William Ward too in the service, and sailed to India on 29 May 1821 along with Ward, Bampton, fellow-missionary, and their wives.
Peggs, Bampton, and their wives reached Serampore on 15 November 1821 via Madras (present Chennai). They embarked at Calcutta (present Kolkata) and arrived at mission station at Cuttack on 12 February 1822. With restrictions on missionary work removed in India in 1813, the first batch of Baptist missionaries arrived in Orissa on 12 February 1822. Prior to, departing Calcutta, they received religious tracts, thousands of copies of gospel, epistles, and considerable copies of the sacred writings for distribution among the natives as part of evangelism. These are printed at Serampore mission printing press, under the guidance of Serampore Trio.
Peggs, soon after arrival at the mission station at Cuttack made an excursion to the surrounding areas of Cuttack for a few days to become acquainted with area. While travelling, they distributed books, tracts and scriptures. He made journeys to the surrounding areas of Cuttack along with fellow missionaries to establish four village schools, within a vicinity of 50 miles of the mission station. They initially endeavoured to establish schools under the charge of heathen masters, until Christian teachers could be obtained through conversion or baptism.
On 1 June 1822, he and Bampton started a vernacular school at Cuttack to impart elementary knowledge of Christian theology through the medium of native Odia language. Between June 1822 and December 1833, fifteen such schools were established by General Baptists Missionary Society, out of which three were in close proximity to Cuttack mission station. By 1844, four village schools were established by Peggs and Charles Lacey around Cuttack. In October 1823, the first Anglo-Indian vernacular school was opened by the Baptist mission at Cuttack.
In a letter to a friend on 5 October 1822, Peggs writes as:
On the first of this month we commenced the practice of assembling the children of our native schools monthly at each other's bungalow. You would have been much gratified to see between fifty and sixty children in Brother B's[Bampton] verandah, undergoing their examinations by ourselves, our dear partners, and our servant Abraham, who now studies and speaks Oriya. But i must inform you we had considerable difficulty in dissipating the fear of both parents and children, for some rumours were in circulation that we should take the children to Calcutta, and make Christians of them, give them victuals, or in some way take away their caste. Judge then our agreeable surprise, when despairing of the children coming this morning, and consulting the best means of treating their prejudices of the people, we were told some boys were come, and when in few minutes most of the children from the three schools, with their masters, appeared.
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James Peggs
James Peggs (January 7, 1793 to January 5, 1850) was the first missionary to be sent out by the English General Baptists Missionary Society in 1821. Peggs and William Bampton served in Cuttack, Orissa (present Odisha) in India.
Peggs was an English Baptist missionary and pamphleteer active in British India who played an influential role in the spread of Christianity on the subcontinent. Along with fellow General Baptist William Bampton, Peggs spent the majority of his career in India, preaching in Cuttack, Orissa to evangelize the local population. In his pamphlets, Peggs publicised the practise of Sati- then widespread in Bengal to gather support for further evangelical missionary work among the "pagan" Indian public. Peggs also circulated the Pilgrim tax levied on Idolaters going on pilgrimages.
James Peggs, a student of G.B. Academy at Wisbeach, offered himself to the General Baptist Missionary Society, for missionary service in 1820. With delay in prior designed plans to travel India for missionary service along with William Ward, one of the Serampore Trio, he moved to London in 1820 and obtained acquaintance with British system of education along with Mrs. Bampton, while Bampton studied medicine. He was ordained on 15 May 1821 at Loughborough along with Bampton, attended by William Ward too in the service, and sailed to India on 29 May 1821 along with Ward, Bampton, fellow-missionary, and their wives.
Peggs, Bampton, and their wives reached Serampore on 15 November 1821 via Madras (present Chennai). They embarked at Calcutta (present Kolkata) and arrived at mission station at Cuttack on 12 February 1822. With restrictions on missionary work removed in India in 1813, the first batch of Baptist missionaries arrived in Orissa on 12 February 1822. Prior to, departing Calcutta, they received religious tracts, thousands of copies of gospel, epistles, and considerable copies of the sacred writings for distribution among the natives as part of evangelism. These are printed at Serampore mission printing press, under the guidance of Serampore Trio.
Peggs, soon after arrival at the mission station at Cuttack made an excursion to the surrounding areas of Cuttack for a few days to become acquainted with area. While travelling, they distributed books, tracts and scriptures. He made journeys to the surrounding areas of Cuttack along with fellow missionaries to establish four village schools, within a vicinity of 50 miles of the mission station. They initially endeavoured to establish schools under the charge of heathen masters, until Christian teachers could be obtained through conversion or baptism.
On 1 June 1822, he and Bampton started a vernacular school at Cuttack to impart elementary knowledge of Christian theology through the medium of native Odia language. Between June 1822 and December 1833, fifteen such schools were established by General Baptists Missionary Society, out of which three were in close proximity to Cuttack mission station. By 1844, four village schools were established by Peggs and Charles Lacey around Cuttack. In October 1823, the first Anglo-Indian vernacular school was opened by the Baptist mission at Cuttack.
In a letter to a friend on 5 October 1822, Peggs writes as:
On the first of this month we commenced the practice of assembling the children of our native schools monthly at each other's bungalow. You would have been much gratified to see between fifty and sixty children in Brother B's[Bampton] verandah, undergoing their examinations by ourselves, our dear partners, and our servant Abraham, who now studies and speaks Oriya. But i must inform you we had considerable difficulty in dissipating the fear of both parents and children, for some rumours were in circulation that we should take the children to Calcutta, and make Christians of them, give them victuals, or in some way take away their caste. Judge then our agreeable surprise, when despairing of the children coming this morning, and consulting the best means of treating their prejudices of the people, we were told some boys were come, and when in few minutes most of the children from the three schools, with their masters, appeared.