Henry Williams (missionary)
Henry Williams was the leader of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) mission in New Zealand in the first half of the 19th century.
Williams about 1865
Capture of USS President (14 January 1815)
Watercolour painting by Henry Williams of the CMS mission house at Paihia
Gravestones of Henry and Marianne Williams, Holy Trinity Church, Pakaraka
New Zealand Church Missionary Society
The New Zealand Church Missionary Society (NZCMS) is a mission society working within the Anglican Communion and Protestant, Evangelical Anglicanism. The parent organisation was founded in England in 1799. The Church Missionary Society (CMS) sent missionaries to settle in New Zealand. The Rev. Samuel Marsden, the Society's Agent and the Senior Chaplain to the New South Wales government, officiated at its first service on Christmas Day in 1814, at Oihi Bay in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand.
The Revd Samuel Marsden
Kerikeri Mission Station with the Stone Store at left, St James at rear and Mission House on the right
The first public notice in New Zealand, printed for Kororarika [sic] by the press of the Church Missionary Society in Paihia, in the Bay of Islands
Page ii and iii of Ko te Katekihama III, printed by William Yate, 1830
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