Background
Charlotte "Susanna" Hazen Atlee was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Judge William Augustus Atlee and Esther Bowes Sayre.
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Charlotte White
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She was sponsored by the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions and arrived in British India in 1816. Charlotte White joined the First Baptist Church in Haverhill, Massachusetts in 1807. Charlotte remained only briefly with the Houghs on arrival in Calcutta, India, marrying a widower with three sons, Joshua Rowe, a missionary with the English Baptist Missionary Society,(BMS) shortly after her arrival in 1816.
In 1823, a letter from Charlotte was published, without her permission, accusing four prominent missionaries at Serampore College of expropriating property belonging to the Baptist Missionary Society.
Joshua and Charlotte Rowe had three children. Rowe died in 1823.
White taught English, music, and drawing in an academy at Lowndesboro, Alabama in the 1830s.
Membership
Charlotte White"s application to become a missionary with the newly founded Baptist Board of Foreign Missions was controversial as many members of the Board believed that only ordained males should be appointed missionaries.
