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Levi was born on August 22, 1791 in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, United States, the son of Phineas and Elizabeth (Bailey) Spaulding, and a descendant of Edward Spaulding (or Spalding) who was in Massachusetts before 1640.
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Levi was born on August 22, 1791 in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, United States, the son of Phineas and Elizabeth (Bailey) Spaulding, and a descendant of Edward Spaulding (or Spalding) who was in Massachusetts before 1640.
Levi Spaulding received his early education from the Rev. John Sabin of Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1815. Having decided during his senior year to enter the Christian ministry, he proceeded to Andover Theological Seminary, was graduated in 1818, and on November 18 of that year was ordained by a Congregational Council at Salem, Massachussets.
Under appointment of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, he and his wife, in company with others designated for the India service, sailed from Boston, June 8, 1819, on the brig Indus, bound for Calcutta around the Cape of Good Hope. The ship arrived at Calcutta October 19, whence the party took passage on November 10 for Ceylon, finally reaching their destination, Jaffnapatem (Jaffna), Ceylon, on February 18, 1820. The following June they settled five miles from Jaffna.
Except for residence in nearby Manepay, August 25, 1821, to August 25, 1828, and in Tellippallai, until March 8, 1833, Uduvil was the permanent base of Spaulding's work until his death. He remained longer in active foreign service than had any other missionary sent out by the Board. Only once did he and his wife return on furlough to America. Coming home late in 1844 they were back again in Uduvil before the end of March 1847.
At Manepay he took charge of the Mission's Female Boarding School, transferred temporarily (1825 - 28) from Uduvil. At Tellippallai he conducted the boys' preparatory school which was united in 1832 with the Mission's seminary at Vaddukkoddai (Batticotta, in the old records).
At Uduvil he was in charge of the church, the schools, and evangelistic work among the villages. Early in 1834, he made a two months' tour of southernmost India, commissioned to investigate a continental region for the extension of the Mission's Tamil work. The important Madura Mission was the ultimate outcome. Toward the close of 1838 he began a significant service as translator, reviser, proof-reader, and tract and hymn writer. He prepared in Tamil more than twenty tracts and composed many of the choicest vernacular hymns.
He was one of the commission, from 1847, on the Scriptures published by the Bible Society, in Madras, being largely responsible for making the Tamil Bible "idiomatic and acceptable"; from 1865 to 1871 he served as a reviser of the Tamil Old Testament.
He died in 1873.
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He was a member of the Bible Society in Madras.
Quotes from others about the person
He is described as "a shrewd man, a man of humor, utterly unostentatious, and quietly industrious".
On December 10, at Antrim, New Hampshire, he was married to Mary, daughter of Samuel and Zebiah Warren Christie of that town. They had two daughters and a son.