Background
Sarah was born on November 4, 1803 at Alstead, New Hampshire, United States. He was the eldest of thirteen children of Ralph and Abiah O. (Hall) Hall. She spent her girlhood at Salem, Massachussets.
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Sarah was born on November 4, 1803 at Alstead, New Hampshire, United States. He was the eldest of thirteen children of Ralph and Abiah O. (Hall) Hall. She spent her girlhood at Salem, Massachussets.
Her household duties and meager resources hindered her education. Intellectually ambitious, however, she used various means of self-improvement and cultivated her not inconsiderable poetic talent.
Her religious experience united from the first with interest in foreign missions. A poem she wrote upon the death of James Colman, a young missionary to Burma, attracted the attention of George Dana Boardman, her future husband. Sailing from Philadelphia on July 16, 1825, she and her husband reached Calcutta, December 2. Held here for over a year by the war in Burma, they began the study of Burmese under native teachers.
In the spring of 1827 they were able to proceed to lower Burma, and soon transferred from Amherst to Maulmain, a new and thriving city. The first four years in Burma were filled with tragic circumstances: robbery of most of their valuables, a state of siege in Tavoy, whither they had moved in 1828, with peril from gunfire and impending massacre; recurring tropical sickness assailing all members of the family; Boardman's frequent absences on evangelizing tours, and his failing health.
On the death of her husband, February 11, 1831, Mrs. Boardman remained at her post to continue the missionary task, notwithstanding urgent reasons for returning to America.
With her second husband, Adoniram Judson, she took up her work in Maulmain. In spite of her frail health and many domestic duties, Mrs. Judson was of great assistance to her husband, especially through her knowledge of the Burmese language.
Sailing for America in search of health in May 1845, she was accompanied by her husband and the three older children. At Mauritius her improvement encouraged him to think that he might return to Burma, but a relapse caused Judson to continue with her, and she died while the vessel was anchored in harbor at St. Helena.
Sarah Hall Boardman was for a long-time influencial American missionary. Her missionary method was largely the founding of small village schools, which became models for the government schools later established. She also was a well-known writer, namely, she translated The Pilgrim's Progress into Burmese and several tracts into Burmese or Peguan.
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Sarah married George Dana Boardman, July 4, 1825, after an engagement somewhat prolonged. Their first child was born in Burma and died young. Another son also died very young, he lived less than a year. Their third son was George Dana Boardman, Jr. , who became an eminent minister in Philadelphia. her husband died, February 11, 1831.
On April 10, 1834, she was married to Adoniram Judson. Eight children were born of this marriage; one dying immediately and two others in infancy; two sons, Adoniram Brown Judson and Edward Judson, lived to attain distinction, one as a surgeon, the other as a minister.
