Jabez Carey

Jabez Carey (1793-1862) was the third son of William Carey. Originally trained to be a lawyer, he was appointed as a BMS missionary in 1814, working as a teacher in Amboyna. Soon he was operating schools with over 300 students, while completing a translation of Isaac Watts’s Catechism into Malay.  After the colony was returned to the Dutch, he returned to India in 1818 (see letter 124), organizing a “Lancastrian” school in Ajmeer, Rajistan, in an effort to civilize the native populations. He retired from the BMS in 1832 and became a successful judge in Calcutta.  See F. A. Cox, History of the Baptist Missionary Society, from 1792 to 1842, 2 vols. (London: T. Ward, and G. and J. Dyer, 1842), 2:241-242, 314.