Lyman Burt Peet

Lyman Burt Peet (March 1, 1809 - January 11, 1878; Chinese: 弼利民 or 弼來滿; Pinyin: Bì Lìmín or Bì Láimǎn; Foochow Romanized: Bĭk Lé-mìng or Bĭk Lài-muāng) was one of the first Congregationalist missionaries to Foochow, China.

Lyman Burt Peet
Missionary to China
Born	March 1, 1809 Cornwall, Vermont
Died	January 11, 1878(1878-01-11) (aged 68) West Haven, Connecticut

Life[]

Lyman Burt Peet was born on March 1, 1809, in Cornwall, Vermont to Lemuel and Roxalany (Stebbins) Peet. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1834 and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1837. On December 13, 1837, he was ordained in South Dennis, Massachusetts, and sailed as a missionary of the A.B.C.F.M. for Siam on July 6, 1839. In August 1846 he was transferred to Foochow and reached there in September 1847. Peet retired in 1871, and resided in West Haven, Connecticut until he died of dysentery on January 11, 1878.

Peet married twice. In 1839 he married his first wife, Rebecca Clemence Sherrill, who died in Foochow in 1856. On June 6, 1858, he married Hannah Louisa Plimpton, who, after Peet's death, married to another ABCFM missionary in Foochow, Charles Hartwell.^[1]

During his years in Foochow, he helped translate several portions of the Bible including the Book of Psalms, the Proverbs, and the Book of Job into the colloquial Foochow dialect.^[2]

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