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English missionaries Lee and Susannah Compere came to the area of what is now Alabama in 1822, then spent a decade caught up in the tensions between white, black, and Creek Indian cultures. (1)
Lee was born to Anglican parents John and Grace Fox Compere in the English town of Market Harborough on November 3, 1790. Orphaned at age six, Lee and his younger sister, Betsy, were raised by a family of Baptists. Lee's fifteen-year-old sister, Jane, was left to care for herself. All three Compere children eventually embraced the Baptist faith, but none more actively than Lee, who devoted his life to ministry.
In 1815, the Baptist Mission Society (BMS) of England appointed Lee to serve as a missionary among the slaves in the British colony of Jamaica. While visiting a church shortly before he was to leave for Jamaica, twenty-five-year-old Lee was introduced to Susannah Voysey, the mission-minded eighteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy London family. Lee and Susannah married within weeks of meeting and departed for Jamaica shortly afterward, in late 1815.
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