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Samuel Munson

American Baptist missionary

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ7412245 ↗
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Samuel Munson (1804 in New Sharon, Maine – 28 June 1834 in Sacca, Lopu Pining, Tapanuli, Sumatra) was an American Baptist missionary who, together with his colleague Henry Lyman, was murdered and cannibalised in Sumatra.

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The public source identifies “Samuel Munson” as american Baptist missionary. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Samuel, Munson and American.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1804, 1834—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1804. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Samuel, Munson and American providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7412245. VIAF identifies the subject as 63900862. The Library of Congress control number is nr95038386. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1804 and 1834.

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This entry incorporates text from “Samuel Munson” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.