Shep's Place Family Tree

Securities in the Bank of Bengal to widow Sarah.
1. son Jonathan ‎(share st )‎
2. children of my late dau. Anna Louisa Buttfield.
3. son Arthur Douglas
4. son Francis James
5. dau. Emma Blanche
6. son Frederick George
7. son Alfred Edward

"Jonathan tells me he hopes his opening an office on his own account will answer his expectations. He has a good number of clients among the rich natives."

"Jonathan is immersed in business & seems to be almost the only attorney out of ten or twelve admitted at the same time, who succeeds. I trust I am thankful for his steadiness & success, especially as I see in him a disposition which gives me much pleasure."

"My dear Jonathan--I feel your affectionate care for me very tenderly. I have just received very affectionate letters from William and Brother Sutton ‎(Orissa)‎. Lord and Lady Hastings wrote to Brother Marshman, thinking it would oppress my feelings to write to me directly, to offer their kind condolence to me through him. Will you have the goodness to send five rupees to William for the Cutwa school, which your dear mother ‎[step-mother]‎ supported. I will repay you soon, but am now very short of money.--I am your very affectionate father, W. Carey."

"Jonathan has a prospect of marriage with Miss Pearce. We all, on all sides, highly approve of the match. I hope it will prove a happy one, the good & obliging disposition of the parties gives us reason to calculate on their conjugal felicity."

No. 146 November 6 1843.
Jonathan Carey & Sarah Buttfield of full age
Widower/Spinster
Rank: Gentleman
Residence at Time of Marriage: Hemel Hempstead for both
Father's Name and Surname: William Carey Professor of Oriental Languages and William Buttfield, Gentleman.

This Marriage was solemnized between us. J. Carey and Sarah Buttfield in the Presence of us, William Buttfield, Annie Turner, Mary Turner, James G‎[utteridge]‎ Buttfield.

..Here ‎[Serampore]‎ peace and plenty reign, and we almost forgot that we are in a land of pagan darkness. Mrs. Carey is ill. Only Dr. Carey's youngest son, Jonathan, now lives here, and has lately begun preaching at 16. Felix is in Rangoon, William at Katwa, and Jabez studies law in Calcutta. Mrs. Ward has the care of providing for the whole Mission family, and is a motherly woman, very active and kind. Mrs. Marshman has a lovely school of English young ladies. Miss Phoebe Hobson, Dr. Carey's niece, is a very pretty girl. Captain Moxon from the Mahratta country is also here ‎(and devoted to Phoebe, who made it her study to promote the comfort of them all)‎.....These, with the families of Drs. Carey and Marshman and Mr. and Mrs. Ward, and all the pupils, make the Mission company very large. A hundred or more sit down together in the dining hall.
Serampore is a charming place. We frequently walk out to admire its beauty. The Mission-garden is larger and much more elegant than any I ever saw in America. The view across the river is delightful. I love these dear missionaries very much. You would love them too, could you see them. I never experienced so many kindnesses."

‎[c. 1817]‎ "Carey's anxieties over Felix and over Jonathan, who had brought him much sorrow..."
I suspect that Jonathan may be been sympathetic to the young missionaries who arrived in April 1818], including William Hopkins Pearce ‎(brother of Anna Pearce who would marry Jonathan)‎, who broke off with the older, established missionaries, thus causing great pain. The other young missionaries were Carey's nephew Eustace Carey ‎(orator & preacher)‎, Yates ‎(scholar)‎, Penny ‎(schoolmaster)‎ and Lawson ‎(artist)‎. The young missionaries withdrew from Lall Bazaar to open a new church in Entally, formed new schools, and started a printing press in Calcutta. Also, the young missionaries chose to forego the opportunity to serve in Rajputana, Chittagong or Sumatra ‎(at the invitation of Sir Stanford Raffles)‎, where they were needed. They preferred to stay in Calcutta. The older missionaries could not understand their thinking. The young missionaries called themselves the Calcutta Missionary Union.

"Carey was blest in his last months and week with the presence of his three surviving sons,--'William and Jabez, from Katwa and Rajputant, still faithful missionaries, and Jonathan, a Supremem Court attorney, but also Indian financier of the 'Serampre' Mission--widowed, alas! after brief wedding happiness with the daughter of Samuel Pearce."