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'''"Memorials of Protestant Missionaries to the Chinese" ''' from 1867:<br /><br />" ----Rev. [[Alexander Grant ]] was appointed a missionary to China, by the Foreign Mission Board of the English Presbyterian Church. He arrived at Amoy in on April 17, 1858, and remained there until May 1861, when he made a voyage to Penang for the benefit of his health. Meeting there with some of the Plymouth Brethren, he was induced to join their communion; when he resigned his connection with the Presbyterian mission, and commenced his missionary labours in the island, in concert with his new associates. ===================================================================================='''Presbytery in Singapore''' ----"The Rev. [[Alexander Grant]], M.A., an ex-missionary of the English Presbyterian Mission of Amoy, and Tan See Boo, along with the Rev. W. Jeffrey, who was the third Presby minister of Singapore, formed the "Bethesda", or Baptist Church and Mission in Singapore. ==Sources==<br />* Straits Times Annual 1906-1907, Singapore